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<div dir="auto"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">xCoAx 2021: 9th International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Dates: 12-16 July 2021</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Location: Online</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Website: </span><a style="font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px" href="http://xcoax.org/" target="_blank">http://xcoax.org/</a><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Deadline: 31 January 2021</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">xCoAx is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools and media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X factor that connects them all.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">The focus of xCoAx is on the unpredictable overlaps between the freedom of creativity and the rules of algorithms, between human nature and machine technology, with the aim to evolve towards new directions in aesthetics.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and exchange ideas, in search for interdisciplinary synergies among computer scientists, artists, media practitioners, and theoreticians at the thresholds between digital arts and culture. Starting in 2013 in Bergamo, xCoAx has so far taken place also in Porto, Glasgow, Lisbon, Madrid, and Milan.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Due to the CoViD-19 pandemic, xCoAx 2020 was online and, building on that experience, so will be the 2021 edition.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">xCoAx 2021’s keynote speakers are philosopher of technology Yuk Hui and new media artist Špela Petrič.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Call for papers, artworks, performances</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">xCoAx 2021 calls for papers, artworks, performances and research works-in-progress by scholars, artists, performers and students, respectively, working on any of the multi-disciplinary facets of this event, which will take place online from Monday, July 12th to Friday, July 16th 2021.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Topics</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work in the form of papers, artworks, and performances, on a range of topics that includes but is not limited to the following:</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Computation</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Communication</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Aesthetics</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • X</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Algorithms / Systems / Models</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Artificial Aesthetics</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Artificial Intelligence / Creativity</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Audiovisuals / Multimodality</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Design</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Interaction</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Games</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Generative Art / Design</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • History</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Mechatronics / Physical Computing</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Music / Sound Art</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Performance</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Philosophy of Art / of Computation</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Technology / Ethics / Epistemology</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Important dates</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Submission deadline: January 31</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Notifications to authors: March 29</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Registration deadline for authors: April 12</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Delivery of final versions of papers and artwork/performances/symposium abstracts for the proceedings: April 12</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Delivery of final versions of multimedia files and video presentations for the website: May 10</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Welcome and opening: July 12</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Doctoral symposium: July 13</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Discussions of artworks and performances: July 14</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Discussions of papers: July 15 & 16</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Closing party: July 16</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Submission categories</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">———</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Papers</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Please submit a paper (3.000 to 6.000 words, excluding references) following the formatting in the Word template at </span><a style="font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px" href="http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2021_Paper_Template.docx" target="_blank">http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2021_Paper_Template.docx</a><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Revision of papers will be double-blind. Please make sure that the PDF file is completely anonymised (i.e. omits author-related information in the body of text or as explicit self-citations, notes and bibliography). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and a 15-minute presentation video by the authors will be published on the xCoAx 2021 website.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">———</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Doctoral Symposium Abstracts</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Only Master’s and PhD students can apply to present their work-in-progress and receive feedback from established researchers. Submit a document, following the formatting in the Word template at </span><a style="font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px" href="http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2021_DoctoralSymposium_Template.docx" target="_blank">http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2021_DoctoralSymposium_Template.docx</a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">, comprised of a research paper and a letter of support from your advisor (700 to 2.000 words, excluding references) that should include the following: 1) Purpose of the research and its importance to the field; 2) Brief survey of background and related work; 3) Description of the proposed approach; 4) Expected contributions; 5) Progress towards goals.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Revision of proposals will be single-blind. A revised version will be requested for inclusion in the proceedings after the symposium. Previous xCoAx Doctoral Symposia were chaired by Frieder Nake, Mario Klingemann, Philip Galanter, Simona Chiodo and Marko Ciciliani. The Doctoral Symposium will take place online and it will be a closed event.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">———</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Artworks</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Proposals should provide a clear description of the work (in case of online artworks possibly a link to the artwork itself) in the form of a document including the following:</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • An abstract of maximum 200 words</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • A main text of 700 to 2.000 words (excluding references)</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • An appendix with technical details of the artwork</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Another appendix with references to multimedia material on the artwork</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">The document must follow the formatting in the Word template at </span><a style="font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px" href="http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2021_Artwork_Performance_Template.docx" target="_blank">http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2021_Artwork_Performance_Template.docx</a><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Revision of proposals will be single-blind.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Due to the pandemic, there will not be an on-site exhibition at xCoAx 2021. As such, on top of the reviews from the Scientific Committee, the Organising Committee will favour works that are optimised for an online exhibition setting, either through pre-recorded documentation or as networked or browser-based works, as well as works that are internet-aware or use the internet as resource or theme.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">For all accepted works, the abstract and the main text will be published in the proceedings; the abstract and selected multimedia materials will be published on a dedicated page in the xCoAx 2021 website.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">After notification of acceptance, artists will need to provide a 5-minute video presentation that will be included in their artwork’s page. The video is necessary for their entry to be included in the proceedings and on the website.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">———</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Performances</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Proposals should provide a clear description of the performance in the form of a document including the following:</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • An abstract of maximum 200 words</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • A main text of 700 to 2.000 words (excluding references)</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • An appendix with technical details of the artwork</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Another appendix with references to multimedia material documentation on the performance</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">The submission document must follow the formatting in the Word template at</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><a style="font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px" href="http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2021_Artwork_Performance_Template.docx" target="_blank">http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2021_Artwork_Performance_Template.docx</a><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Revision of proposals will be single-blind.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Due to the pandemic, there will not be on-site performances at xCoAx 2021. Pre-recorded performances are welcome, however, on top of the reviews from the Scientific Committee, the Organising Committee will favour live-streamed performances, networked performances, browser-based performances, and performances that are internet-aware and use the internet as resource or theme.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">For all accepted works, the abstract and the main text will be published in the proceedings; the abstract and selected multimedia materials will be published on a dedicated page in the xCoAx 2021 website.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">After notification of acceptance, artists will need to provide a 5-minute video presentation that will be included in their performance’s page. The video is necessary for their entry to be included in the proceedings and on the website.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Additional information and submission details</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • All works must be submitted via EasyChair: </span></span><a style="font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px" href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xcoax2021" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xcoax2021</a><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Submissions must be original and will be rigorously reviewed by an international and multidisciplinary scientific committee, in a process that will assess originality, relevance, artistic and technical achievements;</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Submissions should be presented as .pdf files with all the media files embedded or linked to online resources;</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Final versions for publication should be delivered in .docx with all the images and other media files attached as independent files;</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • All images and media assets must be cleared for publication by the authors;</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • At least one of the authors of each selected contribution must register to the conference before the first author registration deadline in order for the work to be published in the proceedings;</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • xCoAx’s working language is English;</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • xCoAx’s conference proceedings (with ISBN) will be published online with free access;</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Please contact the program chairs at </span></span><a style="font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px" href="mailto:info@xcoax.org" target="_blank">info@xcoax.org</a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"> with any questions regarding submissions.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Conference format</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Monday July 12: Opening Session, opening of the exhibition and performances, proceedings launch, welcome online party.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Tuesday July 13: Doctoral Symposium, opening of paper section</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Wednesday July 14: Artworks and performances presentations</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Thursday July 15: Paper sessions with Q&A, keynote with Q&A</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Friday July 16: Paper sessions with Q&A, keynote with Q&A, closing party</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Registration</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">For each accepted submission, one author will have to register as below before April 12. Registrations will open after the notifications of the reviews (March 29, 2021).</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Author registration: € 100.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Reduced registration: € 25 (for authors without academic affiliation).</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Doctoral symposium: € 25.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Attendance to xCoAx 2021 is free and does not require registration.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Scientific committee</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Adriana Sá, ESAD/CICANT</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Alessandro Ludovico, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton / Neural</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Alice Cannava, Technische Universität Berlin</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Alice Eldridge, University of Sussex</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • André Rangel, CITAR / i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Andreas Broeckmann, Leuphana Arts Program, Lüneburg</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Andreas Muxel, Faculty of Design at University of Applied Sciences Augsburg</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Andreas Zingerle, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Anna Terzaroli, Nicola Sala Conservatory of Music</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Anne Balsamo, University of Texas at Dallas</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Anneké Pettican, Department Lead Art & Communication, University of Huddersfield</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Anna-Luise Lorenz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Astrid Drechsler, Experimental Radio Group, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Aura Satz, Royal College of Art</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Boris Debackere, V2 / Luca School of Arts</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Carlos Guedes, New York University Abu Dhabi</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Chara Lewis, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Christian Faubel, Academy of Media Arts Cologne</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Cristina Sá, CITAR / Portuguese Catholic University, School of Arts</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Dale MacDonald, University of Texas at Dallas</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Daniele Pozzi, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Daniel Irrgang, Weizenbaum Institute / Berlin University of the Arts</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Daniel Schorno, STEIM</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Daphne Dragona, Transmediale</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Darko Velazquez</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Diemo Schwarz, IRCAM</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Darko Velazquez, Bauhaus Form + Function Lab, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • David Pirrò, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Filipe Pais, Ensadlab, Ensad, Paris</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Francisco Cardoso Lima, Independent Artist, Aveiro</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Frieder Nake, University of Bremen & Hochschule für Künste Bremen</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Gerhard Nierhaus, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Hanns Holger Rutz, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Heitor Alvelos, ID+ / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Irina Spicaka, CC4AV</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • João Cordeiro, CITAR / University of West London</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Jason Reizner, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Ji Youn Kang, The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Johannes Zmölnig, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Jon He, Massey University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Jon McCormack, Monash University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Kristin Mojsiewicz, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Laura Beloff, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Luc Döbereiner, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Linda Kronman, University of Bergen</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Luísa Ribas, CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Manuela Naveau, Ars Electronica</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Marko Ciciliani, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Mario Verdicchio, Università degli Studi di Bergamo</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Martin Kaltenbrunner, Kunstuniversität Linz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Martin Rumori, sonible GmbH</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Max Hampshire, Independent Researcher & Artist</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Miguel Carvalhais, INESC TEC / i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Michael Markert, Interface Design Group, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Mitchell Whitelaw, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Mona Kasra, University of Virginia</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Monty Adkins, University of Huddersfield</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Nathan Wolek, Stetson University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Nora Al-Badri</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Nuno N. Correia, University of Greenwich</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Patrícia João Reis, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, Department of Digital Arts</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Paulo Ferreira Lopes, IMG - University of Applied Sciences Mainz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Pedro Cardoso, INESC TEC / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Philip Galanter, Texas A&M University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Ricardo Melo, CEOS.PP / Polytechnic of Porto. Porto Accounting and Business School</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Robert Höldrich, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Rodrigo Hernández-Ramírez, UNIDCOM / Instituto de Arte, Design e Empresa (IADE)</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Ron Kuivila, Wesleyan University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Rosemary Lee, IT-University Copenhagen</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Rui Penha, ESMAE / INESC TEC</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Rui Torres, Electronic Literature Organization / Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Samuel Van Ransbeeck, UCP-CITAR</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Sissel Marie Tonn</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Sophie-Carolin Wagner, Austrian National Library / RIAT</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Shusha Niederberguer, House of Electronic Arts Basel</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Søren Pold, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Tim Boykett, Time's Up</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Thor Magnusson, University of Sussex / ixi audio</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Trent Kim, University of the West of Scotland</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Valentina Nisi, University of Madeira</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Valentina Vuksic, Zurich University of the Arts</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Valerie Wolf Gang</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Veronika Mayer, Freelance Artist and Lecturer</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Victoria Bradbury, University of North Carolina, Asheville</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Visda Goudarzi, School of Media Arts at Columbia College Chicago</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Winnie Soon, Department of Digital Design at Aarhus University</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Yucef Merhi, Open Doc Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px">Organizing committee</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • André Rangel, CITAR</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Daniele Pozzi, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • David Pirrò, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Hanns Holger Rutz, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Jason Reizner, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Luís Nunes, i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Luísa Ribas, CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Mario Verdicchio, Università degli Studi di Bergamo</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;font-size: 12px"><span style="white-space:pre"> • Miguel Carvalhais, INESC TEC / i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span 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