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<div dir="auto"><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;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:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Dates: 12-16 July 2021</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Location: Online</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Website: http://xcoax.org/</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Extended Deadline: 15 February 2021</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">xCoAx is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">and media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">factor that connects them all.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">The focus of xCoAx is on the unpredictable overlaps between the</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">freedom of creativity and the rules of algorithms, between human</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">nature and machine technology, with the aim to evolve towards new</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">directions in aesthetics.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">exchange ideas, in search for interdisciplinary synergies among</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">computer scientists, artists, media practitioners, and theoreticians</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">at the thresholds between digital arts and culture. Starting in 2013</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">in Bergamo, xCoAx has so far taken place also in Porto, Glasgow,</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Lisbon, Madrid, and Milan.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Due to the CoViD-19 pandemic, xCoAx 2020 was online and, building on</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">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:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">xCoAx 2021’s keynote speakers are philosopher of technology Yuk Hui</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">and new media artist Špela Petrič.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Call for papers, artworks, performances</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">xCoAx 2021 calls for papers, artworks, performances and research</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">works-in-progress by scholars, artists, performers and students,</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">respectively, working on any of the multi-disciplinary facets of this</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">event, which will take place online from Monday, July 12th to Friday,</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">July 16th 2021.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Topics</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">research work in the form of papers, artworks, and performances, on a</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">range of topics that includes but is not limited to the following:</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Computation</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Communication</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Aesthetics</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• X</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Algorithms / Systems / Models</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Artificial Aesthetics</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Artificial Intelligence / Creativity</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Audiovisuals / Multimodality</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Design</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Interaction</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Games</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Generative Art / Design</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• History</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Mechatronics / Physical Computing</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Music / Sound Art</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Performance</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Philosophy of Art / of Computation</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Technology / Ethics / Epistemology</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Important dates</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Extended submission deadline: February 15</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Submission deadline: January 31</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Notifications to authors: March 29</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Registration deadline for authors: April 12</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Delivery of final versions of papers and</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">artwork/performances/symposium abstracts for the proceedings: April 12</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Delivery of final versions of multimedia files and video</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">presentations for the website: May 10</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Welcome and opening: July 12</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Doctoral symposium: July 13</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Discussions of artworks and performances: July 14</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Discussions of papers: July 15 & 16</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Closing party: July 16</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Submission categories</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">———</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Papers</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Please submit a paper (3.000 to 6.000 words, excluding references)</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">following the formatting in the Word template at</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><a style="font-family:Times;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="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Revision of papers will be double-blind. Please make sure that the PDF</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">file is completely anonymised (i.e. omits author-related information</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">in the body of text or as explicit self-citations, notes and</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">bibliography). Accepted papers will be published in the conference</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">proceedings and a 15-minute presentation video by the authors will be</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">published on the xCoAx 2021 website.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">———</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Doctoral Symposium Abstracts</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Only Master’s and PhD students can apply to present their</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">work-in-progress and receive feedback from established researchers.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Submit a document, following the formatting in the Word template at</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><a style="font-family:Times;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:#0000e9;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">, comprised</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">of a research paper and a letter of support from your advisor (700 to</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">2.000 words, excluding references) that should include the following:</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">1) Purpose of the research and its importance to the field; 2) Brief</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">survey of background and related work; 3) Description of the proposed</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">approach; 4) Expected contributions; 5) Progress towards goals.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Revision of proposals will be single-blind. A revised version will be</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">requested for inclusion in the proceedings after the symposium.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Previous xCoAx Doctoral Symposia were chaired by Frieder Nake, Mario</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Klingemann, Philip Galanter, Simona Chiodo and Marko Ciciliani. The</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Doctoral Symposium will take place online and it will be a closed</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">event.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">———</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Artworks</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Proposals should provide a clear description of the work (in case of</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">online artworks possibly a link to the artwork itself) in the form of</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">a document including the following:</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• An abstract of maximum 200 words</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• A main text of 700 to 2.000 words (excluding references)</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• An appendix with technical details of the artwork</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Another appendix with references to multimedia material on the artwork</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">The document must follow the formatting in the Word template at</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><a style="font-family:Times;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:#262626;font-family:Times;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:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Due to the pandemic, there will not be an on-site exhibition at xCoAx</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">2021. As such, on top of the reviews from the Scientific Committee,</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">the Organising Committee will favour works that are optimised for an</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">online exhibition setting, either through pre-recorded documentation</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">or as networked or browser-based works, as well as works that are</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">internet-aware or use the internet as resource or theme.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">For all accepted works, the abstract and the main text will be</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">published in the proceedings; the abstract and selected multimedia</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">materials will be published on a dedicated page in the xCoAx 2021</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">website.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">After notification of acceptance, artists will need to provide a</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">5-minute video presentation that will be included in their artwork’s</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">page. The video is necessary for their entry to be included in the</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">proceedings and on the website.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">———</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Performances</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Proposals should provide a clear description of the performance in the</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">form of a document including the following:</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• An abstract of maximum 200 words</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• A main text of 700 to 2.000 words (excluding references)</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• An appendix with technical details of the artwork</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Another appendix with references to multimedia material</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">documentation on the performance</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;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:Times;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:#262626;font-family:Times;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:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Due to the pandemic, there will not be on-site performances at xCoAx</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">2021. Pre-recorded performances are welcome, however, on top of the</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">reviews from the Scientific Committee, the Organising Committee will</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">favour live-streamed performances, networked performances,</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">browser-based performances, and performances that are internet-aware</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">and use the internet as resource or theme.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">For all accepted works, the abstract and the main text will be</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">published in the proceedings; the abstract and selected multimedia</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">materials will be published on a dedicated page in the xCoAx 2021</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">website.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">After notification of acceptance, artists will need to provide a</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">5-minute video presentation that will be included in their</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">performance’s page. The video is necessary for their entry to be</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">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:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Additional information and submission details</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• All works must be submitted via EasyChair:</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><a style="font-family:Times;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:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Submissions must be original and will be rigorously reviewed by an</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">international and multidisciplinary scientific committee, in a process</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">that will assess originality, relevance, artistic and technical</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">achievements;</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Submissions should be presented as .pdf files with all the media</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">files embedded or linked to online resources;</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Final versions for publication should be delivered in .docx with all</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">the images and other media files attached as independent files;</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• All images and media assets must be cleared for publication by the authors;</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• At least one of the authors of each selected contribution must</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">register to the conference before the first author registration</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">deadline in order for the work to be published in the proceedings;</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• xCoAx’s working language is English;</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• xCoAx’s conference proceedings (with ISBN) will be published online</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">with free access;</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Please contact the program chairs at </span><a style="font-family:Times;font-size: 12px" href="mailto:info@xcoax.org" target="_blank">info@xcoax.org</a><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px"> with any</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">questions regarding submissions.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Conference format</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Monday July 12: Opening Session, opening of the exhibition and</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">performances, proceedings launch, welcome online party.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Tuesday July 13: Doctoral Symposium, opening of paper section</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Wednesday July 14: Artworks and performances presentations</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Thursday July 15: Paper sessions with Q&A, keynote with Q&A</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Friday July 16: Paper sessions with Q&A, keynote with Q&A, closing party</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Registration</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">For each accepted submission, one author will have to register as</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">below before April 12. Registrations will open after the notifications</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">of the reviews (March 29, 2021).</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Author registration: € 100.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Reduced registration: € 25 (for authors without academic affiliation).</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Doctoral symposium: € 25.</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;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:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Organizing committee</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• André Rangel, CITAR</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Daniele Pozzi, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics,</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• David Pirrò, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Hanns Holger Rutz, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics,</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Jason Reizner, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Luís Nunes, i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Luísa Ribas, CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Mario Verdicchio, Università degli Studi di Bergamo</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• Miguel Carvalhais, INESC TEC / i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts,</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">University of Porto</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">——————————————</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">Contacts</span><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• </span><a style="font-family:Times;font-size: 12px" href="mailto:info@xcoax.org" target="_blank">info@xcoax.org</a><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• </span><a style="font-family:Times;font-size: 12px" href="http://xcoax.org/" target="_blank">http://xcoax.org/</a><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• </span><a style="font-family:Times;font-size: 12px" href="https://twitter.com/xcoaxorg" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/xcoaxorg</a><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span><span style="color:#262626;font-family:Times;font-size: 12px">• </span><a style="font-family:Times;font-size: 12px" href="https://www.instagram.com/xcoaxorg/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/xcoaxorg/</a><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /></span></div>
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