ICLI 2014 - Second International Conference on Live Interfaces

INTER-FACE is the second International Conference on Live Interfaces. The call is now open for paper presentations, performances, interactive installations, poster demonstrations and workshops. The first conference took place in 2012, Leeds, UK. It hosted over 80 delegates, including those traveling from 11 countries outside Great Britain. In 2014, it will happen in Lisbon, Portugal.
INTER-FACE is dedicated to problematizing convergences and divergences between different understandings of performance technology. It seeks to expose a variety of motivations and approaches, and discuss how specific understandings of ‘liveness’, ‘immediacy’, ‘timing’ or ‘flow’ manifest in performance with digital media.
Computers are tabula rasa. Software mediates physical action through code, and code embeds theories informed by specific purposes and criteria. For example, interfaces may apply the study of mechanisms through which we naturally perceive the world, because the interface brings a sense of immediate interaction. At the same time, interfaces may require effort, in a way that conveys expression. The problem is, theories embedded in software are too often taken for granted. In everyday life we are used to handling computers as magic black boxes that save us labor. When the black box works, its origins are forgotten; the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become, and the more distant we become of computation as creative material. Furthermore, collaborations between artists, designers, programmers and engineers can become frustrating when individual motivations are unclear.
IMPORTANT DATES
Extended abstract submission deadline: August 18th, 2014
Notification of selected works: September 8th, 2014
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers: November 1st, 2014
Conference: November 20th-23rd, 2014
TOPICS
On behalf of the organization team, we invite you to be part of INTER-FACE. Topics include, and are not restricted to:
Augmented stage technologies
Audio-visual performance with 3D software
Biophysical sensors
Brain-computer interfaces
Computer vision
Disparities between a physical input and its digital analysis
Dramaturgy/choreography/composition with digital media
Gesture recognition, control and/ or unpredictability
Language and hypertext
Live coding in music, video, animation, dance
Mappings between acoustic and digital sound
Technology of night life (e.g. algorave parties)
Perceptual and cognitive issues
Phenomenology of performance with digital media
Audience interaction
Philosophical and historical perspectives
Tangible interaction
All submissions will be single blind peer reviewed.
Selected works will also be published online.
The registration fee is not yet fixed, but will not be more than the following:
Early bird: 80?. Standard: 100?. Discounted: 50? (students).
If you are disadvantaged by exchange rates, lack of affiliation or other access issues please contact us for concessionary rates.
SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
Performances
We are keen to support a wide range of performance genres including dance, audio/visual, concert and club/algorave style performances. Performances should be up to 20min. Authors will also be asked to speak of how their interfaces address ‘timing’ and ‘flow’, in public conversations prior to the performance sessions (see the program).
Submissions should include:
- 500 word description (indicative length)
- URL with video and/ or audio
- Technical needs
- Up to 200 word biography for each author
Interactive installations
Authors of selected interactive installations will also be asked to expose how their interfaces address ‘timing’ and ‘flow’, in public conversations prior to the performance sessions (see the program).
Submissions should include:
- 700 word description (indicative length)
- Technical needs
- URL with images, audio, video
- Up to 200 word biography for each author
Papers
Authors of selected papers will be asked to deliver a paper, up to 6 pages, and make a 15min oral presentation.
Submissions should include:
- 700 word abstract (indicative length)
- Bibliography
- URL with video/ audio, where applicable
- Up to 200 word biography for each author
Posters/ demonstrations
Authors of selected poster/ demonstrations will be asked to deliver a paper, up to 4 pages, and give a short single-slide oral presentation, as well as presenting their work either using a poster, or a technology demonstration, or a hybrid.
Submissions should include:
- 500 word abstract (indicative length)
- Bibliography
- URL with video/ audio, where applicable
- Technical needs, where applicable
- Up to 200 word biography for each author
Workshops
Each workshop should last three hours, and be designed for researchers as well as undergraduate students from IADE’s Product Design course, or simply interested persons. The participants will be charged a small fee (about 10?), most of which will be for the tutor.
Submissions should include:
- 500 word description (indicative length)
- URL with video, audio and/ or further information
- Technical needs, where applicable
- Up to 200 word biography for each author
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT SUBMISSION
All works must be submitted via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icli20...
Submissions must be original and will be rigorously reviewed by an international and multidisciplinary scientific committee, in a process that will assess scientific relevance, originality, aesthetic and technical achievements;
The reviewing will be single-blind; please see details for each category listed above
All images and media assets must be cleared for publication by the authors;
At least one of the authors of each contribution must register to the conference before the first author registration deadline in order for the work to be published in the proceedings;
INTER-FACE’s working language is English;
INTER-FACE’s conference proceedings will be published online;
Please contact the program chairs at liveinterfaces-AT-gmail.com with any questions regarding submissions.