<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; "><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">xCoAx 2014: 2nd International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X (June 2014, Porto)</span></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-255a3f58-b813-7d17-067e-e28773a248c2" style="font-weight: normal; "><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Dates: 26-27 June 2014</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Location: Porto, Portugal</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Website: </span><a href="http://www.xcoax.org/" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 141, 207); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">http://xcoax.org/</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2013 </span></div><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The development of computational tools and media has been radically transforming the landscape for the practice of the arts, of design and of numerous cultural manifestations. Recognizing this, xCoAx is designed as a multi-disciplinary enquiry on arts, computers, computation, communication and the elusive x factor that connects them all.</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">xCoAx is a forum for the exchange of ideas and the discovery of new and valuable synergies. It is an event exploring the frontiers of digital arts with the participation of a diverse confluence of computer scientists, media practitioners and theoreticians, with a focus on the relations between what can and cannot be computed, what can and cannot be communicated, what is beautiful and how humans and computational systems intersect in the development of new directions in aesthetics.</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The first edition of xCoAx took place in 2013 in Bergamo, Italy. The 37 works presented — selected from a total of 114 submissions from 28 countries — are compiled in the proceedings book, available at </span><a href="http://2013.xcoax.org/" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">http://2013.xcoax.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">.</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Topics</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work, and artworks that include but are not limited to the following topics:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Computation</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Communication</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Aesthetics</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* X</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Algorithms / Systems / Models</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Artificial Aesthetics</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Audiovisuals / Multimodality</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Creativity</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Design</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Interaction</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Games</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Generative Art / Design</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* History</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Mechatronics / Physical Computing</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Music / Sound Art</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Performance</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Philosophy of Art / of Computation</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* Technology / Ethics / Epistemology </span></div><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Important dates</span></div><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Submission deadline: 31 December 2013</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Notifications: 16 March 2014</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Early registration of authors until: 11 April 2014</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Delivery of final versions until: 11 April 2014</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.6666666666666667; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Conference: 26-27 June 2014 </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></div></span></h1></body></html>