<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">xCoAx 2019: 7th International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X </span><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">(3-5 July 2019, Milan)</span></h1><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dates: 3-5 July 2019</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Location: Milan, Italy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Website: </span><a href="http://www.xcoax.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://xcoax.org/</span></a></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Submission deadline: 31 January 2019</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">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></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and exchange ideas, in search of interdisciplinary synergies among computer scientists, artists, media practitioners, and theoreticians at the threshold of digital arts and culture. Previous editions of xCoAx took place in Madrid in 2018, Lisbon in 2017, Bergamo in 2016 and 2013, Glasgow in 2015, and Porto in 2014.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The focus of xCoAx is on the unpredictable overlaps between the chaos and freedom of creativity and the rules and determinism of algorithms, between human nature and machine technology, with the aim to evolve towards new directions in aesthetics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In 2019 xCoAx will take place in Milan, in and around Politecnico di Milano, in the Città Studi area.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Topics</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work that includes but is not limited to the following topics:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Computation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Communication</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Aesthetics</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* X</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Algorithms / Systems / Models</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Artificial Aesthetics</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Artificial Intelligence</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Audiovisuals / Multimodality</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Creativity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Design</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Interaction</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Games</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Generative Art / Design</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* History</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Mechatronics / Physical Computing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Music / Sound Art</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Performance</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Philosophy of Art / of Computation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Technology / Ethics / Epistemology</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Important dates</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Submission deadline: January 31</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Notifications: March 20</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Registration deadline for authors: April 30</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Delivery of final versions: April 30</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Doctoral symposium: July 3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Exhibition opening: July 3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Conference: July 4 & 5</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Submission categories</span></h2><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Paper: 5 to 10 pages conference paper, following the formatting in the Word template at <a href="http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2019_Paper_Template.docx" class="">http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2019_Paper_Template.docx</a> Revision of papers will be double-blind. Please make sure that the PDF file is completely anonymized (i.e. omits author-related information in body of text or as explicit self-citations, notes and bibliography). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and allotted 15 minutes presentation time at the conference.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Artwork / Performance: 3 to 4 page description paper, following the formatting in the Word template at <a href="http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2019_Artwork_Performance_Template.docx" class="">http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2019_Artwork_Performance_Template.docx</a> Revision of proposals will be double-blind. Proposals should provide a clear description of the work, one or more URLs for access to relevant media assets, and a technical rider (layout, setup, required equipment). All accepted works will be allotted 7 minutes presentation time at the conference. Artworks will be part of the exhibition, performances will be allotted a maximum of 30 minutes on stage during the performance night. The proceedings will publish an extended abstract to be provided by the authors after the conference.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Doctoral symposium: 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 <a href="http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2019_DoctoralSymposium_Template.docx" class="">http://xcoax.org/xCoAx_2019_DoctoralSymposium_Template.docx</a>, comprised of a letter of support from your advisor followed by a 2-page research paper with 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. The title of your submission should start with “DS:”, e.g. “DS: Parametrisation in Visual Art”. 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, Philip Galanter, and Mario Klingemann. In 2019 the Doctoral Symposium chairs will be Simona Chiodo and Philip Galanter.</span></div><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Additional information and submission details</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* All works must be submitted via EasyChair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xcoax2019" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xcoax2019</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* 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></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Submissions should be presented as .pdf files with all the media files embedded or linked to online resources;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Final versions for publication should be delivered in .docx with all the images and other media files attached as independent files;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* All images and media assets must be cleared for publication by the authors;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* 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></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* xCoAx’s working language is English;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* xCoAx’s conference proceedings (with ISBN) will be published online;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* A selection of works will be published in a forthcoming special issue of CITAR’s Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">* Please contact the program chairs at <a href="mailto:info@xcoax.org" class="">info@xcoax.org</a> with any questions regarding submissions.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Conference format</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Wednesday July 3 afternoon: Doctoral symposium.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Wednesday July 3 evening: Opening of the exhibition, reception cocktail.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thursday July 4: Conference, keynote, performances. Presentations will be organised in panels chaired by a moderator that will lead a final discussion with authors and audience. A guest keynote will close the day.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thursday July 4 evening: Performances.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Friday July 5: Conference, keynote, artworks and performances session. The morning will be dedicated to further paper panels, while in the afternoon, the artworks and performances presentations will take place, networking authors and audience. A second keynote address will close the day.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Friday July 5 evening: Conference dinner.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Registration</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Author registration: € 220 — before April 15th. One author per paper. Includes entry to conference, performances, and conference dinner.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Reduced registration: € 90 — Non-presenting co-authors, authors without academic affiliation, general public. Includes entry to conference and performances, and conference dinner.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Doctoral symposium: € 90 — Includes entry to conference and performances, and conference dinner.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Conference dinner: € 30 — Open to non-registered accompanying persons.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Registrations will open after the notifications of the reviews (March 2019).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Scientific committee</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Adriana Sá - ESAD/CICANT</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Alessandro Ludovico - Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton / Neural</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Alice Eldridge - University of Sussex</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">André Rangel - CITAR</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Andreas Broeckmann - Leuphana Arts Program, Lüneburg</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Andreas Muxel - Faculty of Design at University of Applied Sciences Augsburg</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Andreas Zingerle - independent artist</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Andres Burbano - School of Architecture and Design, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Anne Balsamo - University of Texas at Dallas</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Anneké Pettican - Department Lead Art & Communication, University of Huddersfield</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Arne Eigenfeldt - Simon Fraser University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Boris Debackere - V2 / Luca School of Arts</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Carlos Guedes - New York University Abu Dhabi</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Chara Lewis - Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Christian Faubel - independent artist</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Cris Arguelles - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / ETH Zurich</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Cristina Sá - CITAR / Portuguese Catholic University, School of Arts</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dale Macdonald - University of Texas at Dallas</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Daniel Schorno - STEIM</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Daphne Dragona - Transmediale</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">David Pirrò - Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Eduardo Roig - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Emilio López Galiacho - Universidad Nebrija / ESNE</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Filipe Pais - Ensadlab, Ensad, Paris</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Francisco Cardoso Lima - Independent Artist, Aveiro</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Frieder Nake - University of Bremen & Hochschule für Künste Bremen</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Gonzalo Pardo - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Hanns Holger Rutz - University of Music and Performing Arts Graz</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Heitor Alvelos - ID+ / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Irina Spicaka - CC4AV</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">João Cordeiro - CITAR / University of West London</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jason Reizner - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jon He Massey - University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jon McCormack - Monash University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Julio D'Escriván - University Of Huddersfield</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Kristin Mojsiewicz - Edinburgh College Of Art, University Of Edinburgh</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Linda Kronman - independent artist</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Lucía Jalón Oyarzun - Universidad Politécnica De Madrid</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Luís Gustavo Martins - CITAR / Portuguese Catholic University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Luísa Ribas- CIEBA / Faculty Of Fine Arts, University Of Lisbon</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Manuela Naveau - Ars Electronica</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Mario Verdicchio - Università degli Studi di Bergamo</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Martin Kaltenbrunner - Kunstuniversität Linz</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Miguel Carvalhais - INESC TEC / Faculty Of Fine Arts, University Of Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Mitchell Whitelaw - College Of Arts And Social Sciences, Australian National University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Mona Kasra - University Of Virginia</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Nathan Wolek - Stetson University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Nuno N. Correia - University Of Greenwich</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Patrícia João Reis - University Of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, Department Of Digital Arts</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Paulo Ferreira Lopes - Portuguese Catholic University, School Of Arts</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Pedro Cardoso - INESC TEC / Faculty Of Fine Arts, University Of Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Penousal Machado - University Of Coimbra</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Philip Galanter - Texas A&M University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ricardo Melo - CEOS.PP / Polytechnic Of Porto. Porto Accounting And Business School</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Rodrigo Hernández-Ramírez - Instituto de Arte, Design e Empresa (IADE)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Rosemary Lee - IT-University Copenhagen</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Roxanne Leitão - Central Saint Martins, University Of The Arts London</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Rui Penha - INESC TEC / Feup</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Rui Torres - Electronic Literature Organization / Faculty Of Human And Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Samuel Van Ransbeeck - UCP/CITAR</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Sophie-Carolin Wagner - Austrian National Library / RIAT</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Shusha Niederberguer - House Of Electronic Arts Basel</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Tim Boykett - Time's Up</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Titus Von Der Malsburg - Department Of Linguistics, University Of Potsdam</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thor Magnusson - University Of Sussex / Ixi Audio</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Valentina Nisi - University Of Madeira</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Valentina Vuksic - Zurich University of the Arts</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Victoria Bradbury - University Of North Carolina, Asheville</span></div><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Organizing committee</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">André Rangel - CITAR</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jason Reizner - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Luísa Ribas - CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Mario Verdicchio - Università degli Studi di Bergamo (Chair)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Miguel Carvalhais - INESC TEC / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Local organizing committee</span></h2><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 14.5pt 0pt 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Marco Santambrogio - Politecnico di Milano / NECTS, iDRESD</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Sara Notargiacomo - Politecnico di Milano / NECTS, iDRESD</span></div><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; 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