*CFP* "AI FICTIONS/ IA FICTIONS", INTERNATIONAL 2021 CONFERENCE

AI fictions/ IA fictions

International Conference

3-5 June 2021

University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris

This is the first conference ever organized on the theme of Artificial Intelligence in fiction (literature, series, films, comics, video games): the focus will be on representations of AI and their meanings, as well as the creative uses of AI to produce and understand fiction.

A road trip entirely written by an artificial intelligence embedded in a car, Ross Goodwin's the road has joined at the start of the 2019 literary season a whole series of texts whose common point was to stage and act out a dream of automation and artificialization of literary language, whose genealogy goes back at least to the first automatic writings of Oulipo: artificial intelligence is no longer just a fiction but a tool for producing fiction. Hito Steyerl revisits the narrative power of documentary film using deep learning algorithms to better question its ability to shape reality; Second Earth by Gregory Chatonsky takes us into a new world whose automatically generated images already tell the story, while by associating two images to a logical connector he shows the power of an algorithm to create a small story (If... then, 2009).

*CFP* "ARTIFICIAL CREATIVITY", VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

“Artificial creativity” virtual conference

19–20 November 2020

Online (hosted by Malmö University, Sweden)

The Artificial Creativity conference aims to stir a discussion about the cultural, societal and ethical aspects of artworks featuring A.I. or robots engaged in creative production.

We encourage submissions regarding ongoing research about creative embodied robots (i.e. robotic systems that use physical brushes, pencils, etc. to make their artefacts), but do welcome any inquiries concerning the use of A.I. and deep learning in the production of novel artefacts. The notion of a "robotic system" above may include different types of embodied agents such as an appropriated industrial arm, swarm, drone, etc.

*CFP* “AFFECT AND EMBODIMENT IN HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION”, 15TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION

15TH Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction

Affect and Embodiment in Human-Robot Interaction

23-26 de Marzo de 2020

Cambridge, UK

Rationale

How do forms of robot embodiment influence the emotional state of the user? In Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), affect and embodiment have become prominent areas of inquiry. The physicality of robotic systems is therefore a crucial factor for user interactions in shared spaces. This recognition of machinic corporeality shares theoretical affinities with recent interests in the humanities and social sciences. In the cognitive sciences and philosophy, for example, the body has long been regarded with suspicion, but recent theories of embodied, extended, enactive, or ecological (4E) cognition have meant a renewed significance for the body as the locus of perception and action, inseparable from memory, learning, and reasoning activity. Meanwhile, the ‘Affective Turn’ in the social sciences recognizes the role of affects and embodiment in the production of intersubjective experiences.

*CFP* “MATERIALIZING DIGITAL FUTURES: TOUCH, MOVEMENT, SOUND AND VISION”, CHAPTER BOOK

As the technological climate continually evolves, the implications for society and individuals are being drawn in stark relief. Globally, personal and industrial data collection, data sharing and increased self-tracking practices using social media applications on mobile screen devices that are linked to wearable devices or recorded data from ingestible sensors are becoming more prevalent. Today, small mobile screens together with computer networks and various networked digital technologies (such as smartphones and tablets or ‘phablets’) make it possible for individuals, corporations and governments to accumulate, curate and distribute data and information on an unprecedented scale. Algorithms and big data are increasingly shaping our socio-cultural and technical relations and our everyday experiences. Important questions are arising that concern the human impacts of emerging digital technologies as the advent of ‘big data’ (and small data) technologies and social media have inexorably altered the boundaries between private and public life, and profoundly altered our sense of self.

*CFP* "BODY, MIND, AND THE POSTHUMAN: A COROLLARY TO POSTMODERN THOUGHT", LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES JOURNAL

“Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?”

Nietzsche

Within post-Enlightenment thought supremacy of a disembodied and ahistorical Cartesian subject, surveying the objective world lying before and imparting it meaning in accordance to its own wishes, becomes the ground of what is understood as being human. This anthropocentric conception, challenged in various manners—most comprehensively in Heidegger’s reformulation of human subject as Dasein—within the history of ideas, however remains the frame of reference till the end of 20th century. With the advent of 1990s epistemologies are remodelled, tracing their roots to Heidegger’s Letter on Humanism, to incorporate first an anti-human strain of thought and then, subsequently, announce the death of a coherent human subject—whether in Derrida’s concept of differánce, or in Foucault’s dirge on death of man with the corollary of the author being reduced to a “function”—as an essential and stable entity, an announcement that contributed to a scattered and de-constructed postmodern landscape of mind.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, ISCC 7TH WORKSHOP ON COMMUNICATIONS IN CRITICAL EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (WOCCES)

7th Workshop on Communications in Critical Embedded Systems

WoCCES 2019

June 29 - July 3rd 2019

Barcelona, Spain

 

7th Workshop on Communications in Critical Embedded Systems is an event bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners who work in the field of communications in critical embedded systems and its academic and industrial applications.

Topics of Interest:  

Authors are invited to submit full and/or short papers related to the following topics of interest (but not limited to):