ACM Multimedia 2009 Interactive Art Program
Call for Exhibition Entries and Papers

ACM Multimedia 2009 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing. The ACM MM Interactive Art Program seeks to connect the arts and multimedia communities to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of multimedia science and technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia science and technology.

This 6th version of the Interactive Art Program will consist of an art exhibition and a conference track. We invite artists + designers working with digital media, and scientists + engineers invoking artistic methods to submit their original contributions to the following tracks:

• Multimedia art exhibition: "disophrenia", suggesting a combination of digital, disintegration and schizophrenia. We seek artworks that use multimedia to explore how human identity is fragmented through experiences of the digital world. Disophrenia works may involve, for example, movement from generation to disaggregation, from momentum to timelessness, from introversion to extroversion, from identification to loss. We particularly seek interactive multimedia works that realize strong artistic concepts by combining multiple media, technologies, and novel technical ideas, creating a new perspective. Instantiating the local community / global village connection, we strongly encourage Asian and other Pacific Rim artists to submit work.

Deadline for submission to the Art Exhibition: April 17, 2009

• Conference track: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia artworks, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology as well as technical approaches for the management of art-related media collections. Emphasis will be given to work that integrates art and science perspectives and methodologies. Examples include digital systems that support the creative processes within art, in form such as tools, work environments, and interactive experience environments. We invite papers on works that are interactive, particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces or sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a strong technical content written by artists.
  
  Components of good research contributions include: (1) conceptual basis and origins; (2) novel algorithms and interaction methods; (3) data that validates use and/or describes human experiences.
  
  Papers may be long (10 pages) or short (2 to 4 pages). Long papers are presented in front of an audience and short papers are presented in poster format.

Deadline for full papers to the Arts Program Conference Track April 17, 2009

Deadline for short papers to the Arts Program Conference Track May 8, 2009

For further submission details please see http://staff.science.uva.nl/~nack/ACM_MM_IAP_09/index.html

Accepted papers and art works will be published in the ACM Multimedia Conference proceedings.

Important Dates:

Program Chairs

Andruid Kerne (Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA)
Frank Nack (HCS, University of Amsterdam, NL)
Yingqing Xu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)