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18.-22. July 2021, online

2nd Conference on AI Music Creativity (MuMe + CSMC)

The second Conference on AI Music Creativity brings together two overlapping research forums: The Computer Simulation of Music Creativity Conference (est. 2016) and The International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (est. 2012). The objective of the conference is to bring together scholars and artists interested in the emulation and extension of musical creativity through computational means and to provide them with an interdisciplinary platform in which to present and discuss their work in scientific and artistic contexts.

The 2021 Conference on AI Music Creativity will be hosted virtually by the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Arts of Graz. The five-day program will feature paper presentations, concerts, workshops, tutorials, sound installations and keynotes by Georgina Born, George E. Lewis and Rebecca Fiebrink. 

Further details can be found below and on the conference website: https://aimc2021.iem.at/

# Conference theme

The theme of AIMC 2021 is: Performing [with] machines. The dual meaning of this title hints towards an understanding of the machine as a performing agent in a human-machine partnership. By putting the emphasis on creative human-machine partnerships in performative contexts, this theme aims to encourage artistic and scientific contributions that deal with the different ways in which musicianship, authorship and performership are challenged, extended and redefined in the era of AI.

# Call for Papers

We invite submissions of full papers, work-in-progress papers and demos on topics related to AI Music Creativity.  For the first time, our call for papers includes a “piece and paper” category, for papers linked with a music submission.

# Call for Music

We invite artistic submissions that deal with topics related to AI music creativity, involving machines, machine learning and dealing with topics related to agency. We especially encourage and promote submissions that address AI from diverse technical and non-technical as well as critical angles with regard to questions of gender, performance, ecology and aesthetics.

# Call for Workshops and Tutorials

We welcome the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals related to the conference topics. Selected workshops will be held online and take place on the first day of the conference (July 18th). 

# Important dates

Submission deadline: 1. April 2021

Acceptance notification deadline: 1. May 2021

Camera-ready deadline: 1. June 2021

Conference: 18.-22. July 2021

# Organizing committee

Conference chairs: Artemi-Maria Gioti and Gerhard Eckel

Music chair: Luc Döbereiner

Paper chair: Artemi-Maria Gioti

Virtual conference chair: IOhannes zmölnig

Diversity consultant: Anna Xambó

Web management: Alisa Kobzar

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: aimc2021(at)iem.at.

Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X 12–16 July 2021,(Graz) online

Program now online at 2021.xcoax.orgOpening and content unveiling: Monday, 12th July, 6:00 PM CEST Keynote speakers: Yuk Hui and Špela Petrič xCoAx is an international conference that explores the frontiers of digital art with a multidisciplinary investigation on aesthetics, computing, communication and the elusive X factor that connects them all. After visiting Milan, Madrid, Lisbon, Bergamo, Glasgow, Porto and Cyberspace, in 2021 xCoAx goes hybrid in Graz, Austria under the auspices of IEM, the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and online. xCoAx 2021 is a totally open event where everyone can attend and join the discussion! Opening event: The opening of xCoAx 2021 will take place on Zoom on July 12th at 6PM CEST. The Organising Committee will be extremely happy to welcome you there to meet, greet, network, and exchange impressions and opinions. This will also be the moment when all content is made available online. Papers have been organised as follows: There are 6 different sessions, where papers with stimulating connections and overlaps were put together. The authors were invited to record a 15-minute presentation of their work. There will be Q&A panels with the audience at times and in Zoom sessions as indicated in the Program (available soon). You can access all the material: abstracts, papers in PDF format and video presentations by accessing xCoAx’s website at 2021.xcoax.org and clicking on “Paper Sessions” in the navigation menu (available July 12). You can join the discussion on Twitter by replying to the tweet at the end of each session page. Artworks have been organised as follows: The xCoAx 2021 website features a page for each artwork that was selected for the exhibition, where the artists present their work with visual documentation, an abstract, a prerecorded artist talk and other media assets. All of the artwork presentations will be streamed on YouTube, and there will be two roundtables in Zoom with the artists and audience. You can access each artwork’s page by accessing xCoAx’s website at 2021.xcoax.org and clicking on “Exhibition” in the navigation menu (available July 12). You can join the discussion on Twitter by replying to the tweet at the end of each artwork’s page. Performances have been organised as follows: The xCoAx 2021 website includes a page for each selected performance, where the performers illustrate their work with a video, an abstract, a prerecorded artist talk and other media assets. There will be roundtables in Zoom with performers and audience. You can access each work’s page by accessing xCoAx’s website at 2021.xcoax.org and clicking on “Performances” in the navigation menu (available July 12). You can join the discussion on Twitter by replying to the tweet at the end of each performance’s page. The Doctoral Symposium has been organised as follows: Doctoral students whose research proposals were accepted were invited to a discussion and feedback session with our chairs Angela Ferraiolo and Marko Ciciliani. The symposium has usually taken place in a more secluded part of xCoAx, and we kept with this tradition by not recording the online session to allow for a more relaxed environment where to exchange opinions and give advice. However, the xCoAx 2021 website features a page with all the research proposals discussed during the symposium, which you can access by going to xCoAx’s website at 2021.xcoax.org and clicking on “Doctoral Symposium” in the navigation menu (available July 12). See you at 2021.xcoax.org Instagram @xcoaxorg Facebook @xcoax.org Twitter @xcoaxorg Hashtag #xcoax2021 For further information on the conference and press materials, please contact the xCoAx team at info@xcoax.org Organizing committee: André Rangel, David Pirrò, Hanns Holger Rutz, Jason Reizner, Luís Pinto Nunes, Luísa Ribas, Mario Verdicchio, Miguel Carvalhais. Authors, papers: Alberto Novello, Alex Heilmair, Alex McLean, Alexia Achilleos, Ana Matilde Sousa, André Santos, André Silva, Andrew Sidsworth, Bjarni Gunnarsson, Corneel Cannaerts, Daniel Bisig, Dejan Grba, Elizabeth Wilson, Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri, Gaspar Cohen, Hanns Holger Rutz, Iannis Zannos, João Correia, João Pedro Ribeiro, Jorge Forero, Julia Uhr, Kit Kuksenok, Ludwig Zeller, Luísa Ribas, Marc Bohlen, Marilia Lyra Bergamo, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Marisa Satsia, Martin Rumori, Michiel Helbig, Miguel Carvalhais, Nayarí Castillo, Nicola Privato, Pedro Cardoso, Pedro Ferreira, Pedro Martins, Pedro Silva, Penousal Machado, Robin Renwick, Shawn Lawson, Stefano Kalonaris, Tiago Martins. Authors, exhibition: Aaron Oldenburg, Alberto de Campo, Alex Bundy, Alexander Kremser, Alisa Kobzar, Alyssa Aska, Ben Benhorin, Daniele Pozzi, Dávid Maruscsák, David Schmudde, Fabian Weiss, Hannah Wolfe, Hannes Hoelzl, Hanns Holger Rutz, Jim Reeve-Baker, Jules Rawlinson, Kai-Luen Liang, Kyle Booten, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Mariana Seiça, Máté Bredán, Mátyás Boldizsár, Nayarí Castillo, Nima Bahrehmand, Pedro Martins, Rihards Vitols, Robert Lisek, S4NTP, Şölen Kıratlı, Stephen Roddy, Tasos Asonitis, Tiago Martins, Tivon Rice, Zoe Li. Authors, performances: Daniel Bisig, Ephraim Wegner, Harald Kimmig, Karl F. Gerber, Mariana Seiça, Nuno Lourenço, Pedro Martins, Ryan Olivier, Sérgio M. Rebelo, Seth D. Thorn, Viola He, Yuzhu Chai. xCoAx is organized by: IEM, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Bauhaus University Weimar, Faculty of Fine Arts University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts University of Porto, University of Bergamo, CIEBA, CITAR, i2ADS, INESC TEC.

Audio Mostly 2020 (AM'20) calls for Papers, Demos, Workshops, and Music & Installations on the topic of audio mostly in extended realities.

Audio Mostly is an audio-focused interdisciplinary conference on design, technology, and interaction with sound that embraces applied theory and practice-oriented research. As in previous years, the conference will be in-cooperation with ACM/SIGCHI (tbc).

The Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM, https://iem.at/) is hosting AM'20 in Graz/ Austria: we are looking forward to an interdisciplinary event extending mostly -but not exclusively- the audio reality!

Details can be found below and on https://audiomostly.com/2020/call/

The Conference Chairs
Katharina Groß-Vogt and Robert Höldrich
am20(at)iem.at

# Virtual Participation
AM'20 offers virtual participation for oral paper presentations. Accepted papers may be presented and discussed via video live stream and are part of the proceedings. Passive virtual participation will be possible for a small fee and includes a live stream of all paper sessions and concerts and other virtual meeting formats.

# Call for Papers
Please submit your research as full papers (5-8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). Both will be fully peer-reviewed in a double blind process. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library (tbc).

# Call for Demos
We encourage authors to contribute demonstrations to be displayed at the conference. Demos require a paper submission.

# Call for Workshops
We invite proposals for workshops to be held at AM'20. Selected workshops will take place the day before the main conference (September 14th). We encourage hands-on/interactive workshops and regular workshops that last from 2 hours to a full day. Workshops are proposed in the form of a submitted paper.

# Call for Music & Installations
We call for Music for auditory virtual environments and sound art to be performed in a concert hall and as sound installations around the conference site.

# Important Dates
Submission Deadline: May 01, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2020
Workshops: September 14, 2020
Conference: September 15-17, 2020

Registration opens in June, with fees in the range of 30 EUR (virtual) to 150-400 EUR (physical).

xCoAx 2020: 8th International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X

8-10 July 2020, Graz, Austria - online

xcoax.org

Please feel free to distribute this call to your networks.

Submission deadline: 31 January 2020

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.

xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and
exchange ideas, in search for interdisciplinary synergies among computer
scientists, artists, media practitioners, and theoreticians at the
thresholds between digital arts and culture. Starting in 2013 in
Bergamo, xCoAx has so far taken place also in Porto, Glasgow, Lisbon,
Madrid, and Milan.

The focus of xCoAx is on the unpredictable overlaps between the freedom
of creativity and the rules of algorithms, between human nature and
machine technology, with the aim to evolve towards new directions in
aesthetics.

In 2020 xCoAx will take place in Graz, Austria, directly adjoining the
symposium Algorithms that Matter (ALMAT). On the two days preceding
xCoAx, ALMAT gathers artists and researchers to present and discuss the
relations between algorithmic agency and artistic research, the practice
of algorithmic experimentation and its impact on compositional process.
ALMAT has issued a separate call for participation -
almat.iem.at/symposium.html - and reduced combi-tickets will be
available for xCoAx + ALMAT.

Topics

You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental
research work that includes but is not limited to the following topics:
Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, X, Algorithms / Systems /
Models, Artificial Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, Audiovisuals /
Multimodality, Creativity, Design, Interaction, Games, Generative Art /
Design, History, Mechatronics / Physical Computing, Music / Sound Art,
Performance, Philosophy of Art / of Computation, Technology / Ethics /
Epistemology.

Submission Categories

Papers, artworks, performances, ongoing doctoral research (all details
for submission at xcoax.org/). For this edition of xCoAx, a
special call for performances for MUMUTH's Ligeti Hall is also being
launched.

Publications

All accepted works will be published in a proceedings book with ISBN
(see proceedings.xcoax.org for previous editions) and the authors
of the best papers will be invited to a special issue of the
Scopus-indexed Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts
(http://artes.ucp.pt/citarj/).

Keynote Speakers

Yuk Hui
Špela Petrič

Doctoral Symposium Chairs

Marko Ciciliani

Organizing Committee

André Rangel: CITAR / i2ADS
David Pirrò: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of
Music and Performing Arts, Graz
Hanns Holger Rutz: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics,
University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz
Jason Reizner: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Luís Nunes: i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto
Luísa Ribas: CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon
Mario Verdicchio: Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Miguel Carvalhais: INESC TEC / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto

Local Organizing Committee

David Pirrò: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of
Music and Performing Arts, Graz
Hanns Holger Rutz: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics,
University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz
Daniele Pozzi: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University
of Music and Performing Arts, Graz

Contacts

info@xcoax.org
xcoax.org
twitter.com/xcoaxorg
facebook.com/xcoax.org
www.instagram.com/xcoaxorg/

ALMAT - Algorithms that Matter
Symposium on Algorithmic Agency in Artistic Practice

6--7 July 2020, Graz Austria

almat.iem.at/symposium.html

Please feel free to distribute this call to your networks.

Submission deadline: 31 January 2020

Artists and scientists have worked with digital computers for over
seventy years, and algorithmic practices exist for a lot longer. But in
recent years, increased computing power and decreased costs and
miniaturisation of machines have created a new quantity and quality of
everyday exposure, economic and political criticality, and with it a
wave of public attention and discourse. As artists-researchers, how do
we incorporate this new situation into our practices, and more
importantly, how does this changed situation retroact on our
understanding of the role of digital art, sound art and artistic
practice itself?

Rather than understanding algorithms as existing and transparent tools,
the ALMAT Symposium is interested in their genealogical, processual
aspects and their transformative potential. We seek critical approaches
that avoid both mystification and commodification, that aim at opening
the black box of "wonder" that is often presented to the public when
utilising algorithms.

The foundation for the symposium is given by the eponymous project ALMAT
- Algorithms that Matter. ALMAT is an artistic research project by Hanns
Holger Rutz and David Pirrò funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF AR
403-GBL) and hosted by the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics
(IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

ALMAT 2020 will take place (06–07 July) adjoining the 8th Conference on
Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X – xCoAx (08–10 July). 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. xCoAx has issued a separate call for participation –
www.xcoax.org – and reduced combi-tickets are available for xCoAx
+ ALMAT.

Call for Contributions

The ALMAT Symposium calls for artistic research contributions in the
following two categories:

1. Contributions exploring the symposium's theme and the questions
   arising from it. This may include:
   - What are the material qualities specific of algorithms and
     algorithmic practices? How does the algorithmic become malleable
     as material?
   - Are there particular affordances of the algorithmic?
   - How does algorithmic agency unfold, how can it be observed,
     formulated, or communicated? Which alternatives to traditional
     concepts such as control/controller could be formulated?
   - How does the reconfigurative "intrinsic" or "speculative"
     movement of algorithms extend to or retroact on the artist or
     recipient, how does it shape their interactions?
   - How can artistic experimentation with algorithms be communicated
     to an audience, how may it help sensitise and empower people to
     take ownership of the algorithmic?
   - Which are the thresholds of heteronomy/autonomy, what makes an
     algorithmic practice become generative?
   - What are philosophical, technological, aesthetic or artistic
     consequences of acknowledging the agency of algorithms?

2. Contributions that explicitly refer to the research, the
   experiences and the case studies of the ALMAT research
   project. Contributions may be commentary, continuation, critique
   or, more in general, a response to one or more aesthetic and
   theoretic manifestations and artefacts reflected in the project's
   documentation. The project's (ongoing) documentation is an online
   hypertext starting at the Continuous Exposition:
   www.researchcatalogue.net/view/381565/381566. In
   particular, we identified a number of works that are
   good candidates for responses, as they will be visible or audible
   during the symposium (see submission page).

For more information and details of contribution formats and
application process, please refer to:
www.researchcatalogue.net/view/381565/698006

Contact: For any questions, please write to <almat@iem.at>.

Workshop über TouchDesigner mit Darien Brito

28.11. 14:00-18:00
29.11. 10:00-18:00
30.11. 10:00-18:00

CUBE am IEM

March 29-31, 2019 at University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

Venue: Mumuth, Lichtenfelsgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria

In 2016, the artistic research project “GAPPP – Gamified Audiovisual Performance and Performance Practice” was launched at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics – IEM – of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

In GAPPP, a team of researchers investigates the artistic potential of elements from computer games in the context of audiovisual composition and performance. A large number of questions grouping around this key interest have been investigated and more than a dozen new artistic works composed and performed that explore those questions from a practical side.

During the symposium Gamified Composition and Performance – a Symposium in Artistic Research the most significant outcomes of the research project will be presented and discussed in the form of talks and artistic performances. The symposium will bring together an international mix of artists, performers and speakers from the fields of game philosophy, game theory, audiovisual art and musicology. The works that we will present were created as part of the GAPPP research, or have been especially commissioned for this symposium.

The focus of the symposium lies not only in the reflection of the findings of this particular research project, but in discussing and opening up new questions and perspectives that emerge from the intersection of artistic practice, aesthetics, game elements and mechanics.

http://gappp.net/english/symposium.html

IEM CUBE

16.06.2018, 10:00-17:00

mit den Vortragenden: Brian Heim, Till Bovermann

https://iem.kug.ac.at/institut-aktuell/details/article/supercollider-meeting-iem-graz-june-16th.html

2018 - SuperCollider Meeting @ IEM Graz (3)

The "Algorithms that Matter" (ALMAT) project's team, in collaboration with the Bergen Center for Electronic Art (BEK), organised the workshop-in-exposition "Thesholds of the Algorithmic" which took place in Bergen, Norway June 8–16 . The event was co-produced by the Lydgalleriet where the exposition took place.

The trailer to this event is now available at:
vimeo.com/276417648/

Further information can be found at:
almat.iem.at
www.researchcatalogue.net/view/381565/381566
bek.no/en/
http://www.lydgalleriet.no/

EFEP

OSIL

Science by Ear 4

Transpositions

From Wed 26th to Fri 28th of April 2017, IEM successfully held its first 3-Day Ambisonics Workshop. It was the first workshop of this kind at IEM. 

http://iem.kug.ac.at/institut-aktuell/details/article/klangdom-aaas-workshops.html

Die International Conference on Spatial Audio, kurz ICSA, fand vom 7. bis zum 10. September 2017 im IEM an der Kunstuniversität Graz in Österreich statt. Besuchen Sie unsere Veranstaltungs-Webseite icsa2017.iem.at, auf der Sie alle Details zur ICSA finden.

icsa2015.iem.at

http://icad15.iem.at

International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt 2014

https://sysson.kug.ac.at/index.php?id=16451

The Choreography of Sound

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2013/

http://dafx10.iem.at

http://qcd-audio.at/sbe2.html

https://iem.kug.ac.at/index.php?id=17162

Körperlicher Ausdruck in der Elektronischen Musik

https://ambisonics.iem.at/symposium2009

Lange Nacht der Forschung

http://www.medienwerkstatt-wien.at/aktuell/gespraeche.php

Lange Nacht der Forschung

https://ambisonics.iem.at/xchange

https://iem.kug.ac.at/index.php?id=17067

Kinderuni

Vortrag von Franz Zotter - CoMaed

http://sonenvir.at/workshop/

Bewegung und Klang

The School of Sound

http://puredata.info/community/conventions/convention04

UNIversum Graz 2003

http://www.aes-graz.org

https://www.nmz.de/artikel/digitale-bildungsmedien-und-neue-strategien

http://www.aes-graz.org

Workshop mit Andreas Weixler - http://avant.mur.at/weixler/awbio.dt.html