TEI 2023 Arts Track - Call for Submissions

  TEI 2023 Arts Track - Call for Submissions


Theme


Technology distances us from each other, causing the social tissue to 
fall apart. It’s time for the tangible revolutions - being together 
without screens. Screens have created a distance from the environment 
that has shaped us, destroying the work of evolution that through 
hundreds of thousands of years has adapted both the mind and body to the 
ever changing environment. Nowadays the contact of the digital and 
physical world has been dominated by the interaction with intermediary 
screens whose flat surfaces have limited the sensory experience. Screens 
cause the observation and manipulation of symbols that remove the person 
from reality.


Smartphones, VRs, ARs, XRs, more and more screens around us. The need 
for a tangible revolution is more than ever before, since our 
understanding of the world is based on motion, action, active and bodily 
experience.


We warmly invite artists who would like to show that another world is 
possible. The world with less screens and more closeness - in short, to 
be together without screens. For that we need a revolution, the tangible 
revolution.


Topics


We seek submissions that articulate viewpoints and facilitate dialogue 
around the TEI conference themes as well as topics including but not 
limited to:


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    Hybrid assemblies that combine digital, physical, biological, and/or
    social systems

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    Artistic explorations of shape-, weight-, color- and size changing
    materials (biosensors and bioactuators, shape memory alloys, thermo
    and photochromic dyes, etc.)

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    Wearable, on-body, and in-body computing

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    Novel interactions realized through traditional crafts or
    unconventional materials, professional artistry, craft, or musicianship

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    Hybrid bodies, prosthetics, human augmentation, posthumanism

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    Artistic reflections on the social, political, ethical, and
    aesthetic dimensions of hybrid systems

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    Interactive installations that critically reflect on hybrid materiality


Accepted works will be exhibited in the Arts Track exhibition at the 
Copernicus Science Centre <https://www.kopernik.org.pl/en>.


Dates

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    Artwork submission deadline: 30 September, 2022

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    Notification of acceptance: 16 October, 2022

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    Camera-ready deadline: January 6, 2023

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    TEI 2023 conference: February 26 - March 1, 2023


Submission Guidelines

The Arts Track welcomes submissions of artworks from a wide range of 
practitioners and researchers in areas such as arts, music, design, new 
media, biology, material science, and technology. We welcome submissions 
from artists at all career stages, including students and independent 
practitioners.

The submission should include:

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    The artwork paper discussing the artwork theme and description (see
    Format below)

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    Documentation such as images, sketches, drafts, books, videos, etc.
    Please add  content or the link to the content in the artwork paper
    pdf. The links should be unrestricted to ensure easy access for the
    reviewing process.

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    A pdf document with a technical requirement description

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    Optional: An ethical statement. Any discussion point in the ethical
    statements of NIME publications is a good start:
    https://www.nime.org/ethics/ <https://www.nime.org/ethics/>

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    Optional: An artist biography for the participating artist(s) (300
    words or fewer per bio).

Format: TEI 2023 uses the new ACM workflow 
<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow>for 
submission templates and published papers. This requires the use of a 
simplified one-column template for submission, while the final 
two-column paper has to be rendered for publication 
<https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions>after acceptance. 
Submissions should be in the form of a short (2 - 4 pages plus 
references) paper in PDF format that will appear in the TEI Proceedings 
and will be indexed in  the ACM Digital Library. For further details 
please follow the provided instructions or contact our Publication Chair.

File Size: Please note that the maximum size of your submission should 
not exceed 40 Mb.. It will be possible to submit large videos via a link 
to online content (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo).

Arts track reviews are single-blind, the submissions should therefore 
include the author(s) name and affiliation.

Submissions are accepted through the submission portal at the link below:

https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions 
<https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions>

Selection Process

Submissions will be selected based on their artistic merits and their 
engagement with issues relevant to the field of tangible, embedded, and 
embodied interactive art. In addition, the logistical constraints of the 
venue may determine the eligibility of submitted projects.

Confidentiality of submissions will be maintained during the review 
process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity.


Submissions will be reviewed on the following aspects:

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    Relevance - The work must have a tangible aspect, in the form of an
    installation, performance, object, or physical event.

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    Artistic - It must operate significantly and compellingly through
    its formal, conceptual, and experiential properties.

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    Embodiment - The work must engage the human body beyond the
    traditional screen-pointer interface.

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    Computational aspect - It must involve computational technology
    (digital, biological, or analog) in some aspect of its form or function.

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    Positioning - The work must be positioned within related areas of
    theory and/or practice.

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    Feasibility- The submission should include all details to realise
    the work, including tech details, budget, and feasibility explanation.

Attendance

Artists (or their delegates) will need to be available for installation 
and bump-out, and for facilitating interaction with their artwork at 
scheduled times. The authors are expected to finance their travel and 
material budgets.

One author of each accepted submission must register for the conference 
before the early registration deadline in order for the final paper 
version to appear in the conference proceedings.

Contact

For any questions please contact: arts_chairs@tei.acm.org 
<mailto:arts_chairs@tei.acm.org>


Organizers

Arts chairs

Wiesław Bartkowski, University of Warsaw, Poland

Kıvanç Tatar, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Beat Rossmy, Ludwig Maximilian University Germany

General Chairs

Andrzej Nowak, University of Warsaw, Poland

Eva Hornecker, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

Paweł W. Woźniak, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Organisation Chairs

Florian Müller, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany

Wiesław Bartkowski, University of Warsaw, Poland

Ilona Tańska, Copernican Revolution Lab, Copernicus Science Centre 
Warsaw, Poland


https://tei.acm.org/2023/ <https://tei.acm.org/2023/>