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#IFM2024 Call For Proposals

The #IFM2024 Interactive Film and Media Conference 2024 will take place online, from the 12th to the 14th of June 2024, and has announced a Call for Proposals (deadline: 18 December 2023) focused on the themes of ‘Communities – Structures – Entanglements’. These themes present a rich ground for exploration, innovation, and critical examination in the rapidly evolving interactive film and media domain.

Academics (faculty, researchers, and Ph.D. students), and practitioners (filmmakers, artists, VR and game designers, media producers, etc.) are invited to submit proposals that blend critical analysis with creativity, push the boundaries of conventional thinking, and contribute to the burgeoning discourse on communities, structures and entanglements in interactive film and media. While presenters are encouraged to consider this year’s themes, proposals on matters relevant to the IFM community and beyond are welcome.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Innovation in current and emerging structural design in interactive storytelling.
  • Empowerment of communities’ agency and participation in interactive narratives.
  • Visualisation techniques for conceptualising narrative structures.
  • The implications of structures and entanglements in shaping interactive experiences.
  • Role of technology, including AI, in amplifying or restricting agency, whether individual or community-oriented.
  • Impact of cultural and sociopolitical contexts on agency and entanglements.
  • Collaboration and co-creation in building innovative platforms.
  • Case studies highlighting the successful implementation of new structural concepts.
  • Ethics and responsibilities in facilitating agency, navigating entanglements, and designing structures.
  • Exploration of how VR and AR technologies create immersive environments that leverage agency, structures, and entanglements for a richer user experience.
  • Community’s role in shaping inclusive structures and agency within interactive narratives.
  • Societal connections and values in interactive entanglements and their influence on content and experience.

Tribute to Patty Zimmermann:
In honour of distinguished professor and friend Patty Zimmermann, the IFM community will celebrate her contributions to strengthening communities, her careful structuring of entanglements, and her commitment to empowering people to speak. Sessions of the conference will be dedicated to our esteemed colleague, relentless scholar, dedicated social advocate, and a pioneering force in cultivating cross-platform and interdisciplinary engagement.

Full Free Admission:
No fee is charged for presentation and attendance at this conference or publication in the journal.

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‘#IFM2023′

The #IFM2023 5th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference, is taking place online, from the 7th to the 9th of June 2023. It is dedicated to exploring ‘Care, Collaboration, and Craft’ in the realm of interactive film and media, bringing together contributions and exhibitions from over 50 presenters from 30 universities and labs worldwide.

Academics, practitioners, artists, designers, and producers in the field of interactive film and media are warmly invited to join this stimulating exploration. The conference is designed to harness the transformative power of diverse voices and methodologies, confronting the challenge of polarisation, while fostering diverse voices and inventing innovative, collaborative work practices.

Dr Polina Zioga will chair Panel IV, on Thursday, 8th of June, 18:00-19:30 PM (BST), on The Role of Text and Subtitles in Interactive Platforms and Multimedia Storytelling, Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PGIS), and Making a Riot in the Gaming Space!

The conference is accessible to all with Free Registration.
All video presentations are already available for preview on the YouTube Channel, and the Full Conference Program can be found online.

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‘DCAC 2023′

The hybrid 5th International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC 2023), hosted by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts (Ionian University), is taking place in Corfu (Greece) and online, this week, 12-13 May 2023. The aim of DCAC 2023 is to bring together technology, art and culture in the Digital Era; provide a forum on current research and applications; and deepen cooperation, exchange experiences, and good practices.

As part of the conference, Dr Polina Zioga and Dr Catherine M. Weir will present our new work-in-progress project ‘This Place Has Its Own Air’: A Proof of Concept for Urban Air Quality Data Visceralisation, in Session 2: Digital Culture and Technologies, 12 May 2023, 11:30-12:45 EEST.

How can interactive video and real-time data visceralisation help audiences connect with their shared environment, and promote the reduction of urban air pollution?
‘This Place Has Its Own Air’ proof of concept (Zioga and Weir 2023).

[…] This paper presents ‘This Place Has Its Own Air’, a data-driven video-installation and proof of concept for urban air quality data visceralisation. Its title is based on the seminal memoir The Living Mountain (1977) by Nan Shepherd, and is concerned with the effect of the city’s air (man-made polluted environment) on the body. The video-installation uses the real-time air quality data of the city where it is presented, to create an evocative visceralisation of the bodily experience; enabling viewers to have a real-time glimpse of the air they breathe and reflect on the need for reducing the pollution of their environment. […]

(Zioga and Weir 2023)

You can find here: the schedule and the full list of speakers.

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