EXPANDED ANIMATION – Conference on Animation and Interactive Art

The Expanded Animation Conference will take place from September 5th to 7th as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2024. This call for paper focuses on academic art papers in the field of Expanded Animation and Interactive Art that explore and experiment with visual expression at the intersection of art, and technology. This year, we will have two new scientifically oriented categories (Art Research Paper and Art Paper), where submissions will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process. All selected speakers will be given a free pass to the Ars Electronica Festival.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• 3D Scanning
• AI-generated Images
• Artistic Computer Animation
• Audio-visual Experiments
• Data Journalism and Animated Documentary
• Data Visualizations
• Digital Media Art History
• Digital, Hybrid, and Expanded Theater
• Expanded Animation
• Generative Art
• Human-AI interaction and Human-AI collaboration
• Hybrids between Animation and Game
• Media Facades
• Music Visualization
• New approaches to artistic research and practice-based methodologies
• Performance Projects
• Playful Interactions and Experiences
• Projection Mapping
• Projects using NFT, Metaverse, Social Media
• Reactive and Interactive audio/visual Work
• Real-time CG
• Scientific Visualizations
• Site-specific Installations
• Sound Art and Soundscapes
• Tangible Interfaces and New Forms of Experiences
• Transmedia Narratives
• Virtual Humans and Environments
• Virtual Production
• VR, AR, MR, XR

Submission categories

• Art Research Paper (ACM double-column format)
  • Focus on theory and context.
  • 4–6 pages (excluding references)
  • Presentation: 10 min. + panel discussion
  • Submissions will be reviewed
• Art Paper  (ACM double-column format)
  • Focus on artwork, case study, and work in progress.
  • 2–4 pages (excluding references), incl. video documentation
  • Presentation: 10 min. + panel discussion
  • Not reviewed (jury selection)
  • No exhibition or on-site demonstration

Important Dates

• Submission site open: March 1st, 2024
• Submission deadline: May 4th, 2024, 23:59 (AoE)
• Decision notification: End of June 2024
• Conference days: September 5th to 7th 2024

Submission

Submission is via Easy Chair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expanded2024, where you will be prompted to set up a free Easy Chair account if you don’t have one already.

All submitted papers should be fully anonymized.

Please exclude any author and institution information from the author list on the title page, remove author information from all paper headers, and remove any clues that would directly identify any of the authors. Please anonymize your submission file. Please also check that your PDF creator programs did not include author information in the metadata.

Citations of your own published work (including online) should be in the third person, in a manner that is not traceable to the identity of the authors. For example, the wording “in [4], Valley and Sea have proposed…” is acceptable, whereas “in [4], we have proposed…” is not. (Where reference [4] is listed explicitly as “Valley, D. and Sea, A., Detecting Valley and Sea, In Proc. XYZ ’24, 901–911.”)

Please refrain from mentioning the name of your institution in the study approval statement. For example, do not say, “Our study was approved by the IRB board at the University of Arts,” as that reveals your university’s name.

Please do not include an “acknowledgments” section in the submission. If your Art Paper is accepted, you will submit a revised version that identifies you and your co-authors, your affiliations, and any appropriate acknowledgments.”

Template

You are invited to submit in the single-column paper format using the ACM master template (double-column, i.e., Latex \documentclass[sigconf]): [Overleaf] [Word] [PDF]

Proceedings

All selected papers will be included in a proceedings document published at Ars Electronica Archive and Expanded Animation.

Ars Electronica Archive: https://archive.aec.at/print/

Expanded Animation website: https://expandedanimation.com/

Venue

The conference will be held at the Ars Electronica Centre as part of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. The media festival will take place from the 4th to the 8th of September 2024: https://ars.electronica.art/festival/en/.