ARTeFACTo 2018

ARTeFACTo 2018 is the 1st International Conference on Transdisciplinary Studies in Arts, Technology and Society, hosted by Aberta University, in Lisbon, Portugal.
 
The goal of the conference is to promote the interest in the current digital/media culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field while focusing on the study of the digital media / computer artefacts embracing topics covering their conceptualization, design, creative/art practice/research processes, computational implementation, exhibition and fruition as well their role on today’s information and knowledge society. Also welcomed are articles fostering the establishment of the conceptual foundations of an artefact theory in the digital media world.
 
ARTeFACTo 2018 aims at giving greater visibility to artefact creators or interveners, being these theorists or practitioners, establishing a common space for discussion and exchange of new experiences from transdisciplinary humanistic and holistic perspectives while fostering better understanding about digital arts and culture across a wide spectrum of cultural, disciplinary, and professional practices.

The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full paper of six to ten pages for oral presentation. Artefact descriptions are welcome, embracing part or the overall creation process, from seminal concept, implementation until the final exhibition preparation or the fruition experience analysis;  
• Short paper up to four pages for posters or the conceptual and technical information concerning artefact / art installations, computer artwork proposals.

Submissions are accepted in the conference official languages: English and Portuguese. If your paper or artefact / installation proposal is in Portuguese, please prepare an English version of the title and abstract, as this is required by ACM for publishing in the Digital Library.

Main Topics

Authors are invited to submit papers and exhibition proposals from all areas related to digital media art/ computer art, with emphasis on artefacts or art installations as well general-purpose interactive computer artworks, for review by an international committee. Descriptions of artistic practices, authorship or co-authorship (narrations of other works), with graphic records (such as images, diagrams, links to dynamic images, drawings, sketches, etc.) are valued. An international publication open to all involved in the creation / visualization / interaction of an artefact.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Digital (Transmedia) Storytelling
WebArt and Digital Culture
Digital Sound and Music
(Mobile) Augmented and Immersive Art
Digital Dance and Body Poetics
Digital Serious Games
e-Learning in Art and Media Studies
Information and Data Visualization
VideoArt and VideoMapping
BioArt, NanoArt and xArt
Cultures (Tangible) Interfaces, Gesture Interfaces
Spiritual and Sacred Artefacts
Transdisciplinary Pragmatic Performance
Generative and Algorithmic Art and Design
Digital Media, Apps and eBooks
Art and Technology
Art and Science Theory
Creativity Theory
Media Art History
Technology in Art Education