ICLI 2018: 4th International Conference on Live Interfaces - Inspiration, Performance, Emancipation (June 2018, Porto, Portugal)

Dates: 14-16 June 2018
Location: Porto, Portugal
Website: Live Interfaces
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January 2018
Deadline for submission of papers: 14 February 2018

Confirmed keynote speakers: Andrew McPherson & Patrícia Portela.

Every creative process starts from a given seminal idea, lying somewhere between abstract thinking and engagement with material objects: let's call it the inspiration. The moment when ideas flow into and out of place, slowly building to become a cohesive whole. What are the problems we deal with in the early prototyping of interfaces for live performance? What technologies do we use and how do we choose them? How do these technologies inform and catalyse the creative process? How do we unlock their unique expressive potential?

Inevitably, the time for the highly anticipated first performance arrives. What strategies do we use to combine the live interfaces within the performance? How do we cope with the technical difficulties of integrating various technologies? What is the unique aesthetic potential of each of these technologies? How do they transfigure the performance reception from the audience's perspective?

Eventually, each live interface has to find its own path towards an emancipation from its first performative use. How do we repurpose live interfaces? How do we maintain the underlying technologies so that we can reuse or repurpose them? How do we build a repertoire for their use? How do we document and notate their technical and artistic aspects for future use?

These and other questions will be debated in ICLI 2018. Welcome to Porto!

TOPICS
You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work that includes but is not limited to the following topics:

• Approaches to interfacing Big Data
• Artificial intelligence and ALife in interfaces
• Audience interaction
• Audiovisual performance
• Augmented stage technologies
• Biophysical sensors
• Brain-computer interfaces
• Computer vision in the context of performance
• Dramaturgy/choreography/composition with digital media
• Embodiment
• Ethnographic approaches to interface and instrument design
• Experimental gaming interfaces
• Gesture recognition and motion tracking
• Haptic interfaces in the context of performance
• Human-Computer Interaction in the context of performance
• Interface design processes
• Interfaces for activism
• Interfacing noise
• Language as an interface
• Live coding in music, video, animation, dance
• Magic and illusionism in performance
• Mapping strategies and design
• Multimodal and multisensory media
• New interfaces for dance
• New interfaces for musical expression
• New interfaces for puppetry
• New interfaces for theatre
• Notation for new interfaces
• Perceptual and cognitive issues
• Phenomenology of performance with digital media
• Philosophical and historical perspectives
• Post-digital interfaces
• Prototyping techniques
• Puppetry and animation
• Robotics and performance systems
• Tangible interaction
• Timing, timeliness, flow, narrative, memory
• (Un)control and/or unpredictability

IMPORTANT DATES

Pre-Submission of abstracts: January 31
Submission deadline: February 14
Notifications: March 18
Registration deadline for authors: April 18
Delivery of final versions: April 18
Conference: June 14 to 16

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

Paper: 5 to 8 pages conference paper, following the formatting in the Word template. Revision of papers will be double-blind. Please make sure that the PDF file is completely anonymised (i.e. omits author-related information in body of text or as explicit self-citations, notes and bibliography). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and allotted 15 minutes presentation time at the conference.

Performance: 2 to 4 pages description paper, following the formatting in the Word template. Revision of proposals will be single-blind. Proposals should provide an abstract of the performance (up to 600 words), a short biography of each collaborator (up to 150 words), a detailed description of the work, one or more URLs for access to relevant media assets, and a technical rider (layout, setup, required equipment). Performances will be allotted a maximum of 30 minutes on stage in one of the performance sessions. The proceedings will publish the abstract and short biography provided by the authors.

Poster/Demo: 3 to 6 pages conference paper, following the formatting in the Word template. Revision of papers will be double-blind. Please make sure that the PDF file is completely anonymized (i.e. omits author-related information in body of text or as explicit self-citations, notes and bibliography). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and space will be provided for posters and tables for demoing work.

Doctoral symposium: 2 pages research paper, following the formatting in the Word template. The title of your submission should start with “DS:”, e.g. “DS: Parametrisation in Visual Art”, and the submission should be made in the “Paper” category. Revision of proposals will be single-blind. A revised version will be requested for inclusion in the proceedings after the symposium.

The ICLI 2018 Doctoral Symposium will provide students the opportunity to present their research and receive feedback on their work in progress from established researchers and from other participants. The symposium aims to foster the discussion of research topics and approaches, and to promote interaction between the research community.

To apply as a student participating in the Doctoral Symposium you should provide a single document including a research paper and a letter of support by your advisor.

The research paper should include: 1) Purpose of the research and its importance to the field; 2) Brief survey of background and related work; 3) Description of the proposed approach; 4) Expected contributions; 5) Progress towards goals.

The letter of support should provide an assessment of the current status of the research and mention areas that could benefit from feedback from other experienced researchers.

Additional information and submission details:

• All works must be submitted via EasyChair;
• Abstracts must be pre-submitted before January 31, with full papers submitted until February 14;
• Submissions must be original and will be rigorously reviewed by an international and multidisciplinary scientific committee, in a process that will assess originality, relevance, artistic and technical achievements;
• Submissions should be presented as .pdf files with all the media files embedded or linked to online resources;
• Final versions for publication should be delivered in .docx with all the images and other media files attached as independent files;
• All images and media assets must be cleared for publication by the authors;
• At least one of the authors of each selected contribution must register to the conference before the first author registration deadline in order for the work to be published in the proceedings;
• ICLI’s working language is English;
• ICLI’s conference proceedings (with ISBN) will be published online;
• Please contact the program chairs at icli2018@lists.inesctec.pt with any questions regarding submissions.

REGISTRATION
Student (early) registration: 90€
Student (late) registration: 140€
Full (early) registration: 250€
Full (late) registration: 300€
Unaffiliated (early) registration: 90€
Unaffiliated (late) registration: 140€

Student registrations require a valid student ID. Unaffiliated registrations are for independent artists and researchers and will not carry an affiliation in the publication. Each paper, performance or poster needs to be tied to at least one registration.

CONTACTS

icli2018@lists.inesctec.pt
@liveinterfaces
facebook.com/liveinterfaces