The Advance Conference Program of the 3rd ACM International Conference on
Digital
Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2008), that will take
place on
September 10-12, 2008, at Athens Information Technology's premises in Athens,
Greece, has been published online at the Conference Web site at
http://hermes.ait.gr/dimea2008/?technical-program,18



The Advance Program includes numerous opportunities provided by DIMEA 2008
to its
participants to gain significant know-how and experience through a rich
pool of
parallel organized events to attend. Innovations, new research approaches and
practices will be presented in focused technical oral sessions, which will
offer a
wide coverage of the DIMEA 2008 scientific and technological areas, including
edutainment, games, interactive storytelling, digital art, enhanced
visualization,
collaboration spaces, virtual and augmented reality, advanced interaction,
etc.



Two Special Sessions in the areas of User Centric and Personalised Multimedia
Service Platforms and Mobile Mixed Reality Games and a Technical Workshop on:
Pervasive Awareness applications: addressing their Aesthetic and Ludic
aspects will
further enrich the conference technical program.



Participants will further have the unique opportunity to benefit from
Keynote Talks
given by internationally distinguished speakers, such as Prof. Nadia
Magnenat-Thalmann, Miralab, University of Geneva, Dr. Roberto Cencioni,
Head of Unit
INFSO.E2 Content and Knowledge, European Commission, Dr. Ioannis
Mihalou(di)s,
Visual Artist and Prof. Michael Meimaris, University of Athens.



The conference will in parallel host a Digital Art and Entertainment
Exhibition
including innovative digital interactive rich-media works in art and
entertainment.
The exhibition will be open to the conference participants during 10-12
September,
2008 and to all interested visitors during September 13-14, 2008.



High quality selected half-day Tutorials given by distinguished speakers
in the
respective fields will offer further opportunities for a wider exposure to
and
appreciation of the challenges presented by the convergence of Arts,
Entertainment
and Digital Interactive Media Technologies. Tutorials will be multi-thematic,
namely:



  1.. Inside and Outside the UpStage: Live Participative On-line
Cyberformance,
Tutorial speakers: Miljana Peric, University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia and
Helen
Varley Jamieson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  2.. Authoring Tools for Web Comics, Tutorial speakers: Symeon Retalis,
Petros
Georgiakakis, M. Boloudakis, J. Arapoglou, University of Pireaus, Greece
  3.. User Experience Design for Interactive TV, Tutorial speakers:
Konstantinos
Chorianopoulos, Ionian University, Greece, Pablo Cesar, CWI, the Netherlands
  4.. Developing a videogame: from concept to your TV, Tutorial speakers:
Kostas
Anagnostou, Ionian University, Greece
  5.. Developing play tactics in the Web 2.0 era, Tutorial speakers:
Daphne Dragona,
Ilias Marmaras, Greece

More information can be found at:
http://hermes.ait.gr/dimea2008/?tutorials,22



Further opportunities offered to the participants include two half-day
hands-on
Workshops, one organized at the Foundation of the Hellenic World premises,
namely:



a.. "Employment of tilted hemispherical projection surface for creating large
audience immersive environment ", Organizers: Vaggelis Christodoulou, FHW and
Abraham Onasiadis, FHW. This workshop will take place at the Foundation of
the
Hellenic World premises (Tholos), http://www.fhw.gr
a.. "Encyclopedia as a creative platform", Organizers: Prof. Eleni Glinou,
TEI of
Athens, Greece and Katerina Antonaki, Media Artist.


More information can be found at:
http://hermes.ait.gr/dimea2008/?workshops,41



Both Tutorials and Hands-on Workshops will provide a unique opportunity
especially
to students, young researchers and practitioners to explore and develop their
research interests or artistic practices in focused areas of recent
practices of
high interest. Registration to Tutorials or Workshops does not require
registration
to the conference as well - reduced fees are offered to students as
presented at
http://hermes.ait.gr/dimea2008/?registration-information,35. Register now
online by
selecting only the tutorial(s) and/or hands-on workshop(s) you are
interested in by
visiting http://hermes.ait.gr/dimea2008/?online-registration,15



Finally, the DIMEA 2008 Industrial Exhibition will establish the link between
research and the market, allowing for fast adoption of research results by
the
industry and an opportunity for industry representatives and researchers
to meet and
discuss on collaboration prospects.



DIMEA 2008 will thus bring together students, academics, technologists,
artists,
designers, practitioners and industry representatives from all over the
world, to
meet, discuss and share opinions and practices.



The scientific conference program will be complemented by a rich social
conference
program.



Thus said, we would like to invite you to participate to DIMEA 2008,
exchange ideas
and practices and share experiences during DIMEA 2008 that is for the
first time
organized in European grounds. Registration for participants (non-authors)
may be
conducted online at the conference web site. Register now online at:
http://hermes.ait.gr/dimea2008/?online-registration,15



Up-to-date information about DIMEA 2008 may be found at:
http://www.dimea2008.org







-- 
Maria Chatzichristodoulou
[aka maria x]
PhD Art & Computational Technologies
Goldsmiths Digital Studios