LIVE INTERFACES
Performance, Art, Music
http://icsrim.org.uk/liveinterfaces/

Date: 7th-8th September, 2012
Venue: ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES

Live Interfaces is a conference on live, technology-mediated
interaction in performance.  The conference seeks to investigate
cross-disciplinary understandings of performance technology with a
particular focus on issues related to the notion of liveness in
interaction.

Live Interfaces will consist of paper and poster presentations,
performances and workshops over two days.   Researchers, theorists and
artists from diverse fields are encouraged to participate, including:
digital performance, live art, computer music, choreography, music
psychology, interaction design, human computer interaction, digital
aesthetics, computer vision, smart materials and augmented stage
technology.

We invite submissions addressing the conference theme of
technology-mediated live interaction  in performance, and suggest the
following indicative topics:

- Audience perception/interaction
- Biophysical sensors
- Brain-computer interfaces
- Computer vision/real-time video in performance
- Cross-modal perception/illusion
- Digital dramaturgy/choreography/composition
- Digital performance phenomenology
- Gesture recognition and control
- Historical perspectives
- Live coding in music, video animation and/or dance
- Participatory performance
- Performance technology aesthetics
- Redefining audience interaction
- Tangible interaction

We invite the following submission types:

- Papers for oral presentation: Please submit an abstract, with
indicative length of 500 words. If your proposal is accepted following
peer review, we will ask you to submit the full paper (min. 2,000 -
max. 5,000 words) before the conference. Authors will be allocated at
least 15 minutes to present the work during the conference, plus 5
minutes for questions.

- Papers for poster presentation: Please submit an abstract, with
indicative length of 500 words. If your proposal is accepted following
peer review, we will ask you to submit a short paper (min. 1,000 -
max. 2,000 words) before the conference. Authors are welcome to
demonstrate technology as part of their poster presentation, by prior
arrangement.

- Proposals for performances. Please submit a proposal of 1-2 pages
which describes the performance. The proposal should relate the
performance to the conference theme, and describe the underlying
concept, the live interaction technology used, any audience
interaction and the duration of the performance. Please list clearly
all technical and space requirements. Artists are strongly encouraged
to include links to audio/visual media of the work or of past work
(for example using youtube.com, soundcloud.com or archive.org) to aid
peer review. The primary venue for performances will be the
Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall in the School of Music,
University of Leeds.

Please format all paper submissions using either the Word or LaTeX
template.  All submissions should be as a PDF file.

Extended abstracts must be submitted electronically via the on-line
submissions system at http://lipam.lurk.org/ by midnight (GMT+1) on
the 17th June 2012.  All submissions will be subject to
cross-disciplinary peer review, and notified of acceptance by 1st
July.

Accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in a further round of
peer review towards a journal special edition (details to be announced
shortly).

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Key dates:
 17th May - Submissions system open at http://lipam.lurk.org/
 17th June - Submission deadline
 1st July - Notification of selected papers/performances
 29th July - Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers
 7-8th September - Conference

Registration will open in June, with a fee in the region of £25,
including lunch for both days.

Please keep an eye on one of the following for updates, including
information on conference keynote, workshops and co-located events.

Website: http://icsrim.org.uk/liveinterfaces/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/liveinterfaces/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/liveinterfaces/
Identica: http://identi.ca/liveinterfaces/

Planning committee:
Alex McLean, University of Sheffield (ICSRiM, University of Leeds from August)
Kate Sicchio, University of Lincoln
Maria Chatzichristodoulou, University of Hull
Scott Hewitt, University of Huddersfield
Ben Dornan, University of Sheffield
Stephen Pearse, University of Sheffield
Phoebe Bakanas, ICSRiM, University of Leeds
Ash Sagar, York St Johns University

Senior advisor:
Kia Ng, Director of ICSRiM, University of Leeds

Supported by Vitae Yorkshire, the University of Leeds and the Arts and
Humanities Research Council


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