ACM Multimedia Art (MM-ART) Call for Participation -- Extended Deadline
http://mmart.iat.sfu.ca

October 27 - November 1, 2008
Vancouver, Canada


The ACM MM Interactive Art Program is a premier international venue  
connecting the arts and digital multimedia. MM-ART is a stage for  
digital art innovation utilizing multimedia technology, and a  
research venue advancing multimedia technology through the innovation  
of the arts. We develop synergy connecting artists' and scientists'  
complementary modalities of production, a ground for connecting  
methodologies such as human centered computing, pattern recognition,  
metadata representation, and networking with creative cultural  
expression.

This year's fifth version of the Interactive Art Program will consist  
of an art exhibition at Vancouver's Science World and a conference  
track of research papers. We invite artists working with digital  
media, researchers in creative areas and all hybrid entities amidst  
these knowledge construction approaches to submit original  
contributions.

• Multimedia Art Exhibition: We seek artworks exploring the theme of  
Border Zones using multimedia to shift, traverse, intersect, and  
combine genres and modalities to provoke the emergence of new  
frameworks.  We particularly seek interactive multimedia works that  
combine multiple media, technologies, and novel technical ideas,  
realize strong artistic concepts that give a new perspective on the  
topic of the exhibition. View exhibition submission instructions  
http://www.mmart.iat.sfu.ca/exhsubmission.html

The conference registration and dinner fees for exhibiting artists  
will be waived.

Art Exhibition Deadline: May 2, 2008 (extended)

• Conference Track: We solicit papers describing interactive  
multimedia artworks, tools, applications, and technical approaches  
for creative uses of multimedia content and technology, and  
management of art-related media collections. Emphasis will be given  
to new works that describe the creative processes within art, in  
forms such as interactive experiences and creativity support tools.  
We also invite papers on works that are interactive, particularly  
works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces or  
sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with  
a strong technical content written by artists. Papers may be long (10  
pages) or short (2 to 4 pages). Long papers are presented in front of  
an audience and short papers are presented in poster format. View  
conference track submission instructions http://www.mmart.iat.sfu.ca/ 
fullshortpapersub.html

Full Papers Deadline:    May 2, 2008 (extended)
Short Papers Deadline: June 6, 2008

Accepted papers and art work abstracts will be published in the ACM  
Multimedia Conference proceedings.

  Important Dates
• May 2, 2008 Full papers and art exhibitions submission deadline.
• June 6, 2008 Short papers submission deadline.
• June 27, 2007 Authors notification.
• July 20, 2007 Camera-ready papers due.


If you have questions please contact Vicki Moulder, Arts Program  
Coordinator [log in to unmask]


Program Chairs
Andruid Kerne, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA
Frank Nack, HCS, University of Amsterdam, NL
Ron Wakkary, The School of Interactive Arts and Technology, SFU, CA