[Commlist] Call for Papers: Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture (DCIC 2022)

Multidisciplinary conference at York on Digital Creativity, Industry and 
Culture (DCIC 2022).

DCIC 2022 is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share insights 
on the impact of interactive, immersive and artificially intelligent 
technologies on creative practices and the industries, societies and 
cultures through which they emerge.

DCIC aims to create a sense of shared multi-disciplinary identity and 
foster new interdisciplinary links, by combining three interconnected 
perspectives:
- technology-driven creative practices and technology advancements 
driven by creative  practices
- working practices and economic development in the creative and 
cultural industries
- digital culture and society

Through DCIC, we seek to bring together researchers from a variety of 
disciplines across STEM, arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

We invite proposals for short presentations that expose 
thought-provoking aspects concerning digital creativity, industry and 
culture. These include but are not limited to:

- new user experiences
- new forms of content and artistic expression
- new forms of mediated interaction beyond entertainment audience insights
- new authoring tools, creative processes and production workflows
- content distribution architectures and systems
- virtual and real-time production, approaches and working practices
- industry responses to new immersive technologies and media
- skills gaps and training needs
- EDI implications in the creation, distribution and consumption of 
digital media
- politics, inequalities and power relations of technology innovations 
and digitalisation
- interactive and immersive technologies in relation to activism and 
political discourse
- digital technologies and well-being
- utopic and dystopic futurisms for a digitally mediated world.

The conference format has been designed to maximise the potential for 
crossing disciplinary boundaries and encouraging multi-disciplinary 
connections and debates. Each conference session will be curated in such 
a way as to include related complementary contributions from each of the 
three perspectives mentioned above as well as a fair distribution of topics.

DCIC expects a significant participation from industry partners, 
facilitated through the University of York’s rich network of 
collaborators maintained through the sponsoring bodies listed further 
below. It will thus be a platform for conversations and debates between 
academic research and industry R&D and practice.

Format:
- Attendance is free.
- The conference will take place in-person at the University of York. 
Please do not hesitate to get in touch about any questions regarding 
accessibility requirements or requests.
- Filmed presentations will be accepted. The plenary sessions will be 
live-streamed.
- Presentations: max 7 minutes each. The presentations should be rooted 
in existing research, while being challenging and thought provoking.
- Sessions will be curated to bring together related papers that provide 
perspectives from different disciplines to maximise cross-disciplinary 
dialogues and debates.
- Parallel streams will be linked through plenary panels and discussions
- All the presenting authors will be encouraged to submit their 
presentation for publication on the conference web page prior to the 
conference day. A list of possible publication formats will be later 
circulated (e.g. slide deck, text, video recording, etc.)
- Selected presentations will be invited to be written as articles for 
publication in an edited book.
- Those selected for presentation will be automatically registered as 
participants at the conference.

Submission guidelines:
- Please submit abstracts of between 300-400 words by 27 June 2022.
- Please click on this link to access the submission form - 
https://tinyurl.com/tkvrwzz6 <https://tinyurl.com/tkvrwzz6>
- We aim to notify all proposers of selected presentations by 15 July 2022.

Important Dates:
27 June 2022 – abstract submission deadline
15 July 2022 – invitation for presentation
22 July 2022 – registration opens
20 September 2022 – date of the conference

Sponsors:
The School of Art and Creative Technologies at the University of York - 
a collaboration between the Department of Music and the Department of 
Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media.
Digital Creativity (DC) Labs
XR Stories, the Yorkshire Creative Cluster Partnership
Screen Industry Growth Network (SIGN)

Any enquiries, please contact (enquiries /at/ digitalcreativity.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(enquiries /at/ digitalcreativity.ac.uk)>

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