[Commlist] Live Xinema IV – Call for Contributions for the Exhibition and Demonstrations Programme

Please see below a call for contributions for the exhibition and 
demonstrations programme at Live Xinema IV:


  _Live Xinema Festival 2022 – Call for Participation___

Building on the successes of the *Live Cinema Conference* held at King’s 
College London in 2016, the *Live Cinema Summit *at Sheffield Doc/Fest 
2018*, *and our online event *Live Cinema III: The ReOpening *in 
September 2020, *Live Cinema*is back with a new festival of research and 
innovation exploring the role of hybridity in the future of cinema. 
During the Global Covid-19 pandemic, many artists, performers and venues 
turned to online presentation as necessity to work, and consequently 
while local audiences often shrunk, global audiences, even for local 
performances, expanded greatly. As the world returns to a new normal, 
what lessons are there to learn? From increasing access physically, 
socially and financially, to forcing engagement with new technologies, 
the response to the pandemic shifted working practices, the question we 
are left with is whether they will simply shift back, or readjust once 
more to a new model of hybridity that preserves and enhances the best of 
both worlds.

To reflect on this challenge, *Live **Xinema 2022* will take place in 
hybrid form, as a physical event at *Broadway Cinema Nottingham, *and in 
a new 3D virtual events platform called bubbles. Xinema 2022 will 
address artistic and technological advances in the field of live cinema, 
and film screenings augmented through live or immersive elements, 
including site-specific locations, technological intervention and 
digital participation. This festival will profile the growing prominence 
of live and hybrid cinema phenomena within the global film experience 
economy and will highlight contemporary artistic and technological 
innovation as well as situating these current phenomena within their 
appropriate historical contexts.

The festival will take place over three days from the 21^st and 23^rd 
September and will feature cutting edge academic research, master 
classes, workshops, a programme of screenings, panels, Q & A sessions 
and world premieres of exclusive live events.


    Synchronous Live Demos

We are currently seeking in-person contributions for the *exhibition and 
demonstrations programme* which will run across the week. We are looking 
to showcase experimental projects, tools and technologies that are 
exploring/liveness/ in relation to contemporary experience design 
including (but not limited to):

  * *New Screen Technologies*: VR, AR, XR, 3D, Motion Capture, public
    screens, mobile devices;
  * *Immersion*: Second screens, dome screens, CAVE VR, accessible,
    sensory and inclusive technologies and experiences;
  * *Haptics and embodied interfaces:*tactile experiences and feedback,
    wearables, gestural interfaces, visual tactile integration and
    proprioceptive devices;
  * *Interactivity*:**real-time responsive systems, branching
    narratives, adaptive experiences, open story worlds, play streaming,
    location-based content, virtual agents;
  * *Affective Computing*: brain-computer interfaces, eye tracking, face
    recognition, emotion recognition, GSR and heartrate monitoring,
    natural language processing;


    Asynchronous Demos

We are also seeking online contributions for the *exhibition and 
demonstrations programme* that can be delivered asynchronously in our 3D 
world. Sharing the same topics as the live demos, these might include: 
Videos, Posters, 3D models/sculptures, Pre-recorded talks etc.

In all cases, Potential contributors should submit a 200 word abstract 
and a short 100 biography to xinema22@gmail.comby 28^th July.Decisions 
will be sent out on week commencing 8^th August.

/Xinema IV / is a collaboration between Live Cinema UK, Live Cinema 
Network, King’s College London and the Department of Cultural, Media and 
Visual Studies and the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of 
Nottingham.For further information contact Professor Kennedy, Department 
of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies at the University of Nottingham. 
(Helen.Kennedy /at/ Nottingham.ac.uk) <mailto:(Helen.Kennedy /at/ Nottingham.ac.uk)>


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