[Commlist] CFP International Conference on Artificial Atmospheres and Unexpected Media: Exploring Media Art and Machine Learning

Extended Deadline for CFP, Keynote and Invited Speakers and Artists 
Announced!

*Call for **Proposals**: International Conference on Artificial 
Atmospheres and Unexpected Media: Exploring Media Art and Machine Learning*

https://ifilnova.pt/en/artificial-atmospheres-and-unexpected-media-exploring-media-art-and-machine-learning/?ano=&laboratorio=&categoria=&serie= 
<https://ifilnova.pt/en/artificial-atmospheres-and-unexpected-media-exploring-media-art-and-machine-learning/?ano=&laboratorio=&categoria=&serie=>

_Date_: October 16th – 17th, 2024

_Submission deadline_: June 10th, 2024.EXTENDED DEADLINE JUNE 30!

_Location_:  NOVAUniversity ofLisbon, Portugal

Keynote Speaker:

*Dr Daniel Chávez Heras* is a lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative 
Computing in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London.

He specialises in the computational production and analysis of visual 
culture. His research combines critical frameworks in the history and 
theories of cinema, television, and photography, with advanced technical 
practice in creative and scientific computing, including applied machine 
learning technologies.

Daniel has worked extensively in interdisciplinary design and creative 
industries, in Mexico and in the UK, with cultural institutions such as 
the British Council and the BBC. He is an affiliate of King’s Institute 
for Artificial Intelligence, part of the Computational Humanities Group, 
and a member of the Creative AI Lab, in partnership with the Serpentine 
Galleries in London.

His newest book is Cinema and Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence, 
Aesthetics and Spectatorship, from Edinburgh University Press.

_Invited Speakers/Artists:_

*Laura Focarazzo*is an experimental filmmaker and independent curator 
based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds an MA in Curatorship of 
Visual Art, and researches in the field of Electronic Arts.As a curator, 
she has worked on projects for the Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, 
Italy; TENT, Festival for experimental films and new media, India; 
Strangloscope - Mostra International de audio, video/filme & performance 
experimental, Brazil; the [.BOX] Videoart project space, Italy; The 
Wrong Biennale, online; Galería del Museo Marítimo y del Presidio, 
Argentina; MUNTREF, Museo de Artes Visuales, Argentina, among others.As 
an artist, she has had exhibitions at ICA, The Institute of Contemporary 
Arts, London; ZKM, Germany; FILE - Electronic Language International 
Festival, Brazil; BienalSur, Argentina; Echo Park Film Center, Los 
Angeles; MACBA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Argentina; 
Festival Les Instants vidéo: 50 Years of Video Art, France; BAFICI - 
International Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires, Argentina; 
Rencontres Traverse Vidéo at La Cinémathèque Toulouse, France; 
Incubarte, International Independent Art Festival, Spain; Festival Punto 
y Raya, Reykjavík; Copenhagen Art Festival, Denmark, among others. Her 
work has been included at datta.art, a platform that commissions 
original digital artworks by established and emerging artists for selling.

She will present *So Far So Near*, a curatorial project displayed at the 
last edition of The Wrong Biennale 2023-24.
The exhibition explores a series of pieces made with AI that inquire 
about certain hegemonic narratives linked not only to the artistic canon 
but also to our worldview. Using different raw materials as a source of 
inspiration, the corpus gathers collages, digital and analogue 
photographs, videos, illustrations and sounds.
The featured artists are Santiago Vitale, Case Western, Ulises Estudio, 
Sebastian Tedesco, Bruno Mesz, Sofia Crespo, Polina Kostanda, Jeff 
Zorrilla, Eryk Salvaggio, Lucio Arese, Julien Pacaud and Diana Millan.

**

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*Pablo Núñez Palma*is a Chilean/Dutch filmmaker, scriptwriter and 
multimedia storyteller based in Amsterdam. His work, both artistic and 
commercial, is devoted to raising human consciousness, spiritual growth 
and to promote the use of imagination for the construction of better 
futures.

**

*Jan Bot*is a filmmaking bot that combines archival footage and 
algorithms to generate experimentalvideos based on two ingredients: 
found footage and today's trending topics.Jan Bot was an artificial 
intelligence programme created by artists Bram Loogman and Pablo Núñez 
Palma in collaboration with Eye Filmmuseum and support from the 
Netherlands Creative Industries Fund.

Using some of the latest A.I. of its time, Jan Bot worked day and night 
producing poetic films inspired by current news and images from early 
cinema.

*Rebecca Baron* is a Los Angeles-based media artist known for her 
lyrical essay films which explore the construction of history, with a 
particular interest in still photography and its relationship to the 
moving image.Her work has screened widely at international film 
festivals and media venues including documenta 12, International Film 
Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, 
Toronto Film Festival, London Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, 
Flaherty Film Seminar, Viennale and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 
Her films have received awards at the San Francisco, Black Maria, 
Montreal, Leipzig, Athens, Onion City, KIN, Sinking Creek and Ann Arbor 
Film Festivals. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship and 
a 2007 Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has 
taught documentary and experimental film at Massachusetts College of 
Art, Harvard University, and since 2000 at California Institute of the Arts.

Early adopter. Web pioneer. Connoisseur of emerging technologies. 
Appreciator of systems. Collector of analog devices. Teacher of 
technology, high and low.

*Douglas Goodwin* is a technologist investigating the mechanisms by 
which language and other technologies mediate our perception of 
reality.Goodwin's work has shown at many venues including the Toronto 
International Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, Ambulante, London 
Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Frankfurt Film Museum, SIGGRAPH, 
REDCAT, the Orphans Film Symposium, the Courtisane Festival, Eyebeam, 
and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. "Lossless," a collaboration with Rebeca 
Baron, was the first digital work to enter the collection of the George 
Eastman House in Rochester, NY.He currently serves as the first Fletcher 
Jones Foundation Scholar in Computation and a Visiting Assistant 
Professor of Media Studies at Scripps College.

*Budhaditya Chattopadhyay*is an artist, media practitioner, researcher, 
and writer. Incorporating diverse media, creative technologies and 
research, Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installation and 
live performance addressing contemporary issues of environment and 
ecology, migration, race and decoloniality. Chattopadhyay has received 
numerous residencies, fellowships, and international awards, e.g. PRIX 
Ars Electronica 2011, Computer Space Festival 2014, Confluence 2021. His 
works have been widely exhibited, performed or presented across the 
globe, and released by Gruenrekorder (DE) and Touch (UK). Chattopadhyay 
has an expansive body of scholarly publications in the areas of media 
art history, theory and aesthetics, cinema and sound studies in leading 
peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of four books including /The 
Nomadic Listener/ (2020), /The Auditory Setting/ (2021), and /Between 
the Headphones/ (2021). Chattopadhyay holds a PhD in Artistic Research 
and Sound Studies from Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden 
University, and an MA in New Media from the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus 
University.

**

*Call for **Proposals**: International Conference on Artificial 
Atmospheres and Unexpected Media: Exploring Media Art and Machine Learning*

https://ifilnova.pt/en/artificial-atmospheres-and-unexpected-media-exploring-media-art-and-machine-learning/?ano=&laboratorio=&categoria=&serie= 
<https://ifilnova.pt/en/artificial-atmospheres-and-unexpected-media-exploring-media-art-and-machine-learning/?ano=&laboratorio=&categoria=&serie=>

_Date_: October 16th – 17th, 2024

_Submission deadline_: June 10th, 2024.EXTENDED DEADLINE JUNE 30!

_Location_:  NOVAUniversity ofLisbon, Portugal




Technology shapes our sensory experiences and extends our cognitive and 
bodily capabilities. Its pervasive influence coupled with the 
ever-expanding reach of artificial intelligence across diverse facets of 
society underscores the urgent need for comprehensive exploration, 
experimentation, and discussion. Machine learning advancements, while 
offering unprecedented tools and opportunities, also raises profound 
ethical dilemmas, blurring the boundaries between reality and 
artificiality. It is urgent that this technology be explored and 
experimented with and discussed from various angles.

This conference seeks to explore the intricate relationship between 
artistic expression and emerging media technologies, particularly 
focusing on machine learning and virtual environments. By scrutinizing 
this alliance, our aim is to unpack the myriad challenges and novel 
responses it presents to contemporary issues spanning ethical, social, 
political, and economic domains. The rapid evolution of Artificial 
Intelligence elicits a spectrum of reactions, ranging from utopian 
optimism to dystopian apprehension. Generative AI programs can be a 
useful tool for the artist, and simultaneously a threat to creative 
careers. Algorithmic technologies have the potential for AI models to 
generate creative content, or for creative users to generate 
“collaborations” with machines, such as transhumanist art, reflecting 
the ideas of Marshall McLuhan that technology is extending human bodies, 
reflecting a proactive vision of the future while attempting to address 
both the positive and negative impacts on society. We aim to delve into 
the creative intersections of media art, immersive technologies and 
virtual environments, and machine learning through the creative lens of 
the artist.

What virtues might survive or thrive in our art worlds through these 
changes?

What virtues may be retained and strengthened through artistic 
interventions and explorations of these changes?


We invite submissions of abstracts for 20-minute presentations and 
practice-based projects on diverse topics encapsulated by our 
overarching theme of "Artificial Atmospheres and Unexpected Media." 
Potential areas of exploration include:


-Collaborating with machines and the nature of consciousness
-AI, Art, and Archives
-Transhumanism and creativity
-AI as a creator and disrupter
-Ethics of AI usage, potentials to help or harm, transparency, bias, and 
fairness
-AI aesthetics and the uncanny
-Interactive and Immersive Art and Technology
-Robotics and Kinetic Art with AI
-Data driven and sonification
-Technology and the future of human agency in creativity
-Creative technology and utopia/dystopia
-Cyborg theories and science fiction predictions
-Weaponization and creation with machine learning
-Poetics and Prompting
-Unexpected Media
-Machine collaboration


We welcome submissions from academics, researchers, and artists. 
Creative practitioners are encouraged to submit works using machine 
learning and new media, as well as those involved in AI production or 
utilization. Selected works will be showcased, along with papers, at the 
conference.

Proposals will be accepted until June 10th, 2024.

Please send us a 250-word abstract, along with a 150-word bio and 5 
keywords, to the following email: (artificialatmospheresconf /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(artificialatmospheresconf /at/ gmail.com)>

For further information: 
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Registration fee: 50 euros (standard rate).
The primary conference languages are Portuguese and English, but other 
languages can be possible; please contact us about this. Sliding scale 
registration fees can be possible, please contact explaining your 
situation (ex: student, etc.).

Conference organizers: Patrícia Castello Branco (CineLab - IFILNOVA); 
Maile Colbert  (CineLab -IFILNOVA)


About IFILNOVA-CineLab’s working group in Art and Technology:

The Art and Technology working group focuses on exploring the 
relationships between artistic practices and the development of new 
technologies. Its main aim is to critically analyze, assess and discuss 
the ways the alliance between art and technology poses new challenges 
and offers new ways to respond to contemporary issues related to social, 
political, and economic paradigms, such as social justice, ecological 
sustainability, and economic development.

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