**xCoAx 2020: 8th International Conference on** **Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X**

8-10 July 2020, Graz, Austria

http://xcoax.org/

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**Submission deadline: 31 January 2020**

xCoAx is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools and media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X factor that connects them all.

xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and exchange ideas, in search for interdisciplinary synergies among computer scientists, artists, media practitioners, and theoreticians at the thresholds between digital arts and culture. Starting in 2013 in Bergamo, xCoAx has so far taken place also in Porto, Glasgow, Lisbon, Madrid, and Milan.

The focus of xCoAx is on the unpredictable overlaps between the freedom of creativity and the rules of algorithms, between human nature and machine technology, with the aim to evolve towards new directions in aesthetics.

In 2020 xCoAx will take place in Graz, Austria, directly adjoining the symposium **Algorithms that Matter (ALMAT)**. On the two days preceding xCoAx, ALMAT gathers artists and researchers to present and discuss the relations between algorithmic agency and artistic research, the practice of algorithmic experimentation and its impact on compositional process. ALMAT has issued a separate call for participation - https://almat.iem.at/symposium.html - and reduced combi-tickets will be available for xCoAx + ALMAT.

**Topics**

You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work that includes but is not limited to the following topics: Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, X, Algorithms / Systems / Models, Artificial Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, Audiovisuals / Multimodality, Creativity, Design, Interaction, Games, Generative Art / Design, History, Mechatronics / Physical Computing, Music / Sound Art, Performance, Philosophy of Art / of Computation, Technology / Ethics / Epistemology.

**Submission Categories**

Papers, artworks, performances, ongoing doctoral research (all details for submission at http://xcoax.org/). For this edition of xCoAx, a special call for performances for MUMUTH's Ligeti Hall is also being launched.

**Publications**

All accepted works will be published in a proceedings book with ISBN (see http://proceedings.xcoax.org for previous editions) and the authors of the best papers will be invited to a special issue of the Scopus-indexed Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (http://artes.ucp.pt/citarj/).

**Keynote Speakers**

Yuk Hui Špela Petrič

**Doctoral Symposium Chairs**

Marko Ciciliani

**Organizing Committee**

André Rangel: CITAR / i2ADS David Pirrò: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz Hanns Holger Rutz: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz Jason Reizner: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Luís Nunes: i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto Luísa Ribas: CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon Mario Verdicchio: Università degli Studi di Bergamo Miguel Carvalhais: INESC TEC / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto

**Local Organizing Committee**

David Pirrò: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz Hanns Holger Rutz: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz Daniele Pozzi: Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz

**Contacts**

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