Deadline Jan 14 2019 for long paper
 https://s2020.siggraph.org/submissions/art-paper-submissions/
 
 Long Papers
Word Count: 3,500
Figure Count: 10 images
Printed in Leonardo Issue: Yes
Fast Forward Session: Selected Long Papers
Oral Presentation (including Q&A): 20 minutes

The Art Papers Jury will evaluate papers using the following criteria:

Project Description
A description of a creative work or artistic/collaborative process with particular emphasis on its historical and/or theoretical grounding or significance.
or 
Contemporary Computational Art, Including Theory/Criticism
Exposition of a significant issue for contemporary digital art and design practice as it relates to SIGGRAPH topics, such as computer graphics, interactive media, VR/AR, AI/ML, etc.


http://xcoax.org/#proceedings
Jan 31st Deadline.. 


https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/
https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
 
 Machine learing, digital art and poetry 
 
1.Digital Power

link: http://siggrapharts.ning.com/page/digital-power 

 Deadline:  Dec 16. 2019

All works selected should point out issues championed by women, the problems women face, the solutions that women find possible, the celebration of amazing achievements of women, female community, and female-centric design problems solved. DIGITAL POWER will be comprised of works exclusively created by women, or with women in the primary creative role that focus on the concerns of women, their point of view, their history and sensibility. Female is CIS, Trans, bi, gay or non-binary female, all who are self-identified as female will be considered. 

exact details: http://digital-power.siggraph.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/New-Submission-for-DAC-DP2020.pdf

You will then be asked to fill out some specifics related to your project: 

>>>> application form 

- Title and Abstract (500 words)

Title: Recurrent Queer Imaginaries

Recurrent Queer Imaginaries is an exhibition of queer manifestos, motto writing and urban dreaming.  It features the new artificial intelligence entity from Pritchard and Soon, the “Motto Assistant”.

"Motto Assistant" is a machine learner, who continuously writes mottos for revolutions, anti-fascist guiding principles of living, queer love ethics, authoritarian resistances, political movements, class struggles, municipal identities, city planning, art practices, joyful engagements and violent direct action."Motto Assistant" applies the mottos, as a method of questioning, revising, imagining and developing in light of historical circumstances and cultural conditions. Incoherent and worm-eaten, Soon and Pritchard invite the audience to interpret a motto from "Motto Assistant" as a guiding principle of how to reorganise your collective life and fight injustices in the present.
 
The exhibition takes as its starting point the histories and uses of manifestos and mottos as operational instructions/guidance for living together and organising urban space. In particular Recurrent Queer Imaginariesexplores how queer and feminist manifestos have been used to propose imaginaries for life in cities that "could be" or "could have been". The artwork explores that when these manifestos, these words, are read together they might as Ursula K Le Guin speculates, "activate our imaginations" to rewrite living. 
 
The artwork was developed using manifestos and zines for queer and intersectional life as source text for machine learning and generative processes. It uses recurrent neural networks to train and process sequences of collective voices, as well as the diastic algorithm to establish a poetic structure. Such a queer model opens up new imaginaries and forgotten language beyond the confines of accurate prediction and effective generalization. 
 
As part of their process the artists took on some practices of urban dreaming, seeking out manifestos that are housed in the radical books shops and libraries in Kings Cross and Euston, places that are historically important for the queer movement.  Although sites of historic significance for queer spaces, Kings Cross and Euston are both areas that have been effected significantly by the construction and changing urban fabric of London: Queer night-time spaces have been replaced by the relentless gentrification by tech companies and start-ups. 
 
The seed text Not for Self, but for All is used in different parts of the text generation. This seed text, which at first was mistaken for a corporate slogan, is Camden Council’s motto for their municipal identity which hangs prominently next to the Google offices in the heart of the new development of Kings Cross. Recurrent Queer Imaginaries is a call to reclaim queer spaces from corporate neocolonial imaginations, operational injustices and reimagine them differently for all, as a commitment to queer liberation. 

- Keywords (list of relevant topics – could be things like “art” “digital” “gender” or more specific)
#queer #machinelearning #art #computationalart #poetry #intersectional #power #generativeart #mottos #manifestos

- Relevance to the theme

 The artwork consists of a custom-made software that generate new mottos over time, a collection of queer and feminist manifestos, as well as a diagram that is inspired by Turing's state machine to explore the potential of queer computing. Through engaging with queer manifestos the art work brings attention not only to the struggles of women, gender queer, nonbinary and trans people today but also the historical context and materials conditions of political feminist activism. In particular it brings attention to ways in which computation organises the lives of queer women through machine learning and imagines other uses. As such, our work addresses the central theme "Digital Power" by generating new imaginary mottos and these mottos could be used to rethink operational injustices the current political climate.
 
- Primary project URL
  http://siusoon.net/recurrent-queer-imaginaries/

- Video URL (if applicable)
   https://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/49109833836/in/album-72157711858070921/

- Additional download link (if applicable)

- Years of Work 
   2019

- Prior Showings
  Exhibition Research Lab @ Liverpool JohnMoores University, United Kingdom 

- Additional Info

- About the Artists (250 words)
Helen Pritchard (UK) and Winnie Soon (HK/DK) have collaborated since 2009, on machine reading/writing, operative processes, software critique and the ways computational practices parse queer life. Helen is the Head of Digital Arts Computing, a lecturer in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London and Winnie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Digital Design at Aarhus University.

- Artist Website
    www.helenpritchard.info
    www.siusoon.net 
 
 - reference Image
https://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/49193408623/in/album-72157711858070921/
 
 - Detailed Description or Narrative (optional PDF)
n/a
 
 - Additional Images 1-5 (optional)
 
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/49109759482/in/album-72157711858070921/
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/49109563486/in/album-72157711858070921/
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/49109757397/in/album-72157711858070921/
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/49109759902/in/album-72157711858070921/
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/49109055738/in/album-72157711858070921/
 
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