XARTS 2025

XARTS 2025: International Conference and Summer School on Extended Arts

The International Conference and Summer School on Extended Arts is organized every two years by the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the University of the Aegean. The 2025 symposium will explore ways of designing the personality of transmedia characters with methodologies derived from animation, computer games, interactive media and interactive networked environments. In the summer school workshops, design prototypes will be implemented using two different methods: performative physical interactions in digital environments and the use of artificial intelligence techniques for the implementation of design documents.

XARTS 2025 will be held in Syros (21-28/6/2025). It is co-organized with the Ionian University and the University of Peloponnese in the context of IMAGINE MOCAP, a Research project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. Students from European Universities participating in the Summer School are eligible for the attribution of 3 ECTS.

More information will be available at www.xarts2025.gr after February, 1st, 2025.

XARTS 2025

DCAC 2025: 7th International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

7th International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC-2025) – Abstract Submission Deadline: 10/02/2025

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University is organizing the 7th International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC-2025), which will take place on Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10, 2025, both online and in person at the Ionian Academy in Corfu, Greece.

Website: https://avarts.ionio.gr/dcac/
Abstract Submission Deadline: 10/02/2025
DCAC-2025 Call for Papers: https://avarts.ionio.gr/dcac/2025/en/call/
DCAC-2025 Submission: https://avarts.ionio.gr/dcac/2025/en/submission/
DCAC-2025 Important Dates: https://avarts.ionio.gr/dcac/2025/en/dates/

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CEEGS ’24 Workshop “PERFORMING PERSONALITY IN GAME CHARACTERS AND DIGITAL NARRATIVES”

IMAGINE-MOCAP project travelled to one of our headquarters, the city of Nafplio, to meet with the rest of the team and organize a workshop on “PERFORMING PERSONALITY IN GAME CHARACTERS AND DIGITAL NARRATIVES.”, part of the Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference (CEEGS) organized by the University of the Peloponnese. The team led a group of the CEEGS24 participants and introduced them to the project’s concepts while asking them to jump in our motion capture suits and create their own personality-driven movements directing a unique game scene.

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Mediterranean Researchers’ night (MEDNIGHT)

Mediterranean Researchers’ night (MEDNIGHT) is an initiative funded by the EU (Marie Curie Actions) and is held the same day in nine countries around the Mediterranean Sea. Its aim is to inspire and promote Science’s impact in everyday life.
 
The University of the Aegean in collaboration with local groups offered a series of events, showcases, exhibitions, workshops, talks and discussions around research, focusing on a wide range of participants.
 
The IMAGINE-MOCAP research team has organized a workshop on digital characters’ movement, taking place in the Future Lab Syros space at Kornilakis building.
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Imagine Mocap Kick-off meeting

On Friday 2/2 we had an exciting and fruitable kick-off meeting of our project IMAGINE-MOCAP: “Developing Personality in Digital Character Design using Motion Capture, Wearable and Live Coding Technologies, applied to IMAGINE (Interactive Media, Animation, Games, Interactive Networked Environments) Narrative Worlds” with well esteemed friends and partners from University of Peloponnese, Department of Performing and Digital Arts and Ionian University, Department of Audio and Visual Arts.