Submission

ARTeFACTo 2026 BEJA – 5th International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology – Expanded (A)udiovisual (I)ntelligence, has the format of a conference with technical sessions, invited talks, discussion panels, and exhibition areas for installations and artworks. Contributions can be in the form of full papers, short papers and proposals for posters and art installations/artworks. Authors are invited to submit:

• A full paper of six to ten pages for oral presentation;
• A short paper up to four pages for posters or the conceptual and technical information concerning art installations, digital and media artworks’ proposals.

For artwork submissions, please provide a short paper and a detailed descriptive video in HD MP4 format, lasting up to 4 minutes (with optional English subtitles). Alongside the article, a permanent link (optionally private) to the descriptive video must be submitted. The conference will feature a digital exhibition of artworks only.

ARTeFACTo 2026 SUBMISSION LINK:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=artefacto2026beja
(First register with EasyChair to proceed with submission)

Submissions are accepted in the conference’s official languages: English and Portuguese. If your paper is in Portuguese, please prepare an English version of the title, abstract and keywords, as these is required by ACM for publishing in the Digital Library.

ARTeFACTo uses a double blind reviewing process. As such, submitted papers should not have author and institutional identification in the title and header areas, nor in the body of the paper.
‘Explicit self-references should be avoided; instead, authors citing their own prior work should discuss it in the third person (“Previous work by <Author> [X1]…” instead of “In our previous work [X1]…”). Authors should also avoid mentioning the names of institutions where the work was done (“participants were recruited from the university campus”, instead of “participants were recruited from the <Institution name>”). Authors should also avoid clear identification marks of their affiliation in figures and supplementary material and remove metadata from submission files.’

In addition to the text, made anonymous, for each paper, separate identification info must be provided at Easy Chair, containing:

• Name, organisation, mailing and e-mail addresses of each author
• Name of the contact author
• A list of keywords

Guidelines and Templates

ARTeFACTo 2026 plans to use the ACM TAPS workflow for submission and publication. The new simplified single-column template is required for submission, while the final paper will be rendered automatically in two columns for publication upon acceptance. Submissions must follow the ACM guidelines described at this link.

The Word template (single-column) is available here. Follow the embedded instructions to apply the paragraph styles to your various text elements.

The LaTeX template is available here. Use the option “manuscript” with \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart} command to create a single-column format. Please review the LaTeX documentation and ACM’s LaTeX best practices guide, should you have any questions.

In addition to author keywords, authors must provide a classification for their papers using ACM Computing Classification System (CCS). The classification system is available at http://dl.acm.org/ccs/ccs.cfm. You should examine the CCS thoroughly, but we recommend looking particularly inside the following categories:

Information systems -> Information systems applications
Information systems -> Multimedia information systems
Human-centered computing
Applied computing -> Arts and humanities

Technical questions regarding the template can be directed to acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com

Photos, colour pictures or graphics must be inserted only in two pages (full paper) or one page (short paper).

Proceedings

Papers are planned for publication in ACM ICPS; thus, being available through ACM’s Digital Library and indexed in Scopus. Approval for publication is currently under assessment by ACM.

A selection of the best papers will be proposed for publication in appropriate scientific journals.

The Submission of a paper implies the intention of at least one of the authors to register and attend the conference in order to perform a spoken presentation. Papers accepted and presented at the symposium by one of the authors will appear in the conference proceedings. The final versions of the accepted papers should be submitted with the authors’ names and institutions (there’s no need for further blind review).

Exhibition

Artefacts accepted for exhibition will be curated for both a physical and a virtual exhibition, while authors will be invited to submit a short paper describing their artefacts for inclusion in the book of proceedings, subject to publication by ACM.

Please note that the conference primarily adopts a face-to-face participation model, so remote presentations of papers or artworks will be allowed only under extraordinary circumstances.