{"id":4294,"date":"2026-02-24T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2026.artefacto-conf.org\/?page_id=4294"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:14:01","slug":"call-for-papers-and-artworks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2026.artefacto-conf.org\/index.php\/call-for-papers-and-artworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers and Artworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a49be9f1ea609fd384fa4ac467872f24 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ARTeFACTo 2026 BEJA<\/strong>&nbsp;is the&nbsp;<strong>5th International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology<\/strong>, hosted by&nbsp;the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, in Beja, Portugal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8e74f767f78a580959af5769ab512123 wp-block-paragraph\">The conference promotes\u00a0interest in\u00a0digital\/media culture and its link to art and technology as a key research area, with a focus on\u00a0<strong>digital media\/computer artefacts<\/strong>. It covers\u00a0their\u00a0design, creation, research, implementation, exhibition, and\u00a0societal role. The event also aims to develop conceptual foundations for artefact theory in digital media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-75fd3d139ef871bba7ca45ab85bcd0bf wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXPANDED (A)UDIOVISUAL (I)NTELLIGENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b317747871f8df72db426802f693e933 wp-block-paragraph\">Authors are invited to submit papers and exhibition artwork proposals across all areas of creative digital art, with an emphasis on artefacts, art installations, and general-purpose interactive systems that embrace expanded audiovisual intelligence, i.e., the application of artificial intelligence in the creative process and exhibition of audiovisual artefacts.&nbsp;Both research and application papers are relevant to ARTeFACTo 2026 BEJA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3672c0d3177c5f99ce124c005eed53fa wp-block-paragraph\">Artworks submitted for the exhibition must include a short paper (for pages) and a detailed descriptive video in HD MP4 format, lasting up to 4 minutes (with optional English subtitles). Please submit a permanent link (optionally private) to the descriptive video alongside the article. Please note that the conference will feature a virtual exhibition (audiovisual) of artworks only.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d961673ca5577e855bd8cecfbfa86d55 wp-block-paragraph\">Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a078be1b5f9821a6462bc131caad35df\">AI and Art<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ecde970ecdfd3199fd135eb4c6057051\">Art, Science and Sustainability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0be7a0ae622a2bda5897cd5ddc6f336e\">Art and Science Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-074f40812421081a7d8a0f6074300216\">Art and Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-affe31aaea5a177a437136b5faee342e\">Audio-Visual and Multimedia Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7c4add65ec5dfb274dc17ce2ca238c3d\">Biographical Narrative Artefacts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c75048c1545f512a6c3e0ca73e30c2b4\">Creativity Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2640554b628358f15f0d2909a558b1c6\">Design and Data Visualisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c43bfde2a1db93e587c2d5499dcef4fd\">Digital Art Cultures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b363618b1d672a9387e124c15ad8956d\">Digital Dance &amp; Body Poetics&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1cd47b5ff57d621aa2578341dcb2d476\">Digital Storytelling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-406d8be315a53876b201b9b78e37146a\">Digital Technologies and Making<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f439b6b19c9d393a254b050835f6600f\">e-Learning in Art and Media Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-55518e2bbd50c37e4fc88d174bb1b96b\">Electronic Music<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0af57c8221373d5b704c50f8e2315cc6\">Expanded Audiovisual Intelligence Artefacts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3b263df3762bda93fa88f52bf00a1d04\">Generative and Algorithmic Art &amp; Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-addec86d06e769f9abe6c24ca137f9fe\">Gesture Interfaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0bf11a5edd49ea098e08ce67ad19fe1c\">Immersive Art<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e26c020693126764a7afe442cbe882d3\">Interactive Art<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-39d3b880cc86e38208b7b891891de1a0\">Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a1cd96c344cf895d2f4718faaddadaab\">Interaction Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ba6f52b105c473215dbe2c1aa6319df0\">Interfaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9a6ba8eb1b7a5c80b97e76ce8486bc98\">Media Art History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-33e9740f7da951f4df71b56f23c16fea\">Web Art and Digital Culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11c48d4f3f36199805d66a9999b2246f\">Digital Media, Apps and eBooks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-071e2ccbcb55aa262c79b0395dcd1cdb\">Digital Preservation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-54ced2ee7e20ffddee66427d92f1b051\">Postdigital Artefacts&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-04197daeff7dee005a7e666ec734ca23\">Praxis and Poiesis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6a20ccae1b6d0ca9d27d52f3836f3281\">STEAM Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2701d7af1db3a2a1daf08181a80f86c3\">Sustainability and Bioremediation Activism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1084c74810b2abe3ca88cf4fcb6af740\">Tangible Interfaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bf75e04e9075ed32a5169c4343b17c9d\">Technology in Art Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-5cf82e528c3c58c93dbfbe2c22f7e6b8 wp-block-paragraph\">The International Scientific and Art Committee comprises experts from various disciplines. The conference program will consist of keynote addresses by eminent specialists\/artists, oral presentations of&nbsp;contributed papers, a virtual art exhibition, and videos and posters of work in progress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-911f84ef34e6e60a0c97d6f6e1b38842 wp-block-paragraph\">Authors of selected papers presented at the conference (including essays describing the best art installations) will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the following journals (under negotiation):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f3bcde2106b07cb67cdcfa7458f249df wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8211; ROTURA \u2013 Journal of Communication, Culture and Arts (ISSN: 2184-8661) (<a href=\"https:\/\/publicacoes.ciac.pt\/index.php\/rotura\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/publicacoes.ciac.pt\/index.php\/rotura<\/a>) (Scopus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-151fcf3ed90b091cf685e3b642b54411 wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (ISSN: 1646-9798) (<a href=\"http:\/\/artes.ucp.pt\/citarj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/artes.ucp.pt\/citarj<\/a>) (Scopus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-64c94836e080ca22528607329c9a9d17 wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; E-Journal of Intercultural Studies (ISSN:2182-6439) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iscap.pt\/cei\/e-rei\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.iscap.pt\/cei\/e-rei\/en.html<\/a>) (Scopus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6a93da36456bbebf6b21226b0a456a00 wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; International Journal of Education through Art (ISSN: 1743-5234) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectbooks.co.uk\/journals\/view-Journal,id=121\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.intellectbooks.co.uk\/journals\/view-Journal,id=121\/<\/a>&nbsp;) (Scopus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3b204ab0053da598147d5d0057d40ef3 wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; Poetics \u2013 Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts (ISSN: 0304-422X) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/poetics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/poetics<\/a>) (Scopus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-18cc9a83cad586bb4ea44240155aa286\">Proceedings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-80fdc7756374475a34ff1fdd38b50d8e wp-block-paragraph\">It is under negotiation with Springer Nature to publish the papers, which will be indexed in SpringerLink and Google Scholar, and submitted to\u00a0<strong>Web of Science<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Scopus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-146a29156dcb4a4dbcce90e40eae2bc9 wp-block-paragraph\">The submission of a paper or artwork implies that at least one author intends to register for and attend the conference to deliver a spoken presentation. Papers accepted and presented at the conference by one of the authors will appear in the conference proceedings. Artworks accepted for exhibition will be published in the conference proceedings, provided that the authors submit an appropriate short paper description for each artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3b6a78ecfd337ddf5b13dfb90c6ab790 wp-block-paragraph\">Note that the conference requires face-to-face participation, so remote paper presentations will be allowed only in justified cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a08e046eaeec9a4494e5aa42963872ea wp-block-paragraph\">After a double-blind peer-review process, the best-ranked accepted papers will be published in a Proceedings Book as part of Springer Nature, indexed on SpringerLink and Google Scholar, and submitted to Web of Science and Scopus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTeFACTo 2026 BEJA&nbsp;is the&nbsp;5th International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology, hosted by&nbsp;the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, in Beja, Portugal.&nbsp; The conference promotes\u00a0interest in\u00a0digital\/media culture and its link to art and technology as a key research area, with a focus on\u00a0digital media\/computer artefacts. It covers\u00a0their\u00a0design, creation, research, implementation, exhibition, and\u00a0societal role. 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