January 18, 2004
Cosign 2004
Cosign 2004: Computational Semiotics, will be held at the University of Split, Croatia, September 14-16, 2004.
The creation and interpretation of meaning in interactive digital media requires the manipulation of signs and/or pre-existing structures of meaning. The focus of COSIGN is the way in which meaning can be created by, encoded in, understood by, or produced through, the computer. As such, it is of interest to computer scientists, digital artists and designers, HCI and AI practitioners, and a broad range of other critics, theorists and researchers.
The full call for participation is available here. The submission date for papers and artworks is April 29; the submission date for posters and demonstrations is May 24th. The programme and proceedings of the COSIGN 2001, COSIGN 2002 and COSIGN 2003 conferences are all available online.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Software architectures and technologies based upon or inspired by existing theories of meaning (such as structuralism or semiotics).
- Structures of meaning in artificial intelligence systems.
- Hypertext/hypermedia and the semantic web as structures of meaning.
- The study, analysis or criticism of digital interactive media using methods drawn from structuralism, semiotics or other theories of meaning.
- Narrative/ludic structures in interactive digital media and videogames.
- Interface as sign system.
Media that make use of the unique capabilities of digital systems are of particular interest to this conference. These include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Virtual reality systems and virtual environments.
- Hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia and the internet environments.
- Content analysis systems (particularly those that extract higher-level meaning).
- The semantic web (and similar systems).
- Digital art, net art and other technology-based or technology-oriented art forms.
- Computer games, interactive narratives and other forms of interactive entertainment.
- Interface as sign system.
July 16th, 2004 at 1:04 pm
The program for Cosign 2004 is now available online.