The Future of Interactive Media:
Workshop on Media Arts, Science, and Technology (MAST)

January 29-30, 2009, Santa Barbara, CA
http://mast.mat.ucsb.edu

The Workshop on Media Arts, Sciences, and Technology (MAST) will be held in Santa Barbara, CA on January 29-30, 2009. The goal of this workshop is to bring together leading digital media researchers and practitioners who work at the intersection of arts and engineering, in order to explore key challenges and promising directions in digital arts, experiential media systems, creative environments, and emerging media technologies. The two-day workshop will consist of invited keynote presentations, short talks, poster sessions, media installations, demos, and panel discussions. The format will provide ample opportunities for participants to interact in an informal setting and explore further collaborations.

The workshop is jointly hosted by NSF IGERT programs at Arizona State University (Experiential Media) and UC Santa Barbara (Interactive Digital Multimedia), and sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

The workshop will take place on the UCSB campus. A limited number of travel grants of up to $500 will be available for graduate students presenting at the workshop.

Participants are invited to submit extended abstracts describing their relevant research, production, or media artifact. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop as posters, media art, or media-based performances.

Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:

? Novel human computer interaction methods and technologies
? Arts and medicine
? Electronic music
? Interactive visual media
? Sound analysis and synthesis
? Media signal processing
? Sensing and modeling of human activity
? Multimodal interaction
? Embodied interaction
? Creative environments
? Experiential construction
? Mediated education
? Mediating complexity
? Reflective media
? Community collaboration tools
? Participatory media

Submissions should be in the form of an extended abstract (up to three pages) or a media work with an associated brief (one page) abstract. Media-based work may be submitted in a variety of formats (video, audio, Flash presentation, etc.). In both cases, the abstract should communicate the goal or intent of the research or creative work and explain its contributions and/or significance. Further information is available on the workshop web site: http://mast.mat.ucsb.edu.

Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee, evaluated according to perceived merit and relevance to the workhop. The workshop will not publish official proceedings, but accepted abstracts and media submissions will be made available to attendees and on the web.

Key Dates:
Abstract Submission
Nov 7, 2008
Acceptance Notifications
Dec 5, 2008
Hotel Reservations
Dec 15, 2008
Workshop Registration
Dec 15, 2008
Workshop Dates
Jan 29-30, 2009

Workshop Chairs:
B. S. Manjunath, UCSB
Thanassis Rikakis, ASU

Program Chairs:
Matthew Turk, UCSB
Hari Sundaram, ASU

Demo/Exhibition Chairs:
Tobias Hollerer, UCSB
George Legrady, UCSB

Local Arrangements:
Tim Robinson, UCSB

Program Committee:
Shawn Brixey, DXArts
Sheldon Brown, UCSD
Grisha Coleman, ASU
Chris Csikszentmih?lyi, MIT
Jerry Gibson, UCSB
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
Ramesh Jain, UC Irvine
Richard Karpen, DXArts
Aisling Kelliher, ASU
Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, UCSB
Dom Massaro, UC Santa Cruz
Simon Penny, UC Irvine
Stephen Pope, UCSB
Gang Qian, ASU
Warren Sack, UC Santa Cruz