CALL FOR PAPERS
2011 International Multimedia Arts Workshop
(URL: http://ksigradschool.com/gallery/cfp11.html)

Convitto della Calza, Florence, Italy August 18 to August 20, 2011

The 17th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems DMS2011 (http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms11.html) to be held at Convitto della Calza, Florence, Italy from August 18 to 20, 2011 will offer a Workshop on Multimedia Arts. The workshop is open to all artists working in digital media including works for print, digital photography, music, works for video, interactive media works and installation works. Authors will have the opportunity to present papers at the Multimedia Arts Workshop in the DMS Conference. Papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings, and authors' artworks related to their papers can be included in the KSI Digital Studio. In addition authors will be invited to have their artworks included in the annual KSI Art Gallery exhibition in Chicago with preferential status.

Two kinds of papers are solicited: regular papers and demonstrational papers. Regular papers are written in the traditional way to describe and/or discuss artistic approach, art theory, art hisory and multimedia techniques as applied to art, augmented by examples of related artworks. Demonstrational papers mainly consist of a presentation of author's multimedia artworks and therefore the paper itself may be a concise description and discussion of the demonstrated artworks.

Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, PDF, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/ma2011/submit/SubmitPaper.php (submission site will be open Jan 1, 2011). Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references). All submissions must not be published or under consideration for publication in a journal or in a conference with proceedings. Papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarify of exposition. Depending upon the results of evaluation a paper may be accepted as regular paper (6 pages), short paper (4 pages) or demonstrational paper (2 pages). Related artworks and demonstrations can be uploaded and exhibited in the KSI Digital Studio, so that the paper can include reference links to the related artworks and demonstrations.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission due: April 22, 2011 (FIRM)
Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2011
Camera-ready copy: July 11, 2011
Early conference registration due: July 11, 2011

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Kia Ng, University of Leeds, UK
Gabriel Smith, Knowledge Systems Institute, USA
Kang Zhang, University of Texas, USA


CONTACT INFORMATION:
KSI Art Gallery
Knowledge Systems Institute 3420 Main Street, Skokie, IL 60016, USA
Tel: 1 847 679 3135
Fax: 1 847 679 3166
E-mail: gallery@ksi.edu