XARTS2025 - Call for Participation

The Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the University of the Aegean, in collaboration with the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University and the Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the University of Peloponnese are pleased to announce the XARTS 2025: International Conference and Summer School on Extended Arts.

We would like to invite participants with or without project to attend the conference and workshops of XARTS 2025. The call for submissions of papers is now closed.

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XARTS 2025 – Call for Participation International Conference and Summer School on Extended Arts 21–28 June 2025, Syros, Greece
Link: https://summer-schools.aegean.gr/XARTS2025 

Organisers: Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean in collaboration with the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, and the Department of Performing and Digital Arts, University of Peloponnese in the context of IMAGINE MOCAP, a Research project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (imagine-mocap.aegean.gr)
IMAGINE stands for Interactive Media Animation Games Interactive Network Enviroments 
 

Theme
The 2025 edition of XARTS will explore the design of transmedia characters and the formation of personality across interactive environments. We focus on interdisciplinary methods spanning animation, game design, performance, networked systems, and artificial intelligence. Workshop-based prototype development will engage both performative physical interaction and AI-driven design documentation.
 

Important Dates

• February 1st, 2025: Call for Participation to XARTS 2025
•  20 April 2025:  Registration opens 
• June 21-22, 2025: Conference - XARTS 2025 (presentation of conference papers)
• June 23-28, 2025: Summer school workshops - XARTS 2025 (presentation of workshop papers)

Participation Categories

1. Participation with a project

• Abstract for project concept to provide (1 page).

2. Participation without a project

• Note of interest to provide (1 page)
   

Topics of Interest

• Character personality design in IMAGINE platforms
• Transmedia production pipelines considering character personality
• Transmedia Worlds designed as characters
• Case studies in character personality design
• Human versus non-human character design
• VUP (Viewer-User-Player) role as a character in transmedia narratives
• VUP evaluation of transmedia characters' personality
• Bodily interactions with transmedia characters
• Confronted versus immersive experiences in transmedia narratives
• Transmedia storytelling and character design
• AI in artistic creation and design workflows
• Embodied interaction, performance, and motion capture
• Game design as artistic research
• Networked and hybrid interactive environments with live coding
• Character design and development using advanced design documents
   

Registration
Registration opens: 20 April 2025
Accepted participants must register for the event before the 29th of June 2025.
Registration link: https://summer-schools.aegean.gr/XARTS2025 
 

ECTS Credits
Participation in the summer school provides 3 ECTS for students from eligible European institutions.
 

Applications
All applications will be handled via the application form: https://summer-schools.aegean.gr/XARTS2025/Application-Form  

The applicants should upload their proposals and notes of interest (1 page) in PDF form :

Acceptance notifications will be handled via the XARTS 2025 platform.