2024 Call for Participation

Submissions for the 2024 call for participation are closed.

We are pleased to announce the Call for Submissions for DataArt2024. Data art is a form of artistic expression that leverages data to create visually captivating and conceptually rich artworks. The topic merges the worlds of data visualisation, digital art, and traditional art to convey complex information or concepts in visually compelling and engaging ways. In data-art, there are numerous avenues through which data can be utilised creatively; data can be the subject matter, directly mapped to visual forms, an underpinning fundamental component, medium, foundational data, or inspiration.

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We solicit artworks for a temporary exhibition, with accompanying manuscript. The artworks must be suitable for wall display in the temporary exhibition that will take place between 20-27 May 2024 in Pontio, Bangor University. A public opening and hands-on data-art workshop will take place on the 19th May. The event aims to bring together researchers, scholars, artists, hobbyists, and practitioners, to share their latest innovative ideas, and explore new avenues in data art. Accepted manuscripts will be edited into a monograph.

Topics include, but not limited to:

Environmental data and sustainable themes
Data visualisations from data
Spatial data and geoinformation
Art, from Open Data sets, such as data.gov
Visual art pictures from biological data
Renderings of three-dimensional datasets
Social network visualisations
Data visualization as a form of artistic expression
Historical data
Re-rendering of visualisations
Collage or montage of different visualisations
Personal data
Artwork from sport and performance data
Text art from data
Pictures from data created from sounds, music, spoken words
Art from words, books, stories
Narrative and storytelling artwork

Requirments and general expectations

We invite submissions of original data-art works, along with accompanying manuscript, on various aspects related to data-art. We encourage new, novel, and interesting art pieces.

Artworks must be original, and the author(s) must hold appropriate permissions and copyright.
Artworks must be presentable for wall display, and works must be able to be shown as figures in a report. Artworks must be below A1 size. We envisage most art works to be A4 to A3 in size in print form.
Artworks must represent data, or be inspired by data in some way.

We encourage, and permit, submitted works to be based on research. This could be from funded research and other projects. But the images themselves and the text of the manuscript must be original (i.e., different from any published works, and not infringe any copyright).

The work must be created and authored by the author(s), who must hold copyright and relevant permissions to present data or pictures thereof. Submissions will be edited into an accompanying monograph, that will be published, and arranged by the organisers. Acknowledgements of funders, data sources, and other acknowledgements must be added to the submitted manuscript. References and relevant citations to related work, inspirations, techniques, or published works must be include, if suitable, up to a maximum of 5 references.

Submissions

Authors are required to submit a manuscript that explains their work. Importantly the manuscript must explain (1) the artwork itself and how it shows or uses data, (2) the techniques and methods you have used to create it, and (3) how you were inspired and what it shows.

The manuscript will include title of the work, photograph or digital image of the art, label (using the specified format) that will be used alongside the artwork, a written description of the data, inspiration and mappings, and references and acknowledgements. The author(s) of any accepted submissions will be invited to attend the opening and workshop on the 19th May. Authors also agree, by submission, that the organisers will reformat and edit their manuscripts into a coherent publishable monograph. The monograph will be available to accepted authors, and publicly available later. In their manuscript submission, authors should include details of any underpinning data such as the data types and origins of the data, information of how the data is mapped onto the display, as well as any design inspiration, design process, and the overall creation process.

Submissions will undergo a review process by the organisers, and their decision is final. Accepted papers will be presented at the exhibition and published in the conference monograph.

Important dates:
Important Dates: Submission deadline: 22 April 2024 (CLOSED)
Notification of acceptance: 26 April 2024 (CLOSED)
Hands-on workshop (in Pontio): 19th May, Exhibition 20-27 May 2024

Submission Guidelines:

Papers must be formatted according to the provided template. Submissions to be uploaded using the form. Any queries send to the organisers with the title DataArt24. Each submission will be reviewed by the organisers, their decision is final. Manuscript text should be between 500-1500 and must not exceed 1500 words and must be written in English.

We look forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you to an engaging and enriching exhibition.

Best regards,
organisers:
Professor Jonathan C. Roberts, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangor University
Dr Pete Butcher, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangor University