Call for Papers
Artistic Identity in Research Projects

The symposium offers a platform for visions of artistic research and its possible definitions, methods and forms of transfer and transmission. At the heart of this research lies artistic practice itself: as an object, as a source of central questions and as the initiator of new insights and knowledge

Deadline: 10.07.2026
Datum und Ort: 08.–10.10.2026, University of Music Karlsruhe
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Call for Papers
Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference

The conference aims to address the role of memory in contemporary creation by discussing:
– the process of creation and its relationship to memory work;
– memory as a territory under construction (bodies, texts, sounds, images, narratives) through artistic research; and
– the politics of memory in today’s societies and new forms of creation.

Deadline: 15.07.2026
Datum und Ort: 22.–23.10.2026, School of Education, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal
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Call for Proposals
5th International AIE Conference 

The AIE Conference is a platform for exploring artistic practice as a mode of research, where creation, reflection, and education converge across disciplines. We welcome both conventional academic formats and non-traditional modes of presentation and encourage proposals that critically engage the intersection of art, research, and education. We are thrilled to announce that Michael League and Daniel Canogar will join us as keynote speakers in the upcoming edition of the AIE Conference.

Submissions:
– accepted in English or Spanish
– participation: in-person (Madrid) or online

Deadline: 15.07.2026
Datum und Ort: 18–20 November 2026, Madrid (in-person and online)
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Symposium: How to live together in sound? Towards sonic democracy

We all communicate through sound and contribute in different ways to constituting and sustaining more-than-human communities in the aural domain. We condition and shape our common life-worlds through the performance of our aural and sonic actions: hearing and listening, as well as producing, processing, and distributing sounds. We outline different forms of otherness and commonalities by mobilizing sonic agencies in encounters that unfold, at least partially, in the aural medium.

As artistic research practitioners we provide new evidence of all these complex and intertwined processes by expanding and enhancing our sonic attention and awareness. We thereby disclose new possibilities of understanding different shapes and ways of individual and collective aural being-in-the-world.

Conference Dates: 12.10.–14.10.2026, Helsinki Music Centre
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Orpheus Instituut: Bodies as Transducers

Artistic research operates at the intersection of bodies, materials, and concepts. From this perspective, musical performance appears as an intense transductive process through which energy, information, and materialities undergo continuous transformation. Musical objects emerge not so much as reproduction of fixed works, but as dynamic concatenations of infinite “musical particles”—micro-events of ongoing individuation where affective, material, and conceptual forces momentarily converge, only to dissolve and reconfigure elsewhere. For performers, each particle marks a threshold where muscular, sensory, and imaginative energies convert into sonic form; for composers, these particles constitute generative diagrams that invite further differentiation.

Drawing on Simondon’s concept of transduction, Deleuze and Guattari’s multiplicities, and Paulo de Assis’s differential ontology of music and the notion of performative transductions, this conference examines how performance functions as a field of energetic reconfiguration where the body acts as the central transductive force and bodies, instruments, notations, and concepts mutually transform one another.

Conference Dates: 05.11.–06.11.2026
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