Orpheus Instituut | ECHO #6 – Interface After AI
This special issue aims to address the limitations imposed by existing approaches to interface design on the current epoch of deep learning technology and to explore how insights from musical and artistic instrumentality may help unblock further development.
Researchers, musicologists, artists, and technologists are invited to submit their work on reimagining interfaces that foster expanded interactions between humans and AI.
Themes and Topics
Contributions to this special issue may include, but are not limited to, the following areas of inquiry:
Nonlinear Deep Learning Interfaces: Proposals for interfaces that depart from traditional visual, semantic, and linear paradigms, enabling new forms of creative expression, exploration, and collaboration with AI.
Interfacial Regimes in Music and the Arts: Examination of interfacial frameworks within music and artistic practices that provide alternative models for engaging with deep learning technologies.
Post-Transcriptive AI: Exploration of new models, toolchains, and possibilities for deep learning outside of strictly transcriptive functions and relationships.
New Musical Paradigms: Visions of music after the development of deep learning tools unbound from transcriptive modalities.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions can be in-depth articles indicatively of 5000-7000 words or brief artist statements in any format. Authors are encouraged to use digitally-native storytelling, incorporating media-rich materials, nonlinear navigation, and interactive data representation tools. Contributions should be experimental and push the boundaries of traditional academic formats. Potential contributors are invited to contact the issue editors (robertoalonso@mac.com / mpoliks@gmail.com). ECHO welcomes contributions in languages other than English.
Please upload your submissions here: https://airtable.com/appJQ9K5WIfFqp9dp/paghbOagbfnN8SiLJ/form
More information on the call can be found here: https://orpheusinstituut.be/en/news-and-events/call-for-submissions-echo-6-interface-after-ai