xCoAx 2015 — Third International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X

Registration Pricing Information: Author Full Registration: £99.40 (excludes dinner), Reduced Registration and Public (excludes dinner): £24.40, Performance Tickets Only (No Registration): £9.40, Conference Dinner: £29.40, (all prices + 60p booking fee). Performance tickets included in Registration.

Computational tools and media, like computers, programs, wearables, sensors, haptic interfaces and many more, have dramatically transformed the landscape of arts, design, and several other cultural forms.

xCoAx is an exploration of this environment in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive x factor that connects them all.

xCoAx is meant as a hub for the exchange of ideas and the discovery of interdisciplinary and international synergies, with the participation of a diverse confluence of computer scientists, media practitioners and theoreticians working on the frontiers of digital arts and culture.

xCoAx focuses on critical and stimulating intersections: between the computable and the uncomputable, the communicable and the incommunicable, the chaos of creativity and the rules of algorithms, the human and the machine, in a constant search for new directions in aesthetics.

The trail-blazing first edition of xCoAx took place in Bergamo, Italy in 2013 and was followed by an edition in Porto, Portugal in 2014.