COSIGN

COSIGN 2004, the fourth international conference on Computational Semiotics for Games and New Media will be held at the University of Split, Croatia from the 14th - 16th of September 2004, with a pre-conference tutorial/workshop day on the 13th September. The following is the programme and list of accepted papers, posters, artworks and demonstrations.

Monday, 13th of September, 2004

9:00 - 16:30	Workshop - Using Composition to Re-Present Personal Collections of Hypersigns Andruid Kerne (Texas A&M Department of Computer Science, USA)
9:00 - 16:30	Tutorial - Computational Semiotics Frank Nack (CWI, NL) Grethe Mitchell (UEL, UK)

Tuesday, 14th of September, 2004

8:00 - 9:00	On-Site Registration
9:00 - 9:30	Opening
9:30 - 10:00	Communication-Oriented Modeling - Transforming the Social Visibility in Communication Processes into Cognitive Visibility Marco Schmitt (TU Hamburg-Harburg, Department of Technology Assessment, Germany)
10:00 - 10:30	Partner Technologies: An Alternative to Technology Masters and Servants Kevin McGee (Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden) Johan Hedborg (Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden)
10:30 - 11:00	"if mouseSign then": Semiosis, Cybernetics and the Aesthetics of the Interactive Alan Peacock (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00	Formal Semantic Models for Images and Image Understanding Duc Do (RMIT University, Australia) Audrey Tam (RMIT University, Australia)
12:00 - 12:30	Bound Together: Signs and Features In Moving Picture Content Representation Edward Hartley (Lancaster University, UK)

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Peter Bøgh Andersen (Department of Computer Science, University of Aalborg)
14:30 - 15:30	Coffee Break and Viewing of the Posters, Demos and Artworks See below for list of posters, demos and artworks.
15:30 - 16:00	Unexpected, Unremarkable, and Ambivalent (or How The Universal Whistling Machine Activates Language Remainders) Marc Bohlen (University of Buffalo, USA) JT Rinker (University of Buffalo, USA)
16:00 - 16:30	Sound and Sources in Sacred Kristine Jørgensen (Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
16:30 - 17:00	Day Summary and Discussion

19:30 - late

Social Event
Conference Dinner and Late Bar

Wednesday, 15th of September, 2004

9:00 - 9:30	The Anti-Poetic: Interactivity, Immersion, and Other Semiotic Functions of Digital Play David Myers (Dept. of Communications, Loyola University, New Orleans, USA)
9:30 - 10:00	Narrativity in User Action - Emotion and Temporal Configuration of Narrative Shachindra Nath (Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design UK)
10:00 - 10:30	Models for Digital Storytelling and Interactive Narratives Leonie Schaefer (Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Psycho-Drama in VR Josephine Anstey (University at Buffalo, USA)
11:30 - 12:00	LifeSigns Troy Innocent (Artist)
12:00 - 12:30	(t)error Robert Praxmarer (Artist)

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Anne Nigten (V2, Rotterdam)
14:30 - 15:30	Coffee Break and Viewing of the Posters, Demos and Artworks See below for list of posters, demos and artworks.
15:30 - 16:00	Sign of a Threat : The Warning System in Survival Horror Games Bernard Perron (University of Montreal, Canada)
16:00 - 16:30	One and Five or Six Chairs Vladimir Todorovic (Artist)
16:30 - 17:00	Pixel Pictures Ylva Fernaeus, Ulla West (Artists)
17:00 - 17:30	Day Summary and Discussion

Thursday, 16th September, 2004

9:00 - 9:30	Tension and Intention in Meaning Jim Bizzocchi, Douglas Grant (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
9:30 - 10:00	Towards a Telemimetic Sublime in the Data Landscape Christina McPhee (Artist/Naxsmash Group Productions)
10:00 - 10:30	"TRUTH", "Bible Color Translation", "Four Letter Words", and Other Works Jonas Downey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
10:30 - 11:30	Coffee Break and Viewing of the Posters, Demos and Artworks See below for list of posters, demos and artworks.

11:30 - 12:30

Lunch

12:30 - 13:00	Dictionary: A Semiotic Experiment Rebecca White (Artist, USA)
13:00 - 13:30	Cyburban Semiotics Timothy J. Jachna (School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
13:30 - 14:30	Final Discussion

Posters

An e-theory Manifesto
Enarson-Hering (Chicago School of Media Theory, USA)

Visual Blends: A computational System Exploring Digital Creative Spaces
Theresa Gartland-Jones (Kingston University, UK)

Demos

Using Sampling and Composition to Represent Surrogates
Andruid Kerne (Texas A&M Interface Ecology Lab, USA)

Alien Letter Forms : An Ecosystem for Evolutionary Texts
Jason Lewis, David Bouchard (Canada)

The fm01 Project
Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp (ap, UK)

Arts Exhibits

The Universal Whistling Machine
Marc Bohlen, JT Rinker

LifeSigns
Troy Innocent

(t)error
Robert Praxmarer

Pixel Pictures
Ylva Fernaeus, Ulla West

Dictionary: A Semiotic Experiment
Rebecca White (USA)