CFP: Reframing Relationships Between Sound & Image
Stephen Gibson
https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2026/reframing-relationships-between-sound-image/
Scope and Objectives
We are happy to announce a Special Track on Reframing Relationships Between Sound & Image for the upcoming ArtsIT international conference to be held in December 2026 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Building on the contributions of the authors featured in the
upcoming Routledge book Audio-Visualism: Reframing Relationships Between Sound & Image, this call for Special Track papers is situated within the contemporary context of evolving and transforming artistic practices in audio-visual performance, installation
and hybrid immersive art practices. We invite submissions that address conceptual, formal, aesthetic, socio-political and/or technical concerns within audio-visual work, wherein the weight of the audio and visual domains is relatively equal and mutually reinforcing.
Special Track Topics
This Special Track invites contributions from the broader community of artists, designers, and makers working in audio-visual performance, immersive arts and experience design. This call encourages submissions that engage with key issues related to analogue
and digital technologies, the social and political dimensions of audio-visual practices, the emergence of extended multi-screen practices include fulldome works, and emerging creative approaches that explore new modes of immersion and interaction. The objective
is to foster a dialogue between theoretical reflection and practice-based research, and to examine how audio-visual, interactive, and game-based practices contribute to rethinking relationships between sound, image, space, and the social dynamics of experience
in contemporary creative contexts.
We welcome original research, case studies, demonstrations, and artistic contributions that explore the possibilities of working in extended audio-visual contexts. Submissions should advance our understanding of the synergies between one or more of the following topics:
Audio-Visual Installation and/or Performance: Exploring the compositional and relational strategies artists and designers employ to integrate sound and image within performance and installation contexts, and the aesthetic outcomes these produce.
Interaction Design and Audio-Visuals: Examining how interactive systems and interfaces shape the dynamic relationship between sonic and visual elements, and the implications for audience agency and experience.
Immersive Art: Investigating the creative and technical approaches that artists use to construct enveloping sensory environments in which sound and image work together to transform spatial and perceptual experience.
Analogue and Digital Technologies and Approaches: Considering how the choice and combination of analogue and digital tools and processes influence the aesthetic, conceptual, and material character of audio-visual work.
Social-Political Implications of Audio-Visuals: Interrogating the ways in which audio-visual practices engage with, reflect, or challenge broader social, cultural, and political conditions and power structures.
Game Design and Platforms: Exploring how game engines, mechanics, and interactive platforms offer new possibilities for structuring and experiencing the relationship between sound, image, and player agency.
Multi-Screen Installation and/or Performance: Examining expanded and distributed screen-based practices — including fulldome and panoramic formats — that reconfigure the spatial and temporal dynamics of audio-visual work.
Full Paper Submission deadline
1 June 2026
Notification deadline
1 September 2026
Camera-ready deadline
1 October 2026
Conference dates
2-4 December, 2026
Bratislava, Slovakia
Special Track Chairs
Steve Gibson, stephen...@northumbria.ac.uk, Associate
Professor, Arts and Environment, Northumbria University.
Yan Breuleux, YBre...@nad.ca, Professor at École des arts numériques, de l’animation et du design (NAD), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
Paul Goodfellow, p.good...@abertay.ac.uk, Senior Lecturer. Computational Art Theory & Practice, Division of Games Technology and Mathematics, Abertay University.
Joseph Hyde, j.h...@bathspa.ac.uk, Emeritus Professor, Creative Music Technology, Bath Spa University.
Dr. Steve Gibson
Associate Professor, Innovative Digital Media / Course Leader MA Digital and Immersive Arts
School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries, Squires Annexe 105, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST UK