Anthony Brooks - Interactivity and Game Creation: 9th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2020, Aalborg, Denmark, December 10–11, 2020, Proceedings

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The ArtsIT team are delighted to introduce the proceedings of the 9th European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference on Arts and Technology, Interactivity, and Game Creation (ArtsIT 2020), held as an online virtual conference in Cyberspace, December 1011, 2020.

ArtsIT is a place where people in the arts, design and technology meet unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 situation, the 2020 edition of this meeting had to take place remotely via a live video stream of presentations, which is now archived for viewing at the URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVugi9RpX8&t=31s .

Opening the proceedings was a first-class keynote given by Portuguese international artist Joo Martinho Moura. Moura is a media artist and researcher, interested in electronic art and embodiment, virtual environments, computer music, and computational aesthetics. For the past 20 years, he has been adopting new ways to present the body and space in digital media. He has a particular interest in art and science, perception, visualization, and the intersections between art and technology. Since the 2000s, his work has been presented internationally, several times, in more than 18 countries, including some city-scale exhibitions. Joo has authored numerous publications in and across the fields of media arts, interfaces, embodiment, virtual reality, and visualization. As a media artist, he has collaborated with a number of renowned international institutions, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and was selected as an artist in residence for the European Commissions STARTS and MindSpaces initiatives. In 2013, Joo Martinho Moura received the National Multimedia Art and Culture Award in Lisbon for his contributions to the field of digital arts in Portugal. A feature in Joos ArtsIT keynote presentation was his most recent avant-garde works within dance performance and installation where he explores at and beyond the cutting edge of domains by experimenting with virtual and extended realities. Through this it was clear how he is offering and creating new actor and audience experiences, bridging established divides and confines, so as to establish new performer/audience virtual interactive spaces pushing the limits of the state of the art in the field. We are also grateful for and acknowledge the important contribution by Joo as webmaster for the conference website.

Following the keynote, a full day of paper presentations was broadcast until well into the evening. These are presented herein in their text form and as oral presentations archived at the given URL. Thus, in this edition of the book series Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) published by Springer, proceedings from ArtsIT are presented. We sincerely hope that this volume will be well received by those who authored papers as well as others who read the work herein. We also hope that this volume may inspire those who have published in this (near) annual series, now in its eleventh year, to return and encourage other readers to consider the events as worthy in their targeted publications. Hence, we encourage all authors and would-be-authors to regularly check the event web pages for calls to submit for upcoming editions. We, as the managing/organizing/editing team, would like to express our thanks to EAI for the continued support as well as to all delegates who attended the December 2020 event, either as presenting authors or as part of the audience. We express our thanks to Aalborg University which supported us in numerous ways and again sponsored the event. Finally, the ArtsIT family all look forward to physically meeting you at ArtsIT or another academic or social occasion in the future.