Call for Contributions
The Audiovisual Symposium explores what characterises the research, education and artistic practice of audiovisual studies. Research described with the adjective audiovisual extends into a wide range of areas, in the humanities, social sciences, arts and technology. The term describes a phenomenon that combines image and sound. This includes for instance film, computer games, video art, music, sound design, and script writing.
The Audiovisual Symposium invites contributions – both extended abstracts and audiovisual works – from scholarly and artistic studies on the audiovisual phenomenon. This includes related academic disciplines such as film studies, screen play composition, musicology, music, visual arts, performing arts, design, cultural studies, media technology, audio design, and interaction design including new instruments for audiovisual expressions. The symposium resides in the intersection of interdisciplinary research on audiovisuality.
We encourage late-breaking and pioneering works, including emerging contributions that stimulate dialogue and inspire new ideas. Submissions may include early-stage research, technical explorations, preliminary findings, concise studies, artistic works, or theoretical and methodological reflections. We welcome a wide range of topics and formats, such as original technologies, artistic etudes, or designs in development, selected results from ongoing studies, critical reflections on early research, fresh analyses of existing work, and open contributions seeking feedback, engagement, and collaboration.
We hereby invite you to contribute to the symposium with an extended abstract or pictorial. The extended abstract should be three to five pages (including references) or 1 500 – 2 000 words. The pictorial should be up to eight pages and up to 1 000 words. Submit your contribution before the 4th of September 2026. Submit your contribution, including links to audiovisual media repositories or media files, via the symposium submission system TBA.
Open peer review
We apply open peer review. Authors and reviewers are not anonymous, and the entire review process is based on openness and collegial dialogue. By submitting a contribution, authors commit to conduct two peer reviews of other contributions.
The process after submission
- Submitted contributions are assigned two reviews.
- The reviewers submit written non-anonymous reports via the submission system.
- Authors can participate in an open dialogue phase and submit revised versions.
- The programme committee makes decisions based on reports and revisions.
Through open peer review, we want to strengthen the transparency, openness and quality of our joint work.
Important dates
Submission deadline 4th of September 2026.
Review due date 18th of September 2026.
Acceptance date 9th of October 2026.
Camera ready version date 16th of October 2026.
Audiovisual Symposium date Thursday 26 to Friday 27 November 2026.