The Expressive symposium explores the capacity of computer graphics, animation, and computational media to be used in artistic, aesthetic, and creative ways. The field can be seen as encompassing problems in expressive understanding, expressive communication, and expressive interaction:

• Expressive understanding integrates aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the fine, applied, and performing arts, investigating theoretical approaches that further our understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning.

• Expressive communication focuses on imagery and motion which is expressive rather than photorealistic, although it may incorporate realistic elements.

• Expressive interaction explores models, algorithms, and technologies for sketch-based and XR interfaces, particularly classifying and recognizing hand-drawn shapes as a way to create or edit digital models, text, mathematics, or 3D shapes.

Expressive 2025 will take place in London, UK, on May 12th 2025 - co-located with Eurographics 2025. The symposium will also include an arts program, posters, and demos.

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Call for Papers – EXPRESSIVE

Submission Types

Paper submissions are invited across the broad range of areas covered by Expressive. We welcome papers in several categories:

• Research: New algorithms, scientific studies, analysis, or data (i.e., traditional academic papers). Research papers must contain novel results that substantially contribute to the field.
• Production: Candid discussion of the process of creating a work (e.g., film, image, game) or developing a tool (e.g., paint or CAD program, software library). We are equally interested in papers on the use of existing techniques combined in novel ways, or their application in a new or unusual context.

• Creative: Descriptions of original creative projects or analyses of expressive techniques used in artworks, performances, or computational design projects. Creative papers should highlight artistic innovation, and we encourage artists submitting to the Expressive 2025 Art Exhibition to also submit a creative paper describing their project.

• Meta: Statements about research that do not contain new results, e.g.: grand challenges, position papers, evaluation standards, surveys, and primers on art / aesthetics / psychophysics for a computer science audience. We welcome papers that discuss the challenges of bridging computational expression across disciplines.

Submissions can also overlap more than one of these categories. Eurographics will publish the accepted papers as a single conference proceedings and make them available online via Eurographics Digital Library. They will also be archived in the ACM Digital Library.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts to be considered for publication in a special section of Computers & Graphics journal (Elsevier) via a fast-track review process.

Submission Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Analysis and modelling of creative behaviour (AI, A-life)
• Simulation of natural media, traditional styles, and novel artistic styles
• Analysis of image style and saliency (paintings, photographs, others)
• Visualisation techniques, Simplification and Aabstraction techniques (e.g., sketching, indication)
• Empirically-based metrics of aesthetic attributes
• Applied visual perception
• Interaction techniques (e.g. sketch, gestural, multi-touch, multi-modal, XR)
• Sketch-parsing, classification and recognition
• Novel interfaces for art creation, modelling, control, sketch input
• Study designs and methodologies for evaluating and validating sketch-based systems, aesthetic metrics, visual communication systems
• Advanced rendering techniques (e.g. volumetric, GPU, mobile, multi-modal)
• Applications in special domains, e.g., Medicine, Geology, Biology, Sociology, Cultural Heritage
• Sketch-based information retrieval
• Stylistic or aesthetic aspects of character animation and simulated physics
• Accounts of real productions (e.g., animated films, digital art) or applications in software products (e.g., modelling, visualisation, presentation software)
• Visual composition design, rendering, and evaluation of layouts for text and presentation graphics
• Example-based style transfer
• Deep learning and neural networks for expressive rendering (e.g. neural style transfer)
• Temporal and spatial coherence
• Aesthetic evaluation and stylistic rendering of visual effects such as motion blur, depth of field, and lighting
• Non-traditional camera models
• Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
• AI-assisted modeling, animation, and generation of 2D/3D content
• AI-enhanced visual effects and generative art

Submission Information

Submissions will be made electronically through the Eurographics Submission and Review Management SRM system. Submitted papers must be anonymous and formatted according to the Eurographics Author’s guidelines. There is no strict page limit, but the length should justify the contribution. If you have any questions, please feel welcome to contact the Program chairs Chiara Eva Catalano and Amal Dev Parakkat at general@expressive.graphics .

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Call for Posters and Demos

Expressive 2025 will host an exhibition for artworks, posters, and demonstration projects, where artistic pieces, computational demonstrations, and posters will be featured side-by-side. This category focuses on recent research and creative activities at the intersection of arts and sciences. We are open to any work and research related to the Expressive 2025 conference topics. The authors of accepted works will be invited to present their work (as posters or interactive demo sessions) through a panel discussion at the main Expressive 2025 conference. Accepted works will be archived through the Eurographics Digital Libraryand will be made available in the ACM Digital Library.

Topics

We seek submissions for posters and demos. We are interested in a wide variety of works that bridge arts and sciences. We are particularly interested in techniques for visually communicating ideas and information and for sketch based interaction and modeling integration through integration of computer science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and the fine, applied & performing arts.

Expressive solicits extended abstracts for posters and demos. Accepted works will be demonstrated and displayed during the conference. We expect these works will pose new questions and motivate further research in the main areas of Expressive: understanding, communication, and interaction.

Accepted submissions for Posters and Demos will be published together with the accepted papers as a single conference proceedings by the ACM and will be available online via the ACM Digital Library. Accepted submissions will also be archived in the Eurographics Digital Library.

Guidelines

All submissions should be 4 pages, written in English, including a title page with an abstract, keywords, and a bibliography. Submissions should provide a clear description of the work and the process. Posters and demos will be demonstrated and/or displayed at the conference venue. Authors of accepted works in all areas of submitted work are encouraged to demonstrate their work; creating a separate submission for a poster and a demo is unnecessary if they refer to the same project.

Submission

All submissions must be made through the Eurographics SRM conference submission site. If you have any questions, please feel welcome to contact the Posters and Demos chairs Daniel Berio and Alexandre Bruckert at posters@expressive.graphics .

For detailed instructions to submit posters, demos and other materials, please view the submission instructions.

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