Apologise for cross-posting pls feel free to forward (:-) Call for Submissions International Mobile Storytelling Congress (IMSC) https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/internationalcommunications/internatio nal-mobile-storytelling-congress.aspx The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (MINA) and Mobile Studies International (MSI) collaborate to initiate an event for the world of mobile storytellers: International Mobile Storytelling Congress (IMSC). Consisting of workshops, a conference, and a smartphone film festival, the congress aims to promote mobile storytelling for effective communication in different areas ranging from community and civic engagement to new forms of storytelling, creativity and developments towards story making (Schleser and Berry 2018) and/or storyliving (Google New Lab 2017). To be held on 22-24 November 2019 in Ningbo, China, IMSC focuses mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking, mobile innovation and mobile creativity. IMSC provides a forum for practitioners and scholars to showcase projects and discuss changes, challenges and chances of mobile storytelling including, but not limited to the following areas: MOBILE AESTHETICS: Mobile digital art, iPhonography and smartphone filmmaking MOBILE INTERACTIVITY: Installation, locative media art and live AV performances MOBILE MEDIA PRODUCTION: Distribution, collaboration and co-creation MOBILE SOUND: Music production, creative process & mobile instruments MOBILE DATA & Mobile AI: computational creativity & Artificial Intelligence MOBILE AR: Mobile Augmented Reality MOBILE VR: Mobile Virtual Reality MOBILE MR: Mobile Mixed Reality MOBILE STORY: Storytelling, nonfiction, documentary film and media This call is interested in storytelling and its broad application in the digital world. We see narrative and non-narrative methods as innovation sandboxes to illuminate community engagement and creative transformation(s). We aim for a combination of theoretical and creative practice research explorations responding to and interacting with the opportunities and potential of emerging media and screen production. Presentations and showcases can include work-in-progress, project presentations, academic papers and conceptual provocations or pose questions at the intersection of storytelling and screen production. We welcome proposals for workshops to run in conjunction with the International Mobile Storytelling Congress (IMSC). Paper & project abstracts will be double blind peer reviewed. We accept video presentations but require presenters to join a Q&A session via Adobe Connect. Selected academic papers will be published as a volume (with the tentative title of Advances in Mobile Storytelling: Research and Practice co-edited by Schleser and Xu) of a book series of IGI Global while selected projects will be showcased by the 8th Mobile Innovation and Mobile Creativity Symposium and the 9th International Mobile, Pocket and Smartphone Film Screening & Festival. #MINA2019 Mobile, Smartphone and Pocket Film & Cinematic VR Including Eco Smartphone Filmmaking Competition #NUCLEUS Submission Deadline: 15 August 2019 via https://filmfreeway.com/mina Abstract for Research Papers, Workshops, Project Presentations and/or Showcase Submission Deadline: 15 July 2019 Please submit your academic paper abstracts (in APA style, at least 350 words are expected and a short biographical note 250 words) Full paper submission deadline: 15 October 2019 Submit via https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=eXV_35w-fkq4REICgPU 4Wcc8W0c50p9NqUBcn0ErK-dUREpSUVdLVlZOS1dENjBMUUpVRVpSQkdKQS4u We will inform you about the selection results by 15 August 2019. Since 2011 the Mobile Innovation Network and Association (www.MINA.pro) celebrates mobile, pocket and smartphone filmmaking. The annual screening provides an overview of the trends and developments in the international smartphone filmmaking community. MINA’s screening focuses on experimental screen productions, moving-image arts, documentary film and innovative approaches to smartphone filmmaking and cinematic VR. More information about the Mobile Innovation Network & Association, MINA, see MediaNZ Digital Communities issue (http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/medianz-vol16iss1id200). Mobile Studies International (MSI) is a global network of professors of mobile studies and practitioners in the mobile industries. Founded in 2012, MSI provides a dialogue between professors and practitioners of mobile media and communication to share experience and expertise on how to enhance mobile communication in all areas of human activities. For further information, please visit http://msi.wiki. The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) is a China campus of the University of Nottingham. Founded in 2004 as the first Sino-Foreign university to open its doors to China, UNNC has attracted more than 8, 000 students and 750 staff from 70 countries and regions around the world. For further information, please visit http://nottingham.edu.cn For further information regarding the Mobile, Smartphone and Pocket Film & Cinematic VR, Research Paper, Workshops, Project Presentations and/or Showcase, please contact Dr Max Schleser via mschleser@swin.edu.au For further information regarding the academic papers, please contact Dr Xiaoge Xu via xiaoge.xu@nottingham.edu.cn Congress Committee Dr Xiaoge Xu, Congress Chair, University of Nottingham Ningbo China Dr Max Schleser, Congress Chair, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Dr Gary Rawnsley, Professor/Faculty Dean, University of Nottingham Ningbo China Dr Andrew White, Professor/School Head, University of Nottingham Ningbo China Conference & Screening Committee Felipe Cardona, Smartphone filmmaker, Columbia Ass Prof Dr. Gerda Cammaer, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Canada Matt Clasener, Adobe Education Leader & Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, Netherlands Hilary Davis, Social Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Dr Kerreen Ely-Harper, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University, Australia Marcelo Godoy, Creative Producer, Brazil Liz Hoyle, School of Communications Studies, AUT University, New Zealand Chrisitan Kahnt, Director Goethe Institute, New Zealand Anandana Kapur, CINEMAD-India, New Delhi, India João Krefer, Filmmaker & Director, Brazil Ass Prof Dr. Krishna Sankar Kusuma, Anwar Jamal Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India Dr. Patrick Kelly, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University, Australia Martin Koszolko, School of Creative Arts, Melbourne Polytechnic James Nicholson, Television and Screen Production, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Ass Prof Stefano Odorico, International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling, Leeds Trinity University Shuai Li, PhD researcher Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia Michael G. Osheku, African Smartphone Film Festival, Nigeria Sylvie Prasad, Visual Artist, Arts & Digital Industries, University of East London, UK Ulrike Rosenfeld, Cultural Programmes, Goethe-Institute, New Zealand Dr Gary Rawnsley, Professor/Faculty Dean, University of Nottingham Ningbo China Dr. Miriam Ross, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Dr. Melanie Sarantou, Arctic Design and Art Profiling Area, University of Lapland, Finland Dr Max Schleser, Congress Chair, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ass. Prof. Dr Paola Voci, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago / Te Whare Wänanga o Otago, New Zealand Vannessa Vox, Filmmaker & Artist, France Dr Andrew White, Professor/School Head, University of Nottingham Ningbo China Ass Prof Dr. Gavin Wilson, Department of Mass Communication and Media, College of Arts & Sciences, Gulf University for Science & Technology Dr Xiaoge Xu, Congress Chair, University of Nottingham Ningbo China