The registration for attendance at the TKB project International Conference on "Multimodal Communication: Language, Performance and Digital Media" is now open.

Please let us know as soon as possible if you plan to attend it, by registering online at

http://tkb.fcsh.unl.pt/tkb-conference

In case you need accommodation in Lisbon, we've made an agreement with the Hotel Vila Galé Opera (http://www.vilagale.pt/pages/hoteis/?hotel=13), not far from the venue. It's a nice four-star hotel and they are offering a special price of 71,50 eur per single room. If interested, please contact and reserve directly with: opera.grupos@vilagale.pt

We'd appreciate it if you'd be so kind as to circulate this mail around your working circuits.

Event dates: Thursday 02 to Friday 03 May 2013

Venue: CCB, Lisbon (http://www.ccb.pt/sites/ccb/en-EN/). The CCB are co-producers of the conference and associate partners of the TKB project, running at the Centre of Linguistics (CLUNL) of FCSH-UNL.

The Conference is organized in the framework of the TKB research project conclusion (http://tkb.fcsh.unl.pt) and aims to: present the results and software tools developed during the TKB project; provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines and artists interested in the documentation of Performing Arts (with a focus on contemporary theatrical dance and Performance), as well as in issues of multimodality in human communication and in human-computer interaction, particularly regarding video annotation tools and collaborative platforms for cultural heritage preservation. It is organized by the FCSH and the FCT of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

The event wishes to bring together contemporary artists and researchers from a broad range of academic disciplines, working within different theoretical and methodological paradigms in a creative, internationally oriented, and stimulating atmosphere. The importance of multimodal communication and creativity is now generally recognised by researchers from either the Humanities, Information Technologies or Cognitive Science. This conference therefore offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning human behaviour and agency in different types of communication and their cognitive, cultural, narrative, technological, social, textual or discourse functions.

Conference Topics:

    Documentation of Performing Arts

    Performance Studies

    Multimodal Corpora

    Digital Media applied to Performance

    Cultural Heritage

    Performance Philosophy

    Cognitive approaches to theatrical performance

    Multimodal Metaphor

    Applications of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Performing Arts

    Applied Linguistics

    Speech and gestures in human communication

    Verbal vs. non-verbal interactions

    Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour

    Human-computer interaction

    Video annotation

    Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora

    Motion Tracking

    New approaches to Digital Games

Keynote speakers:

    Sally Jane Norman (Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts, Sussex: UK)

    Charles Forceville (Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL)

    Irene Mittelberg (University Aachen, DE)

Organization: FCSH/CUNL (www.fcsh.unl.pt) and FCT-UNL (www.fct.unl.pt)

TKB Project Supporters:

    Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

    O Espaço do Tempo (Transdisciplinary Arts Centre)

    Centro Cultural de Belém

    Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

    Atelier Re.Al