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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">VISAP'23 Submission Deadline
<b>2 June 2023</b> is approaching!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Exhibit your data visualization artwork at IEEE VIS'23 in Melbourne! More info at <a href="https://visap.net/2023/?fbclid=IwAR1qm7JA4dBPgZZbdhud6Mw-lutxFR9ylnAt801xFJ2lMnyMEVnFnxVFzKQ" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">https://visap.net/2023/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#050505">IEEE VISAP 2023 - Perpetual Presence<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">MELBOURNE (VIC), AUSTRALIA, 22—27 OCTOBER 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">The VIS Arts Program (VISAP) is a mini-conference and exhibition in the IEEE VIS conference program where visualization researchers, designers,
 and artists come together to showcase and discuss works at the intersection of data visualization, art and design. It links artists, practitioners, data scientists, and theoreticians, in order to foster discussion and collaboration between fields of research
 and practice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">The theme for IEEE VISAP 2023 is Perpetual Presence. Data is all around us, a perpetual and ubiquitous digital stream of meaning that permeates
 throughout the ambient informatic which backgrounds our societies. Perpetual Presence acknowledges the transformative potential of data as influencing cultural, economical and political landscapes. If ‘presence’ is a state of being, of becoming, and of responding
 to the intersectionality of realities, then Perpetual Presence is an aesthetic in which data abundantly flourishes in ways that extend our understanding of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Submissions deadline: June 2, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Acceptance notifications: July 14, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Camera ready deadline: August 14, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Exhibition materials submission: August 14, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">VISAP exhibition October 2 - October 29, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Accepted submissions to the paper and to the pictorial tracks will be presented during the IEEE VIS conference VISAP sessions. Accepted exhibits
 will be displayed from October 4 - October 29, 2023 at the <a href="https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/hubs-bookable-spaces/the-dock/library-at-the-dock/Pages/library-at-the-dock.aspx">
Library at the Doc Gallery</a> gallery space. Pictorials may be displayed in printed forms at the opening reception; and exhibits may be offered an opportunity to be presented during the IEEE VIS conference VISAP sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">We look forward to your participation!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Uta Hinrichs, Xavier Ho, and Rebecca Ruige Xu<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">VISAP 2023 General Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Contact:
<a href="mailto:art@ieeevis.org">art@ieeevis.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Twitter: @visapnet<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="x193iq5w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Mastodon: @visap@vis.social<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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