Caires, CarlosCardoso, Jorge CarlosLipovka, AlekseiBidarra, JoséPimentel, Lúcia2024-12-182024-12-182017978-1-4503-5273-4https://dspace.usj.edu.mo/handle/123456789/5893Message from the Chair: It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the “ARTECH MACAU 2017 – Interfaces of Tomorrow” – 8th International Conference on Digital Arts, organized this year by the University of Saint Joseph - Macau, China. Our main purpose with this conference is to promote the interest in current digital culture and its intersection with art and technology. From our point of view, this is a very important field of research, and with the help of this conference we hope to bring to the community of researchers and artists a common space for discussion and exchange of new experiences. As Aaron Koblin mentioned in 2011, the culture of the 21st century will be defined by the interface. The research on human computer interaction, user experience, and new interfaces has gained a tremendous amount of momentum due to advances in digital technologies, research in sciences and production of artistic works. We believe there is an increasing need for reliable technologies and interfaces capable of interacting with the users and visitors of an art gallery. Since its beginning, the ARTECH initiative has hosted hundreds of digital art installations ranging from pure infotainment applications to more formal works of art exploring different interactive and media technologies: computer vision, virtual and augmented reality, digital sound and music, among others. These projects have been presented at various art fairs and conferences, as well as in applied art seminars, over the last 10 years. The call for papers of ARTECH2017 attracted 64 submissions from more than 21 countries (from Asia to Europe and the United States. The program committee accepted 33 papers (19 long, 4 short and 10 art installations), that covers many aspects related with new interfaces, sciences, technology and digital arts. In addition, the program includes three keynote speeches by Prof. Jeffrey Shaw (CityU, Hong Kong), Prof. Maurice Benayoun (CityU, Hong Kong) and Prof. Samuel Bianchini (ENSAD, Paris). All three of them well-respected researchers and practitioners in the field of digital arts. Furthermore, on the first day of the conference a full-day workshop was provided by researchers from the ENSAD (École National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs), Filipe Pais and Didier Bouchon. The “MisB Kit Workshop” is an open source building blocks kit that allowed participants to quickly build and animate physical objects without requiring any previous experience in engineering, coding or robotics. Through the development of quick prototypes of animated behavioural objects, the MisB kit allows a practice-based research method that explores the potential of a misbehaviour aesthetics. The MisB Kit is like a “high-definition” Lego, combining basic robotics – actuators such as servo motors, sensors and micro controllers (CM9 and Xbees), different structural elements covered by Velcro and carbon sticks that are entirely compatible and extremely easy and fast to assemble. Putting together the ARTECH2017 conference is a team effort. We would like to thank first the authors for providing the content of the program. We are also very grateful to the program committee, who worked very hard in reviewing papers and providing feedback to the authors. Finally, we would like to thank the keynote speakers and the organizer of the workshop “MisB kit” and welcome you all to the ARTECH MACAU 2017. Carlos Sena Caires - Conference Chairman (ARTECH-MACAU-2017), University of Saint Joseph, Macau (CN). Jorge C. S. Cardoso – President of the International Scientific and Art Committee, Universidade de Coimbra (PT).enBook