Re: <nettime> Extended deadline August 1st 2026 for Post-Disciplinary Creative Practices, EAI ArtsIT 2026

[Garrett Lynch IRL via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Dear Uriah and Geert

I agree in part with what is at the heart of your emails - that $250 is
expensive for artists. Yes it is. However, there are a few things I want to
clarify:

- $250 is not the fee to submit the paper as you suggest in your email
Uriah. Submission and review is free. The $250 cost is payable only if the
paper is accepted and presented.

- As conferences go this is not the cheapest but far from being the most
expensive with many 'tech' based conferences in the US costing well over
$1000.

- Presenting online or on-site is the presenters choice, not the
conferences. It is given to offer more flexibility for those who cannot
travel because of capability, time or any number of other reasons. For us
this is important for a number of reasons:
  - it opens up the conference to disabled artists/academics who might not
be able to attend;
  - anyone post-pandemic who is immunocompromised and as a matter of course
does not travel can attend;
  - presenters applying for funding to cover their research/the conference
can manage to get that funding because cost is lowered;
  - anyone following a 'no-fly' policy can attend;
  - etc.

- ArtsIT is not a scam. It is run by the European Alliance for Innovation (
https://eai.eu/) and has a long-standing relationship with the publisher
Springer.
  - All papers accepted in ArtsIT will be published in conference
proceedings by Springer. So that $250 is really for conference and
publication. Anyone submitting a proposal to the conference should
absolutely be seeking funding to support themselves and stating in that
funding that in effect it offers good value for what you get.

- Everyone working on the conference, chairs, peer-reviewers etc. does so
on a voluntary basis. For myself, I have worked as an artist and academic
for over twenty years and time and again been part of events, conferences
and publications that ran at little to no cost to attendees and the public.
Trying to find/make creative space for these types of events has become
progressively more difficult, near impossible. This is the first time I've
proposed a track to a more mainstream conference because, simply put, until
recent years they would not consider anything such as post-disciplinarity
and while cost to attendees goes up so does its potential to have impact.


On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 11:00 AM <nettime-l-request@lists.nettime.org>
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   1. Re: Extended deadline August 1st 2026 for Post-Disciplinary
>       Creative Practices, EAI ArtsIT 2026 (Uriah Marc Todoroff)
>    2. Re: Extended deadline August 1st 2026 for Post-Disciplinary
>       Creative Practices, EAI ArtsIT 2026 (Geert Lovink)
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> $250 for the privilege of submitting a paper, maybe to be invited to
> present at a zoom conference. What a scam.
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> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:22:14 +0200
> From: Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>
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> Subject: Re: <nettime> Extended deadline August 1st 2026 for
>         Post-Disciplinary Creative Practices, EAI ArtsIT 2026
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> I agree. The latest in this genre are the (online) book clubs where the
> author pays anything between 100-500 USD for the privilege to show up
> amongst the member-readers. I received three in one month, which started to
> make me suspicious if these were real scams, meaning criminals that are
> after one?s personal (bank) data and so on. I might cover this in a next
> collection of ?memorable spam?. Best, Geert
>


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