FARM 2025 is the 13th edition of the ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (FARM). FARM 2025 will be held on Sunday, October 12

FARM encourages submissions from across art, craft, and design, including textiles, visual art, music, 3D sculpture, animation, GUIs, video games, 3D printing and architectural models, choreography, poetry, and even VLSI layouts, GPU configurations, or mechanical engineering designs. Theoretical foundations, language design, implementation issues, and applications in industry or the arts are all within the scope of the workshop.

In addition to the main workshop, FARM features its traditional Evening of Performances. In 2025, the performance evening is co-sponsored and hosted by ICFP and SPLASH, and is open to all attendees of either conference. This year’s performances will take place at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall, located on the University of Singapore campus. If you’d like to be part of the program, see our Call for Performances and Demos. If you are curious about FARM performances, check out recordings from previous FARM editions.

Events

The ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (FARM) encourages submissions from across art, craft, and design, including textiles, visual art, music, 3D sculpture, animation, GUIs, video games, 3D printing and architectural models, choreography, poetry, and even VLSI layouts, GPU configurations, or mechanical engineering designs. Theoretical foundations, language design, implementation issues, and applications in industry or the arts are all within the scope of the workshop.

In addition to the main workshop, FARM hosts a traditional evening of performances. Thus, this call encompasses both papers/demos for the workshop (and its published proceedings) as well as performance proposals for the evening’s event. Authors are invited to make a single submission for each. Authors may submit both a paper/demo and performance proposal, but the submissions will be considered independently. Performances may be of previously-produced work, and may be in any medium (including traditional acoustic performances) so long as the principles of programming (or actual programs) were used in their composition or performance.

Papers

Paper submissions are invited in three categories:

• Original research
• Overview / state of the art
• Technology tutorial (especially tools and environments for distributed artistic workflow)

Papers must be submitted via HotCRP, and meet the following requirements:

• 5 to 12 pages
• PDF format
• Adhere to the ACM SIGPLAN template

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the FARM 2023 proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to submit auxiliary material for publication along with their paper (source code, data, videos, images, etc.). Authors retain all rights to the auxiliary material.

Demos

Demo submissions should describe a demonstration and its context, connecting it with the themes of FARM. A demo could be in the form of a short (10 to 20 minute) tutorial, a presentation of work in progress, an exhibition of some work, or even a performance.

Demos must be submitted via HotCRP, and meet the following requirements:

• 500 to 2000 words
• Have a title starting with “Demo: ”
• PDF format
• Adhere to the ACM SIGPLAN template

Accepted demos will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the FARM 2023 proceedings.

Performances

FARM seeks proposals for performances which employ programming techniques (or are generated by programs), in whole or in part. We invite a diverse range of functionally-themed submissions including music, video, dance, and performance art. Both live performances and fixed-media submissions are welcome. We encourage risk-taking proposals that push forward the state of the art as well as refined presentations of highly developed practice. In either case, please support your submission with a clear description of your performance, including how your performance employs functional programming and a discussion of influences and prior art as appropriate. If desired, you may use some of your performance time for a short lecture or presentation; this must supplement, and not take the place of, a primary performance.

Performance proposals should be emailed to performance@functional-art.org or submitted via HotCRP, and must include:

• A description of the performance (please be as specific as possible)
• An explanation of the use of programming in the work
• A list of technical requirements
• A link to an audio or video example (YouTube, Vimeo, Bandcamp, etc.)

Accepted performances will be presented at the performance evening.

Notes on funding

Paid registration to the FARM workshop is usually required for paper and demo submitters, but will be waived for performers.

If you have financial difficulty attending, you can apply for the PAC funds. Please get in touch for more information.

Contact

For any questions, issues or comments, email farm-2025@functional-art.org.