Call for alt.NIME

Important Dates:

All dates are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

• 4 December 2025: Submission CMT Site opens
• 5 March 2026: alt.NIME submissions due
• 9 April 2026: Acceptance decisions and reviews released
• 30 April 2026: Camera ready and presenter registration deadline
• 24-26 June 2026: NIME Conference

Submissions

NIME 2026 mourns the discontinuation of alt.chi. alt.chi was “a forum for controversial, risk-taking, and boundary-pushing research” at the CHI conference. NIME 2026 is inspired to continue the tradition of promoting alternative forms of submission, for consideration at this year’s conference.

alt.nime is a place for something different: it might be controversial, it might choose an alternative format for submission, but in some way will push boundaries of what it means to be NIME.

Further details will be circulated later in 2025. In the meantime, please contact the alt.nime chairs at alt-nime@nime2026.org with any questions.