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| The first study of Heinz von Foerster's Biological Computer Lab zines through a comics lens, revealing how printed image-text functioned as cognitive machines in early cybernetics research. 09.30 09.45 | A cartoonist, geographer, and economist collaborate on narrative maps of Brussels 2050, arguing that comics' capacity to ground data in its material conditions makes it a model speculative method. 09.30 09.45 |
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| Uses cartographic mapping tools inspired by Warburg's Bilderatlas to visualize the circulation and influence of early 1900s newspaper comic strips across the United States. 09.45 10.00 | Proposes a hybrid 'Plaited Exegesis' method for comics research that integrates making and reflection, demonstrated through a transmedial adaptation of an urban myth into a Creepypasta comic. 09.45 10.00 |
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| Argues comics are the productive by-product of mainline image/text technology—from newspapers to Instagram—and that this 'strategic passivity' is the source of their adaptive innovation. 10.45 11.00 | Argues that comics possess inherent game mechanics: the inferential gutter as defined by McCloud operates as a mechanic in the MDA framework, linking comics, zines, and game design. 10.45 11.00 |
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| Uses deep learning on a corpus of comic text-balloons to learn reading-order priors, then generates endless chats between balloons that never appeared together, making comics speak to itself. 11.00 11.15 | Explores how to embed EU democratic values—equity, transparency, autonomy—into fictional comics stories without foregrounding technology, developed through a practice-based rhetorical process. 11.00 11.15 |
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| Drawing on Lefebvre and Groensteen, proposes comics as spatial practice reconceived through GenAI, Spatial Vision Intelligence, and Mixed Reality—shifting from temporal 'era' to spatial 'area'. 13.00 13.15 | Proposes speculative autoethnography through ChatGPT-generated comics as a feminist method for conducting fieldwork inside Big Tech, deliberately obscuring traces under corporate surveillance. 13.00 13.15 |
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| Proposes the Gutter/Ghost framework: comics pages as testbeds that expose generative AI's failure at sequential coherence, making visible the hidden labour of AI-assisted comic workflows. 13.15 13.30 | Compares mass-market and experimental uses of generative AI in comics through the lens of seriality theory, examining what problems AI solves for production and at what creative cost. 13.15 13.30 |
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| Iterative image-to-image diffusion with lossy brightness feedback transforms images into stylized sequential animations with emergent narrative dynamics, arising from a normalization bug. 13.30 13.45 | |
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| A three-year Swedish Research Council project mapping how comic artists navigate the labour market amid generative AI, through surveys and interviews across artistic generations. 14.00 14.15 |
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| Explores synthetic photography via iterative prompting and algorithmic sequencing as a new form of comics—grid-based sequences that reveal machine logics rather than resolve into storylines. 14.15 14.30 | |
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| Argues that GenAI's inability to produce writing exposes writing as a systematic correspondence between spatial marks and lexicogrammar—a property GenAI's 'typification engine' cannot replicate. 14.30 14.45 |
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| A media-archaeological history of graphics tablets and drawing software in comics, tracing from 1984's pixel grids through Wacom, iPad Pro, and AI integration in Photoshop and Procreate. 15.00 15.15 |
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| Proposes using LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation to help mental health patients externalize emotional states through metaphorical comics, bridging graphic medicine and generative AI. 15.15 15.30 |
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| Reflects on how Photoshop and Procreate function as active research agents in cross-cultural comics scholarship, shaping characterisation, concealing labour, and enabling transcultural practice. 15.30 15.45 | |
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| Presents a pen-plotter mural created through procedural generation and Axidraw plotters, arguing that friction between digital vector inputs and physical ink outputs defines computational comics. 15.45 16.00 | |
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| Examines Riso Comics—limited-edition prints made with Risograph digital duplicators—as a hybrid analog-digital practice that treats the printing machine as an iterative creative partner. 16.00 16.15 | |
