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Schedule

April 22, 2026

09:30

Print and Cognition at the Biological Computer Lab, 1958–1976

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

By Kevin Hamilton

09:45

Atlas Comicus: On Mapping Production and Seriality

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.

By Mathieu Li-Goyette

10:40

Comics as By-Product

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 i

By David Mitchell

11:00

When Comics Chat: a deep prior for text-balloon reading order

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

By Ioannis Siglidis

13:00

Spatial Practice in Comics at the Era of GenAI, VSI and Mixed Realities

Drawing on Lefebvre and Groensteen, proposes comics as spatial practice reconceived through GenAI, Spatial Vision Intelligence, and Mixed Reality—shifting from temporal 'era' to

By Gaëtan Le Coarer

13:15

Comics Pages as Audit Devices for Generative AI: A Gutter/Ghost Framework

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 wor

By Andrea Tosti

13:30

Whitewash Cartoonization: Accidental Indexicality into Cartoon Space?

Iterative image-to-image diffusion with lossy brightness feedback transforms images into stylized sequential animations with emergent narrative dynamics, arising from a normalizati

By Eyal Gruss