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Conference Schedule

22–23 April 2026 — KTH Stockholm & Uppsala University

Day One — Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

08:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee

09:00 Short Introduction & Thank-you Notes

09:30 Session 1

1.1″Print and Cognition at the Biological Computer Lab, 1958–1976″Kevin Hamilton(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
1.2″Atlas Comicus: On Mapping Production and Seriality »Mathieu Li-Goyette(University of Amsterdam)
Q&A

10:20 — Break —

10:40 Session 2

2.1″Comics as By-Product »David Mitchell Online(Independent, Chicago)
2.2″When Comics Chat: A Deep Prior for Text-Balloon Reading Order »Ioannis Siglidis(Pioneer Center for AI, Copenhagen)
Q&A

12:00 — Lunch —

13:00 Session 3

3.1″Spatial Practice in Comics at the Era of GenAI, VSI and Mixed Realities »Gaëtan Le Coarer Online
3.2″Comics Pages as Audit Devices for Generative AI: A Gutter/Ghost Framework »Andrea Tosti Online(Lancaster University)
3.3″Whitewash Cartoonization: Accidental Indexicality into Cartoon Space? »Eyal Gruss Online(Holon Institute of Technology)
Q&A

14:15 Session 4

4.1″Computational Contact Sheets: Synthetic Photography and the Shifting Technical Identity of Comics »Abdelalim Amine Slimani Online(Independent Artist, Casablanca)
4.2″Image GenAI and Writing Morphologies »Simon Grennan(University of Chester)
Q&A

15:10 — Break —

15:30 Session 5

5.1″A Practitioner-Researcher’s Self-Reflective Reflection on the Role of Digital Drawing Tools Used for Comics-Based Research »Yiqi Zhang(London College of Communication, UAL)
5.2″The Plotted Narrative: Friction, Code, and Materiality in Computational Comics »A.B Fominaya Online(Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute)
5.3″Riso Comics – Creating Narratives in Dialogue with the Machine »Gunnar Krantz(Malmö University)
Q&A

Day Two — Uppsala University

09:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee

09:30 Session 6

6.1″Drawing in the Glow of Generative Machines: Comics as Research Method for Speculative Futures »Lucy Perineau, Deborah Lambert & Aurore Fransolet(Université de Poitiers / Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Université libre de Bruxelles)
6.2″Monsters, Mercenaries and Me: Comics Research as Plaited Exegesis »Ray Whitcher(Uppsala University)
Q&A

10:20 — Break —

10:40 Session 7

7.1″Comics and/as Mechanics: Intersections between Comics, Zines and Games »Hailey J Austin(Abertay University)
7.2″How to Talk about Technology without Talking about Technology? A Practice-Based Approach in Comics Art »Céline Pieters(University of Vienna)
7.3″We Have Always Been Sequential: Comics as Experimental Methodology for Language-Based Artistic Research »Thomas Ballhausen & Elena Peytchinska(University Mozarteum Salzburg / University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Q&A

12:00 — Lunch —

13:00 Session 8

8.1″Speculative Autoethnography Through Comics: Reversing Big Tech’s Gaze and Reclaiming the Story »Maria Ryabova Online(University of Pittsburgh)
8.2″Comparative Analysis of the Uses of AI in Comics between the Two Spheres of Production »Björn-Olav Dozo Online(University of Liège)
Q&A

13:50 Session 9

9.1″Stretching the Tension: Alternative Comic as a Disobedient Machine »Sabine Teyssonneyre(Université de Poitiers)
9.2″Against the Algos: How Swedish Comic Artists Navigate an Uncertain and Evolving Labor Market in the Age of Digitalization »Robert Aman & Erik Nylander(Linköping University)
Q&A

14:40 — Break —

15:00 Session 10

10.1″Digital Handmade: Towards a Media Archeology of Graphic Tablets and Software in Comics Drawing »Giorgio Busi Rizzi & Claudia Cerulo(Ghent University / Università Mercatorum)
10.2″Metaphorical Comics at the Interface of AI and Mental Health: Toward Patient-Centered Visual Expression »Jiahao Ji & Jingyao Cai(Kingston University)
Q&A