Schedule - Comics & AI: Critical Prompts

The full schedule for our Comics & AI: Critical Prompts Conference has been released. Information subject to change.

Abstracts and bios available at https://comicsandai.org/ 

09:00-09:30: Coffee and registration  

09:30-10:30

• Welcome by Dr Ernesto Priego, City St George’s University of London.

• Opening Keynote: Dr Eduardo Alonso, Professor in Artificial Intelligence and the Chair of the AI Research Committee at City St George’s University of London: GenAI 101 for Comics.  

10:30-11:30

• Dr Despoina Farmaki, Lecturer in Law at City St George’s, University of London: The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics 

• Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi, FWO senior post-doctoral fellow and adjunct professor at Ghent University: AI, comics, and creativity: or, why are we talking of ghosts in the machine again 

11:30-11:45: Coffee break  

11:45-12:45

• Dr Julian Lawrence, Senior Lecturer in Comics and Graphic Novels at Teesside University: Fun with AI: Digital Technology Through a Lens of Comics-Based Research 

• Dr Per Israelson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication at Linnaeus University, Sweden: Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021) 

12:45-13:45: Lunch  

13:45-14:45

• Dr Linda Berube, Visiting Lecturer in Computer Science at City St. George’s, University of London: “Intense Routes to Knowing”: Intersections between the Digital Sociology of Comics and AI 

• Dr Aaron Humphrey, Senior Lecturer in Media and Digital Humanities at the University of Adelaide: Tracing nationalist legacies of generative AI   

14:45-15:45

• Dr Gareth Brookes, graphic novelist and comics scholar: Truth Claims and Trace: The Autographic Witness in the Algorithm 

• Karrie Fransman, comics creator: Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future  

15:45-16:00: Coffee break  

16:00-17:15

• Jasleen Kandhari, doctoral researcher, University of Leicester: Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design

• Jane Burns, doctoral researcher and Director of Education & Public Engagement at the Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland: Comics & AI: The Intersection with Social Innovation Education 

• Viraj Joshi. Designer, Technologist, and Futurist: Speculation as Resistance: Mundane machine intelligence, a narrowing of futures, and plural counter narratives  

17:15-18:15

• Closing Keynote: Dr Ian Hague, Associate Dean of Research at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London: Beyond #NoAI: How Accepting AI Might Change Comics

• Closing panel: Linda Berube, Ed Alonso, Francesca Benatti, Ernesto Priego.   

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