CONFERENCE
Wednesday 18 November 2026
8:50am
- Welcome and opening remarks
Panel 1
- 9:00am
9AM How to GenAI? Heritage Inspired Scene Extension in Narrative Animation
Hans Martin Rall
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 9.25am
Towards A Framework For Queer Postcolonial Identity Construction In Animated Documentary Forms: Transdisciplinary Methods Of Practice in Hong Kong
Tim Pattinson
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
- 9.50am
Enhancing Indie Playtesting Through Real-Time Analytics and AI-Assisted Insight Generation: A Literature-Driven Conceptual Framework
Chukwuyenum Opone
Independent Researcher, Nigeria
- 10:15am
Break with software demo
Panel 2
- 10.45am
Beyond Production: Real-Time Workflows as Visual Thinking Environments in Animation Education
Monireh Astani
Staffordshire University, UK
- 11.10am
Animating Complexity Through Combat: Fate, Attack on Titan, and Hell's Paradise
Francesca Romana Petroselli
Universit脿 Niccol貌 Cusano, Italy
- 11.35am
Generative AI and Women's Sexuality in Animation: Artistic Vampirization, Algorithmic Bias and Feminist Research-Creation
Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre
Universit茅 Laval, Canada
- 12:00pm
Break
- 12:15pm
Keynote Lomas
- 1:15pm
Lunch
Provocations
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2:35pm
Nichola Dobson (Chair)
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK
Naisola Grimwood
Institute Of Genuine Humanity
Francesca Romana Petroselli
Niccol貌 Cusano University, Rome, Italy
- 4:50pm
Break
Talks
- 4:15pm
Siyu (Trina) Tian
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 4:20pm
Oliver Mag Gingrich
University of Greenwich, UK
- 4.35pm
Takao Terui
University of Glasgow, UK
- 4.50pm
Shinye Ro
SoSha Studio. Seoul, South Korea
- 5:05pm
Aaron Warters
海角直播, UK
- 5:20pm
Oliver Gingrich, Dr Julie Watkins, and Ryan Flynn
University of Greenwich, UK
- 5.35pm
Q&A
- 5.55pm
Closing remarks