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#IFM2024 Call For Proposals

The #IFM2024 Interactive Film and Media Conference 2024 will take place online, from the 12th to the 14th of June 2024, and has announced a Call for Proposals (deadline: 18 December 2023) focused on the themes of ‘Communities – Structures – Entanglements’. These themes present a rich ground for exploration, innovation, and critical examination in the rapidly evolving interactive film and media domain.

Academics (faculty, researchers, and Ph.D. students), and practitioners (filmmakers, artists, VR and game designers, media producers, etc.) are invited to submit proposals that blend critical analysis with creativity, push the boundaries of conventional thinking, and contribute to the burgeoning discourse on communities, structures and entanglements in interactive film and media. While presenters are encouraged to consider this year’s themes, proposals on matters relevant to the IFM community and beyond are welcome.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Innovation in current and emerging structural design in interactive storytelling.
  • Empowerment of communities’ agency and participation in interactive narratives.
  • Visualisation techniques for conceptualising narrative structures.
  • The implications of structures and entanglements in shaping interactive experiences.
  • Role of technology, including AI, in amplifying or restricting agency, whether individual or community-oriented.
  • Impact of cultural and sociopolitical contexts on agency and entanglements.
  • Collaboration and co-creation in building innovative platforms.
  • Case studies highlighting the successful implementation of new structural concepts.
  • Ethics and responsibilities in facilitating agency, navigating entanglements, and designing structures.
  • Exploration of how VR and AR technologies create immersive environments that leverage agency, structures, and entanglements for a richer user experience.
  • Community’s role in shaping inclusive structures and agency within interactive narratives.
  • Societal connections and values in interactive entanglements and their influence on content and experience.

Tribute to Patty Zimmermann:
In honour of distinguished professor and friend Patty Zimmermann, the IFM community will celebrate her contributions to strengthening communities, her careful structuring of entanglements, and her commitment to empowering people to speak. Sessions of the conference will be dedicated to our esteemed colleague, relentless scholar, dedicated social advocate, and a pioneering force in cultivating cross-platform and interdisciplinary engagement.

Full Free Admission:
No fee is charged for presentation and attendance at this conference or publication in the journal.

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‘#IFM2023′

The #IFM2023 5th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference, is taking place online, from the 7th to the 9th of June 2023. It is dedicated to exploring ‘Care, Collaboration, and Craft’ in the realm of interactive film and media, bringing together contributions and exhibitions from over 50 presenters from 30 universities and labs worldwide.

Academics, practitioners, artists, designers, and producers in the field of interactive film and media are warmly invited to join this stimulating exploration. The conference is designed to harness the transformative power of diverse voices and methodologies, confronting the challenge of polarisation, while fostering diverse voices and inventing innovative, collaborative work practices.

Dr Polina Zioga will chair Panel IV, on Thursday, 8th of June, 18:00-19:30 PM (BST), on The Role of Text and Subtitles in Interactive Platforms and Multimedia Storytelling, Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PGIS), and Making a Riot in the Gaming Space!

The conference is accessible to all with Free Registration.
All video presentations are already available for preview on the YouTube Channel, and the Full Conference Program can be found online.

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‘Interactive Film and Media 2022’

The #IFM2022 Virtual Conference is taking place online, from the 8th to the 10th of June 2022. This year’s conference reunites academics and practitioners to explore the definitions, terms, practices and conditions of interaction and interactivity in three strands: epistemology, listening, and ecomedia. Apart from the paper presentations, the conference also includes several exhibitions of interactive films.

The Full Conference Program & Registration (Free Admission) are now available: https://journals.library.ryerson.ca/index.php/InteractiveFilmMedia/program. While, the new issue of the #IFM Journal features all the video presentations: https://journals.library.ryerson.ca/index.php/InteractiveFilmMedia/issue/view/133.

As part of the conference, Victoria Wetzel and Dr Polina Zioga will present their research on ‘Paintings Alive: Interactive Films and Video Installations for Young Museum Visitors’, in Panel V ‘Hybrid & Augmented – Extended Experiences in Space’, 9 June 2022, 8:00-9:20 AM (Dallas) / 9:00-10:20 AM (Toronto) / 2:00-3:20 PM (Leeds) / 3:00-4:20 PM (Bayreuth).

[…] our research focuses on the use of interactive video technologies, and factors that can lead into the design of engaging and user-friendly museum experiences for children. To achieve this, a museum was chosen as a case study and a survey was conducted. The results […] led to the production of Paintings Alive, an interactive film for children, based on the museum’s art gallery, and accessible on the visitors’ mobile devices. Our paper also discusses the findings of the project, alongside the challenges and limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and offers recommendations for future work. […]

You can find here: the conference program, the full list of video presentations, together with the free registration.