A two-day international gathering rethinking comics as computational media and as engineered configurations entwined with automation, standardization, and information processing, and positioning comics-as-research as a way to generate knowledge through making. Inviting work on topics such as automation histories, changing formats and workflows, comics as data, human-machine collaboration, audience/user labor, data mining and recirculation, machine authorship, computational archiving, resistance to automation, operational aesthetics, simulations/diagrams, and practice-based methodologies. Presentation formats include research papers, practice-based talks, interactive demos, panels, lightning talks, and workshops.

Full call info: https://www.echochamber.be/en/opencalls/comics_and_machines/

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Submission instructions:
Abstract length : 250 words
Short bio: 150 words
Deadline for abstracts: 1st December 2025
Notifications of acceptance: 30th December 2025
Send to [email protected]

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Read more:
https://www.uu.se/en/centre/digital-humanities-and-social-sciences/events/archive/2026-04-22-comics-and-machines-conference

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With production support by Src Material, a non-profit organization supporting artists and researchers at the vanguard of new media.