Comics & AI: Critical Prompts A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who joined Comics & AI: Critical Prompts

Can comics and AI ever integrate without threatening human creativity and agency? Dr Linda Berube reports from the #ComicsAndAI conference www.hcid.city/news/thank-y...

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'Comics people generally hate what I do': The Ilan Manouach Interview - The Comics Journal Ilan Manouach interviewed by Robert Aman.

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The conference's Book of Abstracts & Bios is also now available via City St George's Online, the University's open access research repository: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35... #ComicsAndAI

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We've deposited a PDF documenting the conference schedule, presentation abstracts, speaker bios, sponsor logos, and acknowledgements. Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... #ComicsAndAI

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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, stands front of lecture theatre behind pod, behind Ian two large screens with slides, Should we use AI? How should we use AI and for what purposes?

Finally, our Closing Keynote: Dr Ian Hague: Beyond #NoAI: How Accepting AI Might Change Comics #ComicsAndAI

Schedule, Abstracts, & Bios The schedule outlines a series of presentations at a comics and AI conference, discussing generative AI’s impact on comics, copyright, creativity, and ethical considerations.

Check all our speakers bios and their papers' abstracts here: comicsandai.org/schedule-abs... #ComicsAndAI

Viraj Joshi stands at the front of the lecture theatre behind the pod, four screens visible, slide with "A narrowing of futures" as title

Now speaking: Viraj Joshi: Speculation as Resistance: Mundane machine intelligence, a narrowing of futures, and plural counter narratives #ComicsAndAI

Jane Burns, The Intersection with Social Innovation Education, stands at front of lecture theatre, slides behind

Jane Burns: Comics & AI: The Intersection with Social Innovation Education #ComicsAndAI

Karrie Fransman on Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future at the front of the lecture theatre, members of the audience visible, slides on screens

Karrie Fransman on Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future! #ComicsAndAI

Dr Despoina Farmaki, The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics stands at podium, title slides behind on screens

Dr Despoina Farmaki: The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics #ComicsAndAI

Jasleen Kandhari on Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design , she sits at the lecture theatre pod with screens behind her

Jasleen Kandhari on Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design #ComicsAndAI

It's been a thought-provoking and inspiring day; lots of interesting conversations, and we haven't been able to post here in real time! #ComicsAndAI

Dr Aaron Humphrey at the front of the lecture theatre with two screens behind presenting on Tracing nationalist legacies of generative AI with slide titled Image & Nation

Now on: Dr Aaron Humphrey: Tracing nationalist legacies of generative AI #ComicsAndAI

Dr Linda Berube at the front of the lecture theatre with two screens behind her showing her title slide, “Intense Routes to Knowing”: Intersections between the Digital Sociology of Comics and AI

We are back after the lunch break to begin the second part of the day! Now on Dr Linda Berube: “Intense Routes to Knowing”: Intersections between the Digital Sociology of Comics and AI #ComicsAndAI

Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021)

Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021)

Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021) #ComicsAndAI

Dr Julian Lawrence at lecture theatre pod, two screens behind with his slides, one comics panel on a white space

Dr Julian Lawrence at lecture theatre pod, two screens behind with his slides, two comics panels on a white space

Dr Julian Lawrence on Fun with AI: Digital Technology Through a Lens of Comics-Based Research #ComicsAndAI

Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi with his slides on the two screens behind him on image generation, memory and latent space

Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi, slides behind on screens, title comics swiping

Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi on AI, comics, and creativity: or, why are we talking of ghosts in the machine again #ComicsAndAI

Gareth Brooks at the podium with his title slides on the screens behind him

Gareth Brookes speaking with slides behind showing Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde graphic novel covers by Joe Sacco

It's now @garethbrookes.bsky.social on The Autographic Witness in the Algorithm! #ComicsAndAI

Professor Ed Alonso, screens behind with Gen 101 for Comics title slide

Professor Ed Alonso, screens behind with slide with 1980s comics covers

And we are go! Professor Eduardo Alonso kicks off the day #ComicsAndAI

Organising Committee Ernesto Priego Dr Ernesto Priego is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, and a co-director of the Data, Policy and Society MSc at City St George’s, Universit…

Many thanks to all the members of the organising committee and team of volunteers! comicsandai.org/organising-c... #ComicsAndAI

Schedule, Abstracts, & Bios The schedule outlines a series of presentations at a comics and AI conference, discussing generative AI’s impact on comics, copyright, creativity, and ethical considerations.

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts is tomorrow! Registration opens tomorrow 9am, reception area, University Building, Northampton Square. Updated schedule, abstracts and speakers bios here: comicsandai.org/schedule-abs... #ComicsAndAI