Comics & Machines

Comics and Machines explores the profound transformations reshaping the field of comics through automation, computation, and new media systems. The conference examines how emerging technologies—from machine learning and synthetic image generation to data-driven visualization—are redefining the medium’s ontology, practice, and potential. By situating these developments within broader histories of engineering, automation, and artistic research, the event aims to rethink comics not as passive narrative forms but as active computational configurations that generate new modes of knowledge, aesthetics, and cultural production.