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Welcome to the #IFM, Interactive Film and Media Annual #Conference, where innovation, collaboration, and exploration converge at the intersection of storytelling and technology. IFM Yet-To-Be-Known 2026 Conference: 9-12 June 2026
✨ Organised by the Interactive Film & Media Research Network, hosted at Toronto Metropolitan University.
The conference invites speculative, emergent, and practice-based thinking from filmmakers, VR artists, researchers & beyond.
See you there 🎞️
#IFM2026 #InteractiveMedia #FilmConference
🌍 This year's programme brings together 33 papers and 12 research-creation projects from 24 countries, 46 institutions, and 6 continents.
💭 "Yet-To-Be-Known" asks how do we make meaning amid cascading crises, climate, politics, injustice?
#IFM2026
📣 Calling all film scholars, artists & media practitioners!
The 8th #IFM2026 Interactive Film & Media Conference
Date: 9–12 June 2026
Theme: "Yet-To-Be-Known"
Free to attend. No registration fees. Online via Zoom.
Mapped between Ozkal's & Chen's ancestral homes, Turkey & China, the work sounds five acoustic ecologies from the Eurasian migration route, connecting women's voices & ambient sounds of the land, including voices absent in Western accounts.
Moderated by Claudia Costa Pederson & Dale Hudson
SRS (Silk Road Songbook) traces the movement of songs along the Silk Routes from Xi'an to Istanbul. The multiscreen installation weaves land and songs, as musical genres and languages maintain cultural identities across the ancient trading routes into the present. 🧵
📢 #IFM #Resonances conversation with artists Millie Chen & Arzu Ozkal on their audio-video installation SRS (Silk Road Songbook), tracing the movement of songs along the Silk Routes from Xi'an to Istanbul, connecting women's voices across Eurasia.
🗓 Thu 12 Mar, 12–1pm EDT / 4–5pm GMT
• Deadline: before 11 Nov 2025 (GMT)
• Publish your project in Stornaway
• Email the link to: stefano.odorico@tus.ie
Even if you didn’t attend the June conference, you’re welcome to join and share a short interactive piece during the session. See you online!
#IFM2026 #InteractiveMedia
Prompt questions:
• Does resonance in daily life solve problems, aggravate them, or create new ones?
• How might resonance build more meaningful connections?
• How could these connections shape responses to crises, foster resilience, solidarities, and collective action?
Call for Participants #CfP
Create a short interactive pilot film (fiction, documentary, experimental, or hybrid) using Stornaway (free) that engages this year’s theme, Resonances.
You can ground your piece in a place/space: your community, home, workplace, or yourself.
Stornaway Hands-On Workshop on Interactive Storytelling
Free · Online · Open to All
Date & Time: 11 Nov 2025, 6:00–7:00 pm (GMT)
Hosts: Stornaway × IFM
Format: Interactive review & discussion + guided software walkthrough
#InteractiveStorytelling #Stornaway #IFM
Hosted online and facilitated by leading universities, our conference is a global gathering of minds dedicated to exploring the adaptive world of interactivity.
This interdisciplinary event is a hub for researchers, practitioners, filmmakers, artists, VR and game designers, and media producers. We prioritize debate, interactive workshops, and research-creation demonstrations, fostering connections and inspiring thought-provoking conversations.
#IFM2026 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026.
The Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference
Theme: “Yet-To-Be-Known.”
The Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference explores digital narratives' transformative impact across various domains, including games, literature, films, journalism, and art.
And that concludes the 7th interactive film and media conference! 🎞️🤍
Thank you to all the presenters, facilitators, participants, organizers, and volunteers who made #IFM2025 an insightful and thought-provoking event.
As we end let’s reflect and hold onto what we’ve learned. Until next year. 💭 💫🌍
Takeaways towards #IFM2026:
1) how can we form responsive relationships?
2) how can we remain open to being changed?
3) how can we interact and communicate through art/media?
We are currently discussing what is your embodied experience of a resonance? ⚡️💻
Share your thoughts! 🧠🙌
Happening how closing session at #IFM2025 🌐 With Dale Hudson.
A reflective wrap-up of this year’s theme of resonance to aid in exploring impactful dialogue of interactive film and media. ✨🎭
What resonated with you the most over the past four days?💬
We are having an insightful discussion about how interactive media can be used to retell stories and forgotten histories.
Please share your thoughts we’d love to hear your opinion. 🎡⚡️
Happening now at #IFM2025 💠
Resonating Histories: Guaman Poma and Machiavelli in Pixel Art
Presented by Nico Valdivia Hennig.
Can pixel art challenge how we remember history? Join the convo. ⬇️
Caterina Sartori
Now live at #IFM2025 🛋️
Living Room: An Interactive Documentary, presented by Caterina Sartori.
What does it mean to feel “at home”?
Share your thoughts on interactive storytelling.📡🎥
We are talking about how we can share resonance and care across species. 🐾
What do you think? Come join the conversation live. 🎙️💫
On now at #IFM2025 🪩
Senses and Sense-ability: From Care to Resonance presented by Sabine Winter.
Can care be a language?
Sabine Winter explores how we communicate through touch, presence, and feelings that builds resonance and solidarity beyond words.
Let us know your thoughts? Come join us.✍️
We are having a nuanced conversation about resonance and dissonance within virtual media.
What are your thoughts? 🎯✨🎮
Now presenting at #IFM2025🤖
Ludonarrative Media as a Bridge Toward the Complexity Out There
by Pratama Wirya Atmaja, Andreas Nugroho Sihananto, Tri Puspa RinJeni & Rizka Hadiwiyanti.
What are your thoughts on ludonarrative media?
Find the presenters here:@pratamawirya @ANSihananto @PuspaRinjeni
Live at #IFM2025 👾
Howlround: Urban Resonances and Feedback Loops in the Art of Loopntale
Presented by Melanie Wilmink.
This presentation tunes into urban landscapes as tools for storytelling.
How do cities speak through sound? Let us know your thoughts 👇
We are currently having an interesting discussion on collaboration within academia and beyond. And some of the challenges that arise within collaboration. 🤝🪻💫
Happening now at #IFM2025 🎤
The last interactive session for the year on Interactive Dialogue: Resonance + Collectives, presented by Liz Miller.
Stories don’t always come from a single voice — they echo across many.
What stands out to you? Join the discussion below. 🔊📍
That concludes Day 3 of the #IFM2025 conference.☺️
Thank you to everyone that presented and participated today.
If you haven’t already, make sure to tune in tomorrow, as it is the final day of the conference and you won’t want to miss it!!
See you tomorrow! 📽️🌟🎉
Interactivity gives the impression that we, too, can create a movie like the ones illustrates in her presentation.
How does the use of amateur or found footed shift are understanding of memory authorship and who gets to tell history?
Pleae share your thoughts below. 🎬🌎
Currently at #IFM2025 🎞
Recycling Images and Creating New Meanings: The Use of Amateur and Family Photographies in Brazilian Contemporary Short Movies, presented by Sabrina Tenório Luna. (@sabrinaluna)
Archives, memory, and creativity through the lens of the personal.
What are your thoughts?