Programme
Playing in VR: Imagination, Affordances and Aesthetic Experience
Conference Programme
Day 1: Tuesday 21 May 2024
City Campus, University of Antwerp (S.E. 201)
9:00– 9:20 Registration
9:20–10:00 Welcome address by Arthur Cools & Zuzanna RuciÅ„ska
10:00–11:00 Amy Kind (Clermont McKenna): Imagination at work and at play in VR
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:00 Marcin Trybulec (Marie Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin): Experiencing VR between
representation and reality
12:00–12:30 Anco Peeters (Radboud University): Embodied Imagination in the Virtual Memory Palace
12.30–14.00 Lunch
14.00–15.00 Nele van de Mosselaer (University of Tilburg): Videogames as Walt-fictions: Looking
through the Fourth Wall
15.00–15.30 Edward Baggs (University of Southern Denmark): Shared experience in virtual reality
15:30–16:00 Sandra-Catalina Branzaru (University of Bucharest): Playing with others in VR
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–17:00 Alexandre Declos (University of Neuchâtel): Virtual Toys
17:00–18:00 Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis): Being played by virtual reality
18:00 End of programme
18:30 Reception at the Agora café
19:30 Dinner (barbeque) at the Agora café
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Day 2: Wednesday 22 May 2024
City Campus, University of Antwerp (S.E. 201) & Immersive Lab
9:00–10:00 Tom McClelland (University of Cambridge) - ONLINE: Imaginative affordances in virtual
worlds
10:00–10:30 Tom Poljanšek (University of Göttingen): Affordances as Horizons of Anticipated
Possibilities in Real and Virtual Realities. A Phenomenological Approach
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:30 Tomir JÄ™drejek (Marie Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin): Virtual Reality
Representations: From Images to Image-Instruments
11:30–12:00 Marta Pérez-Verdugo (University of the Basque Country): Agency and Immersion in VR:
An enactive-sensorimotor perspective
12:00–12:30 Tim Miechels (Radboud University): Virtual presence and Descartes’ last stand
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:00 PaweÅ‚ Grabarczyk (ITU Copenhagen): Is ‘virtual reality’ a misnomer? How to incorporate
virtual objects into non-virtual reality
15:00–15:30 James Cartlidge (Central European University, Vienna) - ONLINE: Immersion, Virtual
Reality, and Video Games: A Response to David Chalmers' 'Reality+'
15:30–16:00 Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge): Ethics and Emotion in Virtual Reality
16:15 Walk to the Immersive lab (20 min)
16:45 Kristof Timmerman: Welcome to the Immersive Lab
17:00 Introduction to the transdisciplinary research of Maxlab and Immersive Lab (with demo)
17:30–18:30 "Breaking through the 5th wall: the future of immersive storytelling"
18:30 End of programme
19:30 Informal dinner + drinks at the old port in Antwerp