The 8th Interactive Film and Media Conference is excited to announce its Call for Proposals centered around the provocative and multifaceted theme of "Yet-To-Be-Known."We live in trying times. Cascading crises—from climate collapse to social injustice to political upheaval—mean that uncertainty is a defining condition of our moment. But we need not see the horizons before us as insurmountable.
Interactive Film and Media invites proposals for its eighth conference that engage with the yet-to-be-known. Here, the yet-to-be-known is interpreted as a space of speculative inquiry and creative possibility. We ask: How might we reimagine knowledge, practice, and being in ways that embrace the indeterminacy we now face? How might we work together to harness the potentials of the here-and-now in order to anticipate new futures?
We aim proposals that explore the speculative as method, as critique, and as world-making gesture; we seek contributions that foreground the emergent, the unstable, and the transformative. Topics might include speculative ecologies, more-than-human ethics, radical pedagogies, future imaginaries of care, experimental archives, and technologies of resistance. Together, let us consider how the yet-to-be-known might become a site of collective imagination and critical intervention.
FULL FREE ADMISSION
No fee is charged for presentation and attendance at this conference or publication in the journal.
ORGANIZING & SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Hudson MOURA, Chair (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
Heidi Rae COOLEY (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Stefano ODORICO (Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland)
Dale HUDSON (New York University Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Leah SHAFER (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
Marta FIOLIC (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Il Sun MOON (Kingston University London, UK)
Logan ACTON (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Sonali SHARMA (Jamia Millia Islamia University, India)
Designs by Darius Shah and Anika Noehre
INTERACTIVE FILM AND MEDIA CONFERENCE
Visit the conference website to access the complete Call for Proposals:
https://journals.library.torontomu.ca/index.php/InteractiveFilmMedia/IFM2026
Contact email: ifmjournal@torontomu.ca | interactivefilmconference@gmail.com
