Digital Storytelling and Innovation Network (DSIN) 2026 Conference (2&3/07)
About this Event
Digital Storytelling and Innovation Network (DSIN) Conference 2026
Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University
Following the success of our inaugural event in 2025, the DSIN 2026 two-day conference brings together academics and creative practitioners to discuss and evolve the landscape of storytelling in the digital age.
The 2026 conference continues the network’s commitment to interdisciplinary dialogue across the arts, humanities, and creative technologies. The event explores how narrative practices are being reshaped through digital platforms, emerging media, and technological innovation. Focusing on storytelling as this increasingly unfolds across interactive systems, immersive environments, and transmediality, the conference provides a space to critically examine both the creative opportunities and the conceptual challenges these developments introduce.
The programme will feature keynote presentations from leading researchers and practitioners, alongside talks from academics and creatives, with contributions that will reflect on how digital technologies are transforming narrative structures, audience participation, and the cultural role of storytelling.
The first day of the conference focuses on keynote talks and research presentations, concluding with a talk a music composer and performer will give on his personal journey to telling stories to an audience. This is an event that explores storytelling through creative practice and it will be followed by open discussion.
The second day begins with keynote talks but later shifts towards collaborative experimentation. Participants will take part in a facilitated hackathon-style session designed to generate new ideas, interdisciplinary collaborations, and potential research or creative projects connected to the aims of the DSIN. This second day aims to encourage attendees to move beyond passive attendance, towards practical experimentation and the creation of new collaborative initiatives.
Programme:
Day-1
10:00 – Marie Rodet
11:00 – Jez Coram
11:30 – Che John
12:00 – Konstantinos Papathanasiou
12:30 – Lunch break
13:30 – Joachim Friedmann
14:30 – Alex Kelly
15:00 – Martin Wilson
15:30 – Persephone Sextou
16:00 – Richard Hudson-Miles
16:30 – David Aldred
Day-2
10:00 – Hartmut Koenitz
11:00 – Hackathon-style activity
12:30 – Lunch break
13:15 – Hackathon-style activity
14:30 – Hackathon showcase and discussions
We look forward to seeing you there.
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