Media Design and Virtual Convergence
Schedule
Tue Apr 08 2025 at 11:15 am to 06:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Zugligeti út 9-25., Budapest, Hungary, 1121 | Budapest, BU
International symposium
April 08, 11.20-17.40 | MOME Auditorium
Media Design and Virtual Convergence is a one-day conference exploring contemporary approaches to immersive media and interdisciplinary design. Presentations will range from spatial and interactive design to digital art, media theory, and cultural applications of emerging technologies.
Together, these sessions will examine how technological, artistic, and theoretical practices shape new forms of presence, embodiment, and mediated experience in an increasingly virtualized reality.
Detailed program
11:20-11:30: Pálfalusi Attila and Bakk Ágnes Karolina - Opening remarks
TRACK 1: Designing Immersion: Experience, Presence, and Interaction
Moderated by Ágnes Karolina Bakk
11:30-11:45: Csaba Hajnóczy - Sound and the Limits of Immersion
11:45-12:00: Antal Bodóczky - Designing for Presence: Immersive Strategies in Exhibition Design
12:00-12:15: Júlia Balázs - Desinging Immersion: Scenographic Approaches in Contemporary Theatre
12:15-12:30: Gábor Pribék - Designing in the Age of AI Agents
12:30-12:45: Q & A
12:45-14:00: Lunch break
TRACK 2: Embodied Media and Mediated Selves
Moderated by Antal Bodóczky
14:00-14:15: Ágoston Nagy - Quantum Symmetries - Intuitive Thinking and Computational Space
14:15-14:30: Jin, Young Ki - Digital Canvas, Painting the Future: New Horizons in Media Art and Virtual Production
14:30-14:45: Attila Pálfalusi - Virtual Humans, Digital Actors, Analog Dilemmas
14:45-15:00: Ph. D. Kim, Eunbi - Virtual Human and its industry
15:00-15:15: Q & A
15:15-15:30: Break
TRACK 3: Digital Practice and Cultural Application
Moderated by Attila Pálfalusi
15:30-15:45: László Halák - Designing for Interdisciplinarity: A Game Design Project
15:45-16:00: Bea Pintérné Sosity - Blaze Busters VR - Case Study on VR in Active Pain Therapy and Design Recommendations
16:00-16:15: Mihály Minkó - Scylla and Charybdis of Augmented Data Sculptures - A Case Study
16:15-16:30: Brigitta Iványi-Bitter - The impact of AI on preserving the visual heritage of Low-resource languages
16:30-16:45: Q & A
16:45-17:00: Break
Keynote speech
17:00-17:40: Ph. D. Wi, Jong Hyun - The Future of Immersive Media for Industry, Society, and Human Life
The presentations will be held in English language. No prior registration is required.
Where is it happening?
Zugligeti út 9-25., Budapest, Hungary, 1121Event Location & Nearby Stays: