WIRE Summit 2026
14th April
09.30 - 20.00 WIRE DOCTUS
Complete program here.
13.30 - 15.00 Gender equality plans and policies workgroup
Location: Hybrid
Target group: Members of the workgroup
15.00 - 16.15 Registration
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: (mandatory to all participants)
16.15 Departure from Lusófona by bus to ARE opening session
Location: TBC
Target group: registered FilmEU Community
17.00 - 17.30 Official opening WIRE Summit + Registration
Location: Casa Capitão
17.30 - 18.30 ARE Exhibithion: Artists panel
Moderator: Érica Faleiro Rodrigues
Panel speaker TBC:
Location: tbc
18.30 - 20.00 ARE Exhibithion: Official opening
Location: Confeitaria & Fábrica Moagem
15th April
9.00 - 10.00 Keynote Session with Paul Seawright
Presenter: TBA
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: all community
10.00 - 10.30 RAI Exercise
Presenter: Manuel José Damásio
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: all staff
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
Location: TBA
11.00 - 11.30 Launch of the REASSESS Toolkit
Presenter: TBA
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: all staff
11.30 - 12.00 Presentation of HRS4R key actions
Presenter: TBA
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: all staff
12.00 - 13.00 LUNCH
Location: TBA
13.00 - 15.00 PhD Seminar in Artistic Research and Horizon Mission Pilots Presentation I
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: All community
Join us for an inspiring presentation of doctoral research projects, where emerging scholars share their current work and open it up to feedback, dialogue, and lively discussion. During the event, three WIRE Horizon Mission Pilot projects – ARWUM, Immersive Shipwrecks and Water as Time will also be presented.
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee
Location: TBA
15.30 - 18.30 PhD Seminar in Artistic Research and Horizon Mission Pilots Presentation II
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: All community
16th April
11.30 - 15.30 Networking
PhD community building activity
Organiser: Tanya Escudero
Location: Z03
Target group: PhD candidates/ Preregistration
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH
Location: tbc
13.30 - 15.00 PhD community building activity
Organiser: Tanya Escudero
Location: Z03
Target group: PhD candidates/ Preregistration
9.00 - 11.00 IMAGINARIUM (topic: the usage of WIRE HUB Labs and AR Labs)
Organiser: WP9 (and WP5)
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: WP5 and WP9 and project leads and/or PMO (at least 1 person from each partner who is related to the labs)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
Location: TBA
11.30 - 13.00 Workshop on the role of metadata in doing artistic research
Trainer: Andres Kõnno
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: PhD candidates
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Location: TBA
14.00 - 15.30 Collegium - Part I
This workshop offers a structured introduction to Virtual Production in a fully equipped studio environment, combining an LED wall, camera tracking systems, a Brain Bar control workflow, and Unreal Engine. The session explains what each component does, how they connect as a single real-time pipeline, and what changes when image creation happens live on set rather than in post-production.
Beyond the technical overview, the workshop frames Virtual Production as a research platform. It discusses how these tools can support artistic research - through new relationships between performance, cinematography, space, and lighting - and also technological inquiry - through questions of calibration, real-time rendering, colour management, latency, and workflow design. The goal is to give participants a clear conceptual map of the ecosystem and a set of research directions they can adapt to their own projects.
Trainer: TBA
Location: F Studio
Target group: all staff/ Preregistration
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
Location: TBA
16.00 - 18.30 Collegium Part II
Trainer: TBA
Location: F Studio
Target group: all staff/ Preregistration