WIRE Summit 2026
13th April
9.00 - 10.00 PhD breakfast cafe
Moderator: Tanya Escudero
Location: Z.0.3
Target group: Target group: PhD candidates/ Preregistration
10.00 - 20.00 WIRE DOCTUS
Complete program here.
14th April
09.30 - 20.00 WIRE DOCTUS
Complete program here.
15.00 - 17.00 Advisory Board meeting
Location: Hybrid - U.2.11
Target group: members of the Advisory Board / SC WIRE
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: In front of Lusófona University
Target group: registered FilmEU Community
17.30 - 18.00 Official opening WIRE Summit & ARE Exhibition
Location: Location: Casa das Massas, Hub Criativo Beato
18.00 - 20.00 ARE Exhibition: Guided visits
(6 slots)
Location: Confeitaria & Fábrica Moagem
18.00 - 22.00 Social event
Location: Casa Capitão
18.30 Second departure from Lusófona by bus to ARE opening session
Location: In front of Lusófona University
Target group: registered FilmEU Community
21.30 Bus return to Lusófona University - Seating is limited and available until capacity is reached
Location: Casa Capitão
15th April
9.00 - 10.00 Keynote Session with Paul Seawright
Presenter: Manuel José Damásio
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: all community
10.00 - 10.20 RAI Exercise
Presenter: Manuel José Damásio
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: all staff
10.20 - 10.40 Launch of the REASSESS Toolkit
Presenter: tbc
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Target group: all staff
10.40 - 11.00 Coffee
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
11.00 - 11.30 FilmEU Cookbook
Presenter: Carla Sousa, Timóteo Rodrigues, Tatiana Chervyakova, Alexandra Ianchenko, Manuel José Damásio, Joana Bicacro, Inês Castaño
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: Canteen
13.00 - 15.00 PhD Seminar in Artistic Research and Horizon Mission Pilots Presentation I
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie TheatreTarget 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: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
15.30 - 18.30 PhD Seminar in Artistic Research and Horizon Mission Pilots Presentation II
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie TheatreTarget 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.
18.30 Launch of the IJFMA/CILECT Special Issue (Volume 11, Issue 4)
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Moderator: Manuel José Damásio & André Graça
18.30 - 19.30 Artists panel
Location: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
Moderator: Érica Faleiro Rodrigues
- Carlos González Penagos, RE:Anima Lusófona University - La Virginia
- Bert Heytens, LUCA - ESTAFETTE
- Cindy Chehab, IDTF - Perhaps I will Find Something in the Fog or Erasure
- Elena Trencheva - Water as Time
16th April
11.30 - 12.30 PhD Community Building Activity I
Organiser: Tanya Escudero, Aleksandra Ianchenko, Sophie Quin
Location: Z03
Target group: PhD candidates/ Preregistration
Description: Informal and dynamic session designed to encourage interaction and exchange among PhD participants in a relaxed setting.
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH
Location: Canteen
13.30 - 15.00 PhD Community Building Activity II
Organiser: Tanya Escudero, Adam Straka
Location: Z03
Target group: PhD candidates/ Preregistration
Open discussion and brainstorming session to explore ideas and initiatives for supporting and sustaining the WIRE PhD community beyond the summit.
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: Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre
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 + 1 technical/infrastructure representative and 1 researcher per partner
Description: The seminar introduces a prototype for a metadata tool that is based on the film archive of Baltic Film, Media and Arts School. The tool reflects on approximately 600 films that are available online in the Estonian Film Database (www.efis.ee). We shall discuss the novel ways of doing artistic research that is based a) on the existing film metadata and importantly b) creating new metadata and using it for the sake of retrospective analysis of film data. Everybody is welcome regardless of their affiliation or research interest.
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Location: Canteen
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: Filipe Vale
Location: F Studio
Target group: all staff/ Preregistration
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
Location: F Studio
16.00 - 18.30 Collegium Part II
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: Filipe Vale
Location: F Studio
Target group: all staff/ Preregistration