The conference mode has been set to on-site only mode.
The conference will take place at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland.
Buildings:
no. 41 (campus map)
no. 42 (campus map)
Tuesday, 22 September 2026 (GUT Campus, Building 41)
| when? | where? | what? |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Hall | Registration |
| 9:00-9:30 | Aud. 2 | Opening led by Jarosław Parzuchowski |
| 9:30-10:15 | Aud. 2 | Keynote Lecture 1 prof. Piotr Wodarski See the title below |
| 10:15-12:00 | Aud. 2 | Grand Opening of the BigCAVE at I3DVL led by Jarosław Parzuchowski |
| 12:00-12:15 | Hall | Coffe Break |
| 12:15-13:00 | Aud. 1 | Day-and-Night Equinox Concert Przemysław Rudź [Watch on YouTube] |
| 13:00-14:00 | Building 42 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00-15:45 | Aud. 2 | Oral Session 1 led by Justyna Borucka and Paweł Dąbrowski See the detailed program below |
| 15:45-16:00 | Hall | Coffe Break |
| 16:00-17:30 | Hallway & Room 32 | Poster & Demo Session See the list of items below |
| Fulldome | Dome Show | |
| 19:30-23:00 | PG4 Restaurant at the Central Hotel Gdańsk (next to the main train station) | Gala Dinner |
Wednesday, 23 September 2026 (GUT Campus, Building 41)
| when? | where? | what? |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10:15 | Aud. 2 | Keynote Lecture 2 prof. Piotr Cofta See the title below |
| 10:15-12:00 | Aud. 2 | Oral Session 2 led by Piotr Cofta and Szymon Kowalski See the detailed program below |
| 12:00-12:15 | Hall | Coffee Break |
| 12:15-13:00 | Aud. 2 | Keynote Lecture 3 prof. Jakub Szczepański et al. See the title below |
| 13:00-14:00 | Building 42 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00-15:00 | Hallway & Room 32 | Poster & Demo Session See the list of items below |
| Fulldome | Dome Show | |
| 15:00-15:15 | Aud. 2 | Closing |
Keynote Lectures
1. Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 9:30-10:15, Aud. 2
- Piotr Wodarski: The Impact of Selected Parameters of a Three-Dimensional Virtual Environment in the Context of the Potential Application of Virtual Reality Technology in the Diagnosis and Therapy of Body Balance Disorders.
Piotr Wodarski – professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology, supervisor of the Virtual Reality Technology Laboratory, where Poland’s first CAVE was built.
2. Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 9:30-10:15, Aud. 2
- Piotr Cofta: Do I need art when I have AI? A Luhmannian perspective
Piotr Cofta – professor in Computer Science, his research focuses on the interplay between digital technology and the society with implications to security and trust, he currently explores potentials for the arbitration of the impact of AI on the society.
3. Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 12:15-13:00, Aud. 2
- Jakub Szczepański, Wojciech Samól, Szymon Kowalski: Digital Documentation as a Tool for the Research and Dissemination of Architectural Heritage: The Case of Westerplatte.
Jakub Szczepański – professor in Architecture, dean of the Faculty of Architecture at GUT, architect, architectural historian, historic preservationist.
Wojciech Samól – PhD in History, historian, employed at the Museum of the Second World War.
Szymon Kowalski – PhD in Architecture, assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture at GUT, architect, architectural historian.
Oral Sessions
1. Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 14:00-15:45, Aud. 2, chairpersons: Justyna Borucka and Paweł Dąbrowski
- Nadiia Datsko: Digital Documentation Technologies in the Conservation of Large-scale Furniture: The Case of a Nineteenth-Century Bookcase from the Lviv Polytechnic National University (14:00-14:15).
- François Gutherz, Anna Pappa, Georges Gagneré: Preserving Demoscene Living Digital Heritage Through Community Archives and AI-Assisted Mediation (14:15-14:30).
- Maja Stark, Christoph Holtmann, Johann Habakuk Israel, Leonid Barsht, Martin Binder, Jens Isensee, Lisa Kaschubat: Interdisciplinary Development of Interactive Artistic Extended Reality Experiences – Workflows, Challenges, and Recommendations (14:30-14:45).
- Pablo Dornhege: Hyper-Irrealism: Co-Located VR as Experiential Space and Catalyst for Discourse (14:45-15:00).
- Charlotte Triebus, Chris Geiger: We, Brute Force – A 180° Stereoscopic VR Dance Work and Its Modes of Presentation (15:00-15:15).
- Juan David Martinez Monroy, Paulo Alonso Gaona-Garcia, Carlos Enrique Montenegro-Marin: A Virtual Reality Learning Environment for Network Education Through CLI-Based Interaction with Virtualized Network Devices (15:15-15:30).
2. Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 10:15-12:00, Aud. 2, chairpersons: Piotr Cofta and Szymon Kowalski
- Konstantin Klamka, Sebastian Vorberg, Rafael Vinz: Inviting Public Discussion on Trustworthy Medical Technology: A Tangible Installation to Explore Security, Safety, and Privacy (10:15-10:30).
- Justyna Romanek, Mateusz Janecki, Jacek Jurkojć, Tayyaba Nosheen, Marta Chmura, Piotr Wodarski: Age-Related Modulation of fNIRS Responses and Visual Cortex Lateralization During Dynamic Checkerboard Stimulation in Virtual Reality (10:30-10:45).
- Sophie Schauer, Katharina Simbeck, Nora Thorade, Luise Wehrens, David Assmann: AI in the Depot: A Practical Study of Data Quality and Prompt Engineering for Museum Object Description (10:45-11:00).
- Anke von der Heide, Patrick Tobias Fischer, Francesco Vona, Nils Philipp Thiergarten, Ceenu George: Towards Rapid Cross-Reality Experience Design for Showroom Installations (11:00-11:15).
- Christian Kassung, Alwin Jasper Cubasch: Remixing Oranienburg (11:15-11:30).
- Marina Salse, Maria Pilar Mateo Bretos, Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Miquel Centelles: Remixing Human Heritage A FAIR and Knowledge-Graph Approach to Institutional Memory (11:30-11:45).
- Joshua Nijiati Alimujiang, Jacques Ziyu Wang, Tania Fraga: When Strings Tug at Algorithm: Human-AI Sovereignty and Entanglement in Nomadic Improvisational Music Performance as a Decolonial Exploration (11:45-12:00).
Poster Sessions
Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 16:00-17:30 and Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 14:00-15:00, Hallway & Room 32
- Thomas Preuss, Sebastian Feustel: Towards Policy-Driven Sovereign Storage for Cultural Heritage Data in Crisis Regions
- Ala Leresteux, Jeremy Leresteux, José R. Donoso, Prateep Beed: Inner Horizon: exploration of hybrid reflective VR systems through symbolic interaction and embodied immersion
- Hannes Rall, Alice Yang: ‘World within a world’: Shakespearean Environment through Fulldome Imaginaries
- Regina Friess: “Let’s Talk about It”
- Michael Peter Hoffmann, Adrian Paschke: From Monograph to Virtual Experience: Playable Anthropological Monographs and the Ethics of AI-Mediated Cultural Learning
- Chris Geiger, Andi Zielecki: The Kindhearted Bear – Narrative, Design and Technology of an Allegorical Fairy Tale in the XR Experience “Das Trampeltier” to Illustrate Populistic Strategies
- Ignacio Moreno-Nava: A hybrid space for José Clemente Orozco’s murals in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, Mexico: Phygitality, education and heritage interpretation from a digital humanities perspective
- Eric Maltz: Avatars Of Human Creativity
- Mariusz Borzyszkowski: Artistic project title: Threshold; Short papers title: Medium and Digital Matter as Artistic Material in Extended Reality Environments
- Alicia Nordmann, Tade Strehk, Andreas Ingerl, Johann Habakuk Israel: FrameShift: Surrealism Transposed — An Augmented Reality Art Installation Using Tilt5
- Giovanna Casimiro: The New Era of Rituals: Gaming Communities As Sites of Post-Historical Collective Practice
- Emanuela Zilio: Phygital Objects as Mediators of Inclusive Cultural and Knowledge Experiences. The cases of STATUS QUⒺST and VERTEX
- Shubham Verma: Vulnerability Surface Analysis of the Model Context Protocol in Agentic Middleware: A 60-Day CVE Dissection with Neuromorphic Detection Frameworks and Distributed Tool Integrity Verification
- Nathalie Keurmeur: Be mAI Friend / Affektator 3000
- Clara Sofia Fernandez: Persistent Making: AI Agents and Shifting Knowledge Regimes on the Workshop Floor
- Elke Reinhuber: Depth in the Opportune Moment . Stereo Imaging, Street Photography and Cultural Heritage as a triadic concept
- Ahmet Sarniç: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Organizational Decision-Making: A Qualitative Analysis of Human Resource Management Discourses
Demo Sessions
Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 16:00-17:30 and Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 14:00-15:00, Room 32
- Ala Leresteux, Jeremy Leresteux, José R. Donoso, Prateep Beed: Inner Horizon: exploration of hybrid reflective VR systems through symbolic interaction and embodied immersion
- Pablo Dornhege: Hyper-Irrealism: Co-Located VR as Experiential Space and Catalyst for Discourse
- Chris Geiger, Andi Zielecki: The Kindhearted Bear – Narrative, Design and Technology of an Allegorical Fairy Tale in the XR Experience “Das Trampeltier” to Illustrate Populistic Strategies
- Mariusz Borzyszkowski: Artistic project title: Threshold; Short papers title: Medium and Digital Matter as Artistic Material in Extended Reality Environments
- Alicia Nordmann, Tade Strehk, Andreas Ingerl, Johann Habakuk Israel: FrameShift: Surrealism Transposed — An Augmented Reality Art Installation Using Tilt5
- Charlotte Triebus, Chris Geiger: We, Brute Force – A 180° Stereoscopic VR Dance Work and Its Modes of Presentation
- Nathalie Keurmeur: Be mAI Friend / Affektator 3000
Map
Concert
Przemysław Rudź – composer and performer of electronic music, sound engineer and music producer, astronomy educator, and author of books and guidebooks.
In his artistic work, he draws on the legacy of the famous Berlin school (including Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and many others), enriching it with elements of progressive rock harmony. He collaborates with many artists in the fields of classical electronic music, rock, and classical music, resulting in numerous collaborative albums.
He promotes astronomy through his publishing and literary work, lectures and talks, sky shows, and participation in astronomy conventions throughout the country.
Exhibition
Sławomir Lipnicki – professor in Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
He graduated from the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, receiving his diploma in 2000. He is also a graduate of theology at the Gdańsk Institute of Theology. Since 2001 he has been a member of the teaching staff at his alma mater; he received his habilitation (postdoctoral degree) in 2017.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Mayor of Szczecin Award at the International Visual Arts Festival InSpiracje (2008) and the main prize in the “Creative Work” category from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Burapha University in Thailand (2025).
He has presented solo exhibitions such as Sąsiedztwo warzyw (Neighbourhood of Vegetables) during the Alternativa exhibition initiated by Aneta Szyłak (2013), Reorientacje wrażeń (Reorientations of Sensations) at UL Gallery in Gdańsk (2023), and Metafiguracje. Omdlenie (Metafigurations. Fainting) at the Olympic Centre in Warsaw (2021).
He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Sport Games at the Mazovian Centre for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom (2023), MEDYTACJE FIBONACCIEGO + sztruksowy zając – wobec Katarzyny Kobro (Fibonacci Meditations + a Corduroy Rabbit – Towards Katarzyna Kobro) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Wrocław (2018–2019), as well as the international project Horizonte and the accompanying exhibition at the Verein Berliner Künstler (Berlin Association of Artists) in Berlin (2015).
In his projects to date, Lipnicki investigates “repressed images” and “images of practices” produced by institutions that shape the framework of transitional justice, institutions responsible for archiving and researching the conditions of human existence during non-democratic periods.
During the KUI Conference 2026 will be presented works from the *Snapshot* series. Among them is the award-winning work „The Twilight Zone”- depicting the influence of film fiction on the legal policy of nation states.
