{"id":1709,"date":"2021-09-20T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpcg.pt\/icgi2021\/?page_id=1709"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:22:47","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gpcg.pt\/icgi2026\/keynote-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"KEYNOTE SPEAKERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n\/* =========================================================\n   ICGI 2026 \u2014 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS\n   ========================================================= *\/\n\n.icgi-keynotes {\n    max-width: 1100px;\n}\n\n\/* ---------- INTRO ---------- *\/\n\n.icgi-keynotes-intro {\n    max-width: 820px;\n    margin: 0 0 3.5rem;\n}\n\n.icgi-keynotes-intro p {\n    margin: 0;\n    font-size: 1.12rem;\n    line-height: 1.75;\n}\n\n\n\/* ---------- KEYNOTE ---------- *\/\n\n.icgi-keynote {\n    padding: 0 0 4rem;\n    margin-bottom: 4rem;\n    border-bottom: 1px solid 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===================================================== -->\n\n    <div class=\"icgi-keynotes-intro\">\n\n        <p>\n            ICGI 2026 is pleased to welcome two distinguished keynote speakers\n            whose work explores some of the most relevant questions at the\n            intersection of visualization, human-computer interaction,\n            immersive media, artificial intelligence, art and technology.\n        <\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <!-- =====================================================\n         KEYNOTE 01 \u2014 EVANTHIA DIMARA\n         ===================================================== -->\n\n    <section class=\"icgi-keynote\" id=\"evanthia-dimara\">\n\n        <span class=\"icgi-keynote-label\">\n            Keynote Speaker\n        <\/span>\n\n        <div class=\"icgi-keynote-grid\">\n\n\n            <!-- SPEAKER -->\n\n            <aside class=\"icgi-speaker-column\">\n\n                <img decoding=\"async\"\n                    class=\"icgi-speaker-photo\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/gpcg.pt\/icgi2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/edimara_larger.png\"\n                    alt=\"Evanthia Dimara\"\n                >\n\n                <div class=\"icgi-speaker-info\">\n\n                    <h2>Evanthia Dimara<\/h2>\n\n                    <p class=\"icgi-speaker-affiliation\">\n                        Assistant Professor<br>\n                        Utrecht University<br>\n                        The Netherlands\n                    <\/p>\n\n                    <a\n                        class=\"icgi-speaker-link\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.nl\/staff\/EDimara\"\n                        target=\"_blank\"\n                        rel=\"noopener\">\n                        University profile \u2192\n                    <\/a>\n\n                <\/div>\n\n            <\/aside>\n\n\n            <!-- TALK -->\n\n            <div class=\"icgi-talk\">\n\n                <p class=\"icgi-talk-type\">\n                    Keynote\n                <\/p>\n\n                <h2>\n                    The Value of Visualization in the Era of Generative AI\n                <\/h2>\n\n                <h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n\n                <p>\n                    Generative AI has made an old question newly urgent:\n                    what is visualization for? Visualization is increasingly\n                    positioned as a supporting layer in AI pipelines, used to\n                    inspect models, explain outputs, or communicate results to\n                    stakeholders. If the field accepts this role as its future,\n                    it risks losing both intellectual independence and\n                    real-world relevance. In this talk, I suggest a different\n                    direction.\n                <\/p>\n\n                <p>\n                    I return to decision making, especially decisions that bear\n                    on people\u2019s lives, values, and futures, unfold through\n                    evolving criteria and contested trade-offs, and cannot be\n                    offloaded to a single system output. Here, the question is\n                    not how to serve automation, but what visualization can\n                    uniquely contribute when decisions still need to be\n                    thought through.\n                <\/p>\n\n                <p>\n                    Drawing on decision making research, user-centered studies,\n                    and work on visualization and AI-assisted decision support,\n                    I argue that visualization need not be only a tool for\n                    explanation, but could also help people think, deliberate,\n                    and decide. I reflect on what this means for the field and\n                    on the shifts visualization research may require if it is\n                    to meet this challenge.\n                <\/p>\n\n\n                <div class=\"icgi-biography\">\n\n                    <h3>Biography<\/h3>\n\n                    <p>\n                        Evanthia Dimara is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht\n                        University, active in the visualization and\n                        human-computer interaction research communities through\n                        publications, reviewing, editorial and organizational\n                        roles in venues such as IEEE VIS, IEEE Transactions on\n                        Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), and CHI.\n                    <\/p>\n\n                    <p>\n                        Drawing on perspectives across disciplines, her research\n                        focuses on decision making and on how interactive\n                        systems can help people make informed and unbiased\n                        decisions, individually or in groups. She is especially\n                        interested in the kinds of decisions for which current\n                        decision-support systems, formal models and human\n                        heuristics tend to fail.\n                    <\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n    <!-- =====================================================\n         KEYNOTE 02 \u2014 ANT\u00d3NIO BA\u00cdA REIS\n         ===================================================== -->\n\n    <section class=\"icgi-keynote\" id=\"antonio-baia-reis\">\n\n        <span class=\"icgi-keynote-label\">\n            Keynote Speaker\n        <\/span>\n\n        <div class=\"icgi-keynote-grid\">\n\n\n            <!-- SPEAKER -->\n\n            <aside class=\"icgi-speaker-column\">\n\n                <img decoding=\"async\"\n                    class=\"icgi-speaker-photo\"\n                    src=\"https:\/\/gpcg.pt\/icgi2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/foto_antoniobaia.jpg\"\n                    alt=\"Ant\u00f3nio Ba\u00eda Reis\"\n                >\n\n                <div class=\"icgi-speaker-info\">\n\n                    <h2>Ant\u00f3nio Ba\u00eda Reis<\/h2>\n\n                    <p class=\"icgi-speaker-affiliation\">\n                        Researcher<br>\n                        DigiMedia \u00b7 University of Aveiro<br>\n                        Portugal\n                    <\/p>\n\n                    <a\n                        class=\"icgi-speaker-link\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.antoniobaiareis.com\/\"\n                        target=\"_blank\"\n                        rel=\"noopener\">\n                        Personal website \u2192\n                    <\/a>\n\n                <\/div>\n\n            <\/aside>\n\n\n            <!-- TALK -->\n\n            <div class=\"icgi-talk\">\n\n                <p class=\"icgi-talk-type\">\n                    Keynote\n                <\/p>\n\n                <h2>\n                    The future is not a headset: art and knowledge in the age\n                    of technological euphoria\n                <\/h2>\n\n                <h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n\n                <p>\n                    XR is not a shortcut to understanding and \u201cimmersion\u201d is\n                    not synonymous with impact. This keynote builds on a set\n                    of arts-based experiments in science and heritage\n                    communication, developed with transdisciplinary teams and\n                    supported by iterative prototyping, to advance a simple\n                    thesis: the decisive question is not whether we adopt\n                    technology, but how we design experience, interpretation,\n                    and our relationship with knowledge.\n                <\/p>\n\n                <p>\n                    Drawing on examples in virtual and mixed reality,\n                    360-degree video, immersive sound, and generative AI, the\n                    talk proposes a non-technocentric notion of immersion\n                    (situated presence, interpretive agency, and semantic\n                    density) and shifts the focus from \u201cengagement\u201d as\n                    retention to interpretability and cognitive\u2013affective\n                    commitment: the moment when the public stops being a\n                    spectator and enters into dialogue with scientific and\n                    heritage objects.\n                <\/p>\n\n                <p>\n                    Method sits at the centre: co-creation as epistemic\n                    translation (learning to \u201cspeak the other\u2019s language,\u201d\n                    without cosmetic interdisciplinarity) and XR as a space\n                    for reflection, i.e., thinking through making, rather than\n                    merely illustrating stabilized knowledge. This is where\n                    \u201cproductive frictions\u201d emerge: scientific precision and\n                    artistic interpretation, critical trust built through\n                    transparency, and the recognition that emotion is not\n                    ornament, but infrastructure for learning and memory.\n                <\/p>\n\n                <p>\n                    The keynote closes with a challenge to the conference:\n                    if technologies like XR and AI have real potential in\n                    niches such as science and heritage, that potential\n                    depends less on the device and more on a medium-native\n                    mindset, one that refuses \u201cpromptstitution\u201d, escapes the\n                    linear tyranny of \u201cpoint A \u2192 point B,\u201d and creates the\n                    conditions for an ethics of attention (focus, presence,\n                    slowness) within a digital ecosystem that accelerates\n                    everything.\n                <\/p>\n\n                <p>\n                    The future may pass through headsets, but the future of\n                    knowledge depends on criteria.\n                <\/p>\n\n\n                <div class=\"icgi-biography\">\n\n                    <h3>Biography<\/h3>\n\n                    <p>\n                        Ant\u00f3nio Ba\u00eda Reis is an interdisciplinary artist and\n                        researcher working across immersive media, performance,\n                        music, and experimental audiovisual forms. His work\n                        explores how emerging technologies can become poetic\n                        and critical tools for narrating science, heritage,\n                        memory, and contemporary social experience.\n                    <\/p>\n\n                    <p>\n                        His artistic language combines moving image, live\n                        performance, sound, and interactive environments.\n                        His work has been presented internationally in contexts\n                        including Somerset House in London, Venice Immersive\n                        at La Biennale di Venezia \u2013 Biennale Cinema, and the\n                        Cannes XR Immersive Competition at the Festival de\n                        Cannes.\n                    <\/p>\n\n                    <p>\n                        He holds a PhD in Digital Media developed in\n                        collaboration between the University of Porto and\n                        Stanford University. He is currently a researcher at\n                        DigiMedia \u2013 Digital Media and Interaction Research\n                        Centre, University of Aveiro, where his research and\n                        artistic practice investigate the intersections of\n                        communication, culture, emerging media, and\n                        human\u2013technology relations.\n                    <\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/section>\n\n\n    <!-- =====================================================\n         PROGRAM\n         ===================================================== -->\n\n    <div class=\"icgi-keynote-program\">\n\n        <p>\n            <strong>Keynote schedule:<\/strong>\n            dates and times will be available in the\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/gpcg.pt\/icgi2026\/program\/\">\n                conference program\n            <\/a>.\n        <\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICGI 2026 is pleased to welcome two distinguished keynote speakers whose work explores some of the most relevant questions at the intersection of visualization, human-computer interaction, immersive media, artificial intelligence, art and technology. 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