Seventeenth International Conference on The Image
- The Image as Advocate: Shaping Cultural Conversations
- 1-2 October 2026
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore + Online
The Seventeenth International Conference on The Image featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Director (Curatorial, Research & Exhibitions) and Senior Curator, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore
"Reworlding Images: Towards Planetary Futurisms in the Age of A.I."
Filmmaker and Associate Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
"Vanishing Landscapes: Cinematic Testimony"
Co-founder and Creative Director, BLACK Design, Singapore
"Image as Identity"
Professor and Researcher in Journalism, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain
“La crisis de la imagen como evidencia: IA, visualidad y desinformación en el ecosistema mediático”
(Online in Spanish)
Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Research), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Senior Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Senior Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Professor, Acting Chair, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Vice President of Higher School of Education of Lisbon, Lisbon Polytechnic, Portugal Coordinator of the Visual Arts and Technologies DegreeDesignLab4U Founder
(English)
Universidad de Málaga, España
(Spanish)
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
Brighton, United Kingdom
(In-Person)
Philippine Women's University, Philippines
(In-Person)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(In-Person)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
(Online Only)
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
(Online Only)
Illinois Institute of Technology - Institute of Design, United States
(Online Only)
Pizzul National University of La Plata, Argentina
(Online Only)
Auckland University of Technology. New Zealand
(Online Only)
University of Cologne. Germany
(Online Only)
Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
(Online Only)
Parsons, The New School, United States
(Online Only)
Athabasca University, Canada
(Online Only)
Singapore