Sarah Schwettmann - ‘Neural Networks and Creativity’

Karsten Kopjar - ‘Virtual Creativity – How real are digital worlds and was Jesus XR (Mixed Reality)?’

Moderator: Kike Delgado

Panelists: Eric Helvie, Emily Tjomsland & Graham Pritz-Bennett

Paper session 5A (1.00pm UK)

Chair: Jonas Kurlberg

Julius Stefanus Sibagariang - ‘Testing the Truth against the Flow of Information in a Digital Era: A Social-Rhetorical Interpretation of 1 John 4:1-6’

Simon Werrett - ‘The Divine Gaze: Reflections on Creation and Perception’

Paper session 5B (1.00pm UK)

Chair: Dan Washbrook

Thomas Schlag – ‘Critical creativity in processes of (post-)digital religious education’

Michael Toy - ‘Content Creating the Church into Being’’

Officiator: Caroline Beckett

Moderator: Agana-Nsiire Agana

An opportunity for people to share digital creativity and project

Chair: Pete Phillips

Kelly Woods - ‘Liberating Escapism: How Imagination, Creativity, and Gaming Help Navigate Spiritual Formation’

Anna Puzio – ‘Death Bots, Grief Bots, and Posthumous Avatars – A Christian Ethics Perspective’

Moderator: Daniella Zsupan-Jerome

Panelists: Noreen Herzfeld, Mark Graves & Paul Tighe

Paper session 3A (1.00pm UK)

Chair: Frederike van Oorschot

Stephen Garner - ‘Technology, human agency, and partnership with God? Artificial intelligence and ethical co-creation’

Jody Hunt - ‘Who is to Blame? Navigating AI, Sin, and Intentionality in the Creative Digital Age’

Paper session 3B (1.00pm UK)

Chair: Kate Ott

Judith Mills - ‘Podcasting, “Theology and Ethics”’

Hadje C. Sadje - ‘The Plague of Artificial Intelligence and the Eclipse of Anthropocentric Arrogance: Decolonial-Theological Reflection from the Margins’

Officiator: Daniella Zsupan-Jerome 

Chair: Ximian Xu

We gather in small groups to discuss what we are working on in digital theology - an opportunity to learn from peers, encourage each other and spot potential areas for collaboration.

Chair: Thomas Schlag

Ralf Peter Reimann - ‘AI and the Future of Liturgical Creation’

Zoltan Schwab - ‘Co-Creators in Genesis 1–3’

Moderator: Frida Mannerfelt

Panelists: Ilona Nord, Daw-Wei, Wang & Florian Höhne

Paper session 1A (1.00pm UK)

Chair: Katherine Schmidt

Justin Joseph G. Badion & Rachel Joyce Marie O. Sanchez - ‘The Cyborg: Homo Oeconomicus to Homo Eroticus’

Willem Th. van Peursen & Samuel E. Entsua-Mensah - ‘Mimesis, Poiesis, and Imagination in Text-to-Image Generation’

Paper session 1B (1.-00pm UK)

Will Nicholas - ‘The Filioque, the Imago Dei, and Deus Ex Machina: Reimagining Theological Co-Creation in the Age of AI’

John Paul Arceno - ‘Virtual Jesus and Iconography: A Pixelated Christology in the Digital Age’

Katleho Mokoena