IJSIM’s 2025 Special Issue: Artistic Research Now

The editorial board of the International Journal of Stereo & Immersive Media is pleased to announce the publication of its 2025 special issue, Artistic Research Now. This edition presents a diverse collection of peer-reviewed articles exploring the collaborative nature of artistic research, its transdisciplinary methodologies, and the role of emerging technologies.

Guest-edited by Teet Teinemaa (Tallinn University, FilmEU), the issue features seven insightful contributions:

• Artistic Experiments in Expanded Animation: Combining 3D Printing with Virtual Reality to Create Anamorphic Shadow Animations
  Gert Wastyn, Steven Malliet, Guido Devadder, Bart Geerts

• The Penned Parrot in the Writers’ Room: Four-Stage Story Generation in Collaborative Screenwriting with AI
  Dirk Hoyer, Tobias Frühmorgen

• Maintaining Creativity and Ensuring Research: Teaching Creative Research in Film and Media Arts – A Personal Reflection
  Elen Lotman

• Fiction, Documentaries, and Voids
  Carlos E. Lesmes

• Designing for Meaning: Uniting Creative and Scholarly Research through Collective Practices in Event Design
  Rowena Chodkowski, Richy Srirachanikorn, Annie Harrisson, Derek Pasborg, Muhammad Shahrom Ali

• Exploring Empathy through the Design of an Embodied Installation Game
  Xiaoou (Olivia) Ji, Steven Malliet, Ekaterina Muravevskaia

• The Panorama of Congo: Decolonizing Heritage through Artistic Research
  Victor Flores, Leen Engelen, Linda King, Ana David Mendes

The cover features a view of Panorama of Congo: Unrolling the Past with Virtual Reality, an exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon. Photograph by Oleksandr Lyashchenko.