Martin Potter

Martin Potter is an academic, multi-award-winning creative director, and producer specialising in transmedia and participatory media. He is president of EngageMedia, director of the Big Stories Co. and Associate Professor at Deakin University, where he leads the MotionLab. As a creative practice-based researcher, Potter designs large-scale transmedia works and participatory models that drive sustained engagement across diverse communities. His acclaimed projects have attracted over $12 million AUD in funding, and he has produced more than 30 hours of commissioned documentaries for international broadcasters. He has published widely on participatory and transmedia practice, bridging scholarly inquiry and high-impact creative production.

Forum Contribution

Poster session

Building Conceptual Worlds Through Creative Practice

Working with Deep Time: The Earth Above and Storying Country through Fulldome Cinema

Endangered Conceptual Worlds

The 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research takes place from 23 to 26 June 2026. Hosted by the University of Galway on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, the Forum addresses the challenges of Endangered Conceptual Worlds. As the 17th annual conference of the Society for Artistic Research it is the largest conference on practice-based research within and through the arts, bringing together more than 300 international participants: leading practitioners, scholars and policymakers from the entire range of arts-based disciplines.

Slightly extended deadline for submissions

The 2026 Forum on Artistic Research website has been inaccessible for several hours on Friday night and Saturday morning. Unfortunately, an update to the web server was scheduled to take place, which automatically activated maintenance mode and prevented any work on the submissions during the night and the next morning. We have therefore decided to slightly extend the deadline for submissions to Monday 2 March 2026 at 23:59 GMT. Feel free to work on your proposals until then.