Candidate: Ágnes Karolina Bakk, Researcher at Innovation Center of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest 
Field of study: PhD in Arts (Design Theory) 
Supervisor: Tímea Antalóczy PhD associate professor, MOME Institute for Theorethical Studies 

Consultants: Hartmut Koenitz PhD, senior lecturer, Södertörn University (SW) and Rebecca Rouse PhD, associate professor, University of Skövde (SW) 

Title of the doctoral thesis: Hunting the Impossible: The science of magic and the experience of immersion in analogue and VR theatre Examination 

Chair of the defence committee:  Márton Szentpéteri PhD professor, 
MOME Doctoral School Committee Members: Zsolt Gyenge PhD habil. associate professor, MOME Institute for Theorethical Studies and Kornélia Deres PhD, lecturer, Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities, Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Opponents: Prof. Chiel Kattenbelt Utrecht University Department of Media and Culture Studies and Dr. Ottilia Armeán, senior lecturer, head of Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences - Târgu Mure (Marosvásárhely) Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania