The Digital Heritage strand of the 2025 London Heritage(s) conference Critical Questions – Contemporary Practice is intended to highlight work being done at the intersection of heritage and technology studies: whether that be cases studies of innovative projects, surveys of critical questions in the field, examples of recent or completed research projects, or discussions on teaching and learning in the sector.

This conference call aims to delve into the transformative capabilities of interactive media, multi-channel design, eXtended Reality (XR), spatial computing, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and strategically staged historic forms of media that shape interactive geographies. This exploration focuses on redefining urban and rural narratives, encouraging inclusive participatory development, and confronting emerging societal challenges.

In a world dominated by military conflicts, climate change, migration crisis, fake news, and political rearrangements, the digital ecosystem – in which AI is one among other major actors – plays a crucial role. We, volens nolens, increasingly identify ourselves with the machine, while we employ various strategies of resisting the artificial. Art is an important part of this process.

From CAC.8, we propose a meeting to approach Generative AI from its multiple aspects, undoubtedly from a myriad of points of view, which will allow its inclusion in Art, Design, and Culture. We would like to create a symbolic capsule of space and time to reflect on the challenges, impacts, and scope of this new tool of knowledge, which is already modifying the processes of various human activities.

NATURANCE is launching a far-reaching initiative to organize citizen group meetings throughout Europe and beyond, focused on identifying innovative financial strategies for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the context of climate action and disaster risk mitigation. The citizen groups meetings are designed to tap into the collective understanding of NbS deployment and to stimulate discussions around their financial mechanisms and instruments.

In a context of profound changes and transformations, the regenerative is presented as an alternative to restore, renew or reconstruct lost or invisible memories. From the perspective of sustainability, the regenerative implies thinking about actions that imply survival as a vital matter of engendering for its re-existence.

TTTfellows: Art and Science Residency is an hybrid artist and academic experimental project organized in three different seasons aiming to bring together one artist and one scientist for 4 weeks of interdisciplinary friction and Ionian environmental immersion. The organization offers accommodation in Corfu and a fee of approx. 1400 euros to cover expenses related with traveling and research, processed after arrival in Greece, to one scientist and one artist.

The event provides a unique opportunity for discussion and debate among scientists, engineers, educators, students and allows them to connect with fellow entrepreneurs and companies operating in the same sector, thus experiencing applications of these emerging technologies.

In recent years, the material turn has gained increasing prominence across diverse disciplines. Simultaneously, the advent of new imaging technologies has transformed our understanding of what it means to make, view, and interpret images, calling into question their ‘materiality’. The Material Image aims to actively engage with these developments and explore the ways in which the diverse materiality of images mirror and shape societal values, impact communication, and contribute to the formation of collective identities and ideas in a visually saturated world.

Body Matters aims to investigate notions of Body in contemporary architectural discourses. Always a fundamental in architecture, the body needs to be reconsidered on its own terms, as a creative, material and philosophical concern. Beyond historical materialism and phenomenological approaches in architecture, recent new materialism thought has proposed a cross-disciplinary endeavour to confront long-held assumptions about the relationship between humans, nonhumans and the world.

The theme for the 60th-anniversary meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics considers language at play in the connections of pasts, presents, and futures. living cybernetics | playing language further suggests that cybernetic languaging, in all forms and media, shares a logic that is informed by understandings of processes of living as they exist and may exist. Playing is a means to reach out into possible futures, to initiate the not-yet-existent.

The World's Largest Interdisciplinary Festival in Symmetry Studies Celebrating Science, Culture, and Art

Following the conferences of the past years promoted by SIe-L and SIREM, ISYDE2024 aim to strengthen and broaden the focus on both digital and media education through innovative teaching and learning experiences.

The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a presentation, discussion and a reputable publication forum in computer science and intelligence systems. The forum invites researchers and practitioners from around the world to contribute their research results focused on their scientific and professional interests in a chosen area of computer science.

To the artists-in-residence, mur.at offers its infrastructure and possible assistance by the mur.at admin team and the wider mur-community. Artists can involve the community in the research process, develop ideas together, collaborate with others and produce digital artworks. For the onsite residency in Graz (Austria), an appropriate accommodation in the ‘Künstlerinnenwohnung’ located in the same building as the mur.at headquarter will be provided.

The Technarte International Conference on Art and Technology will be held in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain on May 17, 2024. We are currently looking for artists and technologists from around the world who want to join this exciting event as a speaker and share their vision of the fusion between art, science and technology.

For the real-world art scenario, SHARESPACE is currently looking for a media artist (group) to collaborate with. The goal of the collaboration is for the artist to realize their own art work for the Deep Space 8K, located at the Ars Electronica Center, utilizing SHARESPACE technology.

Our conference is asking: “What would Science, Technology and Innovation look like in a world not driven by the endless pursuit of economic growth? What exciting futures would begin to take shape if we harnessed technological and scientific advances for something other than growth alone? What new worlds might we be able to conceive if human wellbeing and the natural environment were the primary focus of innovation?"

The JRC makers-in-residence programme is an annual, short-term research-focused residence hosted by the JRC Makerspace, in the Joint Research Centre's Ispra site, in Italy. The residence is centred around specific concepts and themes directly tied to the science and technology policy topics considered in the Joint Research Centre's Annual Work Programme.

EvoMUSART is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers who are working on the application of Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Cellular Automata, Alife, and other Artificial Intelligence techniques in creative and artistic fields such as Visual Art, Music, Architecture, Video, Digital Games, Poetry, or Design.

With the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, the European Media Art Platform continues its residency program for artists, artist duos, collectives or other artistic collaborations working in the fields of digital art, media art, robotic art and bio art.

ISEA2024 sets out to explore human perception of timescales and challenge our understanding of past, present and future in the days of singularity and climate change – the Everywhen. The Everywhen is the concept of all time simultaneously present in a place and describes the notion that past, present and future are co-habiting any given location. Where many western cultures believe time is the constant and travels in a linear progression from now to then, First Nations Australians describe the before then, then, now and the future then existing in the constant presence of place: The Everywhen.

S+T+ARTS AIR launches a new S+T+ARTS residencies programme focused on two main themes: Resilient interspecies urban ecosystems and Human AI Ecosystems, presenting a unique opportunity for artists to collaborate at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

The Award is open to individuals, teams or organizations, regardless of nationality. Eligible submissions must present projects, initiatives and tools that communicate climate change through various forms such as arts, theatre, video making, podcasts, music, photography, journalism, gaming, education, data visualization, editorial contents and the use of digital channels and tools. Scientific reports and capacity building projects are not intended as communication projects, therefore are not eligible.

Participants will learn about existing or planned adaptation strategies through case studies from various geographical locations, showcasing the complexity of their implementation, the disproportionate impacts on marginalized communities, and the importance of inclusive decision-making processes.

Two years after the outbreak of the pandemic and the distance or hybridity it forced our lives into, the 13th Beyond Humanism Conference is taking place as a live event, returning to one of the crucial places for the development of the several Posthuman routes of thinking, the University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece.

ACT (Arts & Creative Technology) Festival of the Asia Culture Center (ACC) aims to integrate artistic creativity and technology in a transdisciplinary festival that showcases future-oriented projects and ideas through various programs including exhibitions, academic forums, performances, and workshops, promoting the exchange of knowledge, skills, and experiences among local and international artists, cultural producers, and the general public.

Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process.