Deadline:
April 10, 2026
Program Starts: April 10, 2026
Program Ends: April 19, 2026
Location(s)
United Arab Emirates
Dubai
Overview
ISEA2026 is the 31st International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art, scheduled to take place from 10 to 19 April 2026, in Dubai, UAE. The symposium invites artists, researchers, and practitioners to explore and present works that engage with the theme ‘ELYAH: Constellating Place, Data, and Identity,’ through various formats, including performances, exhibitions, screenings, academic papers, and workshops. ISEA2026 will unfold across a constellation of venues that fuse art, technology and innovation; and will be equipped to support diverse practices in electronic and emerging art.
Details
The City of Dubai will be hosting the 31st edition of The International Symposium on Electronic / Emerging Art (ISEA2026), under the theme of ELYAH: CONSTELLATING PLACE, DATA AND IDENTITY. As Dubai is a city defined by accelerated innovation and creative ambition, where desert meets data, and where the future is actively designed. ELYAH invites participants to explore how light and code, story and system, converge to form new ways of understanding. Just as ancient navigators turned to the stars, today’s artists and technologists interpret the signals of an algorithmic cosmos, charting the digital unknown with creativity as their compass.
At the heart of this exploration is art—giving form to abstraction, emotion to data, and human perspective to systems. Through installation, performance, moving image, sound, code, and other emergent media, ISEA2026 will transform Dubai into a living constellation of experiences, where the poetic meets the programmable, and imagination proposes new modes of infrastructure.
ELYAH Traces a Dual Trajectory
It honours humanity’s instinct to look skyward for meaning, while calling on creative communities to imagine what lies ahead. As stars once connected distant geographies, so too can electronic art, AI, and immersive technologies forge relationships across cultures and disciplines—sparking dialogue, collaboration, and new forms of expression.
Set against the visionary backdrop of Dubai, ISEA2026 frames this convergence of the digital and celestial as both a mirror and a beacon—reflecting who we are and illuminating who we might become.
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Dates
Deadline: April 10, 2026
Program starts:
April 10, 2026
Program ends:
April 19, 2026
Program Starts: April 10, 2026
Program Ends: April 19, 2026
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Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
