29th Berlin EVA – Conference
Intelligence Space. Creativity in Dialogue with Technology
18 March – 20 March 2026
The 29th conference EVA-BERLIN addresses the ongoing changes in culture and digitality. The increasing convergence of digital technologies and artificial intelligence is shaping the development of hybrid experiential spaces, where AI-based mediation formats, immersive XR technologies, and participatory interaction ecologies play central roles. Innovative concepts such as Intelligence Space, Audience Segmentation, and Deep Learning Curation enable data-driven, multi-perspective approaches and hyper-personalized visitor engagement. Standardization and digital archiving are essential for sustainable metadata management, interoperability, and regulatory compliance. Social prescribing is establishing museums as health-promoting environments where cultural participation contributes to psychosocial stabilization. Adaptive work panels, inclusion interfaces, and empathy swarms foster accessibility and collective experiences, while data poetics advances artistic reflection on data-driven processes. In this way, museums are evolving into transdisciplinary hubs of social innovation and integration.
The conference targets professionals and researchers from museology, art and media studies, computer science, curatorial practice, cultural management, archival science, and digital humanities, as well as practitioners from museums, galleries, the creative industries, and healthcare interested in AI, innovation, and societal transformation. In addition, exhibitors are invited to present thematically relevant products, technologies, and services that foster exchange and networking among all participants and contribute to the conference discourse.
The 29th EVA-Berlin Conference invites you to present current positions and practical application examples on these topics. Innovative contributions are welcome for the conference and for application-oriented workshops. Novel procedures, technologies and products can be presented at an exhibition at the same time.
As part of the international EVA Conference Network, the Berlin event is a platform for international exchange and European cooperation.
Veranstaltungsort/Venue:
SU6 @ Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
Salzufer 6 – 4.Stock / 4th floor
Eingang / Entrance: Otto-Dibelius-Straße
10857 Berlin (Directions)
The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut and the
Gesellschaft von Freunden des Heinrich-Hertz-Instituts e.V. are looking forward to your contributions, project presentations and cooperation proposals on the following
Focus areas and topics
- Generative AI and artistic practice
- Generative AI for text and image synthesis
- Image generation at the intersection of science and art, design and architecture
- Crypto art, net art, and generative systems
- Algorithmic art forms and computational creativity
- Redefining authorship and artwork in digital contexts
- Digital collection strategies and accessibility
- Open access to cultural heritage collections
- Visualization and exploration of heterogeneous datasets
- Digital infrastructure, standards and AI-driven object analysis
- Virtual exhibitions, immersive digital tours and cultural heritage
- Interaction and participatory systems
- Audience-artwork interaction dynamics
- Gamification and interactive mediation formats
- Hybrid realities and mixed-media installations
- Participatory research and digital inclusion frameworks
- Technology, ethics, and societal Impact
- Identity construction in digital ecosystems
- Ownership, privacy, and surveillance in art-tech spaces
- Blockchain applications in cultural collections
- Climate crisis and technology’s role in sustainable art
- Risks of digital life (uncertainty, resilience, and governance)
- Digital art forms and preservation
- Optical, kinetic, and programmed art systems
- Conservation of software-based and born-digital art
- Net art and interactive design methodologies
- Light, sound, and algorithmic experimentation
- Innovation and emerging technologies
- AI-driven art interpretation and curatorial tools
- Brain-computer interfaces and autonomous robotics
- Biomimicry and bio-digital hybrid systems
- Social prescribing and therapeutic applications of art
- Art education and mediation
- Visual languages for knowledge dissemination
- Digital pedagogy and adaptive learning formats
- Art in augmented and hybrid realities
- Museums as societal innovation hubs
- Political and aesthetic discourse
- Socio-political narratives in digital art practice
- Interfacing analog and digital expressive forms
- Politics of online mediation and algorithmic bias
As part of the network of EVA conferences International located in Florence, London and Paris the 29th EVA event in Berlin is a platform for transnational exchange and European co-operation.
Participants from:
- Museums, libraries, archives and performing arts institutions
- Ministries of culture and education, museums and heritage organisations, other cultural institutions
- Research institutions for image processing, computer graphics, information and media sciences
- Suppliers of multimedia and image processing systems, hardware and software, online information services, databases
The conference EVA Berlin 2026 is to be held by the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg with the dedicated support of the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, the Gesellschaft von Freunden des Heinrich-Hertz-Instituts e.V.
and the Eva-Conferences International.
