ARTECH 2025 - Media Art Cultures, Communities & Territories is the 12th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, hosted in Braga, Portugal, at the University of Minho. The conference aims to promote interest in current digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an essential field of research and as a common space for discussion and exchange of new experiences.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit papers related to digital art, art installations, interactive art, or media artworks for review by the international committee. Both research and application papers are relevant to ARTECH 2025.

Artworks submitted for the exhibition must include a short paper and a detailed descriptive video in HD MP4 format, lasting up to 4 minutes (with optional English subtitles). A permanent link (optionally private) to the descriptive video must be submitted alongside the article. Please note that the conference will feature only a virtual exhibition (audiovisual) of artworks. 

List of Topics (not limited to)

• AI and Art
• Art, Science and Sustainability
• Art and Science Theory
• Art and Technology
• Audio-Visual and Multimedia Design
• Creativity Theory
• Design and Data Visualisation
• Digital Art Cultures
• Digital Art Communities
• Digital Art Territories
• Digital Games
• Digital Storytelling
• Digital Technologies and Making
• e-Learning in Art and Media Studies
• Electronic Music
• Generative and Algorithmic Art & Design
• Gesture Interfaces
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Immersive Art
• Interactive Art
• Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications
• Interaction Design
• Interfaces
• Media Art History
• Web Art and Digital Culture
• Digital Media, Apps and eBooks
• Digital Preservation
• Parametric Design
• Praxis and Poesis
• STEAM Education
• Sustainability and Bioremediation Activism
• Tangible Interfaces
• Technology in Art Education
• Virtual and Augmented Reality

Committees

Honorary Chair: Adérito Fernandes-Marcos, University of Saint Joseph in Macau, China (MO) / Artech-International

Conference Chairs:

• Alberto Sá, University of Minho / CECS (General Chairman)
• Madalena Oliveira, University of Minho / CECS (General Co-chairman)
• Daniel Brandão, Universidade do Minho / CECS (PT) (Local Organisation Chairman)

International Scientific and Art Committee:

• Susana Gaudêncio, University of Minho / EAAD (President)
• João Martinho Moura, University of Minho / CECS (PT) (Vice-President)
• Filipa Martins, University of Saint Joseph in Macau (MO) (Vice-President)
• Pedro Alves da Veiga, Portuguese Open University (PT) (Vice-President)

Members: (under construction)

Venue

ARTECH 2025 is the 12th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, hosted by the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) of the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal. 

Braga is a city and a municipality in the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga, in the historical and cultural Minho Province. The town has a resident population of 192,494 inhabitants (in 2011), representing the seventh largest municipality in Portugal (by population). Its area is 183.40 km². Its agglomerated urban area extends from the Cávado River to the Este River. It is the third-largest urban centre in Portugal (after Lisbon and Porto).

Braga was selected as a UNESCO Creative City for the field of Media Arts. Since its foundation, the city has been avant-garde in its different contemporary scenarios, whether under the Roman Empire or during the sumptuous Baroque period. With each challenge, the city has become richer in diversity and more curious about the near future.

The city was the European Youth Capital in 2012 and UNESCO City of Media Arts in 2017.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to artech2025.conf@gmail.com

Sponsors

• University of Minho / CECS (Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade)

• The Artech-International Association