EVA BERLIN CONFERENCE 2027
Living Intelligence.
Creativity Between Matter, Memory and Machine
The EVA Berlin Conference addresses the transformations underway across the cultural heritage, creative industries, and memory institutions in the context of accelerating digitalisation. Building on a continuous history dating back to 1994 and following its successful relaunch in 2023, the conference reaches a significant milestone with its 30th edition.
The growing convergence of digital technologies and artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping numerous fields and exerting profound influence on contemporary society. Generative AI tools, intelligent agents and assistants, hybrid experiential spaces, immersive XR technologies, and participatory interaction ecologies are among the defining developments of this moment — each demanding both technical rigour and speculative inquiry, and raising critical questions around inclusivity, sustainability, and societal impact. Alongside these developments, renewed attention to materiality, craft, and the biography of artworks in digital environments is reshaping how cultural heritage is created, preserved, and transmitted.
Contributions reporting on ongoing projects, completed research, and emerging practice are welcomed for the forthcoming edition. As part of the international EVA conference network — with established events in London, Florence, and Paris — the Berlin edition serves as a platform for sustained international and European exchange.
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI), and the Gesellschaft von Freunden des Heinrich-Hertz-Instituts e.V. invite submissions of contribution proposals as well as expressions of interest in cooperation, addressing but not limited to the following topics:
Topics
⦿ AI and Human Creativity: Negotiating Imperfection and Authorship
⦿ Digital Infrastructure, Standards and Sustainable Heritage
⦿ Participatory Systems and Psychological Depth
⦿ Technology Ethics and Cultural Futures
⦿ Materiality, Sustainability and Digital Preservation
⦿ Emerging Intelligences: From Brain-Computer Interfaces to Biomimetic Systems
⦿ Art Education and Mediation
⦿ Political and Aesthetic Discourse
Lectures
Proposals for papers addressing the conference topics are invited from researchers, practitioners and scholars across relevant disciplines
Exhibition / company presentations
Submissions are welcomed for presentations, project showcases, posters and new product demonstrations as part of the accompanying exhibition
Proceedings
Contributions by accepted speakers and exhibitors will be published in the conference proceedings via Artbooks (arthistoricum.net). Each individual contribution will be assigned a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Essential information
⦿ What: Electronic Media and Visual Arts Berlin Conference 2027
⦿ Where: Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (Fraunhofer HHI) 10857, Berlin, Germany
⦿ When: 21 – 23 April 2027
⦿ How: Registration via Eventbrite website HERE Early bird rate (until Dec 20): EUR 280 + fees. Standard price: EUR 350 + fees
For more information, please visit the conference website HERE