The 29th EVA Berlin Conference 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 conference will be organised by BTU University and hosted by Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut HHI in Berlin.
Submission proposals deadline: July 14 2025
Event: March 18-20, 2026
For further information:
https://www.eva-berlin.de
lengyel@b-tu.de
