ARTECH 2025

The 12th edition of ARTECH, the conference dedicated to digital and interactive arts, kicks off today, this year focusing on Media Arts cultures, communities and territories. It will bring more than a hundred researchers and artists to Braga between 26 and 28 November.
Around 120 researchers and artists from around the world are gathering this week at the University of Minho for the 12th edition of ARTECH. This conference, jointly organised by the Artech association and CECS – Centre for Communication and Society Studies, aims to promote the study and dissemination of contemporary digital culture, highlighting the intersections between art, technology and society. The conference is also a privileged space for debate and sharing new creative practices and research.
Of particular relevance is the active involvement of the Master’s in Media Arts at the University of Minho, whose faculty and students collaborate in the production, technical support, mediation and monitoring of the conference activities, reinforcing the link between research, artistic creation and advanced postgraduate training.

With participants coming from different parts of the globe, the event will feature guest speakers Paulo Teles, artist, researcher and professor of Multimedia, Cinema and Communication at the Institute of Arts of the State University of Campinas. His artistic works seek to converge technology, new sensibilities and critical thinking through interactive bodily processes in emerging media, relational and multisensory artistic expressiveness, and transdisciplinary literacies through art. Also on the first day, we will have the presence of Sara Orsi, who teaches at the School of Innovation and Creation Technologies (ETIC) and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL). She is dedicated to the intersection between digital technology and contemporary culture. On the 28th, it will be the turn of Miguel Carvalhais, Professor of Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and its current rector. Author of the books Art and Computation (2022) and Artificial Aesthetics: Creative Practices in Computational Art and Design (2016).

The inaugural session, on 26 November, which will take place at gnration under the theme Cultures, communities and territories of multimedia art, will feature Adérito Fernandes-Marcos (ARTECH-INTERNATIONAL), Alberto Sá (general president of ARTECH 2025), Madalena Oliveira (CECS-Centre for Communication and Society Studies) and Luís Fernandes (from the coordination team of Braga, UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts). The same venue will host an exhibition of artistic works, which will close the first day of activities.
The remaining days of the conference will be filled with around a hundred presentations spread over 18 parallel sessions taking place at the Pedagogical Complex II of the Gualtar Campus of UMinho.
Among the topics highlighted are Artificial Intelligence, visual systems, digital and immersive narratives, video art, virtual and augmented reality, interactive installations, media ecologies, ethics and digital surveillance, territory and memory, narrative design, digital cartography, sustainability and human-nature relations, among others.

Since its creation, the ARTECH initiative has hosted and exhibited hundreds of digital art projects, ranging from informational and entertainment applications to formal works that explore emerging technologies such as computer vision, virtual and augmented reality, digital music, and interactive systems. Over the past two decades, these works have been presented at art fairs, international conferences, and events dedicated to the arts and applied technologies.

Programme available here

More info on the ARTECH website 

[Posted: 26-11-2025]