Period: 16-22 May 2016

The digital media revolution was the topic under discussion at the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2016) held at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and a number of other venues throughout the city last month. 

Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA is an international non-profit-making organisation that fosters cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchanges among academics and artists working with art, science and technology. It is one of the most prestigious annually held global conference series in the field of electronic art, art and technology, creative technology, and new media art.

ISEA2016 was organised by the School of Creative Media (SCM), together with the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Videotage, and Microwave International New Media Arts Festival.  Held from 16 to 22 May, the symposium attracted over 450 delegates and highlighted the cutting-edge work of artists, scholars, technologists and practitioners from over 30 countries.

Under the main theme “Cultural R>evolution”, ISEA2016 included a range of sub-themes addressing art and technology from different perspectives, ranging from computer games and techno-sex to hybrid forms of animals and technology, and from code and politics to new cultural heritage.

Enquiries: isea2016@cityu.edu.hk

Other relevant information: http://isea2016.isea-international.org