Call for Papers: REACT 2025: Research and Educational Advancements in Culture and Technology, October 20-21, Vienna, Austria

REACT 2025 is a new annual conference exploring the intersection of culture and technology—an emerging field where artistic practice, innovation, education, and public policy converge. We are living through a pivotal moment when technology is not only transforming industries, but reshaping the very foundations of how culture is produced, shared, and experienced. This convergence of culture and technology is reshaping creative processes, audience relationships, and the boundaries of expression.

Held just before the Culttech Summit 2025 in Vienna and hosted at the historic Wiener Postsparkasse, a modern architectural masterpiece designed by Otto Wagner in 1906, REACT invites scholars, educators, technologists, cultural practitioners, and policymakers to share insights, frameworks, and provocations for understanding and shaping this transformation.

We are accepting proposals for panels, roundtables, and poster presentations that engage topics including (but not limited to):

• Generative AI and artistic authorship
• Ethics and epistemologies of digital culture
• Education and interdisciplinarity in the creative-tech space
• Emerging cultural economies and sustainable innovation
• Policy frameworks for cultural technology
• Immersive media, perception, and cognition
• Cultural values in the design of technological systems

REACT 2025 is organized by the Culttech Association in partnership with:

• University of Applied Arts, Digital Arts Department (Vienna, Austria)
• Belmont University (Nashville, TN, USA)
• Constructor University (Bremen, Germany)
• Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (Vienna, Austria)
• TAH Centre for Innovations in Technology, Art, and Humanities (Prague, Czech Republic)