International Online Conference: The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2025

• Region: All Regions
• Type: Call for Papers
• Cost: Free

The international online conference (20-24 January 2025) is dedicated to the ethical and social implications of digital transformation in museums. The focus will be on the concept of digital humanism, according to which the potential of information technology is recognised, but human values and social aspects must be taken into account.

Further information can be found here: https://www.belvedere.at/en/digitalmuseum2025

Venue: Belvedere, Vienna (online)

Date: January 20–24, 2025

Deadline: November 11, 2024

We look forward to your paper proposals in the fields of museums/museology, art and cultural history, visual and media studies, and digital humanities. Please submit your abstract for a twenty- to twenty-five-minute presentation in German or English (max. 250 words) including a short biography with complete contact information as a PDF document by November 11, 2024, to: conferences@belvedere.at

We are delighted to announce that Julian Nida-Rümelin (professor emeritus of philosophy and political theory at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) will be our keynote speaker.

Conference committee: Johanna Aufreiter, Christian Huemer, Sylvia Stegbauer (Belvedere Research Center), Hanna Brinkmann (University for Continuing Education Krems), Jacqueline Klusik-Eckert (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Ross Parry (University of Leicester).

Conference languages: German & English

Conference partners: University of Leicester – Institute for Digital Culture; ICOM Österreich, Museumsbund Österreich, DArtHist Austria

Hashtags: #digitalmuseum #belvederemuseum

All talks will be held online. The panel discussion and a workshop for registered participants (Friday) will also take place in person at the Belvedere, Vienna. Participation in the conference is free of charge.