REACT 2025
Research and Education Advancement in Culture and Technology
October 20–21, 2025 | Vienna, Austria
REACT 2025 is the inaugural edition of a new annual academic conference dedicated to exploring the evolving intersections of culture and technology. Held in Vienna, two days before the CultTech Summit 2025, REACT 2025 invites scholars, researchers, educators, and practitioners to engage in visionary dialogue and critical reflection on the societal transformations driven by cultural and technological interplay.
What is unique about REACT?
  • Post-disciplinary
    Bringing together researchers from diverse fields to examine a shared focus—how art, culture, and creativity intersect with technological innovation and shape society.
  • Vision-forming
    Building complex, nuanced understandings of contemporary culture-technology dynamics, embracing both breakthroughs and uncertainties.
  • Education-focused
    Exploring how educational practices must evolve at this intersection to respond to both scholarly and market-driven needs.
  • Socially engaged
    Bridging academia and the public, with the support of CultTech Summit, to broaden the reach and impact of academic insight.
REACT 2025 is a post-disciplinary conference, focusing on the interplay between culture and technology rather than any single academic discipline. By integrating diverse perspectives and methodologies, the conference seeks to offer a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of contemporary processes and phenomena. We welcome contributions that examine the intersections of culture and technology from various disciplinary and methodological viewpoints. Contributions are invited across a range of topics, including but not limited to:
  • Art
    AI and digital transformation in music, gaming, and visual arts
  • Education
    Teaching creative technologies across disciplines
  • Technology
    Cultural influence on emerging tech
  • Policy
    Governance and regulation in the cultural & technology sector
  • Economics
    Business models at the culture & technology intersection
  • Cognition
    Cognitive and psychological impacts of digital media

    The conference encourages both theoretical inquiry and practice-based research.
Submission options
  • Panels
    Thematic sessions with multiple presentations on a shared topic; can be disciplinary-specific but not exclusively.
  • Roundtables
    Interdisciplinary discussions focused on one question, fostering diverse perspectives.
  • Poster Presentations
    Individual contributions, ideal for students and early-career researchers to present current or recent work.
Research and Educational Advancement in Culture and Technology
20-21 October 2025
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