Call for Papers
REACT 2025 – Recent Advances in Culture and Technology
October 20–21, 2025 | Vienna, Austria
Deadline for submissions: June 20, 2025
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2025
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 iinvites 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.
  • Innovative
    Promoting new formats of scholarly interaction to stimulate meaningful cross-disciplinary dialogue.
  • 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.
Submissions are invited in the following formats:
  • Panels
    Proposals must include a clear, engaging title and a 300–500 word description outlining the overarching topic, its relevance to the conference, the rationale for bringing the presentations together, and the panel’s contribution to current academic debates. Panels should feature 3–4 presenters. For each participant, include: full name, institutional affiliation, paper title, and an abstract of 150–250 words. Indicate the panel chair.
  • Round Tables
    Proposals must include a title and a 300–500 word description outlining the theme, its relevance, and the intended format. Round tables should involve 3–6 participants and promote open discussion rather than formal presentations. Include each participant’s name, affiliation, role, and a 50–150 word contribution statement. A moderator must be named to facilitate the session.
  • Posters
    Poster proposals must include a title and a 200–300 word abstract detailing the research question, methodology, and key findings. Posters may present work-in-progress, case studies, or completed research. Submissions must include the presenter’s name, affiliation, and contact information, as well as any technical or spatial requirements.
All submissions will be reviewed by a multidisciplinary academic committee. Accepted contributors will be notified by July 31, 2025.
Submit your proposals through the EasyChair submission system at the following link: [ Link ]
For any inquiries, please contact us at: react2025@culttech.at