ICAPAS2026

Exploring Creative Knowledge, Sustainable Innovation, and Cultural Transformation

About ICAPAS 2026

The world is experiencing profound technological, environmental, and cultural transformations that are reshaping how knowledge is created, shared, and experienced. Artistic research has emerged as a distinctive mode of inquiry that integrates creative practice, critical reflection, and interdisciplinary collaboration to address these complex challenges.

The 14th International Conference on Arts and Culture in the Asia-Pacific (ICAPAS 2026) invites scholars, artists, designers, architects, performers, musicians, filmmakers, photographers, animators, educators, and creative practitioners to explore how artistic research contributes to human flourishing and planetary well-being.

Framed through the complementary concepts of Resonance and Relevance, the conference examines how artistic research generates meaningful knowledge while responding to pressing global issues, including sustainability, cultural diversity, technological transformation, and social innovation.

ICAPAS 2026 welcomes original research, practice-based inquiry, research creation, artistic experimentation, and interdisciplinary collaboration that connect creative excellence with societal impact.

Conference Theme:

Resonance and Relevance: Artistic Research for Human and Planetary Futures

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Conference Subthemes:

Resonance and Relevance: Artistic Research for Human and Planetary Futures
  1. Resonance: Creative Practice and Artistic Inquiry

Practice-based research, artistic methodologies, creative processes, embodied knowledge, material exploration, artistic epistemologies.

  1. Interdisciplinary Artistic Research

Research creation, collaborative practices, interdisciplinary methodologies, innovation, artistic knowledge production.

  1. Arts, Science, Technology and Artificial Intelligence

AI, creative coding, digital humanities, VR/AR/XR, immersive media, robotics, computational creativity.

  1. Performance and Media Arts

Music, theatre, dance, film, photography, animation, games, sound art, transmedia storytelling.

  1. Design, Architecture and Human Experience

Architecture, interior design, product design, communication design, service design, spatial experience, human-centered innovation.

  1. Heritage, Memory and Cultural Futures

Cultural heritage, indigenous knowledge, museums, archives, digital heritage, memory studies.

  1. Sustainability, Ecology and Planetary Futures

Environmental art, regenerative design, climate action, ecological practice, circular design, resilience.

  1. Arts Education and Creative Learning

Creative pedagogy, curriculum innovation, educational technology, lifelong learning.

  1. Arts for Society, Culture and Well-being

Community arts, creative economy, social innovation, cultural policy, inclusion, health and well-being.

Who Should Participate?

Resonance and Relevance: Artistic Research for Human and Planetary Futures
  • Researchers
  • Artists
  • Designers
  • Architects
  • Musicians
  • Theatre Practitioners
  • Performers
  • Filmmakers
  • Photographers
  • Animators
  • Creative Technologists
  • Educators
  • Graduate Students
  • Policy Makers

Abstract Submission

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract that clearly presents:

  • Background
  • Objectives
  • Methodology or artistic approach
  • Expected contribution
  • Five keywords

Requirements

  • 200–300 words
  • English
  • Original work
  • Not previously published

Important Dates

Activity

Date

Abstract Submission Deadline

31 July 2026

Notification of Acceptance

7 August 2026

Full Paper Submission

11 September 2026

Conference Dates

30 September – 1 October 2026

Submit Your Abstract

Abstract Submission

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