International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art 2026
- 12:00-11: 59 PM Friday
- Registration Required

The City of Dubai will be hosting the 31st edition of The International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art, under the theme of ELYAH: CONSTELLATING PLACE, DATA AND IDENTITY. As Dubai is a city defined by accelerated innovation and creative ambition, where desert meets data, and where the future is actively designed. ELYAH invites participants to explore how light and code, story and system, converge to form new ways of understanding. Just as ancient navigators turned to the stars, today’s artists and technologists interpret the signals of an algorithmic cosmos, charting the digital unknown with creativity as their compass.
At the heart of this exploration is art—giving form to abstraction, emotion to data, and human perspective to systems. Through installation, performance, moving image, sound, code, and other emergent media, ISEA2026 will transform Dubai into a living constellation of experiences, where the poetic meets the programmable, and imagination proposes new modes of infrastructure.
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