ISEA2026 opens registration: art and technology across Dubai from 6 to 15 November
Dubai Culture hosts the international symposium on electronic art, with free exhibitions at Expo City, The Dubai Mall and Madinat Jumeirah and a paid online academic programme.
Al Wasl Plaza, ARTE Museum and ToDA, Dubai
Registration is now open for ISEA2026, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, which Dubai Culture hosts from 6 to 15 November. The event, moved from its original April dates, brings ten days of exhibitions, performances, talks and workshops where art meets science and technology, under the title ELYAH: Constellating Place, Data and Identity.
The live artistic programme is spread across Dubai, with immersive works at Al Wasl Plaza in Expo City Dubai, shows at ARTE Museum in The Dubai Mall and at the Theatre of Digital Art (ToDA) in Madinat Jumeirah, plus activations around the city. It is free, but you need to register. The academic programme of more than 40 artist talks, panels and workshops runs online and costs Dh180, or Dh90 for students booking with a university email.
ISEA is a travelling symposium founded in the Netherlands in 1990, and this is its Dubai edition, organised with Zayed University as partner. Register on the ISEA2026 website before you go; exact times for each venue have not been published yet.