IDOS_Arts 2026
III Global Congress on Digital Innovation in the Visual and Performing Arts on
Illuminating the Archive, Tracing the Shadow:
Performance and Digital Heritage
30 November – 2 December 2026
Avignon Université, France
The rapid development of digital technologies is profoundly transforming the ways in which cultural heritage is created, preserved, and transmitted. In the fields of the visual and performing arts, these transformations bring both new forms of visibility and new zones of obscurity. Digital tools allow unprecedented possibilities for documentation, archiving, and dissemination, while at the same time generating traces that escape traditional archival frameworks. Between light and shadow, contemporary cultural practices produce new kinds of records, data, and memories whose status remains uncertain, raising important questions for artists, scholars, archivists, and technologists alike. This third conference continues the work initiated during the previous meetings of the IDOS_Arts network, which have brought together scholars, artists, archivists, and technologists to explore the impact of digital innovation on the visual and performing arts. The first two conferences concerning the Hyperstage Project highlighted the importance of digitisation, metadata, ontologies, and virtual reconstruction in expanding access to cultural heritage, and in developing new tools for research, preservation, and dissemination. They demonstrated how digital platforms, databases, and immersive environments can illuminate artistic practices that were once difficult to document or analyse, opening new perspectives across disciplines.
Contacts
Please send your proposals to the email addresses below:
cyrielle.garson@univ-avignon.fr
paola.ranzini@univ-avignon.fr
cecile.chantraine_braillon@univ-lr.fr