From May 25th to 27th, 2026, Belo
Horizonte/MG – Brazil will once more be the site of
the International Congress of Art, Science, and
Technology and Digital Arts Seminar (11th CIACT-
SAD 2026). A broad network of research groups has
organized and maintained the event since 2015. It
has as its theme for this edition:“Artifices &
Artefacts”. “Artifices & Artefacts” is a theme that
runs through the editions of the congress. It emerges
from techniques and poetics, from software and code,
from manual and automated actions, but also from
cultural and artistic objects—whether physical or
not—born from production in the intersection of art,
science, and technology. The theme of this edition
reveals crossings between the analog and the digital
without establishing hierarchies. It provokes, within
the landscape of research, tensions between the true
and the false; between fact and fiction; between a
disinterested account and a narrative in crisis;
between the artisanal and the industrial; it opens
space to reflect on automation through slow
processes; and ideas of intelligence, artificiality,
imagination, and creativity are thrown into crisis.
CIACT-SAD is organized by Laboratório de
Poéticas Fronteiriças (https://linktr.ee/labfront –
UEMG/CNPq) from a committee composed of
members of various institutions (UEMG, CEFET-
MG, UFSM, UFBA) and an enormous scientific
committee consisting of doctoral professors from the
country and abroad. The 2026 edition has the
support of national funding agencies and various
other partners, such as researchers, artists, and
specialists from many different fields. The program is
quite complete, with participants from the country
and abroad. Its seminar section brings a thematic
curatorial focus on the “Artifices & Artefacts,” with
guests presenting their advanced research on the
relationships between art, science, and technology.
As a congress, we have the presentation of work
by master’s, doctoral, and post-doctoral students
from associations, research groups, and graduate
programs in various areas. These presentation
proposals, approved in a double-blind review system,
are grouped into simultaneous Working Groups and
Reading Residencies in the program. The event
publishes a volume of proceedings with complete
papers in all its editions (http://ciact-sad.labfront.
com/anais). In addition to work presentations and
guests, there is a cultural program with book
launches, exhibitions, and various artistic
expressions. Therefore, we call on interested parties
to present research (communications) in Working
Groups (WG), participate in the Reading Residency,
and for exhibition during the event. (see more: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PNgH6uI9Qra5YxyIDPV7bGl_BQHiD0Y_)