We’re excited to invite you to the inaugural AR(T)MISTICE Forum on Digital Art Peacebuilding, a unique virtual event taking place on 23 June 2025, 16:00 – 18:00 CEST / 10:00 – 12:00 EDT.
Over two hours, this first-of-its-kind event will explore how artists can reclaim the digital space from hate and misinformation, transforming it into a medium for empathy, shared memory, and collective healing.
Conflicts are escalating and information wars are proliferating. But wars don’t end when the fighting stops – they end only when people begin to feel empathy for their antagonists. Sadly, instead of fostering understanding, the digital space has become a weapon of mass division: social media platforms amplify hatred, manipulate memory, and reward polarization.
AR(T)MISTICE responds to this crisis with a timely and bold proposal: to launch a global movement for Digital Art Peacebuilding. Through keynotes, panels, and live dialogue, it will convene thought leaders in digital art, curatorial practice, and peacebuilding to explore how co-creation among antagonists can disrupt narratives of enmity and transform the digital domain.
Why This Matters
The world is on fire – beset by wars, conflicts, and hatreds. And the digital domain is a huge part of the problem because it is an arena for propagandists to spread this hate. To end conflict, we need to reclaim the digital domain.
Digital art can play this role if artists from opposing sides work together to co-create powerful pieces that speak to audiences on both sides of a conflict.
Confirmed participants include leading digital artists such as Kevin Abosch, A.L.Crego, YUYU, curators like Simon Mraz, Min-hyung Kang, Alex Aravantinos, and peacebuilders with direct experience of fostering post-conflict cohesion like Marina Pisklakova-Parker, Bjørn Ihler, Jacob Bul Bior and Abul Oyay Deng from Anataban, and others. At the Forum we will also discuss an AR(T)MISTICE Manifesto, laying the groundwork for Digital Art Peacebuilding as a new form of cultural diplomacy – one in which art becomes not just commentary, but intervention.
Find more information about the event at the website: https://www.artmistice.org/ar-t-mistice-forum
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube.
Date: 23 June 2025, 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EDT
