Istanbul Digital Art Festival with themes and artists changing every year will be welcoming even more artists this year than in the past two editions. The festival will be organized based on the questions asked about digital art and will feature kinetic art, bio-art, algorithmic art, and different areas of new media. IDAF will also feature quality works by artists from all over the world. And highlights the potential of digital art to bridge cultural diversity and bring people together.

Last year, the festival focused on the issue of sustainability, this year it will be centered on human-nature, human-machine, and machine-nature. It will focus on molecules and philosophical production of raw material, and the digital art’s sub-titles such as bio-art algorithms, artificial intelligence, and new media. The artists in the exhibition have adopted various approaches to research molecules and raw materials. Some artists use microscopes to capture images of molecules in motion, while others have created abstract representations of the world by imagining how it can be seen at the molecular level. In this way, the artists will show that science, technology, and art can intersect through the exhibition and contribute to how these phenomena can melt the boundaries between each other and evolve in new ways. Unlike other exhibitions, the festival will bring together works that would not normally come together and seek what kind of contributions different disciplines can make to each other. Thus, it will encourage the audience to think about the relationship between different disciplines.

Every year, visitors see the current reflections of different sub-headings of digital arts. The visitors will be able to discover more works based on mathematics, physics, and natural sciences this year, unlike other years. They will be able to see the works and can participate in interactive projects such as kinetic arts. The festival will also feature VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) works and will appeal to audiences of all ages.

The festival will also feature workshops and panels. The latest developments in NFT and its ecosystem, how phenomena such as bio-art and bio-design will shape our future, and the effects of robotics and software on art will be given in workshops and panels. In this context, the festival will also host workshops where artificial intelligence and emerging artificial intelligence algorithms will be taught.