Belvedere Hosts International Online Conference on the Art Museum in the Digital Age, January 2027

The Belvedere in Vienna is organizing an international online conference titled "Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter – 2027," scheduled across five days from 25 to 29 January 2027. Each session runs from 17:00 to 20:00. The event announcement was posted on Monday, 19 October 2026. The conference examines how digital technologies have reshaped museum work over recent decades, including the digital indexing of collections, standardized metadata, and new mediation formats such as virtual exhibitions and augmented reality applications. A central focus is generative artificial intelligence, which differs from earlier tools by producing content independently rather than merely documenting or visualizing it. The organizers frame AI systems as co-creators of cultural production that also alter the conditions under which knowledge is generated, communicated, and evaluated. The conference further interrogates how such systems reframe core museum concepts, among them authorship, originality, evidence, creativity, authenticity, and interpretive authority. Contact for the event is listed as O.Khafagi@belv. Registration details and the full program were not specified in the available material.