The 30th International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art Seoul (ISEA2025) in partnership the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee is proud to sponsor the 2nd Speculative Futures International Student Competition. The ISEA2025 theme, ‘동동 (憧憧, Dong-Dong): Creators’ Universe’, aspires to transcend the harsh realities of conflict and antagonism, initiating a global wave of unity sparked by a newfound allure. Connecting with this year’s ISEA theme, the Speculative Futures Exhibition seeks to challenge and expand our understanding of the creative and research processes of knowing about ourselves and the world around us.
Exhibition Details:
Selected works will be showcased at:
- ISEA 2025 in Seoul, Korea (May 23-29, 2025).
- SIGGRAPH 2025 in the ACM SIGGRAPH Village in Vancouver, Canada (August 10-14, 2025).
- ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee website.
The award winners will be announced at ISEA2025, SIGGRAPH 2025, and ACM Digital Arts Committee’s website. The first-place winners in each category will receive conference passes for ISEA 2025 or SIGGRAPH 2025 and be invited to speak briefly at the conferences. In addition, the winning works will be promoted on all social media channels of both events.
The mission of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee is to foster year-round engagement and dialogue within the digital, electronic, computational, and media arts. We facilitate dynamic scholarship and creative programming within the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. Our goal is to promote collaboration between artists and the larger computer graphics and interactive techniques community.
Questions? Contact Rewa Wright at rewa.wright@qut.edu.au
Rewa Wright has been working with augmented (AR) and mixed reality (MR) since 2012, and has 20 years of experience in various aspects of photographic, moving, and virtual image creation. Wright weaves together theory and practice in philosophy, cyberfeminism, interaction design, technoculture, camera-less photography, and artificial vision technologies with living plants and custom built software to examine the conditions of our relationship to computation, ecology and the body. Rewa is Māori from Ngati Taweke/Te Rarawa/Te Uri o Hau hapu of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Indigenous practices are emergent in their mixed reality performances that incorporate and adapt gestures from traditional dance, and permeate an investigation of plant-data-body ecologies.
Bonnie Mitchell is a new media artist and Professor at Bowling Green State University in Digital Arts, in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. Mitchell is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH History and Digital Arts Committee where she focuses on the development of the SIGGRAPH archives and coordination of the SPARKS lecture series. Mitchell’s artworks explore spatial and experiential relationships to our physical, social, cultural, and psychological environment through interaction, abstraction and audio. Her current creative practice focuses on development of physically immersive environments using interaction via electronics and special FX to reveal change over time. Her work has been exhibited internationally at numerous venues.
Rebecca Ruige Xu currently teaches computer art and animation at Syracuse University. Her artwork and research interests include experimental animation, visual music, artistic data visualization, interactive installations, digital performance, and virtual reality. Her recent work has been shown at: ISEA; Ars Electronica; SIGGRAPH Art Gallery; IEEE VIS Arts Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy; Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, USA; FILE– Electronic Language International Festival, Brazil; International Digital Art Exhibition, China; Boston Cyberarts Festival, USA.
Yongsoon Choi is a professor at Art & Technology at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea and leads the Lifestyle Media Group (http://LifestyleMedia.org) at Art & Technology at Graduate School of Sogang University. His main research interest is in enhancing human communication and relationships using novel interaction ways such as natural wearable interactions & interfaces, food media, multi-modal & cross-modal interactions, and affective & empathetic new media design.
Kyle Hyunsuk Kim is a design educator and creative director based in Seoul. He is a Professor at the School of Design and Dean of the Graduate School of Film and Digital Media at Hongik University. With over 30 years of experience, he specializes in interactive design, motion graphics, and UI/UX. He has worked extensively across digital media, leading diverse projects in both academia and industry. Currently serving as President of the Korean Society of Design Science, he continues to contribute to design research and practice. His work has been showcased in exhibitions in Korea and internationally.