2026 International Symposium on Assistive Technology for Music and Art

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) presents AT:TENSION | Neurodiverse Sensing, Intelligences, and Dialogue in the Face of Uncertainty at the 2026 International Symposium on Assistive Technologies for Music and Art (ISATMA•26).

ISATMA•26 brings attention to our attention through various modes of dialogue. How do we understand dialogue? If information is sensed, processed, and exchanged between all intelligent systems then we are immersed in dialogue, at every scale. Opening up neurodiverse and queer ways of knowing ourselves–as processes, nested within processes–transdisciplinary artists, musicians, and thinkers indira allegra, Allison Leigh Holt, Joey Latka, and Sarah Cameron Sunde pair in three hybrid sessions. allegra and Holt engage media art, ritual, and dialogue as forms of enacted mind; Holt and Latka’s immersive performance models the flows of information in dialogue, and their autonomous forms; and Latka and Sunde guide participants on a nature walk to experience those flows with more-than-human intelligences. Please join us for these sessions taking place in CRAIVE-Lab’s 360º A/V environment and online. The full event opens and closes with 30-minute periods reserved for rest, surrounded by ambient sound and moving image, and is free to the public.

ISATMA•26 is supported by iEAR Presents!, the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at RPI, CRAIVE-Lab, and the Center for Deep Listening. ISATMA•26 is organized by Allison Leigh Holt, Ph.D. candidate in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. iEAR Presents! is curated by Kathy High and Branda Miller, and CRAIVE-Lab is directed by Jonas Braasch.

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