Now in its 17th edition, CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival returns to Santa Fe June 12–21, 2026, presenting works by seventy-one international artists working in installation, performance, and immersive media.
CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival
June 12–21, 2026
El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe
Each summer, CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival brings a cross-section of international artists to Santa Fe, many working at the edge of digital and computational practice. Now in its 17th edition, the 2026 festival unfolds June 12-21 at El Museo Cultural. The festival presents fifty works by seventy-one artists whose practices span installation, performance, and immersive media. Beyond the central exhibition, the festival extends into the city through offsite partnerships and events, activating spaces outside the main venue and situating the work within a broader local context.
CURRENTS has long positioned itself at the intersection of art and emerging technology, and this year’s program continues that trajectory while turning toward a more speculative inquiry. From kinetic sculpture to interactive systems, the works in CURRENTS 2026 make invisible processes tangible. In pieces across the exhibition, artists explore data, perception, and the relationship between physical and digital worlds, inviting audiences into systems that respond, evolve, and reveal unseen forces.
A symposium, Emergence of Other: the Numinous, Technology, and Our Future Selves, extends these concerns. Bringing together artists and scholars, this panel discussion centers on the idea of the “Other”—within and beyond us, from the conscious to the unconscious. The conversation traces how art and technology participate in constructing, obscuring, or complicating our sense of being.
In a city long shaped by both tradition and experimentation, CURRENTS 2026 situates itself within Santa Fe’s layered cultural context. It offers a space to consider how technological systems mediate not only what we see, but how we understand ourselves in relation to what lies beyond.
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