Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

This paper presents an analysis of five years (2021–2025) of conference discourse across six digital art
conferences, aiming to trace thematic shifts associated with the rapid development of emerging technologies,
namely artificial intelligence (AI), immersive technologies and the metaverse, and blockchain
technologies with NFTs. The results indicate a marked increase in AI-related contributions, while immersive
technologies maintain a relatively stable share of the discourse and blockchain- and NFT-based
works remain marginal. Overall, whereas immersive technologies and blockchain-related topics exhibit
relative stability, AI shows a significant rise after 2022, emerging as a dominant theme within digital art
conference discourse.