150 SEATS · BY INVITATION OR TICKET · 3 DAYS

Leading the coming wave

We are at a turning point. Technology accelerates without direction. Art speaks without amplification. Brave New Work brings together the people who refuse to accept that divide.

01 / The Question

What happens when the future arrives before we are ready for it?

Something is breaking down — in how we make culture, in how we build systems, in how we imagine what comes next. The institutions that shape our world are moving fast and mostly alone. Artists and technologists occupy different rooms, different languages, different assumptions about what matters.

This is not inevitable. It is a choice. And it can be unmade.

We are not here to solve anything. We are here to start a different kind of conversation — one where "good" is not assumed, but pursued. Together. In public. With care.

02 / The Format

An intimate congress. Not a conference.

Awe-Inspiring Work

Internationally recognized artists whose practice sits at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

The City as Canvas

Exhibitions, installations, and public art across Santa Barbara. The event does not end at the door.

Real Conversation

Lectures capped at 150–200 people. You will speak to the speakers. That is not an accident.

A Community, Not an Audience

Networking, receptions, and collaborative projects designed to outlast the four days.

03 / The Inquiry

October 6th, 7th and 8th, 2026

Santa Barbara, CA

04 / The Institutions

Art, Design & Architecture Museum

Multiple institutions. One conversation.

UCSB Media Arts and Technology

Community Arts Workshop

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara

And More …

Santa Barbara Center for Art and Technology

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

05 / Advisors

The people who made this possible.

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

David Laurent

CEO, FutureAI Labs

06 / Support

This work is made possible by those who believe in it.

The Peter Brill Family Foundation

The David S. Bermant Foundation

Championing art at the intersection of science and technology since 1986.

The Chumash Arts Foundation

Rooted in this land. Invested in its future.

Sullivan Goss Gallery

Visit Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara County Arts Commission

Founding support for the symposium program.

Santa Barbara's home for serious art.

Partners in placing this city on the cultural map.

Public investment in public imagination.

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