There are pressing questions that culture, technology, business, or public institutions cannot resolve alone.
They require a space for informed disagreement, shared responsibility, and meaningful consensus.
a public platform for dialogue, responsible innovation, and collaboration at the intersection of culture, artificial intelligence, and society.
Take part in "AI on Our Terms" Research and help shape the role AI should play in the future of culture.
We see culture as central to human development in a post-material world — and AI technology as a force that, when stewarded responsibly, can make culture accessible, productive, and meaningful at a planetary scale.
We connect people and perspectives that are too often separated: artists and developers, institutions and entrepreneurs, researchers and communities, policymakers and practitioners.
We believe the relationship between culture and technology must remain open, responsible, and human-centred.
The Alliance works at the intersection of public dialogue, practical production, and education. We turn fragmented perspectives into meaningful agendas, experiments, and frameworks for action.
Three interconnected directions form the foundation of our activities.
We collect, analyse, and synthesise the voices of cultural stakeholders on the impact of AI. We formulate shared requests and positions, contribute to policy discussions, and advocate for culture and society in AI governance.
We also facilitate dialogue, mediation, and arbitration where interests, values, and expectations collide.
We create and support projects at the intersection of culture and AI. These may include new creative formats, collaborative experiments, research-driven prototypes, public programmes, and models of cultural entrepreneurship.
Our aim is to demonstrate what responsible coexistence can produce in practice.
We develop an educational track that encourages a responsible, nuanced, and multifaceted approach to AI.
We help cultural professionals, technology practitioners, institutions, and wider audiences understand both the opportunities and the societal implications of AI — and develop the capacity to make informed choices.
Culture–technology relations affect an entire ecosystem. The Alliance brings together those who create, develop, fund, research, regulate, experience, and care about culture.
Artists, writers, musicians, designers, performers, and creative practitioners.
AI developers, technology companies, researchers, and infrastructure builders.
Museums, theatres, festivals, cultural organisations, archives, and educational institutions.
Founders, cultural entrepreneurs, investors, and organisations developing new models.
Scholars and experts in culture, technology, economics, ethics, and society.
Public authorities, regulators, advocacy groups, and organisations shaping the public interest.
People who engage with culture, participate in it, and shape its future through their choices.
Anyone bringing a relevant perspective, question, experiment, or constructive challenge.
We are building a platform for people who believe that culture
and technology need not exist in opposition.
If you have a perspective, a question, a project,
or a reason to participate, we would like to hear from you.
The Alliance is initiated by the people behind CultTech — a team with experience building connections between culture, technology, entrepreneurship, and society.
Our work is grounded in the understanding that complex challenges cannot be addressed from a single perspective. We initiate cross-sector conversations, bring together the expertise they require, and help carry them through to tangible outcomes — in production, policymaking, and funding.
The Alliance is being developed as an independent, non-profit organisation based in Vienna, Austria, with an international outlook.
The kinds of organisations we hope to bring into the Alliance — in playful placeholder form.
