{"id":33347,"date":"2026-06-14T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/?p=33347"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:17:20","slug":"isi-yogyakarta-perkuat-kepemimpinan-seni-asia-pasifik-melalui-apaf-2026-artistic-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/2026\/06\/14\/isi-yogyakarta-perkuat-kepemimpinan-seni-asia-pasifik-melalui-apaf-2026-artistic-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"ISI Yogyakarta Strengthens Asia-Pacific Arts Leadership through APAF 2026 \u201cArtistic Intelligence\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yogyakarta, June 13, 2026 \u2014 The Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) Yogyakarta, in collaboration with Project Eleven, is hosting the Asia Pacific Art Forum (APAF) 2026 with the theme \u201cArtistic Intelligence.\u201d This forum serves as a platform for academic exchange, artistic collaboration, and international networking within the contemporary art scene of the Asia-Pacific region. The event underscores ISI Yogyakarta's role as an art higher education institution that not only focuses on education and creation but also acts as a hub for knowledge production, artistic research, cultural diplomacy, and cross-border collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

APAF 2026 is the second edition of the forum, which was initiated in 2025 as a collaboration between ISI Yogyakarta and Project Eleven. In its inaugural edition, APAF 2025 was themed \u201cPedagogy and Practice\u201d and brought together representatives from Indonesian and international art institutions to discuss contemporary art education and practice-based research. This year, APAF broadens its scope of ideas through the theme \u201cArtistic Intelligence,\u201d a framework that positions artistic practice as a form of knowledge rooted in experience, intuition, the body, memory, social relations, and cultural context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organization of APAF 2026 is also an important part of strengthening ISI Yogyakarta's international agenda in the context of its 42nd anniversary. ISI Yogyakarta had previously emphasized that cooperation with Project Eleven is aimed at strengthening the campus's global agenda, including through the Australian Art Orchestra residency and the Project Eleven or APAF international symposium scheduled to take place in June 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through this forum, ISI Yogyakarta brings together three main faculties: the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, the Faculty of Performing Arts, and the Faculty of Recorded Media Arts, within one ecosystem of activities including exhibitions, panel seminars, residencies, workshops, performances, masterclasses, and Indonesia\u2013Australia art networking meetings. This inter-faculty involvement demonstrates ISI Yogyakarta's capacity as an art campus capable of integrally connecting tradition, technology, research, artistic practice, and global networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme \u201cArtistic Intelligence\u201d has become relevant amid the advancements in artificial intelligence and computational technology, which increasingly influence how humans create, interpret, and distribute art. In the APAF 2026 concept document, artistic intelligence is positioned as extending beyond mere creativity. It encompasses tacit knowledge, improvisation, spatial and sonic reasoning, ritual transmission, and ethical imagination. While machine intelligence processes data, artistic intelligence processes experience and transforms memories, materials, and social contexts into aesthetic and symbolic forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rector of ISI Yogyakarta, Dr. Irwandi, M.Sn., in the context of the previous 42nd Dies Natalis, emphasized that technological advancements, including artificial intelligence, must always be interpreted through the perspectives of ethics, feeling, human experience, and cultural values. This stance aligns with the APAF 2026 position, which places art as a reflective and critical force in interpreting the future of civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The APAF 2026 series begins with several pre-symposium events, including the Australian Art Orchestra Resident Ensemble & Smoke Between Mountains presentation from June 14\u201319, 2026, at the Performance Art Faculty Arena Theater, a Chamber Made workshop, a networking session with the Australia Indonesia Art Forum at the Jogja National Museum, and performances by Monica Lim and Patrick Hartono as part of ARTJOG. The Australian Art Orchestra is also scheduled to perform at the R.J. Katamsi Gallery of ISI Yogyakarta on June 20, 2026, and at the Jogja National Museum on June 21, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presence of the Australian Art Orchestra strengthens the international dimension of this forum. The Australian Art Orchestra, founded by Paul Grabowsky AO in 1994 and now led by Aaron Choulai, is recognized as one of Australia's leading contemporary ensembles, exploring improvisation, composition, tradition, avant-garde, electronic music, and cross-cultural approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, the main agenda will take place on June 22, 2026, at the Sasana Ajiyasa Building of ISI Yogyakarta. This event includes an official opening by the Rector of ISI Yogyakarta, a keynote speech by Prof. Marie Sierra, and a panel seminar featuring Dr. Elly Kent, Dr. Alexandra Roginski, Sarah Louise Clayton, and representatives from the faculty of ISI Yogyakarta. The forum is also equipped with workshops themed \u201cIf Artworks Could Speak: Critique in Art and Cultural Discourse\u201d with Suwarno Wisetrotomo and \u201cEcological Practice and Cultural Context\u201d with Rahmat Dongaji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Faculty of Performing Arts, the symposium continues on June 23, 2026, with a panel seminar featuring Patrick Hartono, Sri Hanuraga, Aaron Choulai, Miyama McQueen-Tokita, and representatives from ISI Yogyakarta's faculty. This agenda reinforces the reading of performing arts as a space for experimentation between tradition, technology, contemporary music, cross-cultural practices, and performative knowledge. The workshops held include \u201cTraditional Music in the Technological Era\u201d with the President of Tidore and \u201cPerformative Tradition: Re-reading Cultural Ritual as Contemporary Art\u201d with Abdi Karya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Faculty of Media Recording Arts hosted the third day of the symposium on June 24, 2026, at the Audio Visual Building of FSMR ISI Yogyakarta. The panel seminar featured Ferdiansyah, Silviana Amanda Aurelia Tahalea, Dr. Haisang Javanalikhikara from Chulalongkorn University, Fassih Keiso, and lecturers from FSMR ISI Yogyakarta. The program was complemented by workshops on \u201cWriting and Developing Artistic Concepts in Art and Culture\u201d with Safir Maki and \u201cVisual Recording as an Ethnographic Medium in Indonesian Culture\u201d with Wahyudin. The symposium series concluded with a keynote by Empu Ageng Oscar Motuloh on the theme \u201cThe Eye of Time.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the symposium, APAF 2026 also features the \u201cWays of Seeing\u201d exhibition at the R.J. Katamsi Gallery of ISI Yogyakarta from June 20\u201327, 2026. This exhibition involves the Faculty of Recorded Media Arts on the first floor, the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design on the second floor, and a solo exhibition by Fassih Keiso on the third floor. The presence of this exhibition expands the forum from an academic discussion space to a publicly accessible visual, curatorial, and artistic experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Eleven's involvement in APAF 2026 strengthens the relationship of ISI Yogyakarta with the Australian contemporary art network. Project Eleven is an initiative founded by the Kabo family in 2016 to support artists and projects that promote new ideas, production of works, market openings, and cross-cultural collaboration in contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

APAF 2026 is also supported by the Indonesian Government through Dana Indonesiana. Dana Indonesiana is a cultural grant facilitation program provided to cultural groups or individuals and is managed to support the advancement of national culture. This support indicates that the international-level art forum at ISI Yogyakarta is part of the major current of strengthening Indonesia's cultural ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through APAF 2026, ISI Yogyakarta reaffirms its strategic position as an arts university capable of bringing together education, research, creation, curation, technology, tradition, and cultural diplomacy. This forum not only expands ISI Yogyakarta\u2019s academic and artistic networks in the Asia-Pacific region but also demonstrates that art institutions play a vital role in shaping new understandings of intelligence in the age of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By highlighting Artistic Intelligence, ISI Yogyakarta demonstrates that art remains an important space for understanding human complexity, nurturing culture, and building a future more sensitive to human values. APAF 2026 marks ISI Yogyakarta's continued progress as a leading center for Indonesian art, relevant in global discourse, and a vital hub for the convergence of artists, academics, curators, researchers, students, and international art communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yogyakarta, 13 Juni 2026 \u2014 Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Yogyakarta bersama Project Eleven menyelenggarakan Asia Pacific Art Forum (APAF) 2026 bertema \u201cArtistic Intelligence\u201d sebagai ruang pertemuan akademik, artistik, dan jejaring internasional seni kontemporer di kawasan Asia-Pasifik. Forum ini menegaskan peran ISI Yogyakarta sebagai perguruan tinggi seni yang tidak hanya berfokus pada pendidikan dan penciptaan karya, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,37,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agenda","category-berita-dan-info","category-kampus-berdampak"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-22-at-08.27.28-1140x445.jpeg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-22-at-08.27.28-463x348.jpeg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-22-at-08.27.28-300x169.jpeg",300,169,true],"full":["https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-22-at-08.27.28.jpeg",1280,721,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33350,"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33347\/revisions\/33350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isi.ac.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}