PIATE 2026 Vietnam VIP Guest Artist Vo Viet Dung | Spirituality and Images in the Age of AI

As AI generates images and digital technology rapidly reshapes our senses and everyday lives, how might long-standing spiritual symbols and religious imagery be read anew?

Vo Viet Dung, PIATE 2026’s Vietnam VIP Guest Artist, places this question at the centre of both his artistic practice and research. He explores how digital technology and biotechnology are transforming human life, perception, worldviews, and traditional religious ideologies.

Working beyond the familiar languages of painting and sculpture, he uses video art and mixed media to illuminate the point where technology meets the human interior.

This article introduces Vo Viet Dung’s artistic practice, essential visitor information for PIATE 2026, and how new YEATU members can receive a complimentary invitation ticket.

PIATE 2026 Art Fair: Visitor Information

Dates: October 1–4, 2026

Venue: Goyang Flower Exhibition Center

Vo Viet Dung booth: V-8

October 1, VIP Preview: 2:00–7:00 PM

October 2–3: 11:00 AM–7:00 PM

October 4: 11:00 AM–6:00 PM

Last admission: one hour before closing

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About the Artist

Artist: Vo Viet Dung

Born: 1981, Hue, Vietnam

Based in: Vietnam and Thailand

Primary media: Video art and mixed media

Key interests: Contemporary spirituality, digital and AI symbolism, and technology’s relationship with human perception

PIATE 2026 booth: V-8

Exhibition dates: October 1–4

From Hue, Vietnam, to Thailand: A Practice Rooted in Research

Vo Viet Dung is a visual artist from Hue, Vietnam. After earning a BFA from Hue University of Arts, he completed an MFA at Mahasarakham University in Thailand. He is currently pursuing a PhD in International Visual Arts at the same university.

His work is not intended simply to present technology as a new or convenient tool. Instead, it examines how technological advances reshape the ways we understand the world—our beliefs, senses, and relationship to enduring symbols.

This line of inquiry brings contemporary social change into dialogue with the memory of traditional spirituality. Images on screen become more than information to consume: they prompt us to reconsider what we believe and what we find meaningful.

How Do Spiritual Symbols Change in the Age of AI?

Today, AI and digital platforms place countless images before us at speed. Within this shift, Vo Viet Dung asks what spiritual symbols and religious imagery gain—and lose—in meaning.

For him, technology is less a tool for delivering answers than a catalyst for thought. Through video art and mixed media, viewers move beyond the surface of the image to encounter shifting emotions, beliefs, and perceptions at the intersection of people and technology.

When you encounter his work at PIATE 2026, consider the following questions:

What emotions do the digital images and symbols in the work evoke?

How do traditional spiritual or religious images change when they meet technology?

What does the artist seek to reveal about humanity through technology?

Amid technological progress, what do we believe—and what do we begin to sense anew?

A Practice Expanded Through Video Art and Mixed Media

Vo Viet Dung has maintained an active practice in video art as well as exhibitions across Vietnam. Rather than remaining within a single genre, his career reflects an artistic world that moves across the boundaries of contemporary visual art and technology.

Selected Exhibition History

2023 National Sculpture Exhibition, Vietnam

2022 National Applied Art Exhibition, Vietnam

2020 Vietnam Fine Arts Exhibition, Vietnam

2015 Vietnam Fine Arts Exhibition, Vietnam

2014 National Young Fine Arts Festival, Hanoi, Vietnam

2013 Video Art Exhibition Perspective, NSAF 15 Le Loi, Hue, Vietnam

2012 Video Art Exhibition VideoBites – The Everything Else 02, Berlin, Germany

The artist is expected to provide documentation for the featured works and catalogue entries. Once updated, the information will offer more specific viewing points, including materials, dimensions, and images.

Discover Vo Viet Dung’s Work at PIATE 2026

Vo Viet Dung’s work will be on view at Booth V-8 of the PIATE 2026 Art Fair.

If you are curious about how technology changes human perception and belief—and how contemporary art records those shifts through images—take a moment with his work. It may become an opportunity to discover your own questions about image-making and spirituality in the age of AI.

Receive a Complimentary PIATE 2026 Invitation Ticket

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