In an increasingly interconnected world, the arts continue to play a vital role in shaping intercultural dialogue, cultural understanding, and global communication. Artistic practices across literature, visual culture, media, performance, and digital platforms not only reflect cultural identities and historical experiences, but also create spaces for exchange, negotiation, and reinterpretation across linguistic, cultural, and geographical boundaries. At the same time, intercultural encounters are shaped by unequal relations of power and competing systems of meaning, making artistic communication both an opportunity for mutual understanding and a site of tension and transformation.

This Special Issue aims to explore the relationship between the arts and cultural communication within global and cross-cultural contexts. Rather than treating intercultural dialogue as self-evident, it invites critical reflection on the limitations of cultural communication through the arts. It welcomes interdisciplinary contributions that examine how artistic expression facilitates intercultural engagement, represents cultural encounters, and participates in discussions surrounding identity, memory, mobility, migration, globalization, and social transformation.

Potential topics may include artistic representations of cross-cultural experiences, media and cultural exchange, translation and adaptation, global artistic networks, and the role of digital media in contemporary cultural dialogue.

By bringing together scholars from diverse disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, this Special Issue examines how the arts contribute to understanding, negotiation, and cultural interaction in a rapidly changing global environment.