Posted by Vernelle A. A. Noel has been named the Art Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2026. SIGGRAPH is one of the premier conferences for computer graphics and interactive techniques. The theme for this year is:
The Creative Complexities of Translation: Practices, Artifacts, and Stories
This year’s Art Papers will focus on The Creative Complexities of Translation: Practices, Artifacts, and Stories. Creative practices have always been spaces that facilitate expression, communication, exploration, and ways of making the invisible visible. This year, we emphasize the dynamic nature of human creativity, technologies, societies, and how translation figures in these processes and outcomes. We situate the labor and creative possibilities that emerge when studying and translating creative practices across time, culture, community, domains, and media while including diverse knowledge systems and fostering hybridity. How are artists, designers, critics, technologists, and activists translating elements of the past, remediating the present, and imagining the future while grounded in the real, across these frames? This year’s SIGGRAPH encourages radical rethinking and grappling with the complexities of such translations.
The SIGGRAPH Art Papers track is the premier place to publish critical findings within these diverse fields of art practices where they converge on screen, through interactive methods, within digital, mechanical, or biological interfaces.
Accepted papers will be published in The Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques: PACMCGIT.
Please join us in the SIGGRAPH 2026 Art Papers in Los Angeles, California.
Vernelle A. A. Noel
SIGGRAPH 2026 Art Papers Chair
The ACM SIGGRAPH community is a global nonprofit organization serving the evolution of computer graphics and interactive techniques. With thousands of members across the world, the researchers, artists, developers, filmmakers, scientists, and business professionals of ACM SIGGRAPH are building the future of digital art and interactive design.