GENERATIVE ART 2026
C A L L - F O R - P A P E R / P O S T E R / A R T W O R K S / P E R F O R M A N C E
GA2026, the 29th Generative Art Conference, Exhibition, Live Performances
GENERATIVE ART worthiness // AI
The location is in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, at University Public Library of Cagliari.
The dates are the 15th, 16th, and 17th of December 2026.
  • Generative Art & AI uniqueness. The theme of this conference is how to preserve human complexity through Generative Art and AI.
    After two centuries of industrial production, AI can now respond to the human demand for the uniqueness of a handcrafted product, in contrast to an identical mass-produced item.
  • Art, poetry, music, architecture, and historical cities need generative ideas to adapt to the deep new demands of our fast-changing times.
  • Our field of interest is to identify these possibilities and relate the most advanced creative approaches of Generative Art and AI.
  • We will be happy to present your generative approach. This can be done through generative ideas that could safeguard specific identities of Art, Nature, Environments and History.
    • Art&Science - Generative AI - Image&Space - Music&Poetry - Visionary Scenarios - Infinity&Identity

    Draft Program
    Cagliari, University Library
    15 Dec. - 16 Dec. - 17 Dec.
    After 28 years of GA conferences, the generative and AI approaches are finally running in our everyday lives. So we will be happy if we will discuss this.
    This year the conference will run not only in presence and we will try to plan also an exhibition of your artworks in a GA metaverse. A session of Voices of poetry will run during the performance session at Casanatense Library. (http://generativeworld.it).
    XXIX GA Conference is organized by ARGENIA Association
    If you would like to share your scientific and creative work and your generative art and design experiences with us, please send us an abstract for a proposal of paper, artwork, installation, poster, and/or live performances (the template is on the website www.generativeart.com).
    TOPICS
    The main topic is "GENERATIVE ART worthiness // AI
    How in AI time GA human worthiness can survive?
    the field of interest are : Art, Science & Technology, Generative Art, Generative Design, Generative Philosophy, Generative AI, Generative Singularity and AI Identity, Digital Design & AI Production, Generative Architecture, Generative Geometry, Generative Music, Live Coding Music, Procedural Sounds, Generative Robotics, Cities Identity & Town Design, Mathematics, Poetic Logic, Poetry, Singularity and Generative approach, Biomimetics, Psychology and Medicine Generative models, Culture of Algorithms, Complex non-linear systems, Chaotic Dynamic Structures, Digital Culture, Visionary Art, Visionary Design, Visionary Paradigm, Generated 3D models for 3D printers, Topology, Algorithmic Art, Encoding Art & Sciences, Web Art, Nanoart, Evolutionary Design, Philosophy & Technology, Visionary Scenarios & Virtual Environment, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Artificial Behaviors, Futuring Past, Teaching Theory and Methodology, Creative Advanced Teaching
    Dear Friends of Generative Art,
    We are at the 29th Generative Art Conferences and I would like to thank all the participants in the past editions coming from many different countries of all continents because they have succeeded in supporting GA as the worldwide reference conference in the sector of the generative approach. This with their interesting contributions that were not only academic papers but work in progress able to define the real state of the art of Generative Thinking.
    Not only, the discussions, the exchanges of experience, and the working together for reaching advanced possibilities was also the unique feeling of these meetings.
    This year we will meet in Sardinia, Cagliari and we will focus our papers on the Ideas for beauty surviving and we hope that you will present the advanced ideas for using at the best your generative approach.
    Story and Peculiarities of Generative Art Conferences
    Born in 1998, the annual Generative Art conferences are the international leading meetings involving researchers, Ph.D. and creative people performing generative advanced approaches. As in the 28 previous annual conferences, our choice is to have ONLY ONE MAIN SESSION (3 days) with around 40 paper presentations (in presence and, only if necessary, online); an exhibition with posters and artworks in a metaverse; some installations and generative live-performances, whose movies will be also published in the website of the conference. This is because we like to increase the possibilities of knowing each other, exchanging experiences, and crossing opinions. We don't like parallel sessions and all accepted people will be like KEYNOTE SPEAKERS, scheduled in ONLY ONE MAIN SESSION. More than 1000 papers, artworks, and live performances presented at previous conferences are on the GA website: http://www.generativeart.com for a free consultation.
    The DEADLINE for sending your proposals (abstracts of papers, posters, artworks, installations, live performances) is the 3rd of September 2026 and we are sure that, with your contributions, GA2026, the 29th Generative Art meeting, will be, once more, a place where ideas, results, and opinions will be exchanged and where knowing people working with similar design approaches, in a wide range of different disciplines, will be possible.
    We are working to organize these three days of the conference to maximize the knowledge and exchange of opinions among the participants and also for experimenting with new possibilities of technology, like Generative AI focused also in the 2D and 3D environments.

    Type of contribution:

    • Papers to be presented the 3 days of the conference in only one main session
    • Live Performances to be presented in person during the conference.
    • Artworks and Posters to be presented with a virtual or in-presence presentation.
    What is Generative Art
    Generative Art performs the idea as a process. By moving creativity from Objects/Events to Codes, GA builds the contemporary, complex natural/artificial environment. Generative Algorithms and Transforming Rules realise, as natural DNA does, always different and unpredictable series of events, artworks, industrial objects, architectures, music, environment, communications, software, and hardware devices, all recognisable by each generative creative concept.
    Generative Art is identifiable as one of the most advanced approaches in the creative and design world. It performs the incoming new naturalness of the artificial world. Generative Projects, Morphogenetic Design, Evolutionary Systems can design the species of incoming events, their identity in progress, the recognizability of each possibly generated object, the complexity of the contemporary world, spaces, communications, and music.
    In Architecture GA can increase the identity and uniqueness of each city, performing generative codes that can be used in designing the incoming transforming paths of each town.
    In Industrial Product Design, GA performs the relation between intelligent industrial production and advanced design ideas of new naturalness.
    In In Visual Art, Literature and Music GA opens a new era of reproducibility of artworks. From a clone to a unique and unrepeatable sequence of possible final results.
    The generative approach represents the way to carry out the idea as a product, rather than the artefact-product-piece as the sole representation of the idea.

    The Generative Art Conference is a meeting place to exchange ideas, theoretical approaches, operative, and teaching experiences, and to value the innovative field of intelligent industrial production and business that belongs to the Generative approach.
    Following last year's experience, people can showcase their innovative work at the concurrent GA Performance Festival, which will be held on the same days as the conference. This will be an opportunity to show and enjoy the most advanced mix of generative entertainment media.
    Early submission, if requested, could be accepted within 15 days to obtain a letter of invitation for use in funding applications.
    - No funds are available from the GA2026 organization.
    - conference participants will pay a registration fee for covering the conference expenses, lunches, proceedings paper book with ISBN international code and conference dinner.
    - To ensure a high-quality conference, all abstracts and papers will be reviewed by the Conference Chair and by the scientific Committee.
    - The proceedings of GA2026 will be printed in advance (with an international ISBN number) to give written support to the conference and enhance the discussions. The proceedings will be published as a hardcopy book by Domus Argenia Publisher, including all accepted papers, posters, artworks, installations, and live performance presentations. The book will be available in time for the conference. A parallel e-book will be available for all participants. Moreover, the best-focused contributions will also be published in the journal GASATHJ, Generative Art Science and Technology hard Journal (https://www.gasathj.com), after selection and review, to upgrade the papers into multimedia articles that fit the character of the Journal.
    DEADLINES:
    - Sending proposals using THIS TEMPLATE: (postponed to) 23rd of September 2026 (or earlier, if you like, in order to receive an official invitation letter asap)
    - Acceptance confirmation: 15 October 2026 (double-reviewed)
    - Registration, also for paying a reduced fee: 30 October 2026
    - 9 November 2026. Final papers (or long text presentations of artworks/installations / live performances) for publication. This is also the deadline for submitting images for exhibition in the GA metaverse exhibition.
    Please, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at celestino.soddu@polimi.it or celestino.soddu@argenia.it
    notes:
    - EARLY SUBMISSION: If a letter of invitation is needed for funding applications or to obtain a visa, please specify it, and the proposals will be reviewed within 15 days.
    Please note:
    - No funds are available by the GA2026 organization.
    - To ensure a high-quality conference, all abstracts and papers will be double-reviewed by the Conference Chair and the Scientific Committee.
    - The proceedings of GA2026 will be printed in advance (with ISBN international number) to give written support to the conference and enhance the discussions. The proceedings will be published as a paper book by Domus Argenia Publisher with all the accepted papers, posters, artworks, installations, and live performance presentations. The book will be available in time for the conference. A parallel e-book will be available for all participants.
    - All contributions presented and accepted will also be published on the website www.generativeart.com after the conference.
    - FEES:
    for attending the conference:
    - FREE entrance to (only) attend the conference, Signing up is requested for reserving the seats.
    - Reduced fee (until October 30) for invited people and people whose paper, poster, artwork, installation, and live performance are accepted by the scientific committee. The fee will cover conference location expenses, the hardcopy book of proceedings, a bag with other materials, 3 lunches, the conference dinner, coffee breaks, and pizza snacks.
    - Extra reduced fee (until October 20) for aged people over 70 whose paper, poster, artwork, installation, and live performance are accepted by the scientific committee.
    - NO FEE for students and young artists (born after 2000) attending the conference in person and presenting posters or artworks. (without getting the hardcopy proceedings paper book, lunches, and dinner)
    As with previous conferences, since we chose not to have sponsors, the fee is necessary and will cover only the conference expenses.
    15, 16, and 17 of December 2026
    Generative Art Conference/ Exhibition and Live-Performances is organised by Generative Art & Design Lab, ARGENIA Ass.
    Location: Italy, Sardinia, Cagliari, University Public Library.
    ask information to Celestino Soddu