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.
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 would be happy to discuss this.
This year the conference will run not only in person and we will also try to plan an exhibition of your artworks in a GA metaverse. A Voices of Poetry session will run during the performance session.
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 is: 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 Conference, and I would like to thank all the participants in past editions from many different countries across all continents, as they have helped make GA the worldwide reference conference in the generative approach. This, along with their interesting contributions that were not only academic papers but also works in progress, helped 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 leading international meetings for researchers, PhD students, and creative people who perform advanced generative 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 person and, only if necessary, online); an exhibition with posters and artworks in a metaverse; some installations and generative live performances, whose movies will also be published on the conference. This is because we like to increase the chances of getting to know 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: https://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 organise these three days of the conference to maximise knowledge exchange and opinion sharing among participants, and to experiment with new technological possibilities, such as Generative AI, with a focus on 2D and 3D environments.
Type of contribution:
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 enhance the identity and uniqueness of each city by generating codes that can be used to design 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 to cover the conference expenses, lunches, proceedings paper book with an 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: 3rd 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, 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.
- 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
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PAST GENERATIVE ART EVENTS
The GenerativeArt conference published all papers / artworks / performances presented since 1998
PAPERS presented at last 28 Generative Art Annual Conferences:
GASATHJ
Generative Art Science and Technology hard Journal: articles about generative approaches in the Digital Civilization
GASATHJ website
GENERATIVE METAVERSE
The GenerativeWorld metaverse is a free-access metaverse where it is possible to visit several architectures generated using "Argenia", the AI generative software designed by Celestino Soddu. More, in this Generative Metaverse you can find the exhibitions of Generative Art annual conferences
GENERATIVE ART CONFERENCE
Annual international conference since 1998. Generative Art is the idea realised as a generative code of artificial events, and as the construction of dynamic, complex, non-linear systems capable of generating endless variations in line with a vision.
GA conferences website for "computer" navigationMAILING LIST
send an email to GENERATIVE ART
(only 2-3 emails/year)
SUPPORTING free GA papers & GASATHJ
Generative Projects
Futuring Past
Futuring Past works by logically interpreting the structures of harmonic transformations identifiable in the past masterpieces, and by transcribing them in visionary generative algorithms
FP paper - Futuring Past moviePoetic Logic
Poetic Logic works by logically interpreting references, starting from Art-Science experiences in the Italian Renaissance, and using this for running the Generative process.
- PL paperGenerative Design TEACHING
Master Thesis since the beginning of the Internet (1995)
Master Thesis at Politecnico di Milano, Generative Design Lab
1800
Happy Participants to the last 28 Generative Art conferences
thousands
Papers, Artworks, Music, Poetries and Live performances presented in the GA Conference
28
Proceedings Books published
40
Discussions about increasing possibilities of Generative Art and AI
Contact Us
You can contact us without problem for more info about GA conference, for asking us about a lecture at your University or company, for involving us in a new Generative project, for proposing your article to be published in GASATHJ Journal or for asking interviews and/or support for your master and PhD thesis. Moreover, you can ask us to be on our mailing list for any news about Generative Art conferences. If so, we will send you no more than 3 emails/year.
We have different addresses: Rome (home and office), Pigra (Como Lake, office) and Serramanna (Sardinia, Argenia Generative Lab). So, please, contact us using email and ask where to send your packages.
- Address: 91 Via del Governo Vecchio, 00186 Roma, Italy
- Phone: +39 3356099787
- Email: celestino.soddu@argenia.it
- Email: enrica.colabella@generativeart.com
- Website: www.generativeart.com
- Website: www.generativedesign.com
- Website: www.generativeworld.it
- Website: www.artscience-ebookshop.com
- Website: www.gasathj.com
- Website: www.soddu.it
Generative Art Portfolio by C.Soddu
Generative Projects since 1988, focusing on the Characters and Identity of Past Masterpieces for shaping visionary future scenarios. For each project, original Generative algorithms were designed by Celestino Soddu and used to generate variations of possible 3D scenarios. The results are recognisable as belonging to the Past Identities and to the author's Interpretation, as normally happens when an artist refers to past masterpieces. Enrica Colabella participated in these long creative experiences with her suggestions and criticisms and developing together the Generative Philosophy.
All images belong to 3d models generated by Celestino Soddu with his ARGENIA generative software
On the website cover: A generated city over the image by Leonardo da Vinci, Venice scenario designed by Celestino Soddu, interpreting Canaletto and using his generative AI software Argenia. The 3D model is not a copy of a real Venice event but rather a creative interpretation of Venice's complex idea of beauty. It is a generated event over a Piranesi engraving, generating scenarios of the Ravenna harbour.