ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community

An Invitation to Co-Create With the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community (DAC) ACM SIGGRAPH | 21 April 2026 | ACM SIGGRAPH, Art, Conferences By Gustavo Alfonso Rincon and Rebecca Xu Link: /.../an-invitation-to-co-create.../

Call for Participation: 3rd Annual Digital Arts Student Competition 2026 – Speculative Futures Website: /compet.../speculative-futures-2026/ Curated by: Scottie Chih-Chieh Huang and Rebecca Ruige Xu and Bonnie Mitchell Deadline for Submissions: May 15, 2026 Submit your Work Here: /conferences/?conf=siggraphdacspeculati0 @bonniemitchell831 @scottiehuangk @rebeccaruigexu

Deadline Extended Now Monday May 4th, 2026 Info here A Call for Participation An Audio/Visual Augmented World Collaborative Teams Experiment Deadline: Monday May 4th, 11:59 PM Submission Link Form: https://forms.gle/H4kApSjsMUemGwY78 Event Dates: Opening July 01 | SIGGRAPH – LA 2026 – 19–23 July ACM SIGGRAPH DAC We are inviting all creatives!!! If you have any questions, please contact us @ [email protected] . Webpage Link: /.../2026-07-new-media.../

Our speakers and their talks for Confluence of Generative AI and the Art of Filmmaking. Coming Friday! Hybrid In-Person and AI Filmmaking: The Next Phase of Filmmaking – Don Allen Stevenson III, Asteria Films @donalleniii @asteriafilmco The Confluent Pipeline: Augmenting Virtual Production through Generative AI – David Kei Man Yip, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou), Computational Media @hkustgz_cma Achieving Pure Cinema by Co-Creating with Gen-AI – Mark Wachholz (/@particlepanic ) The Producer’s Playbook: Integrating Generative AI Across Film Production – Sarah Ivy, Entertainment Technology Center at University of Southern California @ivysinstagram @usc_etc_official Date: Friday, April 24, 2026 Time: 1:00pm Pacific \ 4:00pm Eastern \ 10:00pm Central Europe \ 4:00am (next day) Hong Kong Venue: Virtually on Zoom /sparks/2026-04-24_confluence-of-generative-ai-and-the-art-of-filmmaking/ (Link in bio) Register for FREE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/f3B9CJilTNKQhwQNYamO_w Moderators: Sal Ardongde @salardongde and Paul Trillo @paultrillo Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH Arts Community @siggraph_digitalarts @acmsiggraph Digital ___ #SIGGRAPH #SPARKS #AI #AIFilmmaking #filmmaking

Our speakers and their talks for Confluence of Generative AI and the Art of Filmmaking. Coming Friday! The New Soundstage: How AI Voice is Reshaping Filmmaking – Matty Shimura, Eleven Labs @matty.verse @chromaawards @elevenlabsio Controllable and Expressive Generative Modeling for Sound Design in Filmmaking – Hugo Flores García, Adobe Research @hugofloresgarcia @adobe AI as a Visual Tool: New Possibilities for Independent Filmmakers – Xi Wang @wang_xi_83 and Xiaotong Wen @wswxt Beyond Prompts: AI as an Artistic Multiplier – Xindi Zhang @xindizhangfilm Date: Friday, April 24, 2026 Time: 1:00pm Pacific \ 4:00pm Eastern \ 10:00pm Central Europe \ 4:00am (next day) Hong Kong Venue: Virtually on Zoom /sparks/2026-04-24_confluence-of-generative-ai-and-the-art-of-filmmaking/ Link in bio Register for FREE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/f3B9CJilTNKQhwQNYamO_w Moderators: Sal Ardongde @salardongde and Paul Trillo @paultrillo Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community @siggraph_digitalarts @acmsiggraph ___ #SIGGRAPH #SPARKS #AI #AIFilmmaking #Filmmaking

Join Us! Confluence of Generative AI and the Art of Filmmaking Register for Free: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/f3B9CJilTNKQhwQNYamO_w Date: April 24, 2026 Time(s): 4:00 pm EDT | 1:00 pm PDT | 9:00 pm BST | 4:00 am HKT Webpage Link: /.../2026-04-24_confluence-of.../ Presenter(s): Achieving Pure Cinema by Co-Creating with Gen-AI – Mark Wachholz AI as a Visual Tool: New Possibilities for Independent Filmmakers – Xi Wang – Xiaotong Wen Beyond Prompts: AI as an Artistic Multiplier – Xindi Zhang Controllable and Expressive Generative Modeling for Sound Design in Filmmaking – Hugo Flores García Hybrid In-Person and AI Filmmaking: The Next Phase of Filmmaking – Don Allen Stevenson The Confluent Pipeline: Augmenting Virtual Production through Generative AI – David Kei Man Yip The New Soundstage: How AI Voice is Reshaping Filmmaking – Matty Shimura The Producer’s Playbook: Integrating Generative AI Across Film Production – Sarah Ivy Moderated by: Douglas Chan (aka Sal Ardongdé) and Paul Trillo

Please join us for lighting talks and open discussions on generative AI and the art of filmmaking. (Next Friday!) Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, I am excited to co-host our diverse lineup of speakers -- from creative AI researchers to award-winning filmmakers -- as they share state-of-the-art workflows, experiences and outlook on future of filmmaking with AI tools. Speakers from @adobe Research, @asteriafilmco , @elevenlabsio , Entertainment Tech Center @usc_etc_official , HKUST (Guangzhou) Computational Media and Arts @hkustgz_cma and more. Full speaker list: (link in bio) /sparks/2026-04-24_confluence-of-generative-ai-and-the-art-of-filmmaking/ ___Confluence of Generative AI and the Art of Filmmaking___ Date: Friday, April 24, 2026 Time: 1:00pm Pacific \ 4:00pm Eastern \ 10:00pm Central Europe \ 4:00am (next day) Hong Kong Venue: Virtually on Zoom (Zoom meeting info provided after registration below) Register for FREE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/f3B9CJilTNKQhwQNYamO_w Agenda - Introductory remarks - Lightning talks (1 hour): Speakers on their work and outlook for AI filmmaking - Open discussion with speakers and all attendees Moderators: Sal Ardongde @salardongde and Paul Trillo @paultrillo ___ #SIGGRAPH #SPARKS #AI #AIFilmmaking #Filmmaking

A Call for Participation An Audio/Visual Augmented World Collaborative Teams Experiment Deadline: Monday April 27th, 11:59 PM Submission Link Form: https://forms.gle/H4kApSjsMUemGwY78 Event Dates - SIGGRAPH – LA 2026 – 19–23 July ACM SIGGRAPH DAC: We are inviting all! If you have any questions, please contact us @ [email protected] . Webpage Link: /.../2026-07-new-media.../

Call for Participation: Animism Revisited: Worlding with Digital and More-than-Human Minds Form: https://forms.gle/eXzZUMJ4gRbtadKR6 Date and Time: May 29, 2026 Webpage Link: /sparks/2026-05-29_animism-revisited/ Deadline: May 1, 2026 Moderated by: Michael Just and Gustavo Alfonso Rincon

Alter Nature: Exploring Life through Computational Computer Arts Archive Date and Time: March 26, 2026 Hong Kong, Hong Kong Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 9:00 am HKT Melbourne, Australia Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 12:00 noon AEDT New York, USA Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 9:00 pm EDT Los Angeles, USA Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 6:00 pm PDT Register for Free: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../register/358qm0JpSW-H1SIK4gyf1g Webpage link: /.../2026-03-27_alter-nature.../ Presenter(s): A Grain Of | Sensing the City through Biodigital Interfaces – Enza Migliore – Marcel Zaes Sagesser Anicca Antennae: Soil as Brain — Emergence and Distributed Intelligence Between Biology and Robots – Ken Rinaldo Artificial Evolution of 3D Cellular Automata – Maria Verstappen – Erwin Driessens Bowerbirds: Optimization, The Evolution of Aesthetics, and Art – Sophia Brueckner Drift of the Uncharted: Reimagining Robotic Agency through Speculative Fiction – Ary-Yue Huang Entangled Cities – STANZA Sensorium ARC: Conversing with the Ocean Through AI Agents and Interactive Eco-Art – Myungin Lee – Noah Bissell – Ethan Paley – Amanda Wang When Quantum Creatures Dream: Life Beings as Autonomous Artists – Alain Lioret Moderator(s): Zi-Wei Wu

Call for Participation Confluence of Generative AI and the Art of Filmmaking Deadline: April 3, 2026 Form: https://forms.gle/eXzZUMJ4gRbtadKR6 Webpage Link: /sparks/2026-04-24_confluence-of-generative-ai-and-the-art-of-filmmaking/ Moderated by: Douglas Chan (aka Sal Ardongdé) and Paul Trillo

Interabilities in 21st Century Arts & Technology Register for Free: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LE5gCcjaT3m7InjtStu9YA Event Weblink: /sparks/2026-02-27_interabilities-in-21st-century-arts-technology/ Date and Time: February 26, 2026 Melbourne, Australia Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 11:00 am AEDT New York, USA Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 7:00 pm EST Los Angeles, USA Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 4:00 pm PST Beijing, China Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 8:00 am CST Time Zone Convertor: /worldclock/converter.html?iso=20260227T000000&p1=152&p2=179&p3=137&p4=33 Session Description: This SPARKS session focuses on speakers who are neurodiverse artists. The key point of the session is to encourage further dialogue and multidimensional input into public and academic discourse around interabilities, arts and technology. We are entering an age where accessibility for people for all abilities is essential to the productivity and identities of contemporary pluralist societies. Art and technology are essential in this development as society, culture and technology co-constitute each other. We are already building accessible societies. Therefore, how do we responsibly lay the foundations for the better versions of our accessible cultures and societies? Within the core of this SPARKS session are at least two concepts that seem to be rather misunderstood. Those terms are: – interabilities (the collaboration of people with different abilities) – prosthesis (technology that extends human abilities). The value of artists in this paradigm is high and essential, as it tends to be the creative thinkers who understand the ‘why’ as well as the ‘how’. Moderated by: James Hullick and Melentie Pandilovski