“Artistic Intelligence”

November 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th 2026

University of Greenwich

Concerts / Performances / Screenings / Talks / Workshops / Installations 

We seek submissions that explore the diverse areas of sound / image practice and actively encourage applications from candidates of all ethnicities, backgrounds and genders, who are traditionally underrepresented. We invite composers, filmmakers, artists, performers, architects to share their creative practice and research amongst a global community of artists and creatives working at the intersection of media.  

In addition, because we are keen to welcome innovators and foster the next generation of new practitioners, we will give special consideration to applications from students, apprentices and emerging artists. 

Call for works 

In this 11^th edition of the festival, we invite contributions that respond to, and critically reflect upon, the theme of “Artistic Intelligence”.

Media arts practices at the intersection of creativity and technology, call into question the very nature of creative choice and how the affordances of media tools shape or enable expression.

Through the algorithmic systems of Vera Molnár and Gottfried Michael Koenig, to the instruction based practices of Sol LeWit and the computer mediated animations of Lillian Schwartz; to the chance encounters of John Cage’s Frontana Mix and the Stochastic systems of Iannis Xanakis; via shifts in agency from artist to audience in the deep listening of Pauline Oliveros and the radical the sonic transformations in John Oswold’s Plunderphonics; through to explorations of signal, data and glitch in Rioji Ikeda, and the Machine Hallucinations of Refik Anadol – critical reflection upon creative process, affords us new opportunities to interrogate questions of creative choice, authenticity, and agency.

Artistic intelligence shapes the expressions that we articulate and the choices that we make. This year’s SOUND/IMAGE festival invites works and reflections that explore this topic, including:

• Embodied knowledge and lived experience in aesthetic judgement.
• Creative Choice vs Chance Encounters.
• Ownership, authenticity and AI co-creation.
• Human & Algorithmic Capability.
• Spatial and immersive audio-visual forms.
• Transcending barriers between disciplines (CreaTech).
• Practice research knowledge creation.

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Previous delegates have commented:

“It feels very global. It feels very current, and I think some urgent questions are being addressed.”

“People seem to be very open to share their knowledge of how they’re working”

“The sense of community from this event is really fantastic.”

“Everything I’ve experienced so far is going to immediately change my practice”

“It’s both intelligent and humanistic. It’s inviting, it’s enjoyable and full of great pieces of art.”

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Deadline 

Deadline for submissions is Friday 12th June 2026 at 23:59 UTC+1. 

All submissions will be considered by the festival panel. We will aim to provide a response before the end of July 2026.

Further information:   

• Only works of under 15 minutes in duration will be considered (excluding installations).    
• Please complete a separate form for each individual submission.   
• Artists can submit a maximum of three submissions across all categories.   
• Artists and practitioners are required to attend and present in person. 
• All artists are required to purchase a festival pass which will be available at a reduced rate (£25). This fee provides support for catering, technical support etc. 
• You will be required to register an account with Microsoft CMT to submit your work.

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.