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The Speculative Futures Student Competition is sponsored by the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee. Resonating with the themes of the SIGGRAPH 2026 Art Gallery and Art Papers, this competition considers creation as a generative and translational process that unfolds between technology and humanity, between material and perception, and between individual experience and collective structures. Creative work can construct new forms of understanding and dialogue within these in-between spaces.

List of Artworks in the Exhibition

©Trout Telephone
Award Winner (Graduate Student)
University of California, Los Angeles
United States
©Genetically Engineered Babies
Winner (Undergraduate Student)
Pratt Institute
United States
©The Dream within Huang Long Cave
Honorable Mention (Graduate Student)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
China
©Between Two Worlds
Honorable Mention (Graduate Student)
Bowling Green State University
United States
©Cold Sweat: A Video Game of Change
Honorable Mention (Graduate Student)
Bowling Green State University
United States
©Script Hybridity
Honorable Mention (Undergraduate Student)
University of the Arts Singapore
Singapore
©The Last Insect
Honorable Mention (Undergraduate Student)
Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
China
©Magic You
Finalist (Graduate Student)
Beijing Normal University
China
©A's Punitive Strike V.1
Finalist
China Academy of Art
China
©Translation Dies in the Tongue
Finalist (Graduate Student)
Syracuse University
United States
©Hidden Protocol
Finalist (Graduate Student)
Loughborough University and Central China Normal University
United Kingdom
©Ghost of the Circle
Finalist (Undergraduate Student)
Pratt Institute
United States
©FALLEN
Finalist (Undergraduate Student)
RMIT University Vietnam
Vietnam
©Shedding
Finalist (Undergraduate Student)
Pratt Institute
United States