Hosted by the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, the SIGGRAPH 2026 Art Gallery, and Art Papers, in collaboration with the LA local art community, this gathering invites you into a warm, vibrant space to meet, share, and connect. Whether you are an artist, designer, researcher, student, or simply curious, come spend an evening with fellow creatives exchanging ideas, stories, and inspiration. Together, we’ll celebrate the diverse art practices that make SIGGRAPH 2026 so dynamic—welcoming new voices, reconnecting with old friends, and enjoying the energy of a shared creative community.
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SIGGRAPH 2026 Event: https://s2026.conference-schedule.org/presentation/?id=thea_124&sess=sess307
Rebecca Ruige Xu currently teaches computer art and animation at Syracuse University. Her artwork and research interests include experimental animation, visual music, artistic data visualization, interactive installations, digital performance, and virtual reality. Her recent work has been shown at: ISEA; Ars Electronica; SIGGRAPH Art Gallery; IEEE VIS Arts Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy; Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, USA; FILE– Electronic Language International Festival, Brazil; International Digital Art Exhibition, China; Boston Cyberarts Festival, USA. Xu is the co-founder of the ChinaVIS Arts Program, Co-Chair of the IEEE VIS 2023 and 2024 Arts Program, and currently serves as Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee.
Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is an architect, design scholar, artist, TED Speaker, and Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. She investigates critical questions of embodied practices and computation through craft, making, and heritage practices. Her research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Mozilla Foundation, and ideas2innovation (i2i), among others. Dr. Noel is a recipient of the DigitalFUTURES Young Award for exceptional research and scholarship in the field of critical computational design. She is co-editor of the new book, “Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment” with Dr. Yana Boeva. Noel is the SIGGRAPH 2026 Art Papers Chair.
Noel’s work is situated at the intersection of computation, ethnographic inquiry, and critical practice. Her scholarship combines methods and concepts from craft, human-computer interaction, media studies, and science and technology studies (STS). A scholar committed to fostering inclusive and minority perspectives on design, making, and technology, Noel conducts workshops and gives talks on design computation extensively across the globe.
Vernelle holds a Ph.D. in Architecture (Design Computing) from the Pennsylvania State University, a Masters of Science in Architecture Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Design Computation); a Bachelor of Architecture from Howard University, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the John S. Donaldson Technical Institute (University of Trinidad & Tobago). Vernelle has practiced as an architect in the US, India, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Everardo Reyes is a Full Professor (Professeur des universités) in the Digital Humanities Dept. at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. Since 2003, he has been a member of Paragraphe Lab, a transdisciplinary research laboratory in Paris, France. He is also a collaborator member of the Cultural Analytics Lab, Board Member of the International Association for Visual Semiotics (IAVS), and Secretary of the Board of ISEA International (International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Arts).
His research investigates relationships between humanities, the arts, social and computer sciences. Reyes is particularly interested in visual expressions and the description of their meaning within a practical context: graphical interfaces, media visualization, Art, Science, and Technology, digital text, Web design, and hypermedia systems. In his work, Reyes combines semiotic theory and applied experiments using software and programming languages using visual computing techniques.
Reyes is the Art Gallery Chair for SIGGRAPH 2026, and served as Art Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2019. In 2017, he published his authored book “The image-interface” at Wiley-ISTE, and he has also edited four collective books and translated to Spanish two books (Lev Manovich’s Software Takes Command (El software toma el mando) in 2014 and Edward Shanken’s Art and Electronic Media: A Survey (Inventar el futuro) in 2012).
Reyes teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on digital culture, data science and visualization, creative coding for the Web, and research methodology. He also advises students with their Masters and PhD dissertations, in the fields of information sciences, media studies, art, design, technology, digital humanities, and visual media.