The SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee (DAC) presents SPARKS: Short Presentations of Artworks & Research for the Kindred Spirit. The SPARKS presentations and discussions are held monthly and consist of 5-minute lightning talks followed by a discussion based on the topic of the month. The discussions are moderated by guest moderators with the assistance of a DAC committee member.   

SPARKS presenters are selected from an open Call for Participation. Submissions for the monthly SPARKS presentations are reviewed by the guest moderator and a jury of experts in the field.

April 24 – Confluence of Generative AI and the Art of Filmmaking

2026 December:
Beyond the Illusion: The Evolution of Animation

2026 November:
PLAYING For GOOD

2026 October:
Future Human-textile existence in digital and physical realities

2026 September:
A New Assemblage: Rethinking Audiovisual Creativity with Generative AI

2026 June:
SIGGRAPH 2026 Creative Content Sneak Peek

2026 May:
Animism Revisited: Worlding with Digital and More-than-Human Minds

2026 April:
Confluence of Generative AI and the Art of Filmmaking

2026 March:
Alter Nature: Exploring Life through Computational Arts

2026 February:
Interabilities in 21st Century Arts & Technology

2026 January:
Beyond the Global North: Southeast Asia’s New Wave of Generative and Interactive Innovation

2025 December:
Embodied Convergences: Humans, Machines, and Performance

2025 November:
Entangled (Im)materialities

2025 October:
New Media Architectures: Vancouver

2025 June:
SIGGRAPH 2025 Creative Content Sneak Peek

2025 May:
First Nations’ Futures

2025 April:
Artistic Interpretation of Digital Cultural Heritage

2025 March:
AI and Artistic Autonomy

2025 February:
SIGGRAPH Asia Art Papers 2024 – Tokyo Revisited

2025 January:
Sensing the Body to Expand Possibilities in Art and Performance

2024 December:
New Media Architectures

2024 November:
ISEA Everywhen Revisited

2024 October:
Expanded Animation at Ars Electronica Talks Revisited

2024 September:
Future of Reality Artist Talks

2024 June:
SIGGRAPH 2024 Sneak Preview

2024 April:
Anticipating the Architecture(s) of The Future – Speculative Arts & Design Research: Theory & Practice

2024 March:
Queer Digital Art Now

2024 February:
Pioneering Interactive Art and Artists from the 1960s to 2000

2024 January:
Recap of Art Papers at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 in Sydney

2023 December:
Robotic Art: Social and Aesthetic Dimensions, Session II: Performativity and Otherness

2023 December:
Robotic Art: Social and Aesthetic Dimensions, Session I: Social Interaction

2023 October:
Creative Graphic Design using New Technology for the Future

2023 September:
SIGGRAPH 2023 Art Gallery Artist Talks

2023 July:
Ricardo Dominguez and Amy Sara Carroll: TransBorder New Media Art

2023 June:
The Phantasmagoric Dispositif: Collapsing Time and Space

2023 May:
SIGGRAPH 2023 Sneak Preview

2023 April:
The Art of Scientific Visualization: Perceiving the Imperceptible

2023 March:
Mixing it Up

2023 February:
Sound Art: Acoustic Space, Noise, and Articulated Silence

2023 January:
Spatiality in Virtual Reality: Representation, Interpretation & Experience

2022 December:
New Media Architecture(s): A Speculative Vision of Change in the Arts, Design, & Sciences

2022 October:
Pioneers of Digital Art and Animation

2022 September:
NFTs and the Non-fungible Experience

2022 June:
Rediscovering and Reimagining Culture: Digital Art Practice in Asia

2022 May:
Experimental and Expanded Animation: Exploring Artistic Possibilities

2022 April:
Decolonial Media Art Beyond 530 Years: the future-past vs. coloniality

2022 March:
Artists’ Games: Critical and Creative Approaches in New Media Art

2022 February:
Melentie Pandilovski in Conversation with Stelarc

2022 January:
The Earth, Our Home: Exhibition Opening and Artist Talks

2021 December:
Within the Frame: Continuum of the Still Image

2021 October:
Data: Visual Perception, Interpretation, and Truth

2021 September:
Creative Coding: Generative / Algorithmic Art and the Exploration of Authorship and Authenticity

2021 July:
Music in Social VR: Education, Installation, Conferences, and Performance

2021 May:
Art, Science and the Invisible World We Live In

2021 April:
Robotics, Electronics and Artificial Intelligence

2021 March:
Environmental Issues, Sustainability, Climate Change

2021 February:
Immersion, Interactivity and Altered Realities

2021 January:
Screen Worlds: Net Art and Online Communities