5–8 November 2026, University of Greenwich
The SOUND/IMAGE Festival is an international festival hosted by the SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre at the University of Greenwich, bringing together artists, researchers, and creative practitioners from around the world working at the intersection of sound, image, and emerging technologies.
Across four days, the festival presents a dynamic programme of concerts, performances, installations, screenings, talks, and workshops, creating a space for exchange, experimentation and critical dialogue.
Now in its 11th edition, the SOUND/IMAGE Festival continues to grow as a global meeting point for artists exploring how contemporary media and technologies shape creative expression.
Theme: Artistic Intelligence
The SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre invites 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.
For further information on how to apply: https://blogs.gre.ac.uk/sound-image/sound-image-2026-call-for-works/
For a teaser of what to expect, here are highlights from our 2025 edition.
