ECCV Art Gallery 2026

As a side experiment of the 2015 ImageNet challenge, Alexander Mordvintsev’s DeepDream was the first technology to demonstrate how modern neural networks bared the potential to create art, by visualizing a somewhat relatable machinic unconscious. AI art bloomed from that point onwards, beginning with GAN futurists to later phases of txt2img diffusion prompters and AI-system developers (e.g. comfyUI). The rise of LLMs as agents that automate both common-sense and programming is now facilitating more than ever the cross-modal exploration of the form and meaning-making potential of contemporary AI. Across all this journey from form exploration to stereotype discovery, computer vision has been a critical tool of understanding the boundary between symbolic cultural abstraction and the open-ended nature of our world. In this journey we find artistic production to be complementary and equally useful to the works of scientists and engineers in understanding the role of neural networks as existential technologies.

Motivated by a strong presence of artists working with AI in the European continent, we are hosting after 8 years the second ECCV art gallery in the upcoming ECCV 2026 in Malmö (Sweden) both in physical and online form. Whether you are a computer vision researcher or a professional artist interested in AI art, we encourage any submission including, but not restricted to artworks:

• created with novel computer vision techniques
• reusing traditional computer vision techniques in original or unexpected ways
• presenting a critical perspective on computer vision techniques and applications
• exploring the intersection between images and other modalities (text, sound, …)

Submissions can take place in any medium (e.g. image, video, interactive installation, physical object) and can be part of published technical work (aesthetically outstanding results, unexpected glitches). In order to keep this year's gallery as a snapshot of current artistic practice, we will only consider works created between 2025 and 2026.

Art submissions will be evaluated by the curators according to artistic concept, technical execution, visual presentation and originality.

Accepted artworks will be exhibited between September 10-12 during the main ECCV conference, mainly as screens or prints. It will also be possible to host more complex installations and physical work. There will also be an online gallery. Physical attendance at the conference is not obligatory for accepted works, but will be recommended for more complex installations. Cash prizes will be given to the best three artwork(s).

To submit, please complete this form before the deadline on Jun 14, 2026 AOE. For any queries contact Luba Elliott & Ioannis Siglidis at eccv.artgallery@gmail.com.

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