NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track Opens Call for Submissions on Theme of Agency
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The NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track, now in its fourth year, invites research papers and artworks exploring AI/ML applications in art, design, and creative practice. This year's theme is "Agency" — examining how agency emerges, is exercised, negotiated, and contested through creative practice with AI, whether belonging to artists, collaborators, or the technology itself.
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· 3 pulledFocusing on the theme of Agency, this year's track asks: how agency emerges, is exercised, is negotiated, and is contested through creative practice with AI.
In its fourth year, and following previous years success, NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track invites research papers and artworks that explore emerging applications, methods, and critiques of artificial intelligence and machine learning in art, design, and creative practice.
Agency may belong to an artist, a collaborator, or the technology itself.
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