CGI is one of the oldest annual international conferences on Computer Graphics in the world. Half a century of influence places the CGI as one of the top conferences on computer graphics and visualization. Researchers are invited to share their experiences and present novel achievements in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, AI and Machine Learning, Media, as well as Virtual, Augmented and Extended Reality. Previous  CGI conferences have been held around the globe including  Bournemouth, UK (2012), Hannover, Germany(2013), Sydney, Australia (2014), Strasbourg, France (2015), Heraklion, Greece (2016), Yokohama, Japan (2017), Bintan, Indonesia (2018), Calgary, Canada (2019), Shanghai, China (2023), and Geneva, Switzerland (2024), and Hongkong, China (2025). CGI has been virtual between 2020 and 2022 due to the COVID pandemic.

This year, CGI 2026 is organized by the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University, co-hosted by the Creative Computing Institute at University of the Arts London, and supported by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). The Visual Computer Journal (Springer Nature), the official journal of the Computer Graphics Society, is closely associated with the conference.