With a graphics track and an HCI track having equal weights in the conference, GI offers a unique venue for a meeting of minds working on computer graphics and interactive techniques. GI is the longest running conference in the field (the first conference was held in 1969), consistently attracting high-quality submissions from graphics, HCI, as well as visualization.

The conference prides itself on high-quality reviewing with all paper submissions being fully peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and two external reviewers. Since 2016, accepted papers have been indexed in the ACM Digital Library and are publicly available in the Graphics Interface Archive. Accepted papers from 2004 to 2018 are archived in the ACM Digital Library, while earlier years are available in the Graphics Interface Archive.