Pioneering Interactive Art and Artists from the 1960s to 2000

Pioneering Interactive Art and Artists from the 1960s to 2000

Co-sponsored by the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community and History Committee

Moderated by Bonnie Mitchell and Myungin Lee

SPARKS Event Date/Time: February 23, 2024

New York, USA Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:00 noon EST

Chicago, USA Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:00 am CST

Los Angeles, USA Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 9:00 am PST

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This SPARKS session focuses on the innovative interactive digital artwork and pioneering artists prior to the year 2000.  Interactive digital art’s roots began forming in the 1960s and blossomed in the following decades. By relinquishing the power to control the outcome of a work of art, digital artists in the 1960-1990s established a democratic, reciprocal relationship with the viewer. Without a defined history, artists were free to experiment and create works that capitalized on the concept of “possibilities”. These individualized personal art experiences took many forms including screen-based art, immersive installation environments, haptic device art, and much more.

Presentations:

Vladimir Bonačić’s interactive digital installations 1969 – 1971

Darko Fritz   

Media Art as Thinking Space

Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss 

Interactive Plant Growing – a journey of an interactive garden created in 1992

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau  

Searching for Conditions of Possibility: Jeffrey Shaw’s Artistic Practice in Expanded Cinema

Lukasz Mirocha

Engaging Subjectivity Through Interaction

Greg Garvey

The enduring telematic vision of a coexistent third space

Paul Sermon

From Music Composition to Multimodal Interactive Composition – An Historical Overview

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin   

For more information about this SPARKS session: https://dac.siggraph.org/sparks/feb-2024-pioneering-interactive-art-and-artists/

Call for Nominations for ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Career Development Chair

The Practitioner Career Development Chair will lead a committee that plans, develops, and facilitates activities that support the career development of practitioners working in industry and academia. The focus will be on how these activities relate to areas of professional interest to the SIGGRAPH community. The Committee will create and manage a mentoring program and provide guidance on promotions, hiring, project management and leadership, business development and entrepreneurship, moving into management and career changes, again focusing on how these relate to SIGGRAPH areas. The Committee will facilitate networking, i.e.,  connecting practitioners doing related work.

The SIGGRAPH Executive Committee has set as one of its primary goals the support of our members throughout their careers through mentoring, lifelong learning, and professional development both in the research and practitioner areas. Since these tasks are interconnected, the different committees should work together and with the conferences to achieve their goals. For example, the Practitioner Career Development Committee should work with the Lifelong Learning Committee to ensure that materials appropriate for practitioners are developed.

The Chair must submit a budget request to the Executive Committee every January and submit an annual report in June. The Chair can expect to spend 5 or more hours/week on the chair activities. 

For those interested in applying for this position, please contact Thierry Frey, Chair of the Nominations Committee. Provide a CV and vision statement (why you’re interested in being chair and what you hope to accomplish in this volunteer role). The Nominations Committee will review all the candidates, conduct interviews, and make recommendations to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee in order to identify the next Chair.

The deadline for applying is April 30 but applications will be accepted until the position is filled and the term will begin on September 1. The term is three years, renewable once.

Call for Nominations for ACM SIGGRAPH Membership Chair

The Membership Committee was established to better serve the needs of our membership and our volunteers. It coordinates all ACM SIGGRAPH activities designed to benefit our members and explores new ways to enhance the value of membership. The Membership Committee will include representatives from the other Standing Committees and facilitate communication between the membership and the different parts of ACM SIGGRAPH. It should investigate, identify, and recommend to the EC better ways to recruit, retain, and support members and volunteers and to ensure responsiveness, inclusiveness, and diversity. It shall work with the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee to define member benefits and membership rates. It is in charge of the SIGGRAPH Village, both at the SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia Conferences and year-round.

The Membership Committee Chair will recruit and lead a committee to accomplish the above goals. The Chair should contact the other Standing Committee Chairs and ask them to designate representatives to serve on the Membership Committee.

Some of the issues the committee should address include the following:

  • Explores and proposes new Membership benefits.
  • Works with the Communications Committee to engage with our membership.
  • Develops and distributes a Membership Welcome Packet that includes a clearly designed, accessible, and useful guide that explains the activities of ACM SIGGRAPH including roles and responsibilities of each leadership role and committee. 
  • Provides a point of contact for membership and member questions. 
  • Provides a point of contact for questions related to volunteering and contributing to ACM SIGGRAPH.

Here are the current ACM SIGGRAPH Member benefits: https://www.siggraph.org/participate/membership/

and

https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/siggraph

The Chair must submit a budget request to the Executive Committee every January and submit an annual report in June. The Chair can expect to spend 5 or more hours/week on the chair activities. 

For those interested in applying for this position, please contact Thierry Frey, Chair of the Nominations Committee. Provide a CV and vision statement (why you’re interested in being chair and what you hope to accomplish in this volunteer role). The Nominations Committee will review all the candidates, conduct interviews, and make recommendations to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee in order to identify the next Chair.

The deadline for applying is April 30 but applications will be accepted until the position is filled and the term will begin on September 1. The term is three years, renewable once.

Call for Nominations for ACM SIGGRAPH History Chair

With over twenty years of informal efforts to preserve the history of SIGGRAPH and computer graphics, the History Committee collects, protects and increases accessibility surrounding ACM SIGGRAPH’s history in relation to the development of the computer graphics industry. After an official founding in 2019, we continue to encourage the people and technology who document the impact of SIGGRAPH and the field.

The History Committee has recently focused on the 50th anniversary of the SIGGRAPH conference that took place in 2023. The current objectives of the History Committee are:

  • to preserve the stories and artifacts of our community and industry
  • to make documentation of the collected materials broadly accessible by ACM SIGGRAPH members and the public
  • to document the impact of SIGGRAPH on the development of computer graphics, the computer graphics industry, and industries enabled by graphics and imaging.

The Chair must submit a budget request to the Executive Committee every January and submit an annual report in June. The Chair can expect to spend 5 or more hours/week on the chair activities. 

For those interested in applying for this position, please contact Thierry Frey, Chair of the Nominations Committee. Provide a CV and vision statement (why you’re interested in being chair and what you hope to accomplish in this volunteer role). The Nominations Committee will review all the candidates, conduct interviews, and make recommendations to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee in order to identify the next Chair.

The deadline for applying is April 30 but applications will be accepted until the position is filled and the term will begin on September 1. The term is three years, renewable once.

Call for Nominations for ACM SIGGRAPH Education Chair

The ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee supports educators in computer graphics and interactive techniques.  This work encompasses both technical, creative, applied and interdisciplinary studies at all post-secondary levels that intersect curricular areas of computer science, engineering, art, design and related disciplines. The Education Committee undertakes a broad range of projects and activities in support of the computer graphics and interactive techniques education community, such as developing curriculum guidelines, providing instructional resources, organizing SIGGRAPH Conference-related activities and outreach at both post-secondary levels as well as K-12. For more information please see the Education Committee website and the latest ACM SIGGRAPH Annual Report (scroll down to the Education Committee).The Chair is responsible for the following:

  • Recruiting, organizing and meeting with the Education Committee 
  • Organizing and monitoring the different ACM SIGGRAPH related activities of the Education Committee as shown on theEducation Committee website.
  • Acting as a liaison between the Education Committee and the EC to advise the EC and to ensure that the Committee’s activities are aligned with the strategic priorities of the EC
  • Initiating and coordinating projects of interest to ACM SIGGRAPH and the Education Community
  • Implement the strategic vision of the Executive Committee in its area of focus

The Chair must submit a budget request to the Executive Committee every January and submit an annual report in June. The Chair can expect to spend an average of 5 or more hours/week on the chair activities.

For those interested in applying for this position, please contact Thierry Frey, the Nominations Committee Chair. Only applicants who are ACM SIGGRAPH members in good standing as of the application deadline will be considered. Provide a CV and vision statement (why you’re interested in being chair and what you hope to accomplish in this volunteer role). The Nominations Committee will review all the candidates, conduct interviews if necessary, and make recommendations to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee in order to approve the next Chair.

The deadline for applying is April 30 but applications will be accepted until the position is filled and the term will begin on September 1. The term is three years, renewable once.