SIGGRAPH 05 Art Gallery: Threading Time

"I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a
sinuous spreading path that would contain
both past and future and somehow imply the stars."

--JORGE LUIS BORGES, "The Garden of Forking Paths"

The internationally recognized ACM SIGGRAPH Conference presents today's most innovative digital artwork in the SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery.

The Art Gallery committee is especially interested in artwork that traces threads through time and space, whether figurative or abstract, linear or non-linear, moving or still.

We are exploring a key question: How does the use of computer graphics relate to the form and content of the artwork?

In this year's Art Gallery, technology will serve and support art in a very broad range of themes, from provocative and political to subtle and personal. We are looking for work that invents new forms of narrative that grow out of technological capabilities. The subject of the work should connect to its form and medium, and we encourage fusion of old and new technologies in theory and practice.

Linda Lauro-Lazin
SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery Chair
Pratt Institute

SIGGRAPH 03 Art Gallery: CG03

Art is central to everyday life. Marshall Mcluhan described electronic environments as "mythic in the sense of conveying information on a richer level resonating fundamental truths." Technology as the handmaiden of art provides the artist with new tools and media to explore the revelation and nature of the artists vision.

The internationally recognized ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Art Gallery presents CG03: Computer Graphics 2003. In honor of the conference's 30-year anniversary, the Art Gallery will return to its roots with an emphasis on digital prints, sculpture, and the growing impact of digital video and animation. CG03 is both a curated and juried exhibition with a focus on work that presents a visual force both driven by and reflective of the postmodern mosaic called reality.

Michael Wright, 2003 Art Gallery Chair

Links

ACM SIGGRAPH Online Gallery for CG:03

SIGGRAPH 2003 Conference Art Gallery page

SIGGRAPH 01 Art Gallery: N-Space

"Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs ... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality."
-- From "Flatland," Edwin Abbott, 1884

N-Space is an exhibition that takes viewers to a place where ideas and statement are rich and artistic freedom is unconstrained by dimension. The treasures embedded in this unlimited space will encourage the SIGGRAPH 2001 audience to become a part of the art; to explore, question, and challenge their own interpretations and critiques. For this audience, digital artists are continuously looking for new ways to represent their ideas, in thoughts that go beyond labels and into an unlimited digital frontier. It is this statement and representation that N-Space seeks: art works that are not only technically proficient and novel, but also go beyond the medium and into the realm of ideas, a place where the medium acts as a conduit for the message.

Overview
We envisioned works of art created with old and new graphics technologies that embody original ideas, works that intrigue viewers and make them a part of the artwork. This could have included digital images with multiple dimensions of aesthetic quality and critical interpretation or digital sculptures that combine graphics and traditional art forms to provoke new thoughts about our future. This could have also included websites or interactive sculptures that evolve with viewers in a way that takes the outcome of the art away from the artist and puts it into the hands of the observer. The art could take the form of a computer graphics and traditional art hybrid, one that creates a unique product with new aesthetic qualities.
The Art Gallery: N-Space will jury and invite these and many other diverse forms of digital treasures that enchant and engage viewers.

Dena Eber
SIGGRAPH 2001 Art Gallery Chair

SIGGRAPH 99 Art Gallery: technOasis

Introduction

After several decades of using digital tools, artists are now using them to create mature yet adventurous work that is attracting serious attention. Digital capabilities are expanding. Experiments are emerging. Aesthetic boundaries are evolving. And new art forms and art media are taking shape. Artists are using off-the-shelf software, writing software for specific artworks, and applying custom software written specifically for them. Digitally influenced artwork is no longer seen as a gimmick, but as hard-hitting content.

The SIGGRAPH 99 Art Gallery: technOasis inspired quiet reflection on these turn-of-the-century artistic developments. The 100+ technOasis artworks included digital paintings, drawings, and photographs; sculpture; installations; Web-based projects; and site-specific works.

Schedule

Jan-Feb 2002
Rochester Institute of Technology
Contacts: Marla Schweppe , Zerbe Sodervick

Feb-March 2001
The College of New Jersey
New Jersey, USA
The Princeton Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH

January 27 - February 24, 2000
Mississippi State University
Department of Art
Freeman Hall/Barr Avenue
Mississippi State, MS, USA
Contact: Walter Smith

November 6 - December 3, 1999
Art Gallery
Santa Monica Community College
1900 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Contact: Genny Yee

September 3-6, 1999
Sausalito Art Festival
Sausalito, CA, USA
Contact: Frank Agnello

Links

ACM SIGGRAPH Online Gallery for technOasis

SIGGRAPH 99 Conference technOasis page

SIGGRAPH 97 Ongoings: The Fine Art Gallery

Introduction

News from St. Malo

The Traveling Art Show was extremely well received in Saint Malo for the "Quai des Bulles" festival. 25000 visitors over the week-end in a gorgeous space overlooking the British Channel. It is presently scheduled to open at the Centre d'Animation de la Vallee at the beginning of the week.

The expo is superb, we had the most wonderful space: a "rotonde" overlooking the old city (remparts) on one side, the beaches, rocks and forts on two other side. The most fantastic panel discussions were happening on the remaining side; 25,000 people came and exclaimed during those 3 days.

A British artist commented, "I just had a chance to view the show in Saint Malo, it is simply wonderful and impressive. All 46 works in the top floor rotunda of the Palais du Grand Large, gorgeous."

From the local press: "Le saviez-vous?, l'expo "On-Goings" ("On en Parle") du SIGGRAPH sera dans son intégralité à Quai des Bulles, une premiére nationale!" "a retenu l'attention de gens qui, à priori, n'auraient meme pas regardé de "l'art électronique".

Schedule

February 25 - June 1, 2000
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA
Contact: Gabrielle DeFord

October 1999
Quai des Bulles festival (website in French)
St. Malo, France

Links

ACM SIGGRAPH Online Gallery for Ongoings

SIGGRAPH 97 Conference Ongoings page