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TO; CACHE Network From: Roger Malina Call for help documenting 1982,83 SIGGRAPH art shows As part of the Leonardo collaboration with SIGGRAPH this year, we are pleased to bring to your attention the 25th anniversary of the first juried art show at SIGGRAPH in 1982. ( there were several art shows at siggraph before then, but non juried) Copper Giloth, chair of the 82 artshow, has been working with a team of students from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Amherst Regional High School to compile documentation on a web site at http://people.umass.edu/sig82art Also they are beginning to document the 1983 art show , the chair was: [log in to unmask] They are trying to contact some of the artists and othere involved. If you have information on any of these people please contact Copper Giloth Yes, I am looking for pictures of the exhibition, contacts for artists, corrections to the information on the site. There are still a few people I just can't get contact info. They are: Assante, Michael Balabuck, Richard Faught, Robert Frankel, Richard Hedelman, Harold Hockenhull, James Johnson, Tony Nakamae, Eihachiro Winkler, Dean Looking Back 25 Years: Siggraph'82 Art Show 25 years ago, ACM Siggraph sponsored its first juried public exhibition of experimental two-dimensional, three-dimensional, interactive and time-based works by artists and scientists experimenting with computer graphics technologies. Prior to the 1982 Art Show several informal art shows had taken place in the late 1970's and in 1981 Darcy Gerbarg curated the 1981 Siggraph Art Show. The popularity of the previous shows convinced the Siggraph organization to fund the 1982 open competition. As chair of the Siggraph'82 Art Show, Copper Giloth had been the keeper of the documents slides and videotapes from this exhibition. In the fall of 2007, five senior art students in her Information Design course at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Zinj Guo, Dana Ramponi, Jen Zolga, Lindsay Weber, and Vesna Vrankovic, reviewed these materials. The students' task was to inventory and organize these primary resource materials and devise a strategy for making them available to the community. The slide set, exhibition catalog and artist interviews were their only resources as they began collecting images of all the artwork in the show. They created an artist database to track materials on hand and what was missing, and then used online resources and direct contact with artists to acquire additional images and documents related to the exhibition. Using this data, they designed and constructed a Web site documenting the exhibition. Amherst Regional High School seniors, Beryl Gilothwest and Lexi Abrams-Bourke, are finalizing and correcting the data on the site. http://people.umass.edu/sig82art All of the students working on this project are between 21 and 23 in age; they were not even born at the time of this exhibition. Most of them didn't know the term "frame buffer". Their generation has grown up with small compact computers, sophisticated graphics software as well as accessible and cheap printing. They are accustomed to seeing high-resolution synthetic images in movies and videogames. Most of them collect images with a digital camera or the camera in their cell phones. In the 25 years since this exhibition both the vocabulary for describing the technology and the tools used to make most of the works from the show have changed dramatically. Thus the very process of making the site confirmed the need to document the history of computer art. In the end, the purpose of the Web site is to make an accurate representation of the show available to the community through the inclusion of images of all works in the exhibition including, plotter drawings, serigraphs, books, sculptures, murals, videos, drawings, Ektachrome, Cibachrome and Polaroid prints and frame buffer display. The Web site also includes the exhibition catalog, documentation of the interactive installations, excerpts of interviews with 20 artists from the show, articles about the exhibition, artists' statements and other original documents. Here is a list of the interviews available so far: 1. Rick Balabuck and Michael Collery 2. Colette and Charles (Jeff) Bangert 3. Muriel Cooper and Ron McNeil 4. Tom Dewitt Ditto, Vibeke Sorenson, and Dean Winkler 5. Frank Dietrich and Zsuzsanna Molnar 6. Tom Eatherton 7. Tom Eatherton and Terill Moore 8. David Em 9. Bill Etra 10. Rob Fisher interviewed by Louise (Etra) Ledeen 11. Darcy Gerbarg 12. David Geshwind interviewed by John Mabey 13. JoAnne Gillerman 14. Cynthia Goodman 15. Howard Gutstadt and Bill Etra 16. James Hockenhull 17. Harry Holland interviewed by Louise (Etra) Ledeen 18. Kris Holmes 19. Margot Lovejoy interviewed by Cynthia Goodman 20. Robert Mallary interviewed by Cynthia Goodman 21. Marvin Minsky interviewed by Louise (Etra) Ledeen 22. David Morris 23. Phil Morton 24. Francis Olschafskie 25. Ed Post 26. Ron Resch 27. Joan Truckenbrod 28. Stan Van Der Beek 29. Jane Veeder Copper Frances Giloth Director of Academic Computing Office of Information Technologies Associate Professor of Art [log in to unmask] ==== Paul Brown - based in the UK March-July 2007 mailto:[log in to unmask] == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ====