SIGGRAPH 1982: Art Show

• SIGGRAPH 1982: 9th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

• Copper Frances Giloth -
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Darcy Gerbarg -
  • New York University

• Joanne P. Culver -
  • LAZERUS
• Louise Ledeen -
  • G.E.S.I.

The SIGGRAPH ’82 Art Show celebrates the increasing access to electronic technology available to artists today and the growing aesthetic awareness in computer graphics.

Over one thousand entries for this juried exhibition arrived from all over the world. All the work was produced after January 1, 1980. The eighty-eight pieces in this show are diverse in style, medium and technique, holding as a common thread the pursuit of artistic excellence. The use of comput­ers in these works shows that style is established by the artist and not identi­fiably derivative of the hardware, as was the case five years ago.

We invite artists to participate in SIGGRAPH and encourage them to use it as a teaching and learning forum. Tech­nological art is the future of communi­cations and the source of new and powerful imagery.

The shows were very well received, and ACM SIGGRAPH provided significant funding in 1982 for the first juried SIGGRAPH Art Show in Boston, co-chaired by Copper Frances Giloth and Darcy Gerbarg.