SIGGRAPH 2001: n-space

• Dena Elisabeth Eber -
  • Bowling Green State University

• Jill Pareti -
  • Bowling Green State University

“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

Introduction
N-SPACE, the SIGGRAPH 2001 Art Gallery, takes viewers to a place where ideas and expression are rich, and artistic freedom is unconstrained by dimension. All the work in the exhibition is in some way created with or connected to digital technology, but the thread of the show is content.

The more than 90 works in the exhibition encourage the SIGGRAPH 2001 audience to become a part of the art; to explore, question, and challenge their own interpretations and critiques. To do this, the N-Space exhibition has a treasure map of valuable ideas to search for in the gallery, as well as a gallery facilitator who holds a number of daily sessions to help engage viewers. The salon-style exhibition entices visitors to seek golden ideas embedded in the nooks and crannies of its turn-of-the-century decor.

The gallery showcases an even distribution of interactive installations, digital paintings, digital images, sculptures, performances, panels, animation, artist talks, Web sites, and interactive desktop programs.

Visitors interact with the performers and the installations: from wondering robots and stock market puppets to stirring-yet-beautiful pieces about women in foreign societies and those in the “have-not” worlds. Through the technology, participants experience a taste of life from distant dimensions.

The Web works further expand the interactivity of the installations to include a larger community, so users can experience a world different from their own. To do this, they traverse layers of exquisite form and complex ideas that exist in distant sites and far away spaces.

Although not physically interactive, the animations, videos, and 2D works captivate viewers through the aesthetic wonders of digital paint, mixed media, 3D models, digital photography, animation, and digital video. The works impel participants to question the distinction of media categories and the so-called “truth” embedded in them.

N-SPACE, the Studio, the Creative Applications Lab, SIGGRAPH TV, and Emerging Technologies
N-Space extends its boundaries into other programs to show aspects of the artists and their work in alternative, more suitable contexts. While some artists talk about preparing documents for print and demonstrate output techniques in the studio, others describe their processes during hands-on sessions in the Creative Applications Lab (CAL). SIGGRAPH TV provides highlights of the gallery, opening up the exhibition experience to viewers in other locations. Many of the innovations showcased in Emerging Technologies might be considered art in and of themselves, with their content-rich applications displayed in the adjacent art gallery. This symbiotic relationship often blurs the distinction between technology and art, further encouraging the viewer to simply experience the work.

Art Discussions, Panels, Art Culture Papers, and Art Talks
The art gallery branches out to the Panels program to open the dialogue of gaming and art in Game Stories: Simulation, Narrative, Addiction. N-Space has two art discussions within the gallery: Erasing Boundaries: Intermedia Art in the Digital Age and The Pixel/The Line: Approaches to Interactive Text along with presentation of the art and culture papers. The essays, published in part here, will appear in full length in Leonardo and Digital Creativity.

It is this expression and representation that N-Space exhibits: art works that are not only technically proficient and novel, but that also go beyond the medium and into the realm of ideas, a place where the medium acts as a conduit for the message.

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  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  2000.12a and 2000.12b
  Artist(s): [Huff]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  7369
  Artist(s): [DeFilipps Brush]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  7450
  Artist(s): [DeFilipps Brush]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  7471
  Artist(s): [DeFilipps Brush]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  A Piece of the Pie
  Artist(s): [Harshman]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Internet Art]
  Altzero 3
  Artist(s): [Lane and Rowe]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  angst in the land of frozen syllables
  Artist(s): [Goldman]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Performance]
  Artificial Paradises
  Artist(s): [Howse]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Ask Yourself
  Artist(s): [Maloney]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Augmented Reality/Virtual RealityInstallation]
  Beyond Manzanar
  Artist(s): [Thiel and Houshmand]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Blue Suspension
  Artist(s): [Oberheu]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Boite Noire
  Artist(s): [Augier]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Breast Stroke
  Artist(s): [Harshman]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  CASE STUDY 5510/CASE STUDY 5510-B
  Artist(s): [Knipp]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Performance]
  Chaotic Robotic Synesthesia
  Artist(s): [Abahuni and Abahuni]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  chelovechki-01
  Artist(s): [Ilkanayev]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  City Block
  Artist(s): [Schwarz]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Closed Concealments
  Artist(s): [Burleigh]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Internet Art]
  CollageMachine: A Streaming Collage Browser Learns While You Surf
  Artist(s): [Kerne]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Commuter's Tunes
  Artist(s): [Ursyn]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Augmented Reality/Virtual RealityInstallation]
  Contact Water
  Artist(s): [Murakami]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  courage
  Artist(s): [Goldman]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Crystal Flower
  Artist(s): [Yokoyama]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Curving Spirolaterals
  Artist(s): [Krawczyk]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Installation]
  Die Zeitstucke (Timeworks)
  Artist(s): [Szyhalski]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Disconnected
  Artist(s): [Kim]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Disoriented but not Confused
  Artist(s): [Maloney]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Don't Say Goodbye (Variation 1)
  Artist(s): [Nobler]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Early Light
  Artist(s): [Banks]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Entering the Event Horizon
  Artist(s): [Zarzycki]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Excerpts from the 1999 War Refugees Counting Table
  Artist(s): [Dehlinger]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Explosion
  Artist(s): [Sharma]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Exponential
  Artist(s): [Heller]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  F-G and the Iron Clocks of Film
  Artist(s): [Faure Walker]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Faisons Les Zigopattes! (Let's do the Zigopattes!)
  Artist(s): [Follett]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Forehead
  Artist(s): [O'Rourke]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Futurity
  Artist(s): [Chapman]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Gatorman
  Artist(s): [Ramsey]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Installation]
  Gemotion
  Artist(s): [Kawaguchi]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Gestures IV
  Artist(s): [Bishop]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Gestures V
  Artist(s): [Bishop]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Ghost Town Artifacts: The Keys
  Artist(s): [Ribner]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Global Coffee
  Artist(s): [Faure Walker]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Internet Art]
  HaikuTree
  Artist(s): [Goodwin]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  HellFire III
  Artist(s): [Field]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Heroine in Peril
  Artist(s): [Vance]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Hungboga
  Artist(s): [Ryu]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  ICKY FLIX: The Residents
  Artist(s): [Sutherland]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  If These Walls Could Talk: Bubby's Story
  Artist(s): [Ribner]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Indefinable Moods
  Artist(s): [Smith]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  infection
  Artist(s): [Groves]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Intercere #11
  Artist(s): [Fillwalk]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Intercere #17
  Artist(s): [Fillwalk]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Intersections
  Artist(s): [Riedel]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Performance]
  Intuitive Ocusonics
  Artist(s): [Polli]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  Invisible Places
  Artist(s): [Blair, Illuminato, and Nguyen]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  KnobHead
  Artist(s): [Ramsey]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Loading Animated Version
  Artist(s): [Waller]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Manufactured Existence: The Remains
  Artist(s): [Zimmerman]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Moonlit Manifestation
  Artist(s): [Ursyn]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  Music Creatures
  Artist(s): [Downie]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & VideoInternet Art]
  my language
  Artist(s): [Debevoise]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  NAFTA Stock Puppets
  Artist(s): [Mason]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  Netizens, net-fringers and outsiders
  Artist(s): [Spitz]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Internet Art]
  Network Communicate Kaleidoscope
  Artist(s): [Mukaiyama]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  New York Mural: #2, for SIGGRAPH
  Artist(s): [O'Rourke]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  Not You, Not Here
  Artist(s): [Rodemer]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Octoboy
  Artist(s): [Ramsey]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Oculadders, part 1
  Artist(s): [Haxton]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
  Of Shifting Shadows
  Artist(s): [Hashemi]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Ojo Por Ojo
  Artist(s): [Zepeda]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Old House in the Shadow of the Castle
  Artist(s): [Rubin]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationSound Art]
  Omnipresence Ver.1
  Artist(s): [Ishii]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  one foot
  Artist(s): [Goldman]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Overgrown Artificiality
  Artist(s): [Yoo]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Paintings from the Interface: Battery Power
  Artist(s): [Gwilt]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  Poem Vacuum Cleaner
  Artist(s): [Yang]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  Protrude, flow
  Artist(s): [Kodama and Takeno]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [3D & Sculpture]
  Proximal Actuator
  Artist(s): [Hemminger]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Rebirth of the VooDoo Child
  Artist(s): [Evers]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  RT111
  Artist(s): [Uchiyama]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Sarah- Dancing Reflections
  Artist(s): [Sobel]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Second Thoughts
  Artist(s): [Miller]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Installation]
  Secrets of the Magdalen Laundries
  Artist(s): [Fenster and McNabb]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Shandong Mountains
  Artist(s): [Hébert]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Six-Part Pattern Series: 2000.3; 2000.5; 2000.6
  Artist(s): [Huff]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Animation & Video]
  Sunagimo
  Artist(s): [Fukano]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  Telomeres Project On Imminent Immortality
  Artist(s): [Sandor]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Tentacular Continuum, Detail 3
  Artist(s): [Oberheu]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
  Texas Moments
  Artist(s): [Korula]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Performance]
  That Brain Wave Chick V
  Artist(s): [Kaul and Applebaum]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
  The Floating Words
  Artist(s): [Moroi and Sasada]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [3D & Sculpture]
  The Smoker
  Artist(s): [Felice]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Time Cycle
  Artist(s): [Hertz]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Transport II
  Artist(s): [Heller]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Transport III
  Artist(s): [Heller]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Transport VI
  Artist(s): [Heller]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Undefined
  Artist(s): [Maloney]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Used Chambers
  Artist(s): [Nobler]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Internet Art]
  Visual Chaos
  Artist(s): [Zellen]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [Performance]
  VR Keith 2.0
  Artist(s): [Roberson]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Waterworks
  Artist(s): [George]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  What Noh Masks Whisper to Us
  Artist(s): [Tohma]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  
• 
  Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
  Whitewater
  Artist(s): [George]
  [SIGGRAPH 2001]
  

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