SIGGRAPH 2001: n-space




 

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“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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https://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S01/intro.html

Acknowledgements:

Treasure Map Art Direction
Carol Lafayette

Design
Christina Garcia

Research
Barbara Ellison


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Traveling Art Show Information:

Titles First Name Last Name Size Medium Year Country
Heroine in Peril Tina Bell Vance 16 x 20 inches Gallery framed inkjet print on watercolor paper 2000 United States
Gestures IV and Gestures V ***Diptych. These two pieces are framed together. Lyn Bishop 24 x 34 inches United States
Untitled (7369) Gloria DeFilipps Brush 24 x 20 inches United States
Closed Concealments Kimberly Burleigh 9 x 12 inches United States
Rebirth of the VooDoo Child 1 Petra Evers United States
F-G and the Iron Clocks of Film James Faure Walker 28 x 36 United Kingdom
Symmetric Design from Chaos: Hellfire III Michael Field 20 x 20 inches United States
Intercere #11 John Fillwalk 24 x 30 inches United States
Water Works Phillip George 64 x 150 cm Australia
White Water Phillip George 110 x 145 cm Australia
Courage Harvey Goldman 20 x 16 inches Iris print 2000 United States
A Piece of the Pie Melissa Harshman 17 1/2 x 16 inches Lithography, serigraphy, 2000 United States
Breast Stroke Melissa Harshman 16 x 16 inches Lithography 1999 United States
Oculadders, Part3 David Haxton 38 x 48 inches United States
Shangdong Mountains Jean-pierre Hebert 4 x 23 x 21 inches Ink and graphite lead on paper 2001 United States
Mount Tai Jean-pierre Hebert 4 x 23 x 31 inches Ink and graphite lead on paper 2001 United States
Exponential Eric Heller 48 x 36 inches LightJet using Lumniange process printer on archival color photographic paper, Fuji Crystal Archive 2000 United States
Transport II Eric Heller 50 x 36 inches LightJet – using Lumniange process printer on archival color photographic paper, Fuji Crystal Archive 2000 United States
Transport III Eric Heller 48 x 32 inches LightJet – using Lumniange process printer on archival color photographic paper, Fuji Crystal Archive 2000 United States
Transport VI Eric Heller 25 5/16 x 32 3/16 inches LightJet – using Lumniange process printer on archival color photographic paper, Fuji Crystal Archive 2000 United States
Six-Part Pattern Series: 2000.6 Kenneth A. Huff 34 x 34 inches United States
Chelovechki-01 Yelena Ilkanayev 43 x 25 United States
Curving Spirolaterals (24 pieces) Robert Krawczyk 4 x 4 inches United States
Disoriented but not Confused Jessica Maloney 17.5 x 15 inches United States
Untitled (ASK YOURSELF?) Jessica Maloney 27 x 23 inches United States
Undefined Jessica Maloney 23 x 25 inches United States
Used Chambers Leslie Nobler-Farber 9.5 x 8 inches United States
Tentacular Continuum (Detail) Kent Oberheu 12 x 8 inches Framed Giclee Iris print on watercolor paper. 1998 United States
Forehead Michael O’Rourke 35 x 41 inches United States
Octoboy Steven Ramsey 20 x 20 inches United States
Gatorman Steven Ramsey 20 x 20 inches United States
Ghost Town Artifact: The Keys Naomi Ribner 17 x 14 x 4inches Inkjet print, collographs, charcoal, pastel constructed in a cherry wood box with hinged lid and padlock 1999 United States
If These Walls Could Talk: Bubby’s Story Naomi Ribner Iris print on collograph 1998 United States
Intersections #5 Kyle Riedel 6 x 8 feet 3D modeled still 2000 United States
Old House in the Shadow of the Castle Cynthia Beth Rubin 32 x 42 inches United States
Xrossings: Tidal Pool Karin Schminke 32 x 32 inches United States
Dancer series of prints: Sarahdancing Reflections Leslie Sobel 23 x 29 inches United States
What Noh masks whisper to us Akiko Tohma 45 x 100 cm Japan
RT111 Hiroko Uchiyama 81 cm x 81 cm Japan
Commuter’s Tunes Anna Ursyn 36 x 18 inches United States
Overgrown Artificiality 10 Hye jin Yoo 36 x 48 South Korea
Manufactured Existence: The Remains Jason Zimmerman United States
Intercere #11 John Fillwalk 24 x 30 inches United States
Octoboy Steven Ramsey 20 x 20 inches United States