SIGGRAPH 2005: Threading Time
Location:
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Dates:
July 31st-August 4th, 2005
Art Show Overview:
The overarching goal of the 2005 Art Gallery is to show artwork that maps data or traces threads in time and space. This year, the art gallery will show digital artwork from the cerebral to the visceral, work that challenges the audience’s perceptions of time and place. Each piece is inherently digital: it cannot exist without computer graphics. The artists examine the passage of time in their work: some lingering, some looping, some humorous, some perennial.
Six award-winning artists have graciously accepted my invitation to exhibit their works in the SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery: Camille Utterback, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser, Perry Haberman, Jim Campbell, and John Gerrard. Each of these esteemed artists expresses threading time in a unique way. They are among the most innovative contemporary artists using digital media today.
Artwork in the SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery is organized by content rather than by media, to emphasize meaning. Here the technology is in the service of the art. Themes include: mapping, dynamic landscape, moving gestures, portraiture, narrative, generative art, networked projects, artificial life, body and identity, media activism, surveillance, commercialization, and convergence. Six Art Papers are presented in the catalog. The Art Gallery features Artist Panels and Artists’ Talks that frame contemporary digital art practices.
Threading Time was juried by a preeminent group of jurors, artists, curators, and computer graphics and arts professionals. From more than 1,100 submissions, the jury selected 52 artists whose works are both figurative and abstract. To provide a deeper window into the artists’ work, more artwork by fewer artists was selected. Some of the work is code driven, and some is narrative; some is political and intellectual, while other work is personal and emotional. Some of the work maps aesthetic preferences, while other work creates aesthetic experiences interactively.
The jury considered work that:
• Addresses the theme and traces threads through time and space
• Is content driven
• Is visually compelling
• Uses the technology in the service of the art
• Demonstrates a clear reason for the use of digital media
2005 is a time for cooperation, community, and networking. In this spirit, The 2005 SIGGRAPH conference is rich with collaboration among its programs and beyond. Emerging Technologies and the Art Gallery are sharing overlapping space to show six interactive art installations. These two programs are also demonstrating the very nature of collaboration by presenting compelling distributed performances and art panels on the Access Grid. The Art Gallery is collaborating with the Computer Animation Festival to present, for the first time in SIGGRAPH history, a mini-show of storyboard and concept art. Art animations, juried through the Computer Animation Festival, are shown in an intimate screening room in the Art Gallery. Some of the Art Gallery artists are participating in Sketches and the Web Program.
We have reached a true paradigm shift in art making. Digital technologies are ubiquitous, and artists are using them in exciting ways to express time-honored as well as new ideas. And these ideas are evolving with the technology. The SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery: Threading Time showcases these artworks.
Linda Lauro-Lazin
Art Gallery Chair
SIGGRAPH 2005
Advisors
Lynn Pocock, New York Institute of Technology
Dominique Nahas, Independent Critic and Curator
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Brown University
Jon Ippolito, Guggenheim Museum
Christina Yang, Media Arts Curator, The Kitchen
Jacquelyn Martino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Art Paper Reviewers
Roy Ascott, Planetary Collegum, University of Plymouth
Claudia Herbst, Pratt Institute
Patrick Lichty, Intelligent Agent, Bowling Green State University
Bruce Wands, School of Visual Arts
1st Tier Reviewers
Joanna Berzowska, Concordia University
Marc Böhlen, State University of New York at Buffalo
Claire F. Doyle, Red Beret Design
Rick Barry, Pratt Institute
Daniel Durning, New York Institute of Technology
Rejane Spitz, Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, SIGGRAPH 2005 International Resources Chair
Steve Rittler, William Patterson University
Cheryl Stockton, Stockshot Studio and Pratt Institute
Ruth West, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego
Dena Eber, Bowling Green State University
Lina M. Yamaguchi, Stanford University
Anita Wetzel, Independent Artist, WSW
Jeff Mayer, Jeff Mayer & Partners, LLC
Suzana Milevska, Independent writer and curator, Goldsmiths College, Skopje/London
Subcommittee
Roy Ascott, Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth
Garth Garrett, Independent Writer
Madge Gleeson, Western Washington University
Peter Mackey, Pratt Institute
Jeff Mayer, Jeff Mayer & Partners, LLC
Bonnie Mitchell, Bowling Green State University, SIGGRAPH 2006, ART GALLERY CHAIR
Cheryl Stockton, Stockshot Studio and Pratt Institute
Ruth West, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research University of California, San Diego
Dena Eber, Publications, Bowling Green State University
Alex Jimenez, Technical Support Pratt Institute
Natalie Moore, Art Director, Art Website, Pratt Institute
Beth Warshafsky, Art Gallery Video, Promo Producer, Pratt Institute
Yaryna Wynar, Graduate Assistant, Pratt Institute
Exhibition Artworks:
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
#86b.1
Artist(s): [Meyer]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
#86b.13
Artist(s): [Meyer]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
(R) Doc Series # 1: Our Citizenry Is Ambiguous To The Democracy
Artist(s): [Rusnak]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
(R) Doc Series #6: Absently In Hand, Then Down Again
Artist(s): [Rusnak]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
(R) Doc Series #8: Threatened And Too Scared ...
Artist(s): [Rusnak]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
2004.4
Artist(s): [Huff]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
2004.5
Artist(s): [Huff]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
2005.1
Artist(s): [Huff]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Installation]
3D Muscle
Artist(s): [Nakayama]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
50000 Attempts at a Circle
Artist(s): [Briggs]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
ACQ: 814 (and me
Artist(s): [Elliott-Famularo]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
ACQ: F7 (and me)
Artist(s): [Elliott-Famularo]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Aggregation
Artist(s): [Lomas]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Amphibian Hominid
Artist(s): [Andrews]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Arlecchino
Artist(s): [Briggs]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Installation]
Arrival
Artist(s): [Eshkar and Kaiser]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Art Under Contract (Ender User License Agreement)
Artist(s): [Hoberman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
barcode
Artist(s): [Gould]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Bed Flora
Artist(s): [Dumitriu]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Black Lines Dancing
Artist(s): [Patel]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
black+widow+spider
Artist(s): [Gould]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Burlhead
Artist(s): [Tan]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
BurlNuts+4
Artist(s): [Tan]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Chrysalide
Artist(s): [Bertrand and Serben]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Church on Fifth Avenue
Artist(s): [Campbell]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Climbing
Artist(s): [Chandler]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Cocoon
Artist(s): [Waligore]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
ColorTin
Artist(s): [Piribeck]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Condottiere
Artist(s): [Epuré]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Contamination
Artist(s): [Waligore]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Contour Tin
Artist(s): [Piribeck]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
daguerreotype
Artist(s): [Gould]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Daughter's Rebirth
Artist(s): [LeBlanc]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [3D & Sculpture]
DEFENDEX-ESPGX
Artist(s): [Hosale and Thompson]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Diamond Age
Artist(s): [Prentice]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Dice
Artist(s): [Akayama]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Drift
Artist(s): [Knep]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Drift Grid 1
Artist(s): [Knep]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Drip
Artist(s): [Knep]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Installation]
Ecce Homology
Artist(s): [Ecce Homology]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Echo Kite
Artist(s): [Millstein]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Installation]
Elf
Artist(s): [Glissmann and Hofflin]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Evergreen
Artist(s): [Seale]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Electronic/Robotic Object]
exhale: (breath between bodies)
Artist(s): [Schiphorst]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Falling Down
Artist(s): [Chapman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Four Plays
Artist(s): [Patel]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Fragile Balance
Artist(s): [Ursyn]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Function Tin
Artist(s): [Piribeck]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Gimpy1
Artist(s): [Chandler]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Grammar of the City
Artist(s): [Ursyn]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Gronk's BrainFlame
Artist(s): [Bumgarner-Kirby]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Here
Artist(s): [Arnold]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Homage to the Square Stereoscopic Suprematist Composition
Artist(s): [Garvey]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Illustrated Limited Edition of George Boole's "Derivation of the Laws ... ", Frontpieces: #75 and #74
Artist(s): [Verostko]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
In Memory or Truth
Artist(s): [Ligorano/Reese]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Inspiration Computing Robot
Artist(s): [Tosa]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Intervals
Artist(s): [Horvath]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Labyrinth
Artist(s): [Pyune]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Landscape
Artist(s): [Pud]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Lichen Kite
Artist(s): [Millstein]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Artist Book]
Limited Edition of George Boole's "Derivation of the Laws ... ", Text Pages with Illustrations: Pages 15-16 and Pages 21-22
Artist(s): [Verostko]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
limosa
Artist(s): [Evans]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Installation]
Liquid Eden (The Discreet Paradise of Networks)
Artist(s): [Owens]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Logophobia-Eat
Artist(s): [Freeman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Logophobia-Snap
Artist(s): [Freeman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Logophobia-Tongues
Artist(s): [Freeman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
LOOP
Artist(s): [Supinfocom Aries]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Made In China: Mao vs. Andy
Artist(s): [Lichty]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
MAIPIU-NEVERAGAIN
Artist(s): [Boeri]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Meditations Series, 2004.10a
Artist(s): [Huff]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Mirror _SPACE
Artist(s): [Zics]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
mona + lisa
Artist(s): [Gould]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Motion and Rest #5
Artist(s): [Campbell]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
My Life In Spam One Day (December 11, 2002)
Artist(s): [Hoberman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
My Life In Spam One Week (November 1-30, 1998)
Artist(s): [Hoberman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Natalie
Artist(s): [Wilkinson]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Ondine Absorbee
Artist(s): [Guesdon]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Ondine: Images-soeurs
Artist(s): [Guesdon]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Ondine: Toison
Artist(s): [Guesdon]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Oral Fixations
Artist(s): [Mahler, Lee, Duesing, and Tinapple]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Ornamental Bug Garden 001
Artist(s): [boredomresearch]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Pearl Park Scripture, George Boole on the Laws of Thought
Artist(s): [Verostko]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Persona in Fields
Artist(s): [Epuré]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Plate Flora
Artist(s): [Dumitriu]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Animation & Video]
Point of View
Artist(s): [Kim]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
portrait
Artist(s): [Gould]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Portrait of a Portrait of Claude Shannon
Artist(s): [Campbell]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Portrait of a Portrait of Harry Nyquist
Artist(s): [Campbell]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Quadruped Hominid
Artist(s): [Andrews]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Reach Kite
Artist(s): [Millstein]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Rocking Horse
Artist(s): [Meier]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Rogue IV
Artist(s): [Heller]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
seri_CA_1
Artist(s): [Gillis]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
seri_GB_1
Artist(s): [Gillis]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Small_Elements_K
Artist(s): [Dehlinger]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Sonic Wire Sculptor
Artist(s): [Pitaru]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Installation]
Spore 1.1
Artist(s): [Easterly]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Stop Motion Studies Series 13
Artist(s): [Crawford]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Striche
Artist(s): [Dehlinger]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Submariner: Epic Dance
Artist(s): [LeBlanc]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Subterranean Empress
Artist(s): [LeBlanc]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Sugar Jar
Artist(s): [Waligore]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Table Flora
Artist(s): [Dumitriu]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
-
Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Tabula Fantastica
Artist(s): [Boeri]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Exhibition Writings and Presentations:
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Title:
A Transformational Object: Artistic Authorship and the Phenomenal Aesthetics of New Media
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
If there is any metaphor that has come to act as a signpost of current developments in the realm of digital art and design, it is the blur. We have seen the blur as a building, the blur as the theme at conferences, and the blur as a means to describe the totality of the overlapping processes and intentions that all converge in what can be called interactive experiences. For shorthand, we call this convergence new media. Given the various aims and contexts from which the larger category of art objects arrives, the blur seems to best approximate a still undistinguished body of work and its cultural momentum.
[View PDF]Title: Being Paintings
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
This paper focuses on art created by new techniques such as cellular machines, L-Systems, genetic algorithms, neural networks … We propose here several methods of implementation combining the rules of construction of cellular machines and L-Systems with genetic, neuronal networks, couplings, translation of codes. These methods result in the morphogenesis of bodies, as well their structure (shape) and their functional aspect (neuronal networks with driving, sensory neurons, balance, etc.). It’s a part of what we can call “a new kind of art”, and we can see here how Beings Paintings emerge.
[View PDF]Title: Dare to be Digital: Japan's Pioneering Contributions to Today's International Art and Technology Movement
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
A number of pioneering artists began experimenting with the computer as a visual arts medium in the late 60s and early 70s when most fine-arts circles refused to recognize art made by computers as a viable product of human creativity. This was the era of computer punch cards, when the visual results of algorithmic input were nothing more than line drawings. Many of the forward-looking artists who were experimenting with this technology were not taken seriously by the established art venues, and were, in fact, often ostracized by their peers. More recently, the work of computer artists has begun to appear in general textbooks on the history of art, but each book fealures one or two completely different artists. The books are inconsistent in their documentation of this fairly new medium. There are a number of journals that have had special issues devoted to this topic, including the Art Journal, and there are also whole journals dedicated to the field, such as Leonardo. There are, however, very few books that do justice to the movement, and few that include artists of Japan. In other words, there is a great deal of activity in the field, but the documentation is neither thorough nor consistent.
[View PDF]Title: doing interface ecology: the practice of metadisciplinary
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
The interface can be modeled as a an ecosystem: connected, dynamic, and characterized by relationships. The model is predicated on a process of working with the interface as a border zone between heterogeneous systems of representation. This paper uses sensation, embodiment, and semiotics to initiate this process, by addressing the range of systems of representation that are involved in its own production. This presence of the theorist is found to create a self-referential metastructure. As an alternative to the beneficial but ad hoc assemblages of multi-, inter, and trans-disciplinary approaches, the ecosystems approach establishes that meshing of systems of representation is an inherent property of interface phenomena. The meshing process causes elements from the involved representational systems to recombine, forming hybrids. Recombinant information is a structural formula for creating new knowledge, which can be invoked for that purpose, intentionally. Theorists are part of the environment that they theorize about. The products of theorizing are information artifacts that are also part of the environment. They themselves function as interfaces. The term “metadisciplinary” is developed to describe the inherent and self-referential nature of this structure. The structure of metadisciplinarity connects theory and practice. This stands in direct contrast with studies approaches, such as performance studies, which is separate from theater practice.
[View PDF]Title: Interactive Wallpaper
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
Interactive Wallpaper represents a new category of digital art. Deeply embedded into our built surroundings, interactive wallpapers exhibit
the following characteristics, blurring the boundaries between decorative art and useful science:
1 . They operate in everyday life
2. They are open
3. They are spatial.
4. They are alive.
Interactive wallpapers combine these primitives into powerful “immaterial” building blocks for creation of future spaces, buildings, cities. In this paper, we present a series of interactive wallpaper prototypes in order to explore how the tectonic and psychological effect of our surroundings can be augmented, subverted, and estranged by animating wallpapers and introducing an interactive, possibly darker dimension into architecture. What happens when traditionally static and innocent wallpapers become alive, get a sense of memory, spatiality, connectivity and randomness, and become part of our everyday lives?
Title: Mapping Art's Escape From the Traps of Technology
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
The 2005 SIGGRAPH jury was more than a chance to survey the digital art scene with a roomful of passionate but collegial comrades. It was also an opportunity to reflect on the role, for better or worse, that technology is playing in the production and exhibition of digital
artwork. More than any of my fellow jurors, I think I was particularly conscious of the stereotype that many artists, critics, and curators attach to exhibitions of art with a technological focus. According to this perception, the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery is less art exhibition than display showroom, where technicians show off the latest Maya or Illustrator special effect rather than pushing the boundaries of art.
Title: Memory Rich Garments: Body-Based Displays
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
This paper describes conceptual and technical prototypes of reactive body-worn artifacts that display their history of use and communicate
physical (or embodied) memory. This work concentrates on garments that reflect more subtle, playful, or poetic aspects of our identity and
history. The pieces described here are part of a larger research project called Memory Rich Clothing. A variety of input and output methodologies are explored to sense and display traces of physical memory, raising the question: What exactly do we want to remember?
Title: Threading Time Machines
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
Threading Time, the title of the SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery, invokes a vision in which the essence of lived reality, time, is measured and used through instrumentalization technology. The very subject of much of the technologically-based new media arts is time itself its uncovering, its displacement, its loss, and its reiteration. The urgency for visual artists to explore the experience of time is pervasive. Indeed, what could be more contemporary than an exploration of the lived moment as a network of relations and responses that too often
go unnoticed? The construction and imaging of visual languages through which time is not only expressed but enunciated and parsed by visual poets, have always and will always fascinate audiences. This instrumentalization is evoked and invoked through our language and the way we move, and through the very social relations between people. SIGGRAPH is both an actor in this play and an instigator; it serves as a barometer (giving us a sense of the pressures we face) and a thermometer, indicating the temperature of the body social and political.”