SIGGRAPH 2005: Threading Time
Chair(s):
- Linda Lauro-Lazin
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- Pratt Institute
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
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
Jury:
- Jon Ippolito
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- Curator of Media Art
- Guggenheim Museum
- Perry A. Hoberman
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- Cooper Union
- Donna J. Cox
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Kathryn Saunders
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- Royal Ontario Museum
- Bonnie L. Mitchell
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- Bowling Green State University
- Lynn Pocock-Williams
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- Pratt Institute
- New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
- Samuel Lord Black
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- Penguin Flight Dynamics
- Christiane Paul
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- The Whitney Museum
- Carl Goodman
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- American Museum of the Moving Image
- Tomoe Moriyama
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- The University of Tokyo
- Nishant Kothary
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- Amazon.com
- Peter Mackey
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- Pratt Institute
Additional Information:
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
Exhibition Artworks:
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Tentacle Tower
Artist(s): [Kawaguchi]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
The Breathing Wall
Artist(s): [Pullinger, Schemat, and babel]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
The Greater Accumalation of Infinite Fractions of Solitude
Artist(s): [Briggs]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Installation]
The Last Word
Artist(s): [Nova]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
The Poem of Apricots and Peaches
Artist(s): [Epuré]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Three Views of the Senate
Artist(s): [Lu]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Touring Suburbia I Number Four
Artist(s): [Kaufman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Touring Suburbia I Number One
Artist(s): [Kaufman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Touring Suburbia I Number Three
Artist(s): [Kaufman]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Tracert
Artist(s): [Pemberton]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Transparent Blue
Artist(s): [Kushiyama]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Installation]
Ulysse
Artist(s): [Hébert]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Untitled 5 (External Measures Series)
Artist(s): [Utterback]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Installation]
Watchful Portrat (Caroline)
Artist(s): [Gerrard]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
WATERDROPS
Artist(s): [Takayama]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Yellow Pages
Artist(s): [Ursyn]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
__grau
Artist(s): [Seale]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
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