Sunday, April 18, 2004

History of Computer Graphics and Art - Call for Participation

The aim that guides this call is an intention to assemble a data bank of computer graphics and art which viewers can use to compare mutual influences on computer related disciplines. The goal is to document the evolvement of computer graphics, art, and the thought about art in relation to the progress of technology, thus creating a collection of images and essays created by artists, scientists, art historians, people shaping the museum and gallery display and those who influenced these disciplines, which reflects the unfolding of computer art due to technical achievements (hardware, software, languages, etc). With this approach, computer art and graphics are related to the history of inventions in concurrent periods of time. This treasury will be augmented by the artists’ web sites along with the existing materials cumulated in various collections and will become a part of the ACM SIGGRAPH resources. There is no sole comprehensive resource describing the influences and inventions in computer graphics and computer art from a historical perspective. The “Birds of a Feather” gathering at the SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, Texas (organized by Anna Ursyn and Anne Morgan Spalter) generated a helpful feedback to this project.

Those who feel their work contributed to the field of computer graphics, art, and the thought about art are requested to describe their areas of action and accomplishments. Since this approach calls for interaction between people representing various fields, we ask to participate anybody involved in the progress of these fields, from software/hardware programmers to scientists, historians and artists. Being a part of this project may be interesting both on a personal level and because it involves a great potential for new approaches in teaching and provides materials for visual learning. It would be greatly appreciated if you could forward this link to anyone you feel could contribute to this project.

http://www.siggraph.org/education/cgHistory/history.html or simply at http://www.siggraph.org