eugene@ames.UUCP (02/07/86)
San Francisco Bay Area SIGGRAPH Announcement
- TITLE: ANIMATION ON THE MACINTOSH
- WHO: MARNEY MORRIS, Software Artist
Marney Morris is a software artist who does animation and art screens
for personal computers. She has done work for Broderbund, Activision,
Scarborough, Koala Technologies, Xerox, and Hesware. Shes done
animation on the MacIntosh, Apple II, Commodore 64, and IBM PC. Marney
will be showing work by various animators including Mike Saenz (creator
of "Shatter" comics), Mark Pierce (an original designer of
"Videoworks"), Karl Hauser, and Stuart Sharpe. The presentation is
designed to both share some of the exciting ideas that are being
developed on low cost animation systems, and to encourage other artists
in the community to work in these areas.
- WHO: SCOTT KIM, Author
Scott Kim is a graduate student at Stanford University in Computers and
Graphic Design. His paradoxical lettering designs have appeared in
Omni, Scientific American, Science Digest, Smithsonian and A+. Most
recently, Scott has completed "Inversions for the MacIntosh", a
collection of fonts, MacPaint puzzles and animation to accompany his
book "Inversions". Current obsessions include making computers less
painful to use, the graphic design of computer screens, and using
computer graphics to explain mathematics. He also works at Information
Applicance, a company founded by Jef Raskin, one of the creators of the
MacIntosh. Scott will show animated works in Thinktank, MacPaint,
Filevision and Videoworks.
-> WHEN: 8 pm, Tuesday, 25 February 1986. Doors open at 7pm.
- WHERE:
The EXPLORATORIUM, The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco