pjs@granite.dec.com (Philip J. Schneider) (01/20/88)
ANNOUNCING: The 8th Annual Graphics Gathering
WHEN: February 20th, 1988, 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm
WHERE: University of California, Santa Cruz (specifics available soon)
WHAT:
This is a FREE event, both for participants, and for attendees, and
this announcement constitutes an invitation for both. Last year,
over 200 people attended, and most of them have brought
something for "show-and-tell". Active participation in the form of
bringing something to show off is highly encouraged, but all are welcome
to attend just for the fun of it.
The Graphics Gathering, now in its 8th year, has been called "the
premier event of the computer graphics underground". Not a "convention"
in the conventional sense :-), it is an all-day affair with art shows
(featuring computer and non-computer art), speakers, demos, presentations,
panels, a PARTY (!!!), etc. This event is intended to appeal to computer
graphics experts and non-experts -- it is a highly visual, interpersonal, and
interactive gathering, and a great place to meet people. Legend has it
that the people at PDI met through an earlier Gathering.
Artsy stuff: The bottom line for the Graphics Gathering is "creativity" --
individuals (commercial artists are welcome, too :-) are encouraged to
bring their "stuff". The theme this year is "Digital Valentine's Day", and
there will be prizes for the best:
- "digital valentine"
- fractal valentine
- cellular automata valentine
- mapping of the earth onto a heart (the logo for this year)
All media are welcome -- live, tapes, slides, hardcopy, direct display, movies,
sculpture, etc., all of which have appeared in times past. Hypertext and
hypermedia valentines/artwork are also welcome. By the way, the best of
the artwork will be shown at the next SIGGRAPH!
Techie stuff: This is NOT a call for commercial representation (except
artists, as noted above) -- that is what SIGGRAPH is for. This is a
gathering for individuals to get together and show off their "neat stuff"
that they have developed. Please feel free to bring hardware/software/etc
from work/home/wherever, but do so as an individual, not as a representative
for Company X.
Featured this year will be graphics machines and software of all types,
cellular automata (and interactive programming of such beasties), real-time
c.g. automata, and languages (Lisp, PostScript, Smalltalk, Prolog, Logo, C,
Forth, etc., etc.). There will be a special panel on a US-USSR linkup
via computer graphics (hmmm . . . what DOES that mean?). Past attendees and
panelists have included John Whitney, Sr., Bill Atkinson, Scott Kim, and a
bunch of other neat and famous folks I can't recall right now :-) The
early Graphics Gatherings were one of the main inspirations for the
"Hacker's Conferences", whose attendees have included the likes of
Wozniak, Osborne, and Felzenstein.
Please send your Digital Valentines to:
Digital Valentines '88
c/o Howard Pearlmutter
Softweaver
200 7th Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
A collector's edition poster (featuring this year's logo) will be
available. Please send me (Philip Schneider) your PHYSICAL address if you
wish to get one.
I am also setting up a mailing list for attendees and participants. Please
send both your physical address, and an e-mail address (if you have one) to:
Philip Schneider
611 Wellsbury
Palo Alto, CA 94306
OR TO:
pjs@granite.dec.com (128.45.1.101)
More information will be available within the next two weeks or so, so
for those intending to participate, get your stuff together soon! Answers
to questions like "Is <blank> OK to bring?" will be available "real soon now".
For the time being, just assume that "(almost) anything goes"!