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Overview FISEA Art Events
The Art Show ran parallel to the symposium in the Jaarbeurs Bernard Hall. It offered an overview of new art whereby the computer plays a role. These were selected from the competitions. Next to this, there was a special exhibition on computer art from Great Britain and new work from the Ohio State University from the United States. The work was shown as prints of computer-graphics, paintings based on computer-designs, video-documentaries of performances and other forms of electronic art, sculptures designed or produced with computer techniques, installations, computer animations on video and interactive computer programs. A call was sent out for a number of international competitions on
1. computer graphics & images processing
2. computer animation
3. video art
4. films & videos
depicting electronic art, including documentaries, concert registrations and so on,
5. the omniversum-competition and
6. the open-air event in Rotterdam.
The results of the first four competitions were admitted into the Art Show after a selection by an international jury. There were many submissions for computer graphics & image processing, computer animation and films & video’s depicting electronic art.
The different video-formats – VHS, U-matic, Betamax and video-norms – PAL, NTSC, SECAM were problematic for the selection of the submissions. The audiovisual service of the Dijkzicht Hospital (Rotterdam) converted all the video to PAL-VHS so the jury could watch more than 16 hours of video from 5 identical tapes.
UK Exhibition Art & Computers
“The exhibition of English artists offered a unique overview of the activities in this area. The exhibition is accompanied by a separate catalogue, which discusses the participating artists and the work on display”
_from the Final report of FISEA88, by Johan van den Biggelaar.
It was an exhibition called Art and Computers in the county of Cleveland (Yorkshire, UK) organised by the Cleveland County Museum Service and Cleveland Arts.
It is not clear whether the complete exhibition was shown at FISEA88 in Utrecht or only parts of it. Thanks to one of the exhibiting artists, Stephen Bell, we have the Catgalogue of the original exhibition online. See Catalogue_Art_&_Computers
- Steve Chettle & Mike Hill — Foreword to the Art & Computers Catalogue
Concerts and Performances
Concerts
(Academy Theatre Utrecht)
- George Lewis — The Empty Chair
- Cort Lippe — Music for Bass Clarinet and Tape
- Daniel Brandt — Portable Music
- Kristi Allik & Robert Mulder — Cometose
- Robert Rowe — Hall of Mirrors
- Reynold Weidenaar — The Thundering Scream of Seraphim’s Delight
- Daniel Scheidt — Obeying the Laws of Physics
- Peter Desain & Henkjan Honing — Duel
Performances
(Geertekerk, Utrecht)
- David Roosenboom — Systems of Judgement
- Joel Ryan — The Number Readers
- Charlemagne Palestine — The Perfect Repeat
- Renee Bourassa — Lux
Art Exhibition
An impression of the art show
- Herbert Franke — Works from the series Math Art (1979-85)
- Peter Bleekemolen (winner of the Computer Graphics & Image Processing Competition)
- Stephen Bell — Smallworld
- Simon Biggs — Golem
- The Ohio State University’s Students, among others: Joan Staveley, David Lister, Michael Girard & Susan Amkraut — Cibachrome prints
- Other unknown artists
Screenings
- Artist unknown — ‘Foxes’ and ‘Pond’
Computer Graphics Research Group, Ohio State University: Students computer animations
- William Sadler & Tom Hutchinson — Metafable
- Ruedy Leeman — Vision Obious
- Anne Seidman & Susan Amkraut — Blue Chair
- Joan Staveley — Snoot and Muttly
- Joan Staveley — Broken Heart (work in progress)
- David Zeltzer — Skeleton Animation
- Michael Girard & Susan Amkraut — Flock
- Waine Hoit — Blockhead
- Isabelle Lebois — Marsupil and Co
- Isabelle Lebois — Good Morning (wire tests)
- Chris Wedge — Tuber’s Two Step
- Wilson Burrows — Metal Morphosis
- Marsha McDevitt, Thuy N. Tran, Kevin Reagh & Marla Schweppe — Chimera
- Undergraduate Students — Microcomputer Graphics Demo
Electronic Theatre
(Omniversum The Hague)
- Wim van der Plas & Wim Bijleveld — Omnimax Animation Competition