The 51st annual conference focuses on
contemporary media culture with Art Gallery and Art Papers
programs, a platform for artists to showcase how media arts,
language, design, and technology impact the industry.
DENVER, June 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As SIGGRAPH 2024
celebrates more than 50 years of bringing the world together
annually as the world's leading education experience showcasing the
latest in the computer graphics industry, the conference looks
toward the next 50 years while featuring findings with the Art
Gallery and Art Papers programs. This is where art meets
technology, as the advancements of art, language, and contemporary
media art will be displayed.
The Art Gallery invites attendees to closely examine
contemporary media art culture with varied practices ranging from
craft to design to installation, software, hardware, mixed media,
sound, and more. This year's theme, "Beyond Words: Transcending
Language," invites artists to present projects highlighting
innovative approaches to language and technology, along with their
unique artistic perspectives. The event will take place at the
Colorado Convention Center from
Sunday, 28 July, to Thursday, 1 August
2024.
"We wanted to rethink the relationship between art, technology,
language, and culture — reconsidering it through the latest
developments and AI technology, which is becoming more and more
dominant in our everyday lives with large language models. And, of
course, language is important because it's the foundation of our
entire culture. It shapes how we think and interact with the
world," Dr. Şölen Kiratli, SIGGRAPH 2024 Art Gallery Co-Chair,
said. "It's allowing us to open new windows and critical
discussions while giving opportunities for artists to create new
expressions, explorations, and experiences," she added.
This year's Art Gallery acknowledges that the essence of
language is at the heart of human culture. The Art Gallery takes
attendees on a captivating journey through the evolution of
language technology in creative expression and the broader societal
dialogues. SIGGRAPH 2024 recognizes that the harnessing of human
language on an unprecedented scale is epitomized by large language
models (LLMs), a technological advancement that signifies not only
a significant leap in AI capabilities but also a deeper integration
of machines into linguistic, visual, and cultural environments.
"We're looking at language as a technology, both human and
machine technology. We aim to get a different sense of the concept
beyond the devices we usually put on the market,"Mohu Moruti,
SIGGRAPH 2024 Art Gallery Co-Chair, said. "This means making
connections to technology through cultural and philosophical means,
inviting artists to bring their perceptions of media arts and
unique engagement with technology. In other words, transcending
limits and boundaries to achieve a diverse yet cohesive media arts
representation."
The SIGGRAPH 2024 Art Gallery takes a comprehensive
approach to language that extends beyond verbal communication
alone. Language is defined as any structured and symbolic system
used to convey meaning, encompassing words, signs, symbols, images,
and other nonverbal cues. With this perspective in mind, SIGGRAPH
2024 invited artists whose work spans the realms of art, design,
technology, and research to contribute to this crucial exploration
with their creative practices. This year, there were 188
submissions from artists. Of these submissions, 12 projects were
selected and will be featured in the exhibit.
"We believe that the Art Gallery has a unique position within
the conference, which is much needed within this large industry and
community. Since art does not have the mission to be a mass
commodity, it is less entangled with capitalistic and market-driven
agendas. Many of the artworks the jury carefully picked for the Art
Gallery are highly critical, some posing uncomfortable questions
about the ramifications of the technologies that we create that
ultimately shape humanity," Dr. Kiratli added.
While the Art Gallery serves as an interactive installation,
SIGGRAPH Art Papers is the premier venue to publish critical
findings within these diverse fields of art practices where they
converge on screen, through interactive methods, and within
digital, mechanical, or biological interfaces. Accepted papers are
published in The Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and
Interactive Techniques (PACMCGIT).
The Art Papers critically explore contemporary media art
culture, spanning practices from craft to mixed-media and
algorithmically generated content. As we transition from visual to
acoustic spaces, new methods and questions are essential to
understand the impact of algorithmic advancements on media art.
This program serves as the premier venue for publishing insights
into how these diverse practices intersect and evolve within
digital, mechanical, and biological interfaces, under the
constraints of our networked, planetary environment.
Please find more information about SIGGRAPH 2024 here.
The ACM SIGGRAPH Blog and SIGGRAPH Spotlight Podcast, including
interviews with Dr. Kiratli and Moruti as well as SIGGRAPH 2024 Art
Papers Chair August Black, highlight
additional details of the Art Gallery and Art Papers programs.
About ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH 2024
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's
largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting
educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue,
share resources, and address the field's challenges. ACM
SIGGRAPH is a special interest group within ACM that serves as
an interdisciplinary community for members in research, technology,
and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
The SIGGRAPH conference is the world's leading annual
interdisciplinary educational experience showcasing the latest in
computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2024,
the 51st annual conference hosted by ACM SIGGRAPH, will take place
live 28 July–1 August at the Colorado Convention Center, along with a
Virtual Access option.
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