FISEA Art Event Overview
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The Art Show ran parallel to the symposium in the Jaarbeurs Bernardhal. 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:
- computer graphics & images processing
- computer animation
- video art
- films & videos
Depicting electronic art, including documentaries, concert registrations and so on,
- the Omniversum competition and
- 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.
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- An Impression of the Art Show
Photo of the FISEA exhibition
Art and Computers Exhibition
The works from the Computers in Art exhibition were also shown at FISEA in 1988.
This exhibition arose from an idea that there should be a display of computer-generated imagery in Cleveland. Coincidentally. it had occurred to each of us separately in a nebulous form, but it took the collaboration of our two organisations -Cleveland County Museum Service and Cleveland Arts -to enable it to happen.
At the outset, neither side realised how little support was available for artists who use computers to make art. We were aware of the lack of large-scale exhibitions on the subject, but it was only as we were talking to artists that it became clear that this was symptomatic of a general ignorance, not 10 say indifference on the part of the wider art-world. It seemed increasingly important that we should provide a platform which would show the diversity of work produced in Britain. This basic concept snowballed. arousing astonishingly high levels of interest and proving how necessary the exhibition was.
‘Art and Computers’ is no more definitive than any show can hope to be which is based on open submission. However, the 39 artists, chosen by an independent panel, demonstrate by their quality and diversity the richness and potential of the field, and contradict the dismissive attitude which regards all computer-generated images as a minor branch of graphic design. We hope that this exhibition will encourage greater support for this area of activity in which many British artists have been involved with distinction for many years. (The uniquely successful interaction between artists and industry in this field may be cited as evidence of this). We hope also that other curators and other galleries will be encouraged to cast wider, and dig deeper, in future explorations of the relationships between artists and computers.
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 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.
Electronic Theatre
Curator(s)/Director(s)/Producer(s):
This part of the program consisted of the premiere of two productions made for FISEA – the prize winners of the international ‘Omniversum-competition’. This was an idea of – and was initiated by Wim van der Plas and Wim Bijleveld.
Winners:
- Ronald Nameth, Stockholm, SE
- P. Walboom & M.Y Zult, The Hague, NL
These artists received the opportunity to realize their concept with the Digistar Installation at the Omniversum in collaboration with its director, Wim Bijleveld.
The Digistar installation is especially developed for projects concerning star constellations and complex simulations of astronomical phenomena on the spherical plane of projection (made by Omnimax theaters). The Digistar installation offered the artists many creative possibilities to project and animate images, accompanied by music. Despite the short preparation and limited experience, the results were stimulating! Furthermore, a selection of video and computer-animation submissions was also shown.
Jury
- Rudi Fuchs, director of the The Hague Municipal Museum, NL
- Wim Bijleveld, director of the Omniversum theater and planetarium, The Hague, NL
- Willem Nagelkerke, CEO of Van Rietschoten & Houwens industries and board member of the SCCA (Foundation for Creative Computer Applications), Rotterdam, NL
Initiator
- Wim van der Plas
