AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

In a dynamic change to the format of the traditional SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, this year's art program will represent innovative, juried and curated installations. I was lucky enough to be invited to serve on this Jury by its Chair, Lina Yamaguchi (see below), and am quite excited to see this exhibition in August in L.A. ... this experience with Lina and the other Jurors was a great one and I believe this exhibition will be quite a 'marker' (alongside Vibeke Sorensen's Jury in 2007) for all the experimental arts.
J.Dill
http://interdisciplinaryartinstitute.com
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Slow Art:
In Slow Art, new media artists re-imagine speed through the paradigm of slowness.

SIGGRAPH 2008 Slow Art encompasses juried art from artists meditating on fast and slow living in a landscape of technology. With the speed we attain in so many aspects of our digital culture, do we create an oasis for contemplation or a hunger for yet more speed?

The artworks are categorized into four themes:
Erosion - exploring the wear of time and repetition
Hybrids - objects and interactions uniquely combining contrasting elements of old and new
Rhythms - documenting patterns and play
Traversal - discovering paths that define humans’ relationship to time

"In our fast-paced society, we often get caught up with enhanced productivity. We forget to stop, look, and listen to our surroundings. What are the consequences of bigger, better, faster, more?" asks Lina Yamaguchi, SIGGRAPH 2008 Juried Art Chair from Stanford University. "Through the platform of new media, 41 artists share condensed perceptions of time and interrogate the limits of performance, distance, desire, and respite."

Click on link to see images of each of the works to be exhibited:
http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/attendees/slow/