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Art Gallery: Global Eyes

The enormous speed by which digital media reach previously isolated 
cultures around the world catalyzes a rapid integration of visual and 
media languages across the digital and physical spectrum. There is a 
need to understand not only ethnic cultures and the vocabularies of 
their traditional media, but also how these cultures and languages 
transform and are being transformed by digital media, especially 
computer graphics. What role do digital media play in the connected 
global context?

Global Eyes, the SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery, is accepting submissions 
of artwork that expand our humanity by extending our awareness of 
people and nature. Wearing these new digital "glasses," how do we see 
each other and our world in alternative ways?

We are looking for works that:
Illuminate the role digital media play in shaping, extending, and 
reflecting world views and cosmologies.

Address ecological, social, and political issues in imaginative and 
innovative ways.

Foster respect, tolerance, and empathy among people and nations.
Creative and critical works exploring relationships between people 
and their environment, connections between biodiversity and cultural 
diversity, and related ethical issues are welcome. A special 
invitation is extended to artist-scientists (including 
collaborations) actively engaged in these investigations.

We encourage participation by people who are working creatively in 
all cultures, including the developing world and indigenous 
communities, with a combination of physical and digital processes, 
including (but not limited to) digital photography and digital video, 
handcrafts, folk and fine art, ethnography, and world music.

By actively bringing the richness of the world's cultural traditions 
to the field of computer graphics and interactive media, we hope to 
catalyze understanding and collaboration across cultures, and 
contribute to development of a more intelligent, responsible, and 
democratic world language.


International Participation and Support
Because the theme of this year's show is global, we are encouraging 
increased international participation and cooperation. To support 
this, we will be working with ACM SIGGRAPH Professional and Student 
Chapters around the world and other organizations to help identify 
and assist artists and scientists worldwide, with a special welcome 
for those in countries and communities historically under-represented 
at the SIGGRAPH conference.

If you have a proposal that addresses the goals of the SIGGRAPH 2007 
Art Gallery and are working either independently or together with an 
international cultural organization, we want to hear from you. We 
want to make it possible for creative people everywhere, including 
those in developing countries working with limited resources, to 
participate. We will try to support as many deserving projects as we 
can.

Please contact the Art Gallery Chairs and/or the International 
Resources Chair . Be sure to let us know about any special 
considerations you may have, including financial, technological, or 
other.

If English is not your first language, the English Review Service is 
available to help with grammar and spelling.

The SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery is considering (but not limited to) the 
following types of work:
Still images
Time-based work
Art installations and environments
Art sculptures and objects
Digital communities,  including alternative networks, mobile. and 
locative media
Electronically mediated performances
Interactive art, including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, web-based, and responsive media
Trans-forms: emerging forms at the intersection between computing and 
the sciences, arts, and/or humanities
A subset of accepted artists will be selected to talk about their 
work in two ways:
Gallery Talks
Panel Discussions
We recommend that artists also consider submitting their artwork to 
the following SIGGRAPH 2007 programs:

Computer Animation Festival
Computer animation that is artistically expressive in any genre, 
including experimental,  narrative, or non-narrative should be 
submitted to the Computer Animation Festival.

Emerging Technologies
If your work has an aesthetic component but is mainly a technology 
demonstration, please submit it to Emerging Technologies.

Sketches & Posters
Artists wishing to speak about the technology in their work should 
submit to the Sketches & Posters program.

Courses

Educators Program

Papers


Vibeke Sorensen
SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery: Global Eyes Chair
Arizona State University

Lina Yamaguchi
SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery: Global Eyes Associate Chair
Stanford University