SIGGRAPH-ASIA

This year, the 35th annual SIGGRAPH conference was held in Los Angeles, and the first SIGGRAPH Art Gallery was presented in 1982. Since then, the conference has featured many ambitious displays of digital art and interactive technologies, from Tomorrow's Realities in the early 1990s to Slow Art at SIGGRAPH 2008.

The title of our show, Synthesis, refers to a kind of creative chaos, a random transformation of structured knowledge and exploration in digital art and emerging technologies. Thus we have combined the two programmes, Art Gallery & Emerging Technologies, this year to merge their experimental histories. We are so happy to show you this fruitful result of emerging creativity, here in Singapore, at the melting point of culture and business.

There are over 30 brilliant works altogether, and in all the projects, attendees can enjoy the vast potential and rich diversity of hybrid art and technologies. The Art Gallery presents art that transforms, melds, and transcends current Asian paradigms. Emerging Technologies presents a rich resource of delicate, aesthetic technologies and vivid, innovative ideas that define the future of computer graphics and interactive techniques.

The Art Gallery in SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 reflects a culmination of creative minds - a showcase of various cultures from all corners of the globe. The experience: profound, thought provoking and visually stimulating. Twenty works selected from nearly 300 entries, while different in content, application, and inspiration, have one thing in common: successful representation of culture and exploration. Through ground-breaking digital works, the artists question and invite responses from attendees. We are extremely pleased to bring to you, at the inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 in Singapore, a collection of exciting, inventive, and inspiring creative works that will certainly make its mark as the first in Asia.