Critical Writing Index

"That's Modulation!": Film and Video at Siggraph

by J. Ronald Green

Afterimage, Dec. 1990, v. 18, no. 5, pp. 4 - 5

"That's Modulation!" focuses on the 1990 SIGGRAPH (the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics) conference's film and video theatre and animation programs. J. Ronald Green describes the works as "computer art", discusses formal qualities, and expresses the difficulties of viewership and understanding of the media. Comparisons are drawn between works and popular culture, such as television commercials, cartoons, rock music, music videos, and teen movies.

ITEM 1990.094 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

PanspermiaKarl Sims

Cold Fronts Moving Across the North AtlanticBill Hibbard

Cold Fronts Moving Across the North AtlanticDave Santek

Visualizing Fermat's Last TheoremIndiana University Computer Science

Visualizing Fermat's Last TheoremCICA

Electron Densities of the AZT MoleculeFred Dech

Electron Densities of the AZT MoleculeT.J. O'Donnell

Special EffectsCarl B. Stone

Thought GridRobert King

Rush HourAllen Hastings

The Next Giant LeapNASA

The Next Giant LeapJohnson Space Center Visual Communication Lab

More Bells and WhistlesWayne Lytle

Interstitial Dreamin'Intelligent Light

Magma ToursOshima-Machi, Tanseisha Company, Ltd.

Getting into ArtDavid Ebert

Getting into ArtJulia Ebert

Getting into ArtKeith Boyer

The NatureDentsu Inc./ Tokyu Agency Inc.

The Funtastic Word of Hanna-BarberadeGraf/Wahrman, Inc.

Mathematics! Similarity and the Story of π (pi)Jim Blinn

The China SyndromeJames Bridges

Rambo: First Blood Part IIGeorge P. Cosmatos

EnthusiasmDziga Vertov

The Thousand Eyes of Doctor MabuseFritz Lang

IllusionsJulie Dash

Le Gai SavoirJean-Luc Godard

Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematograph SceneJean-Marie Straub

Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematograph SceneDaniele Huillet

Escape to Planet EarthChris Walker

Escape to Planet EarthJan Fritze

MetropolisFritz Lang

This is Not Frank's PlanetFritz Lang

American GraffitiGeorge Lucas

Robocop IIdeGraf Wahrman, Inc.