We have not attempted to independently curate a comprehensive selection of web sites, CD-ROMs, and videos at circuits, but instead have included representative work recognized by four organizations: videomakers who have produced work at or received support from the Experimental Television Center; the New York Foundation for the Arts' 1997 Computer Arts Fellows, fellowship awards recommended by peer artists; the School of Visual Arts' "Fifth Annual Digital Salon," a juried competition; and computer animation culled from SIGGRAPH's annual conference and exhibition.

We would like to thank Tim Binkley and Kirsten Solberg from the Digital Salon; Trilby Schreiber, Scott Lang, and Valerie Castelman from SIGGRAPH; and Sherry Miller Hocking from the Experimental Television Center for their help.

Experimental Television Center
The Experimental Television Center was founded in 1971, an outgrowth of a media access program established by Ralph Hocking at Binghamton University in 1969. Today the Center offers a unique concentration on electronic image-making by providing residencies and support services for artists' projects. The Residency Program encourages artists to create new work using a system which intersects analog and digital devices. We also offer the Electronic Arts Grants Program which supports the completion of film and new media works by individual artists and the exhibition of film and media by arts organizations. In partnership with the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University and the NYS Alliance for Arts Education, we are working on the Upstate Video History Project. The Center's programs are supported by the contributions of artists, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Challenge Grant Program and the Media Action Grant program of Media Alliance.

The New York Foundation for the Arts 1997 Computer Arts Fellows
The Computer Arts category of NYFA's Artists' Fellowship Program was established in 1997 for artists for whom the computer is intrinsic to their work's creation, presentation, or understanding. Work recognized in this category includes virtual reality installation, CD-ROMs, two-dimensional work, video, and web sites.

The School of Visual Arts' Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon
The Salon is an international exhibition of computer art whose purpose is to offer an annual opportunity for artists using advanced technology to show their work to audiences in New York and around the globe. The 1997 Salon included four venues: the Gallery Exhibition at SVA presenting wall-mounted work, installations and CD-ROMS; Computer Animation Screenings shown in Times Square and at the New York Information Technology Center; Net-Works, which are Web-based artworks; and the Catalog which is a special issue of the journal Leonardo.

SIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH is ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, and is dedicated to the advancement of computer graphics and interactive techniques through activities that foster the exchange of information among graphic professionals of all kinds. SIGGRAPH is a national organization; the New York City local has 400 members.

The annual SIGGRAPH conference has been taking place for twenty-five years, with curated art presentations beginning in the 1980's. In 1997, artists' work was presented in several forums: Ongoings: The Fine Arts Gallery which showed comprehensive work by 13 artists with an emphasis on wall-mounted and installation work; Electric Garden, which presented around fifty projects by "inventors, artists, programmers and designers" with an emphasis on "beautiful technology that...(provides) remarkable things to see, hear, and touch in this rich, sensual environment;" Sketches, which includes, along with technical and software designs, art, design and animation projects showing "innovative uses of computer graphics for art and design, new artistic tools, explanations of the use of technology for creating art and social provocation;" and finally, the Computer Animation Festival, which includes over 100 pieces by commercial and independent animators.