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Ask any digital artist, and he or she will say that one of the big advantages to using Computer Graphics over traditional media is speed, in particular, the ability to create iterations and changes in a flash. So it seems rather ironic that the theme of this year's SIGGRAPH Art Gallery is Slow Art. That is, until the meaning of the title is revealed. " 'Slow' refers to the Slow movement. It advocates being more thoughtful about what you eat and how food is prepared. The movement encourages community and taking the time to enjoy something fundamental and good from a very broad perspective", explains Stanford University's Lina Yamaguchi, this year's Art Gallery chair. [...]

The committee received more than 400 submissions, with 64 accepted for the Slow Art and the Design & Computation exhibits. [...]

Slow Art

Chaired by Lina Yamaguchi from Stanford, there is no shortage of submissions for the Slow Art gallery, and as such, the Slow Art Gallery consists of juried selections. Slow Art has one primary theme: time. Ask yourself in today's digital world of super fast computers and optimized software, if you were to create a work with this technology that said, "I want to stop and smell the roses," what would it look like? The answer may be seen in the Slow Art Gallery for 2008 at SIGGRAPH. [...] Submissions are presented in four categories, all of which tell the human story.

Erosion is the category for our material existence as seen through the wear of time and repetition. It is the visualization of entropy. Dark Days-New York, the visual of a man and his briefcase, walking alone at night, captures the repetition as imagined by Gabriele Peters from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany. [...]