The First Year

Purpose, commitment, vision

Welcome
" Integrated interactive media. Also known as hypermedia. Used to be known as multimedia. The dream stuff of buzzwords and million-dollar marketing campaigns in search of a market, or so you would think from the countless articles in the computer press dealing with whether the business world really needs better-looking and -sounding bar graphs and pie charts.

"Of course the arts community needs no convincing. Better-looking and better-sounding anything is fine by us. Desktop tools that supposedly do it all for less? Even better. After all, integrated interactive media hardly is a new concept. Shakespeare, Wagner, Kovacs, Lucas, and the Grateful Dead didn't need no stinking "M" word. They called it theatre, opera, ballet, television, film, rock concerts, music videos. . .

"The point being that all mega-production art forms involve lots of interdisciplinary collaborations between artists. At the core of those collaborations are technological tools and the individual creativity with which they are used.

"And that's what CyberArts is all about. Bringing creative minds together with each other and with the latest tools available to them."

-Dominic Milano, 1990

Coming soon:
Full program information and links to current news about the techniques and technologies discussed.