CyberArts International

CyberArts International was a series of three annual conferences and exhibitions held in Southern California from 1990 to 1992, focusing upon emerging technologies and techniques for artists working to build interactivity or in the multimedia field.

Other paid staff members and volunteers also assisted in event preparation, including arts organizations YLEM[3] and EZTV,[4] as well as author and publisher Michael Gosney of Verbum Magazine, who later co-produced a series of Digital Be-Ins with Robert Gelman from 1993 to 1998.

[6] As one enthusiast noted, these new and changing computer tools served to "enhance the creative process by making it easy to experiment with color schemes, sound layers, scene transitions, 3D models, photo retouching, and animated characters.

The CyberArts International festivals also featured lectures and workshops dealing with the process of creation of new media art forms, allowing discussion about the rationale and implications of such work.

[9] Evening concerts were also held in conjunction with the CyberArts International festivals, featuring performances by musicians interested in new technologies such as Jaron Lanier, Stanley Jordan, Todd Rundgren, Tod Machover, and D'Cuckoo.

Marquee outside the Pasadena Center during the November 1991 CyberArts International exposition.
The CyberArts International expositions were each an amalgam of educational conference, music festival, art exhibition, and trade show.
Composer and technical innovator Tod Machover demonstrated the sound-altering Hyper-Glove while conducting musicians at the 1990 CyberArts International festival.
Each convention heard keynote speakers who expounded on the relationship of technology to the arts.