Prof. Diane Gromala and I have written Windows and Mirrors:Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency (MIT Press, 2003), which seeks to explain the importance of digital art for the whole computing and new media community, including web designers, interface designers, HCI experts, and those who are laying out the future of digital media for business and entertainment.

To explore the meaning of digital art, we highlight works featured in the Art Gallery of SIGGRAPH 2000, the premier conference on computer graphics. The Gallery demonstrates the lessons that digital art has to offer. The art of SIGGRAPH 2000 engages its visitors in interactive experiences: these are radical experiments in interaction design, a new paradigm for the making of computer interfaces, multimedia, and Web applications.