YLEM's 42nd Anniversary Gathering February 12, 2023!
Artwork: Let's Face It © Corinne Whitaker, aka Digital Giraffe, www.giraffe.com
Welcome!
42nd Reunion of YLEM: Artists Using Science and Technology
February 12, 2023
YLEM - active from 1981 to 2009 - celebrates the recent aquisition of its archive by the Bowes Library of Art and Architecture at Stanford University.
https://meet.google.com/ejt-tguh-nxv
You're invited to a very special gathering...
How to prepare
Your computer: hopefully a nice big screen, good-sounding speakers, hi-res video camera, and a quality microphone.
Your broswer: Chrome or Firefox, freshly updated to the latest version
Where?
https://meet.google.com/ejt-tguh-nxv
↑↑↑ Yes! Click this link on Feb 12! ↑↑↑
When?
We start at 11am PST and we will be keeping the video platform open for 12 hours.
We will have short presentations every hour, on the hour and the rest of the time will be spent on whatever you want to talk about.
Time conversions
9 am US Hawaiian Time
11 am US Pacific Time
12 noon US Mountain Time
2 pm US Eastern Time
7 pm GMT / London
8 pm Lagos / Amsterdam
9 pm Tel Aviv
12:30 am Feb 13 India
3 am Feb 13 Perth / Singapore / China
JOIN US WHENEVER YOU ARE ABLE
AT ANY TIME
DURING THE 12 HOURS
AFTER THESE START TIMES
Schedule
11am (PST): Visiting Time for members, also at interludes throughout the day.
12pm (PST): Welcome by Trudy Myrrh Reagan, founder of YLEM, and a video YLEM As I Knew It by Beverly Reiser Kleiber, Past President, 1985-1999
Member visiting time
1pm (PST): Carlos Séquin, computer scientist, engineer, and topological sculptor, shows historic photos of YLEM in action, and discusses his sculpture.
Member visiting time
2pm (PST): Torrey Nommesen, past president, 200?-2009 and webmaster of ylem.org, presents our rich history in our journals (Members may submit current websites to ylem@ylem.org to update ylem.org gallery).
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3pm (PST): Trudy Myrrh Reagan presents How YLEM Rode the Wave, an affectionate look at YLEM’s adventures and accomplishments.
Member visiting time
4pm (PST): In Memorium. Creative nostalgia! Interactive discussions sharing stories of those we have lost and what we did together as well as digital epiphanies (If you know a member who has passed, please contact us.)
Member visiting time
5pm (PST): Howard Pearlmutter , founder of the Graphics Gathering and the annual Digital Valentines Party, brings to life the ferment of the 1960s and 70s that allowed YLEM and other groups to crystallize in the 1980s.
Member visiting time
6pm (PST): Roger Malina in an interview about the beginnings of Leonardo/ISAST and his own life story and possible interviews with others.
Member visiting time
7pm (PST): (and every hour after that): Special presentations by YLEM members and YLEM alies
Special Thanks to those who made this reunion possible:
Beverly Reiser Kleiber, Torrey Nommesen, Roger Malina, Howard Pearlmutter, Russell Reagan, Trudy Myrrh Reagan, Carlo Séquin, Niel Warren, Corrine Whitaker, Gary Zellerbach.
About
Why are we celebrating? First and foremost, the Stanford Art Library has officially aquired the YLEM archive! This library is becoming the preeminent repository for artists and groups here in the Bay Area in the last half of the 20th century. We're historic!
Why February? Howard Pearlmutter, who started the Graphics Gathering, is offering his Google Meet platform he uses for his annual February Digital Valentines Gatherings.
Some history here: in 1980, Pearlmutter began showcasing digital technology and computer art at what he called Graphics Gatherings. YLEM founder Trudy Myrrh Reagan attended the first several of these, and confided to him her desire to form a group for artists using science and technology. He allowed her to recruit, and several became early YLEM members.
Why 42nd? Trudy created the artwork for the poster for the February 14, 1981 "Computer Art, Software Aesthetics & Digital Valentines" Graphics Gathering. On that poster is the first mention of YLEM in print, and at that Gathering was the first time Trudy publicly announced her intention to create YLEM. That was 42 years ago!
That day was a vivid moment that also turned into an annual tradition. Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, Harbin, Maui... and then as Howard later traveled the world, he continued the digital valentine tradition in Singapore, Israel, Australia... and in recent years online. Now that the Gathering's web video platform has proven to be solid & reliable, its time to use it for an YLEM Reunion!
Why you? Our reunion will bring together amazing YLEMites from our rich 42 year history. We'll be mixing art presentations and panels and even a short movie about YLEM's origins & wider influence — together with plenty of conversation both looking back over our fun times & history making over the decades as well as looking forward towards more creative futures. Plan to be there!
Please contact Trudy and Torrey at gathering@ylem.org about any archival materials you may have to contribute. You may flaunt them at the Gathering, and perhaps even donate them to the the Stanford Art Library collection.