There is an uncomfortable feeling among the old-timers in high-end computer graphics, those who attend SIGGRAPH year after year. The feeling is that the proverbial shot has been heard around the world ...

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The source of the blast? An upstart, a low-cost personal computer, no less! The Amiga was used to create a live, video performance at SIGGRAPH's Electonic Theater. That's right folks, live.

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In the midst of an annual event designed to pay homage to computer graphics generated on big, sophisticated, expensive (try $30K and up) mainframes, there was video artist JoAnn Gillerman with her Amiga, Genloc, LIVE! Frame-Grabber, Deluxe Video, camera, dancer, neon lighting, three 20 foot projection screens.

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The SIGGRAPH crowd has never been presented with a live performance (the muscle-bound big computer take minutes to hours just to generate a single frame). A nimble computer like the Amiga has rarely even turned heads at a meeting of the big guys in computer graphics.

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We are talking about one hell of a significant event, and all proud Amiga owners and developers should know about it.

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