SIGGRAPH sponsored an event. I don't remember when it was. Maybe 1983-ish, at Caltech. And it was sponsored by National SIGGRAPH. A whole bunch of really great people came.
David Em, 1980s Computer Art: Mark Wilson, David Em, Dan Sandin
These international conferences, may it be ISEA or SIGGRAPH or Bridges or any of those which I attended, many times as a teacher also. And you met people who were interested in similar topics. And this was utmost inspiring to me.
Hans Dehlinger, The 1970s Artist-Programmer: Truckenbrod, Dehlinger