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The ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community is seeking projects for an online exhibition exploring the web browser as a medium for creative works of virtual reality. The exhibition, called "Immersive Expressions: Virtual Reality on the Web" will open in May 2017. Submissions to the show will be accepted until March 7, 2017, with notifications for accepted works going out three weeks after the deadline.

Immersive Expressions will showcase web-based content that pushes conceptual or technological boundaries. The exhibition's focus is online VR because of the availability of browser-based virtual reality frameworks and applications, which makes WebVR an accessible medium for experimentation and use by independent agents. The exhibition committee hopes to engage indie developers, artists, computer scientists and companies working at the forefront of web-based VR, both through their direct participation and by inviting them to experience the works in the final exhibition.

The Digital Arts Community also encourages VR experiences and interactions that might not fit inside a typical commercial package. This includes works that are more abstract and conceptual, or those created by independent developers with a unique approach to virtual reality. Criteria for inclusion will involve technological innovation, creativity, design, and concept. Submissions could potentially include interactive experiments, games, animation, 360-degree video experiences or a hybrid approach. The call for work welcomes artistic interpretation and collaborations working from any discipline or intersection of art, science, design, and technology.

For more information, along with submission instructions, visit the Immersive Expressions website.

View the current Digital Arts Community exhibition, Science of the Unseen: Digital Art Perspectives.

With the SIGGRAPH 2017 Call for Submissions now open, our annual conference is moving from concept to reality, and it will be no time before we gather in Los Angeles to celebrate, learn and be amazed at the innovation and creativity of our community.

To each of the thousands of attendees who make the annual pilgrimage to SIGGRAPH, the conference means something different. Some think of it as front-row seating for the unveiling of the latest computer graphics research. Others see it as a means to discover and experience a variety of cutting-edge technologies. Still others attend the conference for the opportunities it provides to network and exchange ideas with like-minded innovators.

For a core group of attendees, however, the conference is something more. It’s a family reunion.

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Ever wondered how you might become part of the ACM SIGGRAPH volunteer leadership, or contribute to putting together one of the world-leading SIGGRAPH conferences?

Join us at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 in Macao, China, where top leadership from ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH will be present for a special session about these two preeminent professional computing organizations.

The event is an opportunity to learn more about ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH, meet the leaders of each organization, and find out how you can get involved. The president of ACM (Vicki Hanson), the president of ACM SIGGRAPH (Jeff Jortner) and the CEO of ACM (Bobby Schnabel) will all be speaking. Key volunteers from conference committees, ACM SIGGRAPH standing committees and the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee will be on hand to discuss how to get involved with ACM SIGGRAPH.

The session, entitled "Getting to Know ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH," will take place on Monday, December 5, in the Macao Room Naples 2703/2704 at the Venetian Macau, from 13:00 – 17:30 hours. We hope to see you there.

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of David Arnold, longtime ACM SIGGRAPH member and Fellow of the Eurographics Association.

According to a communication from the Cultural Informatics Research Group at the University of Brighton, where David served as Director of Research Initiatives and Dean of Brighton Doctoral College, he passed away suddenly on the night of October 25, 2016.

In the words of David Anderson, David Arnold's colleague at the University of Brighton,

"David joined the university in 2002 as Dean of the Faculty of Management and Information Sciences. In 2010, he moved to a more central role as both Director of Research Initiatives and Dean of the Brighton Doctoral College. He was briefly Interim PVC (Research) until he retired earlier this year. Through all of this David was also the director of the university’s Cultural Informatics Research Group, which he founded in 2002. With so many roles, David touched the lives of many in the university. As a scientist, colleague and friend, he will be sorely missed. "