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ACM SIGGRAPH is seeking candidates for the position of chair of each of the following committees: Chapters, Communications, and Digital Arts. The essential responsibilities of each chair are listed below.

Chapters Chair: Chapters of ACM SIGGRAPH continue the work of the organization on a year-round basis via their meetings, site visits, conferences, video screenings, art shows and special events. Each ACM SIGGRAPH Professional or Student Chapter consists of individuals involved in education, research and development, the arts, industry, and entertainment. The Chapters Committee Chair will help promote, plan, and facilitate the full integration of chapter activities into ACM SIGGRAPH while identifying and facilitating the flow of additional ACM SIGGRAPH benefits to chapters. They will also provide a link for communication with ACM on technical issues, and ensure compliance with all relevant policies and procedures.

Communications & Membership Chair: The Communications & Membership Services Committee oversees content development for the ACM SIGGRAPH web site, membership communications, and benefits procurement. The Communications Chair is also in charge of the ACM SIGGRAPH Village at both annual conferences. The Communications Chair will recommend and implement appropriate communication channels for the organization and its constituents, as well as design and supervise ACM SIGGRAPH web presence and other communications.

Digital Arts Chair: The Digital Arts Committee fosters the evolution of a strong digital arts community within the international organization and promotes a dialogue between visual artists and the larger SIGGRAPH community. It maintains an interactive Arts Portal and an associated social networking site that provides a central place for artists and scientists to share resources, information, artwork, and opportunities for collaboration. The Digital Arts Chair will oversee all of these efforts.

Those interested in applying for any of these positions please contact Scott Owen at scott_owen@siggraph.org. Provide a CV and vision statement (why you're interested in being chair and what you hope to accomplish in that role).

The Nominations Committee will review all the candidates and make recommendations to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee by June 1, 2016.

The new chairs will be chosen in June, attend SIGGRAPH 2016, and take office September 1, 2016 for a three-year term.

More information on the committees of ACM SIGGRAPH.

Enhanced Vision – Digital Video is an online exhibition of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community. The show highlights new works by video artists exploring socially important issues who use digital methods to enhance their practice. Launched in the spring of 2015, the works in this exhibition have gone on to win prizes and be featured in other important competitions.

Kathy Rae Huffman, the curator of the exhibition, chaired a special session of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community at SIGGRAPH 2015 to explore the conceptual and technical contributions of these exceptional video works. Several of the participating artists were present, contributing insight into the creative workarounds of software applications that extended their vision.

Exhibition committee members, who served as peer reviewers, offered their insights into the innovative impact of the works. These presentations are particularly interesting in how the frame the practices of digital art in the often overlooked non-profit world of social commentary.

Curator Kathy Rae Huffman edited the thoughtful commentaries of these reviewers, and has compiled them into an essay that is now online. Included in this compilation are insights on: How media illuminates contemporary attitudes toward women (Nancy Buchanan); The Digitized, Fragmented Body (Elizabeth Leister); Chance processes, meaning, and the non-nihilistic (Amy Alexander) and Re-envisioning the meaning of Contemporary Spaces with Digital Video (Astra Price).

Access the Enhanced Vision – Digital Video discussion notes online.

View the entire selection of videos from Enhanced Vision – Digital Video.

A call for participation has been announced for the 5th Annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibit at SIGGRAPH, the world's largest conference on computer graphics. Sponsored by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee, the exhibit will be comprised of images and video to be displayed at the Education Committee Booth SIGGRAPH 2016 in Anaheim, CA and also on the Education Committee website.

The double-curated exhibit is open to all faculty working at Secondary/High School through University levels. The committee is interested in images of work by exceptional students, accompanied by the project assignment. Submissions are allowed from any content area: art, animation, graphic design, game design, architecture, visualization, real-time rendering, etc. The deadline for submissions is June 13, 2016.

PURPOSE:

The exhibit gives schools the opportunity to showcase their students' best work to the rest of the industry. After the conference, the entire presentation will be posted on the Education Committee website along with the corresponding project assignments to share with fellow faculty.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

• Submissions must be made by faculty members or schools. No individual student submissions will be accepted.
• Assignments must accompany all videos and images submitted, preferrably in PDF format. Student work will not be accepted without corresponding assignments.
• All submissions must use the provided PowerPoint Template

Still Images

• Images should be placed in the PowerPoint template.
• Metadata filled in.
• Preferred resolution: 1280×720 (JPG/TIFF/PNG format/RGB)
• LIMIT: 50 images per school/university

Video

• Please upload all videos individually to either YouTube.com or Vimeo.com.
• Send video URLs (Word doc).
• Please DO NOT send actual videos.
• Screen caps/still images of videos should be placed in the PowerPoint template.
• Metadata filled in.
• Preferred resolution 1280×720 or larger 16:9 aspect ratio format.
• Quicktime (.mov) or MPEG (.mp4), H.264 Compression
• Audio can be included (*may or may not be audible during the conference)
• Video can be short individual clips or full projects/films.
• Videos will be downloaded and embedded in the final PowerPoint screened at the conference. After the conference, the still image and URL will replace the videos in the downloadable PDF version of the PowerPoint located on our site.
• LIMIT: 10 minutes of video per school/university

Metadata for all images and videos must include:
Student's name
School name
Program/Department
Faculty name
Project name

SUBMISSION METHOD OPTIONS:

• Public folder in Dropbox.com, Hightail.com, WeTransfer.com or other similar file-sharing site with links sent to curator (Kevin.McNulty[at]mtsu.edu).
• Physical DVD or flash drive (not returned) snail-mailed to curator (Kevin McNulty). Due to the anticipated size of files, direct EMAIL of submissions will NOT be accepted.

Please note: the SIGGRAPH Education Committee retains the right to archive the project description on our web site for fair use by other faculty. Materials will be licensed under the Creative Common Attribution – NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0.

PHYSICAL SUBMISSIONS:

Kevin McNulty

Dept. of Electronic Media Communication

Middle Tennessee State University
Box 58

1500 Greenland Drive

Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Additional information/clarification electronic submissions:

Kevin McNulty – Kevin.McNulty [at] mtsu.edu

View the accepted submissions from the 4th Annual Faculty Submitted Student Artwork Exhibit, which was on display at SIGGRAPH 2015.

The ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee has proposed a change to the ACM SIGGRAPH bylaws, which has been approved by the ACM SIG Governing Board Executive Committee. The change pertains to article 9.3 of the bylaws.

Current article 9.3

9.3 Election. The election will be conducted among eligible voters by ACM Headquarters by June 1, following the election procedures of the ACM, unless different procedures have been approved by the SIG Governing Board.

New article 9.3

9.3 Election. The election will be conducted among eligible voters by ACM Headquarters by August 15, following the election procedures of the ACM, unless different procedures have been approved by the SIG Governing Board.

With this change, the newly elected directors would take office Sept 1 instead of July 1.

Rationale

The rationale behind the change is to increase member participation in the election process. A large percentage of ACM SIGGRAPH membership attends the annual SIGGRAPH conference, so the hope is for the conference to serve as a platform for publicizing the election and encouraging ACM SIGGRAPH members to vote.

Under recently approved procedural changes by the SGB, certain minor changes in bylaws can be approved by the SGB EC and sent on to the ACM Executive committee for approval without a formal vote of the membership. However, ACM SIGGRAPH members have 30 days to register any objections. If at least 3% of ACM SIGGRAPH members object, then the bylaws change must be voted on by the entire membership.

Any challenges may be sent to Donna Cappo, Director of SIG Services at: cappo@hq.acm.org and must be received by March 10, 2016 at 5:00pm EST.

Current SIGGRAPH bylaws can be viewed at https://www.siggraph.org/sites/default/files/ACM-SIGGRAPH-Bylaws.pdf

The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) aims to advance and promote research that crosses the boundaries between perception and disciplines such as graphics, visualization, computer vision, haptics and acoustics. ACM SAP 2016 will be held in Anaheim, California, on July 22 and 23, immediately prior to SIGGRAPH 2016. The scope of the conference includes applications and algorithms in any area of research that incorporates elements of perception and computer science, with a major aim of the conference being the promotion of communication between the core perception and computer graphics communities.

ACM SAP 2016 invites submissions of original work in all areas of applied perception. Examples of relevant areas include:

• Modeling, rendering, and animation
• Visualization
• Computational aesthetics
• Haptic rendering, haptic input and perception
• Perception of virtual characters
• Color vision and color appearance modeling
• Perception of high dynamic range scenes and images
• Interaction techniques and interfaces
• Augmented reality
• Virtual worlds
• Display technologies
• Auditory display and interfaces
• Perceptual auditory coding
• Spatialized sound
• Speech synthesis and recognition
• Sensory integration
• Multimodal rendering
• Spatial and temporal vision
• Attention and eye movements
• Statistical learning and perception of natural scenes
• Perception of shapes, surfaces, and materials

Papers

Research can be submitted as a long paper (up to 8 pages and up to 20 minute talk), a short paper (up to 4 pages and up to 15 minute talk), or as a poster presentation (1 page abstract). Papers that are not accepted will be considered for the poster session. Authors of posters accepted by this route will, of course, have the option to decline the opportunity to present a poster. Please check the formatting guidelines before submitting your work.

Posters

A poster presentation is an opportunity for authors to display and discuss achievements that are not ready for publication or have not been published previously. The poster session is always an integral part of SAP with specific time allotted for participants to view and discuss the work. All poster presenters will have the opportunity to give a one-minute description of their work during a poster fast-forward session. Poster presentations are not formal publications. We encourage all types of scholarly poster submissions that fit the scope of ACM-SAP. Poster abstracts should follow the ACM SIGGRAPH formatting guidelines for papers, except that they should be 1 page long.

Further details

All papers will be carefully reviewed by our International Program Committee. Papers will be evaluated as submitted, given limited time between submission and printing of final versions. Under a recent agreement with the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) and the ACM Publications Board, the strongest accepted papers will be offered publication as full papers in the ACM journal TAP. These papers will undergo a second review cycle, during which the authors will revise the paper to address concerns posed in the summary review (similar to conditional acceptances at ACM SIGGRAPH). Authors of such special issue papers must agree to present the paper at ACM SAP. As has always been the case, authors of regular ACM SAP papers can still submit to TAP regular issues with appropriate additions.

Conference Chairs: Eakta Jain and Sophie Joerg

Program Chairs: Reynold Bailey and Laura Trutoiu

For more information, or to submit your work, visit the ACM SAP website.