SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 seeks student volunteers to head to Macao, China this December.
Student volunteers at SIGGRAPH Asia can expect to take part in a wide variety of conference programs, connect with computer graphics professionals, access exclusive student volunteer sessions and experience all that SIGGRAPH Asia has to offer with a full conference registration.
Visit the SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 website for more information.
Since its formation in 1996, the ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization Project has held a Birds-of-a-Feather session at the annual SIGGRAPH conference. This year is no exception. The ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization session at SIGGRAPH 2016 will take place at the top of the week, in the Anaheim Convention Center.
Session details:
Monday, July 25, 2016: 1:30 – 3:00 p.m., ACM SIGGRAPH Theater of the SIGGRAPH International Center
Join us and learn about the future of digital mapping. You might be surprised to discover just how deeply ingrained it is in our daily lives.
Read about the Cartographic Visualization session from SIGGRAPH 2015
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.
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:
Still Images
Video
Metadata for all images and videos must include:
Student's name
School name
Program/Department
Faculty name
Project name
SUBMISSION METHOD OPTIONS:
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.