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SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 receives strong interest from the industry

May 22, 2018 |

SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 receives strong interest from the industry

“We are very pleased to have SIGGRAPH Asia back in Japan for the third time since we started in 2008. The tremendous response we have received from our sponsors and exhibitors has already exceeded our expectations. We are expecting to sell out our space this year and predict this to be the largest exhibition showcase in SIGGRAPH Asia’s history. Besides Tokyo being an excellent location, SIGGRAPH Asia has significantly grown in the last couple of years and it has now become a must-attend addition to the calendars of many in the region. We are truly confident that we will have an excellent and cutting-edge showcase to present to our attendees this year!”, Shared Prakash Ramajillu, SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Advisory Group (SACAG)’s Chief Staff Executive. Read more here.

“Interested to exhibit? Contact us today!”

Submit your work & be a presenter at SIGGRAPH Asia!

Calling all professionals in the field of research, animation, art, hardware, software, visualization, games, visual effects, virtual reality, augmented reality, high performance computing, computer graphics and interactive techniques.

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Umbilici Bracelets, the SIGGRAPH Fellows Award

Umbilici Bracelets, the SIGGRAPH Fellows Award

May 21, 2018 |

Umbilici Bracelets, the SIGGRAPH Fellows Award
by Alyn Rockwood

“And the primal became two”  – I Ching.

The two bracelets, emblems of Art and Technology, are duals.  Art is an organic shape with a heart-shaped cross-section. It undulates and breathes. The sleeker Technology has a triangular cross-section.  Linked together, the two bracelets represent the bond between these two human endeavors.  They also gear one another;  rolling one bracelet will turn the other.

Art and Technology are one geometrical object in four-dimensional space. We comprehend them differently only because of the view point chosen to project them into three dimensions.  

In mathematics, an umbilic is the set of points where an object  curves equally in all principal directions.  The bracelets’ primal in 4D is the umbilic of an object which discriminates (cubic bivariate) polynomials. The cusps are intricately linked as well. Art has a single cusp that rotates three times before repeating. Technology’s three cusps rotate one-third time before starting over.

In physics, the cusps of the objects are strings of energy formed by the collision of nuclear particles.  In other words, they are the form that atomic particles create to radiate energy upon interacting, the fundamental exchange in the universe.

The bracelets are two manifestations of the same creative force.

ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community presents Designing Knowledge

ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community presents Designing Knowledge

May 8, 2018 |

Designing Knowledge is a 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community online exhibition. The exhibition seeks to showcase online digital repositories, archives and applications that make use of new media, art and design, and computer graphics to enable the creation, dissemination and preservation of new knowledge in areas such as archaeology, anthropology, art history, cultural heritage, all areas of geography, cartography, information and library studies, history, literary studies and museology. The twelve artefacts shown have been realized by artists, designers and scientists from five different countries in Asia, Europe and North America.

The exhibition can be visited at: https://designing-knowledge.siggraph.org/wp/

For more information contact: designing.knowledge@gmail.com

 

Special Election for ACM SIGGRAPH Bylaw Amendment

May 6, 2018 |

The first major change is that all elected positions will be director positions and ACM SIGGRAPH’s officers will no longer be elected to specific positions through member elections. Every year, after the new EC takes office, it will select new officers from within the EC to serve one-year terms. The officers will be the Chair, Chair-Elect, Treasurer, and Treasurer-Elect. The Chair-Elect will become the Chair and the Treasurer-Elect will become the Treasurer after the next election.

The second major change is to allow the EC to appoint up to three voting members to its rank. This change will allow the EC to increase representation from core constituencies as needed, and to allow key volunteers — such as the Conference Advisory Group Chair — full participation on the EC to better reflect their role in the organization.

The third major change is to elect the directors to specific positions. For example, if three director positions are open in a given election, the voters would be presented with at least two candidates for position A, another two for position B, etc. This change will allow the nominating committee to achieve increased diversity in skillset, area of expertise, and geography.

The other minor changes to the bylaws are changing current titles, for example, renaming “President,” to the new title of “Chair”, and changes that bring us into compliance with ACM or current practice for SIGGRAPH (e.g., the timing of the election).

The ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee believes that, taken together, these changes will allow for a more agile SIGGRAPH organization, better able to focus and act on the strategic issues concerning the field of computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Please see a copy of the proposed ACM SIGGRAPH Bylaws here.

SIGGRAPH Doctoral Consortium

SIGGRAPH Doctoral Consortium

Apr 10, 2018 |

SIGGRAPH Doctoral Consortium

  • Submissions due: June 18th, 2018 5pm PDT
  • Acceptance notification: July 9th, 2018
  • Doctoral Consortium date: Sat August 11, 2018 (8am-6pm PDT)
  • Doctoral Consortium dinner: Sat August 11, 2018 (7pm-9pm PDT))

The SIGGRAPH Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced SIGGRAPH researchers in an informal and interactive setting. We welcome applications from current Ph.D. students studying within the full range of disciplines and approaches that contribute to the SIGGRAPH community. Ideal applicants will be within a year of completing their Ph.D. and well into their dissertation research. Accepted students will receive a complimentary registration to the full SIGGRAPH 2018 conference.

Each applicant should provide a short written paper (no more than four pages (including references) in the official SIGGRAPH  publication format, as described in the author's guide. Note that a doctoral consortium submission, unlike a paper submission, is not anonymous; doctoral consortium submissions should be single-authored, where the student applying is the sole author. This paper should describe ongoing work and might summarize the full dissertation work, or highlight a particular aspect of the work in depth.

The doctoral consortium committee will select approximately eight students to participate. Participants will be selected based on their anticipated contributions to the breadth and depth of the intellectual discussions at the meeting.

Each student will be expected to give a short presentation of their work (20-25 min), which will be followed by extensive discussion with the panel and the other student participants. The consortium will be held at the SIGGRAPH 2018 venue from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturday, August 11th, 2018 and will be followed by a dinner that evening.

Each participating student will also be asked to prepare a poster describing his or her work for presentation in the SIGGRAPH posters program.

Doctoral consortium 4 page papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair website.

The doctoral consortium committee consists of:

  • Maneesh Agrawala, Stanford University (chair)
  • Kavita Bala, Cornell University
  • Keenan Crane, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Karen Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University