News Items:

Global Game Jam 2012

School of Art and Design (NJIT) is the local host for the Global Game Jam event that will start next Friday, Jan 27th and lasts through Sunday, Jan 29th. The Game Jam is a team effort with each team working on one or multiple games over the period of 48 hours

Our Previous Event : SIGGRAPH 2011 Electronic Theater Screening

On Tuesday, November 1, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and The College of Arts and Sciences of the New York Institute of Technology hosted a very special screening of the SIGGRAPH 2011 Electronic Theater at NYIT's Auditorium on Broadway in Manhattan. Read the event announcement here . . .

Recent Events:

MetroCAF 2011 Premieres Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7:00PM

NYC ACM SIGGRAPH proudly presented the ninth edition of our popular college computer animation festival on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7:00PM. Over 250 people attended this screening at FIT's Haft Auditorium on W. 27th Street. You can find more details here . . .

BYOA Returns!!
On Monday, May 23, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH returned one of our most popular events - Bring Your Own Animation! Read more about this event here . . .

"Left Brain / Right Brain : Round Two"

On Friday, April 29, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH was proud to welcome Professor Don Greenberg as the Keynote Speaker at NYIT's SOURCE (Symposium of Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression). Read more about this event here . . .

Industry Spotlight IX

On Monday, April 4, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH hosted the ninth edition of this popular annual event. Over 250 people came to listen to the nine companies that presented that evening. Read more about this event here . . .

On Monday, March 28, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH hosted a very special screening of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Electronic Theater at NYIT's Auditorium on Broadway in Manhattan. Read more about this event here . . .

BYOA Returns!!
On Monday, March 21, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH brought back one of our most popular events - Bring Your Own Animation! This is your chance to share what you've been working on with the rest of the NYC-area digital community - and to check out what others have been doing. Read more about this event here . . .
After the very successful first night, the second gathering took place on Tuesday, April 26. Read more about this event here . . .

Crossroads Spring 2011: Social Networks - Translating Virtual Engagement into Political Reality
On Friday, February 18, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH co-sponsored a panel at the NYU Kimmel Center on the challenges for engagement via social networks for a provider such as Facebook, for academia and media professionals. Read more about this event here…

NYIT's Design Watch Series Presents - Design Cocktail

On Thursday, November 11th, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and the NYIT Fine Arts Department co-sponsored a panel discussion revolving around four areas of graphic design. Read more about this event here…

MetroCAF 2010 Contributor Wins a Gold Medal at the Student Academy Awards

Zach Hyer, a Pratt alumni, won a gold medal for his piece, "Correspondence", at last weekend's Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Congratulations to Zach on this achievement. We're proud to say we knew him way back when his piece was selected for MetroCAF 2010. You can see Zach's acceptance speech here:

http://www.oscars.org/video/watch/38saa_animation_gold_hyer.html

And make sure you're at MetroCAF 2011 this fall since you never know where our contributors and their pieces will show up in the future!