Upcoming Events
MetroCAF 2012 Web Site Now LIVE!!
NYC ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to announce that the web site for MetroCAF 2012 is now up and running! You can check it out at: www.metrocaf.org/2012
For those of you wondering about what you can submit, our answer is everything! As long as it moves and it was produced on a computer, we'd like the chance to take a look at your work. Visual effects, animatics, motion graphics, research work, works in progress, visualizations . . . we want to see whatever you have. Don't think what you have is "good enough"? Let us make that decision - you just have to be sure to submit your work!
And we're not just looking for thesis projects. We encourage work from freshmen on up to graduate work. If you're part of a group, you'll compete against other groups. If you worked individually, you'll be judged against other solo projects. We'll also be doing curation this year to add pieces that we feel deserve to be in MetroCAF.
MetroCAF 2012 is the tenth anniversary of this event and we are excited about presenting our most diverse show ever. But we can only accomplish this with your help. If you have any questions, you can e-mail us via the Contact page. We look forward to seeing your work this year.
News Items:
Elections 2012
NYC ACM SIGGRAPH is a volunteer organization which relies on its members to help determine the future directions of the chapter. If you think you might be interested in taking on a leadership position, we are now soliciting nominees to serve on the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH Board of Directors. You can find out more information on how to nominate yourself on this page.
Recent Events:
Art of the Digital Age 2012
On Monday, May 7, 2012, at 6:30PM, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and NYIT co-sponsored a panel discussion exploring recent developments in digital art as they relate to contemporary art. You can find out more details here . . .
Industry Spotlight X - Thursday, April 12 @ 7:00PM
On Thursday, April 12, 2012, at 7:00PM, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and FIT presented our annual round-up of animation and post-production facilities from the NYC-metropolitan area. Close to 200 people attended this celebration of the amazing work being produced in NYC.
The following companies presented:
| Framestore | Mechanism Digital |
| The Mill | Psyop |
| Smoke & Mirrors | The Studio |
| UVPHACTORY |
Photo by: Anastasia Serdukova
You can find out more details here . . .
SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Electronic Theater Screening
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at 7:00PM, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and NYIT presented a very special screening of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Electronic Theater. You can find out more information about this event here . . .
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
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 . . .
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!!
"Left Brain / Right Brain : Round Two"
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 . . .
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:
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!
2010 Election Results
As a result of the elections that were conducted this summer, a number of new volunteers will be joining the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH Board of Directors.
2012 Elections Under Way
Ballots to elect members of the Board for the 2012 - 2014 term have been mailed out to the membership.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 : Call for Participation
If your work involves computers, visual experiences, and/or innovative interactions, submit your achievements to SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 and share them with thousands of other creative people in SIGGRAPH Asia 2010’s world-class programs.
