ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - SIGGRAPH 2023

SIGGRAPH 2023 Educators Schedule

wobbe — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 03:59:00 +0000

On this page you can find sessions organized by (members of) the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committe.

As in years past, we are also presenting student work in a competition and as submitted by faculty, including the assignments:

Please note that all times listed are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)

SUNDAY August 6, 2023

9:00 AM	Education Booth opens
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM	Educators Meet & Greet Welcome to SIGGRAPH/Introduction to the Education Committee/Celebration of Student Work (SpaceTime and FSSW).	Village Theater, Rooms 501A/B

MONDAY August 7, 2023 - Educators Day

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM	Supermicro + AMD “Better and Faster Solutions with Supermicro and AMD: Empowering the Evolution of Content Production”
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Epic “New Approaches to Education”
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM	Epic “Sustainable Success in the Unreal World: Paving the Way for Future Artists”
12:00 Noon – 12:30 PM	NVIDIA “Reimagine your Curriculum with OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse”
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	Pixar “Fostering Technical Talent – Pixar Undergraduate Program (PUP)”
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM	Disney “Unleashing Creativity: Talent Development at Walt Disney Animation Studios”
3:30 PM – 4:40 PM	Adobe “Transforming Industries and Empowering Minds: Substance 3D’s Impact in New Industries and Education”

More information: SIGGRAPH 2023 Educator's Day

Birds of a Feather Session:

1 PM – 2 PM

BOF: Computer Graphics & Animation Research Projects - William Joel

Room 415

TUESDAY August 8, 2023

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	SIGGRAPH 2023 Keynote (Kathryn Kleiman) and Awards Presentations including the 2023 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award (Scott Owen)	West Hall B
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM	Educator’s Forum “Engaging Education Techniques and Assignments Talks”	Room 306A/B
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM: Haptics for Accessible Graphics in CS1 (William Bares, Jordan Wirfs-Brock) 2:20 PM – 2:40 PM: Virtual Cinematography: The Embodied Camera (C K Olsen) 2:40 PM – 3:00 PM: A Software-agnostic Small Studio and Education Pipeline (Zach Wood, Anna Hales, Seth Holladay, Craig Van Dyke, Matt Minson) 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM: The Seneca Animation Model: Cross-disciplinary Animation Education Program Design for a Changing Industry (Mark Jones, Sean Craig)
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM	Educator’s Form Industry Panel “Finding Appeal: Creative Careers in Animation, Computer Graphics, and Interactive Techniques (Johannes DeYoung)	Room 306A/B

WEDNESDAY August 9, 2023

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM	Educator’s Forum “Complex Problem Solving with VR/Mixed Reality Educational Experience/Identity-Centered User-Generated Content”	Room 306A/B
10:45 AM – 11:05 AM: The Gateway for Non-professionals to Solve Complex Design Problems (Dorottya Esztergalos, Daniel Andrassy, Marcell Pal, Zoltan Karpati) 11:05 AM – 11:25 AM: Music, Motion, and Mixed Reality: An Interdisciplinary, Problem-Based Educational Experience (Joe Giegel, Thomas Warfield, Yunn-Shan Ma, Dan Roach, Shaun Foster) 11:25 AM – 11:45 AM: Identity-Centered User-Generated Content to Create Occupational Identity with Visual Computing (Tim McLaughlin, Tracey Moore, Aaron Thibault, Kim Wright, Hira Roberts, Jinsil Seo, Jason Orsatti)
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM	BOF: Massive Collaborative Animation Projects Alumni Reunion and Info Session - Miho Aoki	Room 512

Additional Birds of a Feather Session (BOF)

Undergraduate Computer Science Curricular Guidelines (CS2023) - Susan Reiser

Date and time for this BOF will be posted as they become available.

Education Booth Dome Sponsors

12th Annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibit

Richard Lewis — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:59:34 +0000

The Faculty Submitted Student Work, or FSSW, is an online archive of assignment and project briefs as well as an exhibition of the student work created for those projects. Sponsored by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee and designed as a way for educators to share their project ideas across schools and disciplines, this annual exhibition of work during the SIGGRAPH conference also offers a venue for participants to see the student work. The exhibit video will be screened at Siggraph 2023 in Los Angeles. All project briefs and slides of student work are available on the exhibit page.

These images and videos were submitted as the best examples of student work done for projects and assignments for the 2022-2023 school year. The exhibit was open to all faculty working at Secondary/High School through University levels.

All assignment materials are licensed under the Creative Common Attribution - NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0.

Call for Content for Dome Experience

wobbe — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:46:08 +0000

THERE'S STILL TIME TO SUBMIT CONTENT FOR THE SIGGRAPH EDUCATION COMMITTEE DOME EXPERIENCE!

For this year's 50th SIGGRAPH Conference, the SIGGRAPH Education Committee is hosting a 16-foot diameter immersive dome display featuring educational content that highlights and celebrates the past, present and future of education in computer graphics and interaction! The dome display is prominently located at the center of the conference, just outside of the expo hall, registration, and the ACM Village.

For more information and concept images, see Sponsorship for Immersive Dome Experience.

Best of all.... there's STILL TIME TO SUBMIT CONTENT!
The committee is seeking to included immersive content from academic institutions, faculty and students including historical retrospectives, examples of works from the past 50 years, samples of present day, state-of-the-art educational media and notional concepts of the future of education, computer graphics and interaction.

The immersive dome display can readily play panoramic, full dome and 360-degree-spherical formats, with resolutions of 4k or higher preferred.

If you have content that you would like considered for inclusion in the SIGGRAPH Education Committee's Immersive Dome Display, please contact SIGGRAPH 2023 Education Chair Nick Jushchyshyn for more details.
education-s2023 [at] siggraph.org

SIGGRAPH 2023 Educator's Day

wobbe — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:05:40 +0000

Mark your calendar: Monday, August 7

You are invited to Educator's Day: Educator's Training Educators. SIGGRAPH 2023 Educator’s Day is committed to bringing the most innovative and exciting ideas in education involving computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Educator’s Day is a one-day event during which the best-of-the-best professional developers and hardware/software engineers cater conference content to educators. For its debut year, the day will be jam-packed and full of opportunities to learn new teaching/instruction techniques or deep dive into the ways software can be implemented into the curriculum.

Start	End	Company	Course Title
9:30 AM	10:15 AM	Supermicro + AMD	Better and Faster Solutions with Supermicro and AMD: Empowering the Evolution of Content Production
10:30 AM	11:00 AM	Epic	New Approaches to Education
11:15 AM	11:45 AM	Epic	Sustainable Success in the Unreal World: Paving the Way for Future Artists
12:00 PM	12:30 PM	NVIDIA	NVIDIA: Reimagine your Curriculum with OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse
Break 30 minutes [lunch]
1:00 PM	2:00 PM	Pixar	Fostering Technical Talent - Pixar Undergraduate Program (PUP)
2:15 PM	2:45 PM	Disney	Unleashing Creativity: Talent Development at Walt Disney Animation Studios
Break 45 minutes - feature speaker ends at 3:15 pm
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Adobe	Transforming Industries and Empowering Minds: Substance 3D's Impact in New Industries and Education

SpaceTime Gallery 2023

wobbe — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:06:40 +0000

First Place: Haylie Anicama
Angelo State University Department of Visual and Performing Arts
San Angelo, TX

The International 2023 SpaceTime competition for students was announced matching the conference theme: “50 years of SIGGRAPH”
A gallery of the accepted works can be viewed here.

A gallery of the accepted works can be viewed here

The Winning Entries:

Honorable Mentions:

Aleigha Street
Alyssa Bennett
Anthony Daglia
Aryana Willie
Aubree Robidoux
Catherine Chen
Crystal Mata
Dayeon Han
Emily Bernal
Emily Schopfer
Hugo Gonzalez
Jadyn Hamilton
Jeongmin Cho
Jesska Hoff
Jiamu Li
Julienne Strydom
Kate Maria Falkowski
Kehinde Adeyefa
Keown Taylor
Madeleine Yeung
Meena Pant
Nicholas Minadeo
Piper Smith
Rachel Shim
Rori Stanford
Salvador Itriago
Sarah Basil
Sydney Gonzales
Sydney Oller
Xinyi Liu
Yasmin Abdel-Moniem

Jurors

Chaired by Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, CO (not voting).
Patrick Awotwe, Freelance Artist, Saskatoon, Canada
Edwin Cuenco, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX
Gloria DeFilipps Brush, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN
Glenn Goldman, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Huimin Su, Shangdong Vocational Institute of Clothing Technology, ShanDong, China
Monica Nelson, Enscape, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Joohyun Pyune, Director iArt Institute, New York City, NY
Dores Sacquegna, Art Critic and Independent Curator, Lecce, Italy

Sponsorship for Immersive Dome Experience

wobbe — Tue, 02 May 2023 19:35:36 +0000

The ACM SIGGRAPH Education is seeking sponsors for the Immersive Done Experience at the Education Booth at SIGGRAPH 2023

Be a part of History!

Showcasing and Celebrating the Past, Present & Future of Computer Graphics & Interaction Education.

SIGGRAPH 2023 is the premier conference for computer graphics and interactive techniques worldwide. This year, celebrates the 50th conference, a unique opportunity to reflect on half a century of discovery and advancement while charting a course for the bold and limitless future ahead. Located in Los Angeles, California, this year’s conference expects to draw 12,000 – 15,000 attendees.

The ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee works to support Computer Graphics education as well as the use of Computer Graphics in education, It sponsors a variety of projects and activities involving volunteers from around the world.

OUR VISION

Transform a prominently located 950 square feet of conference floorspace into a showcase celebrating the past, present & future of Computer Graphics & Interaction Education!

THE SPACE

950 square feet of conference floorspace prominently located directly across from registration, expo-hall entrance, food court and other major conference attractions including keynote/electronic theater hall.

THE CONCEPT

Artist’s visualization may not be to scale

CALL FOR SPONSORSHIP

Suggested Academic Sponsorship Levels:

$250 – Contributor
$500 – Supporter
$750 – Sponsor

Acknowledgement and logos of sponsorships will be display as part of looping content on publicly viewable video screen at the conference, and posted to our website, where they will be prominently featured during the conference.

THANK YOU!

If interested, please fill out this form, or contact the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee chair: Glenn Goldman - glenn.siggraph [at] gmail.com

Immersive Content Contact: Nick Jushchyshyn - nickj [at] drexel.edu

Call for Participation: 12th Annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibition

Richard Lewis — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:21:05 +0000

Sponsored by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee.

We are interested in your project assignments (in original language) and the best examples of the work done by your students for that assignment.

Images, videos, and assignments to be displayed at the Education Committee booth during the 50th anniversary conference SIGGRAPH 2023 in Los Angeles. The materials will be archived on the education website after the conference.

Any content area related to computer graphics and interactive techniques; art, animation, graphic design, game design, architecture, visualization, real-time rendering, etc.

The double-curated exhibit is open to all faculty working at Secondary/High School through University levels.

This is a wonderful opportunity for your students and school to get more exposure and to celebrate all the great work that gets created!!

Deadline Friday, June 2nd, 2023

PROCESS:

Submissions will be curated into a conference exhibition video of approximately 60-90 minutes to emphasize the variety of student work and faculty/schools represented. The exhibit will be a taste of the content available on the website as all of the projects that were properly submitted will be posted on the Education Committee website along with the corresponding project assignments to share with fellow faculty.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

By Faculty - No individual student submissions accepted

Student work should have been completed within the prior two years and not been submitted previously

Content submitted should not infringe on any third party's copyright(s) or other proprietary right(s) whatsoever and each faculty member needs to complete one ACM Release Form

Student signed FERPA release forms must be submitted for each student to have their name included in the labels of the work. Without a FERPA release the work can be shown but the students name can not be included in the label and no links to credited versions will be included in the archive

Assignment(s) of submitted student work MUST accompany all video(s) and image(s) submitted. PDF format preferred in the original language. Student work will NOT be accepted without corresponding assignments.

All submissions should use the provided PowerPoint Template and can be downloaded here:
- FSSW_Template_2023.pptx
- To see examples of how to fill out information refer to last year’s exhibit

Still Images
- Images should be placed in the PowerPoint template
- Labels must be filled in
- Preferred resolution 1280x720 (RGB, JPG/TIFF/PNG format)
- A LIMIT of 10 images per assignment/project will be used in the exhibit

Video
- Please upload all videos to either YouTube.com or Vimeo.com preferably allowing them to be downloadable
- URLs should be placed in the PowerPoint template
- Please DO NOT embed actual videos
- Screen captures or a representative still image of the video should be included in the powerpoint
- Labels must be filled in
- Preferred resolution 1280x720 or larger 16:9 aspect ratio format.
- Audio can be included (*make sure it does not violate 3rd party copyrights)
- A LIMIT of 2 minutes of video per assignment/project will be used in the exhibit
  - You can edit multiple student pieces into a reel for that assignment having a maximum length of 2 minutes and provide a slide for each student work and include a link to either each piece in its entirety or for the reel or both. If a reel is not created the curator may make selections of one or more pieces not to exceed 2 minutes per assignment
- Videos will be downloaded and embedded in the final PowerPoint and screened at the conference throughout the week. After the conference, the still image and URL provided will replace the videos in a downloadable PDF version of the PowerPoint located on our site.

Labels for all images and videos include:
- Assignment/Project name
- Student name(s) only if signed FERPA release is included
- Faculty name(s)
- Course name(s)
- School name(s)

SUBMISSION METHOD:

Submit each assignment separately through the following google form

https://forms.gle/UTZUot44F5g7gTGE8

SIGGRAPH Education Committee retains the right to archive the project assignments on our website for fair use by other faculty.

Materials will be licensed under the Creative Common Attribution - NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0.

For additional information/clarification please email:

Richard Lewis - richardlewis4[at]siggraph.org

Deadline Friday, June 2nd, 2023

SpaceTime 2023: Call for Submissions

wobbe — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:38:36 +0000

The ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee sponsors the SpaceTime juried International Student Graphic Design Competition and Online Exhibition 2022.

Deadline May 15, 2023

Help us celebrate the 50th anniversary of SIGGRAPH.

This graphic design competition provides an excellent opportunity for students to exhibit their computer-based media creative work nationally and internationally. Entries will be judged by international jurors based on the solution of the theme (50 years of SIGGRAPH), artistic merit, design, originality, technical excellence, and content.

Selected works may be exhibited by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee at the SIGGRAPH 2023 conference in Los Angeles, on the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee website, and in promotional materials.

The first place winner will receive full conference registration. Two runners up will receive 50% off conference registration.

Submission Requirements

One entry per student
- A minimal use of text is suggested.
- You should not use any copyrighted imagery for your poster, and you are responsible for copyright related issues.
- A signed FERPA (The United States Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) form is required to be uploaded to the submission form.
  - SpaceTIme 2023 FERPA form
File Specifications:
- Image size: 3508 × 4961 pixels - A3 (11.69” x 16.54” / 297mm x 420 mm) @ 300-ppi
- Color Mode: RGB (please no CMYK images)
- Image Format: JPEG (.jpg)
- Maximum file size: 2MB
- Name your image: firstname_lastname_s2023.jpg
On the submission form, you will be asked to provide an artist statement (up to 200 words) along with your technical statement (up to 200 words).

Submissions are accepted through this google form

Questions? Contact Anna Ursyn at anna.ursyn [at] unco.edu and aursyn [at] gmail.com.

ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - SIGGRAPH 2023

SIGGRAPH 2023 Educators Schedule

SUNDAY August 6, 2023

MONDAY August 7, 2023 - Educators Day

TUESDAY August 8, 2023

WEDNESDAY August 9, 2023

Additional Birds of a Feather Session (BOF)

Education Booth Dome Sponsors

Tags:

12th Annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibit

Tags:

Call for Content for Dome Experience

Tags:

SIGGRAPH 2023 Educator's Day

Tags:

SpaceTime Gallery 2023

First Place: Haylie Anicama
Angelo State University Department of Visual and Performing Arts
San Angelo, TX

The Winning Entries:

Honorable Mentions:

Jurors

Tags:

Sponsorship for Immersive Dome Experience

Be a part of History!

OUR VISION

THE SPACE

THE CONCEPT

CALL FOR SPONSORSHIP

THANK YOU!

Tags:

Call for Participation: 12th Annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibition

Deadline Friday, June 2nd, 2023

https://forms.gle/UTZUot44F5g7gTGE8

Deadline Friday, June 2nd, 2023

Tags:

SpaceTime 2023: Call for Submissions

The ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee sponsors the SpaceTime juried International Student Graphic Design Competition and Online Exhibition 2022.

Deadline May 15, 2023

Submission Requirements

Tags:

ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - SIGGRAPH 2023

SIGGRAPH 2023 Educators Schedule

SUNDAY August 6, 2023

MONDAY August 7, 2023 - Educators Day

TUESDAY August 8, 2023

WEDNESDAY August 9, 2023

Additional Birds of a Feather Session (BOF)

Education Booth Dome Sponsors

Tags:

12th Annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibit

Tags:

Call for Content for Dome Experience

Tags:

SIGGRAPH 2023 Educator's Day

Tags:

SpaceTime Gallery 2023

First Place: Haylie Anicama Angelo State University Department of Visual and Performing Arts San Angelo, TX

The Winning Entries:

Honorable Mentions:

Jurors

Tags:

Sponsorship for Immersive Dome Experience

Be a part of History!

OUR VISION

THE SPACE

THE CONCEPT

CALL FOR SPONSORSHIP

THANK YOU!

Tags:

Call for Participation: 12th Annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibition

Deadline Friday, June 2nd, 2023

https://forms.gle/UTZUot44F5g7gTGE8

Deadline Friday, June 2nd, 2023

Tags:

SpaceTime 2023: Call for Submissions

The ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee sponsors the SpaceTime juried International Student Graphic Design Competition and Online Exhibition 2022.

Deadline May 15, 2023

Submission Requirements

Tags:

First Place: Haylie Anicama
Angelo State University Department of Visual and Performing Arts
San Angelo, TX