Welcome to Chapter Website of Austin ACM SIGGRAPH
We are the Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH.
Austin ACM SIGGRAPH's purpose:
・ To share information on computer graphics and interactive techniques with the Austin digital arts and media community.
・ To facilitate the networking of professionals in the local and national digital arts and media communities.
・ To foster the growth of community amongst the varied disciplines, organizations and companies that fall within the Austin digital arts and media community.
・ To highlight the work and accomplishments of individual artists and companies from the local digital art and media community,
・ To share information on legislative news and events that may affect the digital artist and business communities.
・ And this year, to promote the 2010 ACM SIGGRAPH national convention, held in
Los Angeles in July.
Our Officers
Dan McFarland, Chapter Chairman
Adam Glick, Vice-Chair
Sara Farr, Secretary
Dan Martinez, Treasurer
Our Committee Chairs
Fiona Cherbak, Communications Chair
Claudia Chittim McFarland, Membership Chair
Nicholas Resa, Student Chair
Partner Events
 Game On! Texas 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
9 am - 5 pm
AMD Lone
Star Campus,
7171
Southwest Parkway in Austin,
Texas
Game On! Texas
is a groundbreaking
symposium designed to bring
together thought leaders
from our state education and
business communities to
discuss challenges and
possible solutions for video
games education in Texas.
Speakers include
keynoyes Texas Governor Rick
Perry and Alan Gershenfeld,
President, E-Line Media, and
Chairman, Games for Change;
Warren Spector, president of
Junction Point/Disney
Interactive Studios; Richard
Vogel, co-studio director of
BioWare Austin, and Gary
Gattis, president of
Spacetime Studios and
chapter chair for IGDA
Austin, amongst others.
Game On! Texas 2010 is
generously supported by AMD,
Austin ACM SIGGRAPH, Austin
Chamber of Commerce, City of
Austin, Digital Media
Council, IGDA Austin and the
Texas Film Commission.
Register online today:
www.skillpointalliance.org/GameOnTexas
Sponsors
Donate to SIGGRAPH Austin
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UPCOMING
EVENT
Austin ACM SIGGRAPH
presents
L.A. or Bust!
Wednesday, July 21
7 pm to 10 pm
@ The HighBall, next to
Alamo Drafthouse
1142 South Lamar
Boulevard, Austin
Join us
for our
SIGGRAPH
2010 Los
Angeles
pre-convention
party,
sponsored
by
Critical
Mass
Interactive,
RenderStream,
the
Texas
Film
Commission
and UT
Radio-TV-Film.
You’re invited to the
latest annual event of
the Austin ACM SIGGRAPH
chapter, featuring door
prizes, free food and
beverage, screening of
the 2009 Computer
Animation Festival
Competition, and a sneak
peek at the 2010
SIGGRAPH convention,
July 25-29 in Los
Angeles.
Meet and greet our newly
elected officers, as
well as chapter advisors
and members of the
visual effects, design,
film and video games
communities in Austin,
in the ballroom at the
the ultra-swanky
HighBall, with a stage
and large screen.
The Computer Animation
Festival Competition
Screening presents the
best of 2009's computer
animation, including
visual effects, animated
shorts, excerpts from
motion pictures, game
cinematics, student
work, scientific
visualization, abstract
art, and more.
RSVP on
Interested in being a
chapter or event
sponsor, or donating a
door prize? Contact:
info@siggraphaustin.org.
Learn
more
about
our past
events
and
sponsors
here.
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