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Important Call for Submissions Deadlines Approaching

I am Art
I am Science
Who are you?

Deadlines are quickly approaching to submit your work to SIGGRAPH 2012, the 39th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 5-9 August 2012 in Los Angeles.

From students to studio executives, from scientists to artists, SIGGRAPH is the world's largest annual gathering of the best and brightest minds in computer graphics. This is your opportunity to present your best work at SIGGRAPH 2012.

Upcoming Submission Deadlines:

Student Volunteers Applications:
13 February 2012

General Submissions (Courses, Emerging Technologies, Panels, Posters, Talks, Studio):
21 February 2012

Computer Animation Festival (Competition Films) and Real-Time Live!:
9 April 2012

SIGGRAPH Dailies! and Late-Breaking Work (Late-Breaking Posters, Late-Breaking Talks):
1 May 2012

*All deadlines are 22:00 UTC/GMT. To determine what time that is where you are, you can use a converter such as The World Clock.

All work submitted to SIGGRAPH 2012 through the Call for Submissions is reviewed by a highly qualified jury composed of top practitioners in the relevant field. Because we want each jury to have the time to review each piece carefully, submission deadlines generally are several months before the conference itself. All the submission deadlines are strictly enforced, so be sure to plan accordingly.

Thirsty for a good conversation? Come to Dartmouth’s latest Science Café at Salt Hill Pub in Lebanon on Thursday, February 9 between 5:30 and 7:30 pm. Join Dartmouth's Sekhar Ramanathan (Physics and Astronomy) and Carey Heckman (Philosophy) for an open, lively, easy-to-understand discussion. The topic: "Smart Phones Today, Smarter Societies Tomorrow?”

Science fiction has often raced ahead of science in predicting how future technologies would change society - think Smell-O-Vision and personal Jet Packs. But when it comes to computing, growth has indeed been exponential. But what do we really know about these devices that surround us? Do you know what makes your iPad tick or what your smart phone and laptop have in common? How has your life been changed by these devices? How has your community changed as smart devices increasingly permeate our society? Are we too reliant on these devices?

This is the beginning of a FREE ongoing series that is open to all. Science Cafes are events intended to make topics in science accessible to all through open dialogue with local scientists in relaxed public settings.

Tuesday January 31st 2012, Loew Theater, 4:30pm
Christiane Paul, "Feedback: Histories of New Media Art"
Christiane Paul is the Director of the Media Studies Graduate Programs and Associate Prof. of Media Studies at The New School, NY, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally on art and technology. At the Whitney Museum, she curated the shows “Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools” (May 2011), “Profiling” (2007), and “Data Dynamics” (2001); the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial; the online exhibition “CODeDOC” (2002) for artport, the Whitney Museum’s online portal to Internet art for which she is responsible. Recent curatorial work includes “Eduardo Kac: Biotopes, Lagoglyphs and Transgenic Works” (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010); Biennale Quadrilaterale (Rijeka, Croatia, 2009-10); “Feedforward – The Angel of History” (co-curated with Steve Dietz; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Asturias, Spain, 2009-2010) and INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, Aug. 2009).
Sponsored by the Digital Humanities Initiative and the Department of Studio Art.

Tuesday February 7th 2012, Loew Theater, 4:30pm
Jane Prophet, “The Artist in the Laboratory”

Jane Prophet has been a key member of a number of internationally acclaimed projects that break new ground in art and science. Her collaborations with stem cell researchers, mathematicians and heart surgeons radically re-envisage the human body. She has worked with new media for two decades and integrates it with traditional materials to produce ‘surprising and beautiful objects’. She makes photographic pieces, temporary installations, objects and video. In 2005 she won a National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts Fellowship UK to develop interdisciplinary artworks. She continues to be Professor of Art and Interdisciplinary Computing at Goldsmiths, London and lives in New London, NH.
Sponsored by the Digital Humanities Initiative and the Department of Studio Art.

Thursday February 23rd 2012, TBA, 4:30pm
Lisa Nakamura, “Trash Talk” as Waste and as Resource: The Rhetoric of Instrumental Racism as Procedural Strategy in Online Games”
Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media and Cinema Studies Department and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and a co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000) and Race After the Internet (Routledge, forthcoming 2011). She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. She is working on a new monograph tentatively entitled Workers Without Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds.
Sponsored by the Digital Humanities Initiative and the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies program.

Friday February 24th 2012, Haldeman 041, 2:30 – 5:30pm
Robot Skin: The Consumption of Race through Technoscience
Panel with Thuy Linh Tu, Minh-ha Pham, Aimee Bahng, and moderated by Lisa Nakamura.
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, where she is also the director of the American Studies Program. She is the author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Asian Chic (Duke, 2011) and co-editor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America and Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. She is currently conducting research on the uses of science in the multinational cosmetics industry.Minh-Ha T. Pham is an Assistant Professor in the History of Art & Visual Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University. Broadly, her research traces the historical relations of art, society, and technology through fashion. Her research appears in a wide range of academic and popular publications including Feminist Media Studies (2012); Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 76 26.1 (2011); Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 36.2 (Winter 2010-11); Ms. magazine (November 2011) and The American Prospect. Aimee Bahng is an Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. Her book manuscript, “Speculative Acts: Science and Fiction in an Age of Finance Capitalism” examines cultural narratives of futurity, including but not limited to financial discourses of security and risk as well as speculative fiction by North American women of color. Parts of her research have been published in MELUS and Critical Studies.
Sponsored by the Digital Humanities Initiative and the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies program.

The Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of interactive visualization with an emphasis on games for education, entertainment and/or simulation. Candidates must demonstrate experience in cross-disciplinary, collaborative work. Game production experience is desirable. A terminal degree (i.e., MFA, Ph.D.) is strongly preferred. Responsibilities include building an innovative and creative research agenda, teaching and advising at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and service to the department, university, and the field, including outreach to develop departmental industry connections. The successful candidate will be expected to teach courses in game design and development, interactive graphics, and other courses as ability and program needs determine.

The Department of Visualization seeks to advance the art, science, and technology of visualization through developing and engaging in visual, intuitive, and analytical strategies of the mind. Academic programs include the B.S and M.S. in Visualization, with approximately 280 students. MFA and Ph.D. programs in Visualization are in proposal stages. The role of the 14 faculty members is the development and implementation of emerging methods for enhancing understanding and gaining insight through visual means in teaching, research, and creative works including the historical roots, ethical implications, and future directions of the field.

The reputation of our graduates as skilled technical and visual problem solvers has led to strong ties to the animation, visual effects, and game industries. Faculty members are recognized for their scholarly contributions ranging from digitally enabled installations to computational modeling and perception. Academic programs as well as faculty research and creative works are supported by the resources of the Visualization Laboratory. Further information about the Department of Visualization is available at http://www.viz.tamu.edu/. To apply, candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, samples of work or portfolio, and names and addresses of three references to: search@viz.tamu.edu. Alternatively, send these materials to: Visualization Faculty Search Committee, College of Architecture, 3137 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3137. Additional materials may be requested. For further information, contact search@viz.tamu.edu. Review of applications will begin December 19, 2011, and the position will remain open until filled with an expected start date of September 1, 2012.

Texas A&M University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Texas A&M University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran’s status or any other legally protected status in employment.

If you think smartphones are cool this might be a seminar/course for you.

We will focus on advances in smartphone technology, research and programming.

The seminar is a mix of a seminar and more formal course and will include paper reading (presentations and discussion), learning  to program Android phones and group projects - the goal is to develop some cool concepts, code up apps and release them on the market - taking your innovative ideas from concept to mass market in 10 weeks!

We will read the latest papers on this emerging field and program phones to test out some of the ideas that emerge in the seminar.

This is an advanced/senior class therefore a high degree of self-learning is required for this seminar and a strong set of programming skills needed -- just to be very clear: you will have to do a considerable amount of self-learning (this is an senior/advanced course in that respect) - there is no gain without pain - this lecturer will not be sitting down with you in the lab to debug your Androd code.

Having said that I want this course to be informal, relaxed and most important fun more than anything.

The prerequiste for this class is CS23 (proficency in programming c and Java) and CS78 or CS58 or equivalent are required.

Instructor: Andrew Campbell
Android Fung-Fu Assistant: Xiaochao Yang
When:  Tuesday and Thursday  2:00-3:50, x-hour Wed 4.15   
Where:  Life Sciences Center 105

For a number of years I've been asked if I'm teaching a phone programming class. I intend to develop seminar into an undergraduate course on Smartphone Programming and offer in next year. I plan to develop the material for that course taking as a starting point the code and labs I'll develop for this more advanced course. Note, that the future undergraduate class will have as a prequiste CS50 and the same intense programming experience as CS50.

DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 13, 22:00 UTC/GMT. APPLY NOW!

The SIGGRAPH 2012 Student Volunteer Program is a unique opportunity for students to meet people involved in all areas of the computer graphics industry while contributing to the overall success of the SIGGRAPH Conference. The industry's future leaders are encouraged to apply: students who demonstrate leadership, service, and a passion for computer graphics and interactive techniques.

As a Student Volunteer, students will go behind the scenes to help run an international event, which draws thousands of people who share a passion for advanced computer graphics technologies. The benefits of being a Student Volunteer extend beyond the free full admission conference pass to professional development and private Student Volunteer Special Sessions with top professionals who were once Student Volunteers themselves!

All of this is available to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students who are enrolled full time for at least one semester during the 2011-2012 academic year and are at least 18 years of age. Students can apply to volunteer for either 18 or 30 hours (approximately) during the conference. Volunteers who are willing to commit for at least 30 hours are eligible to apply for Travel Assistance Awards, which offer financial help for travel to and from the conference. The conference will run Sunday, 5 August through Thursday, 9 August, 2012 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. For more details on this wonderful opportunity, please check out: sv.siggraph.org

SIGGRAPH 2012 SV Presentation -This 2012 Student Volunteer slideshow presentation (linked below) outlines some of the highlights of our program.https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dgdwmtdv_89fv52hh3p

San Francisco State University
Department of Cinema
Animation

The Department of Cinema at San Francisco State University seeks candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Animation, to begin in Fall 2012, subject to financial ability.

Qualifications
M.F.A., Ph.D., or equivalent degree required; degree requirements to be completed by August 1, 2012. University teaching experience, a body of creative work, strong digital filmmaking skills and knowledge of animation/film history and theory. Candidate should be an animation artist who will contribute innovation to the Department‚s commitment to independent narrative and experimental cinema.

Areas of Specialization and Teaching Range
We seek an expert in Maya 3D computer animation who has a working knowledge of animation principles, animation history, and theory. Candidate will teach 3D and animation foundations. Animation production experience is required. 3 courses per semester. Experience in story development, character animation, stop-motion, interactive design and mobile cinema is also desirable. The candidate must be adept at teaching in a dynamic interdisciplinary program that fosters a creative production environment.

Rank and Salary
Assistant Professor; salary competitive, commensurate with qualifications. SFSU, as part of the California State University system, provides generous health, retirement, and other benefits, including domestic partner benefits.

The Department
The Cinema Department, housed in the College of Arts and Humanities, has 19 tenured/tenure-track faculty and serves approximately 700 undergraduate and graduate students. We teach production and theory as a common enterprise and offer a B.A. in Cinema, M.A. in Cinema Studies, M.F.A. in Cinema, and an Animation Emphasis that is open to cinema and non-cinema majors. For more information, please visit http://www.cinema.sfsu.edu

The University
San Francisco State University, a member of the California State University system, serves a diverse student body of 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The University seeks to promote appreciation of scholarship, freedom and, human diversity through excellence in instruction and intellectual accomplishment. SFSU faculty are expected to be effective teachers and demonstrate professional achievement and growth through research, scholarship, and/or creative work.

To Apply
Review of applications will begin 11/28/11 and must include a letter of interest, Curriculum Vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, DVD sample of creative work, and three recent professional letters of reference. Address to:

Daniel Bernardi, Department Chair
ATTN Animation Search Committee
Cinema Department, FA 245
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132

Initial interviews of top candidates will take place in mid-December via Skype. Applications accepted until selection of candidates in mid-January for campus interviews.
The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to diversity, and we especially welcome applications from members of all ethnic groups, women, veterans, and people with disabilities.

Check out this 30-day trial of Stash, an online magazine that provides video and behind-the-scenes info on state-of-the-art digital art!

If you're a student on campus next term, act quick! This is a good chance to get into CS 24: Digital Animation. You can also change courses during the Nov 17 - Dec 2 and Jan 4-10 Date ranges, but remember, enrollment is limited.

We also recommend Film Studies 047.4: Cut and Paste Cinema, offered next term with Professor Jodie Mack. Learn more from the course syllabus and the poster below!

Our news about jobs and competitions available to students each has its own page, accessible in the drop-down News menu. There are a couple of new listings on the already extensive projects page (can you find the interactive story?). And last but not least, we've added a new section on the Links page for our favorite Dartmouth-related sites. Here's to work that feels like fun!

Xiaoyi Chen's free iPhone App has just hit the iTunes store! It's an intelligent way of determining whether an item is recyclable at Dartmouth. Check out more details on the iTunes Store and our Projects page!

Just uploaded! Have a look and learn some dynamics!



Thanks go to the Neukom Institute, whose support and funding made this event and these videos possible.

The Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College invites applications for the inaugural Roth Family Distinguished Professorship. We seek candidates with a strong academic or industry track record in the general area of Digital Arts (including, but not limited to, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Design & Media Arts). Candidates at the level of full professor or senior-level associate professor will be considered.

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Also, be sure to check the CS Department website for this year's changes to the course numbers and major requirements.