Welcome back to NEOhio SIGGRAPH 2005/2006!!

OK – so it has been a while since you have heard anything about the Northeast Ohio Professional Chapter of SIGGRAPH.

So it’s been an exciting summer and we have decided to really go all out with the chapter and this year we are aiming to have a variety of events. Our first event of the 2005-2006 year is going to take place on Sunday Oct 2, 2005 (more on this below).

First I would like to re-introduce the Chapter:

The Northeast Ohio Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH (the ACM Special Interest Group in Graphics and Interactive techniques). The goal of the group is to foster a membership community whose core values help them to catalyze the innovation and application of computer graphics and interactive techniques.

We are a professional group and our goal is to support professional interactivity through networking, events, and yes having fun.

The chapter leadership:

Chair – Jared Bendis.
Jared is Creative Director of New Media for Case Western Reserve University and also The Virtual Reality Specialist for the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Vice Chair – David Fleischer.
Dave is Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Secretary/Treasurer – Mike Hilliard.
Mike is a member of the New Media Initiatives team at the Cleveland Museum of Art and a past chair of the chapter.

Event Coordinator - Jenny Lenhard.
Jenny is new to the graphics world but not to event planning and she has volunteered to help us plan our season and keep it full and interesting.

Mark your Calendars! - February 26, 2006.
The Northeast Ohio Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH is invites you to:

Looking forward to what…. Beyond the Digital Age
by Jurgen Faust

For the past seven years Jurgen Faust has been a pioneer in Cleveland’s digital arts community as Chair of the Cleveland Institute of Art’s T.I.M.E. (Technology and Integrated Media Environment) program and as Dean of the Integrated Media Environment. As he prepares to leaves us for Monterrey, Mexico to take up his new position as Professor for Design and Theory and Dean of Academic Affairs we thought it only fitting to ask him to share his vision with us one more time.

Cost: Free, but seating is limited to the first 180 people.

When: 4:00pm – 5:00pm on Sunday February 26th 2006

Where: The Wolstein Research Building Auditorium at Case Western Reserve University - 2130 Cornell Road.
Parking is available in the lot across the street or in the Patient Parking lot which is 200 feet from Euclid Avenue on Cornell Road.

If you want on our mailing list - please email jaredjared@earthlink.net
If you think you might come – please email jaredjared@earthlink.net
If you have other friends who might be interested – send them to this website!
If you just want to just show up – see you on Sunday!!