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Season 2020

Joint meet up of the Los Angeles and Shenzhen ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters to discuss and explore common interests and goals. There will be ample time to initiate relationships for future opportunities and partnerships.

It has been 40 years since EZTV’s founder, John Dorr, made his first feature length video using a home Betamax deck and a “borrowed” black and white security camera. It has been a wild ride from Timothy Leary to Jean Luc Godard, David Hockney to Mark Gash, performance artists to physicists, innovative digital artists to hackers. And the community grows… [Admission free, RSVP required]

Explore the art and science of virtual humans. Produced in cooperation with DigitalLA.

Using 360-degree technology popularized by VR and AR productions, dome filmmakers create a unique, immersive experience by screening the films in specially built dome theaters. Chapter members -- RSVP.

Join US at the digital 'fireplace' of the world’s best CG animated shorts… and more!  LA SIGGRAPH will present this additional screening  of this year's 2019 COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL ELECTRONIC THEATER Show. It will includes trailers from the Technical Papers program as well as a teaser from the VR Theater and the "Generations" retro compilation video.

 

Come network with your SIGGRAPH community and celebrate LA's incredible creative and technical talent at our Electric Salon! We're inviting 5-minute "Pecha Kucha" talks plus screenings of shorts, reels, and tech demos. This is a great opportunity for networking and show-and-tell. Chapter members may bring a guest for free!

FuseFX will host and present a captivating look at VFX in the age of exploding content.

Join us for a panel featuring a team from the Lion King virtual film production co-produced by LA ACM SIGGRAPH and the Creative Technology Center.

What is the outlook for careers across the digital media spectrum – from artists to technical directors to producers in VR, games, motion design, film and other media "yet to be invented"? Hear and question a panel of hiring managers and veteran recruiters share the inside scoop on where the jobs are … and where they aren’t.

Join us online to learn about Next-Gen storyteller and director Brett Leonard and friends take us down the rabbit hole with this online interactive panel. Free Signup on EventBrite for this online event!

Plan the 2020-2021 LA ACM SIGGRAPH schedule. Our events just don't happen - it takes a lot of planning. We end our 2019-2020 season with an Executive Council Planning meeting for the 2020-2021 season. See the event for information for attending this Zoom virtual meeting.

Los Angeles Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH invites you to attend a special online interactive presentation from the authors and editors of the newly released Handbook of Research on Global Impact and Roles of Immersive Media. Zoom registration is required for this event.