SIGGRAPH Asia 2008-Singapore

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 presents the continent's first exhibiton devoted exclusively to computer graphics and interactive techniques.It will be held in Singapore at Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre on the following days:

Thursday, 11 December 09:30 - 18:30
Friday, 12 December 09:30 - 18:30
Saturday, 13 December 09:30 - 18:30

It can be attended since it can be a promising exhibition.For four fascinating days, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 will extend the horizons of innovation and excellence. It will feature creative, scientific, and educational work that provokes thought, explores ideas in innovative ways, addresses contemporary issues, interactively engages viewers in discovery, and stimulates their intellect and imagination.

All members of the computer graphics community in Asia and throughout the world are invited. Register early and save with discounted fees. Select your hotel accommodations. And finalize your plans to be in Singapore for this historic event.

Fact Sheet of SIGGRAPH Asia are as below:


SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
Committee Conference Advisory Group Chair - Alyn Rockwood (USA)
Conference Chair - Lee Yong Tsui (Singapore)
Associate Chair - John C. Finnegan (USA)
Technical Papers - Kurt Akeley (USA)
Sketches & Posters - Diego Gutierrez (Spain)
Courses - Matt Adcock (Australia)
Art Gallery & Emerging Technologies - Tomoe Moriyama (Japan)
Computer Animation Festival - Jinny Choo (Korea)
Educators Program - Mark Chavez (Singapore)
Exhibition - Caleb Cheong (Singapore)
Event Profile SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 presents the continent's first conference and exhibition devoted exclusively to computer graphics and interactive techniques. The exhibition will feature exhibitors showcasing products and services from various sectors. Various country and government pavilions will also be showcasing their countries' local companies and entrepreneurial start-ups.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 will also feature works that provoke thought, explore ideas in innovative ways, address contemporary issues, interactively engage viewers in discovery, and stimulate their intellect and creativity through the following:

Technical Papers
The SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Papers programme is a premier international forum for disseminating provocative and important new work in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Leading international experts from Asia and beyond present peer-reviewed research in rendering, modeling, animation, human-computer interaction, computer-aided design, virtual reality, and visualisation.

Sketches & Posters
Sketches is a dynamic forum for thought-provoking, speculative ideas, novel applications, what-if concepts, and behind-the-scenes production details. Following each sketch presentation, authors discuss future implications of their work and answer audience questions. Displayed throughout the week, posters feature graphic depictions of incremental or half-baked but innovative ideas with scheduled sessions for informal discussions.

Courses
International experts present instructional sessions on every aspect of computer graphics and interactive techniques: animation, computer-human interaction, entertainment, gaming, scientific visualisation, recent breakthroughs, cool programming adventures, and more. These unique educational opportunities are only available at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008.

Art Gallery
The Art Gallery extends synaesthesia beyond anatomy to present art that transforms, melds, and transcends current Asian paradigms. This international, multicultural festival of creativity showcases work in all media -- including "hybrid" formats such as text-literature collaborations, ubiquitous sounds, and zero-gravity space art -- that provokes contemplation, explores surprising ideas, addresses contemporary issues, interactively engages viewers in discovery, and stimulates their intellect and creativity.

Computer Animation Festival
A world-class festival of outstanding work from all over the world: animated shorts, feature films, visual effects, interactive CG arts, scientific visualisations, machinima, games, and real-time graphics. The Computer Animation Festival presents creative achievements in every genre, plus "hybrid" innovations that mix state-of-the-art animation techniques with traditional storytelling approaches.

Educators Programme
Insight and innovation for industry professionals, academic experts, and lower-school instructors who teach and use computer graphics to expand knowledge and enhance skills. The Educators Programme presents innovative approaches to creative instruction in papers, panels, "quick takes" (demos of learning systems), forums, and informal discussions.

Emerging Technologies
Interactive, mind-expanding explorations in virtual and mixed reality, haptic interfaces, ubiquitous systems, digital tools, HD displays, robotics, and more. Emerging Technologies presents demos and installations of technologies that define the future of computer graphics and interactive techniques

Other Features at SIGGRAPH Asia
Exhibitor Tech Talks
In these sessions, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 exhibitors will demonstrate software, hardware, and systems; answer questions; and host one-on-one conversations about how their applications improve professional and technical performance

Job Fair
The Job Fair allows employers and creative professionals to connect before, during, and after the conference. It serves as a networking platform for both companies and jobseekers to get acquainted.
Organiser Profile The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH sponsors SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. ACM is an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.

Visitor Profile Animators and special effects personnel, digital innovators, educators, game developers, researchers, web and ecommerce developers, software developers, programmers, media, students, financiers, legal counselors.

Targeted Visitor

60% Asia Pacific
20% North America
10% Europe
10% Middle East

Event Statistics
(Projected) Anticipated Participants: 6,000
Anticipated Exhibiting Companies: 80


More details can be sought from :
a) Koelnmesse Pte Ltd
152 Beach Road, #25-05 Gateway East
Singapore 189721
Tel: +65.6500.6732
Fax: +65.6296.2771

ISEA2008 25 July - 3 August,Singapore

25 July - 3 August, various venues

The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) is the world's premier media arts event for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions using new technologies in interactive and digital media. Held biannually in various cities throughout the world, this migratory event is being held in Asia for the second time in its history. This symposium consists of conferences, exhibitions and various partner events.

Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) is participating in the symposium as New Zealand’s representatives. They traveled to Singapore with funding from Asia:NZ.

ISEA, the International Symposium on Electronic Art initiated in 1988, is the world's premier media arts event for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in interactive and digital media. Held biannually in various cities throughout the world, this migratory event is being held in Asia for the second time in its history, after Singapore successfully secured this bid.

This symposium consists of three aspects of peer reviewed conference, internationally juried exhibition and various in-conjunction and partner events. ISEA2008 is proud to announce an Artists In Residence programme supported by the National University of Singapore that will run for the year leading up to the 2008 Symposium.

The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies.

Symposium Programme

(Please note: The programme below is tentative and subject to change. Please check this site periodically for the latest updates.)

* The following symposium programmes are open to registered delegates only, unless specified open to public. Interested participants may visit the registration page to find out how to participate.

25 July
8am	Registration of delegates | Singapore Management University The Gallery
9am to 3pm	Invited Workshops - Bio-Fi Data Hijacking | Republic Polytechnic
9am to 4.30pm	Invited Workshops - Cellular Automata for Visual Media | National University of Singapore Communications and New Media Lab
9am to 4.30pm	Invited Workshops - Data Sonification: Sound as Information | National University of Singapore Cyberstudio Lab
2pm to 3.30pm	Keynote Address - Ken Mogi: The Contingent Brain | National University of Singapore Engineering Auditorium
3.30pm to 5pm	Invited Panel - Culture, Technology and Asian Pop Culture | National University of Singapore Engineering Auditorium
5:30pm	Official Opening of ISEA2008 | National Museum of Singapore (by invitation only)
10pm to 12am	ISEA2008 Club Nite | Food#03

26 July
9:30am to 5pm	Parallel papers/panels/artist/project presentations | Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Seminar Rooms
10:30am to 5pm	Institutional Presentations | National Museum of Singapore The Salon
2pm to 4pm	Invited Panel - Way to Go: The impact of process on artists' residencies in science and research settings | Singapore Management University Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
4pm to 5.30pm	Invited Forum - ASEF Mini-Summit on New Media Arts Policy and Practice | Singapore Management University Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
6pm to 7.30pm	Keynote Address - Sam Furukawa: AIR Dynamics | National University of Singapore Engineering Auditorium
7.30pm	Official Opening Partner Exhibition - Lucid Fields: Media Artworks by Swiss Artists-in-Labs | LASALLE College of the Arts (by invitation only)
10pm to 12am	ISEA2008 Club Nite | Food#03

27 July
9am to 6pm	Invited Workshops - Open Source for Artists | Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media, 2-26
9:30am to 3.30pm	Parallel papers/panels/artist/project presentations | Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media
10am to 1pm	Invited Forum - LEF@ISEA2008 At the Crossroads of Media Arts & Science and Technology | Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media, 1-2
1.30pm to 3.30pm	Invited Panel - Copyright and The Creative Commons | Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media, B1-3
3.30pm to 5pm	Keynote Address - Lawrence Lessig: The Proper (and Essential) Place for Copyright | Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media Auditorium
9pm	Official Opening Partner Exhibition - Cloudland: Digital Art from Aotearoa New Zealand | The Substation (by invitation only)

28 July
9:30am to 5pm	Parallel papers/panels/artist/project presentations | Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Seminar Rooms
9:30am to 11:30am	Invited Panel - Passing and Peril on the Information Super Highway | Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Seminar Rooms
10:30am to 5pm	Institutional Presentations | National Museum of Singapore The Salon
12:30pm to 1.30pm	Media Presentation - Mediatopia {mashup, remix, transmit} | National Museum of Singapore Gallery Theatre
4pm to 5.30pm	Invited Forum - Blissful dialogues: Common Ground for Curators | National Museum of Singapore Seminar Room
8pm	Official Opening Partner Exhibition - Experimenta Play ++ | Sculpture Square (by invitation only)
9:30pm	SPEKTR! | 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road

29 July
9:30am to 5pm	Parallel papers/panels/artist/project presentations | Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Seminar Rooms
9:30am to 11:30am	Invited Panel - Animated Ideas: Investigating the Language of Animation | Singapore Management University Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
10:30am to 5pm	Institutional Presentations | National Museum of Singapore The Salon
4pm to 5.30pm	Invited Forum - Blissful dialogues: Common Ground for Curators 2 | National Museum of Singapore Seminar Room
7.30pm	Closing Performances: Venzha + House of Natural Fiber; Choy Ka Fai / Theatreworks; Zulkifle Mahmod | Singapore Management University Li Ka Shing Library Concourse

30 July
9:30am to 5pm	Parallel papers/panels/artist/project presentations | Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Seminar Rooms
9:30am to 11:30am	Invited Panel - Transitio_MX Curatorial Approaches: Impolis, In(communities) and Free Synthesis | Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Seminar Room
2pm to 4pm	Invited Forum - Urban Climate Camp | Singapore Management University School of Information Systems Level 5 Function Room
2pm to 6pm	Invited Forum - Art Science Exchange, Mixer, Show and Launch | Singapore Science Centre
4pm to 6pm	Invited Panel - Luminous Green in Singapore: Electronic arts in turbulent weather | Singapore Management University School of Information Systems Level 5 Function Room

31 July
10am to 9pm	Invited Workshops - Luminous Green: Reflecting on the role of the arts, design and technology in an environment of turbulence | Singapore Management University School of Information Systems Level 5 Function Room

Exhibitions (Open to the public)
25 July to 3 August	ISEA2008 Juried Exhibiton | National Museum of Singapore
24 July to 2 August	Cloudland (New Zealand) | The Substation
25 July to 2 August	Experimenta Play ++ (Australia) | Sculpture Square
25 July to 3 August	Relocations (Malaysia) | Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Concourse
26 July to 2 August	Lucid Fields (Switzerland) | LASALLE College of the Arts

In Conjunction Events
24 to 26 July	true presented by Yamaguchi Centre for Arts and Media (YCAM) | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 8.30pm
26 July	Pocket Gamelan - Mandala 7 by Greg Schiemer | National University of Singapore Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Foyer, 5.30pm to 6pm; 7:30pm to 8pm
27 July	IMI/ADM Demo-Graphics | Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media
28 July	Cultural Computing | National Museum of Singapore The Salon, 5pm to 5.30pm
28 July	Launch of n.e.w.s | The Substation, 7.30pm to 9:30pm
29 July	Public Presentation - Ludic Times: 6th Asia-Europe Art Camp | National Museum of Singapore The Salon, 4pm to 5pm
30 July	How to Track Global Digital Culture by Lev Manovich | LASALLE College of the Arts, 7pm
30 July to 1 August	4-ICOM: From Print to Interactive media: Technology, multi-modal representation and knowledge

source :www.isea2008singapore.org

We feel that this exhibition can be attended and we rate B with ROI expectation upto 40%.