SIGGRAPH's Guerilla Studio Provides Interactive Collaborations
Creation abounds during the SIGGRAPH Guerilla Studio, an interactive creation studio that provides attendees with the opportunity to create art in every subdiscipline imaginable. The Guerilla Studio will take place as part of the 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques held Aug. 5-9 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Attendees will have the chance to utilize powerful workstations, versatile software, and the expertise of several artists, scientists and engineers to create imaginative concepts in 2D, 3D, 4D, and n-dimensional media. This year's Guerilla Studio program provides attendees with creative freedom throughout several technologies and creative areas.
"We are very excited about some of the new additions to this year's Guerilla Studio," stated Rebecca Strzelec, SIGGRAPH 2007 Guerilla Studio chair from Pennsylvania State University - Altoona. "The Guerilla Studio is one of the few venues that allows for attendee interaction. Add to that collaboration with some of the industry's finest and you have a unique atmosphere for creative production that you wouldn't find anywhere else."
Highlights from this year's Guerilla Studio include:
* Artists In Residence Program
Area Chief: Phil Carrizzi
This year, the Guerilla Studio is hosting six emerging and established resident artists who come from 2D, 3D, digital, non-digital, production, one-of-a-kind, large and small scale-traditions. These artists will have their own group workspace, integrated into the overall studio design, to help facilitate the best possible mix of their personal visions and skills, group and collaborative energies, and the array of technical resources represented in the Guerilla Studio. They will blend their dynamic individual studio practices, in media not always well represented at SIGGRAPH, with the emerging technologies and public nature of the Guerilla Studio to help their work evolve and provide inspiration to attendees. The 2007 Artists in Residence are: Harriete Estel Berman, Matthew Hamon, Philip Mallory Jones, Mike and Maaike and Michael Wright.
* Animation Area
Area Chief: Gene Cooper
Explore both the very high tech and the low tech of animation techniques, processes, and technologies. Only 5-10 minutes to spare? Sit down and have some fun at our stop-motion animation stations as you build a quick animation to take home. A little more time to spare? Meet one of our creative specialists, who will be ready to open up the engine compartments of their own work, get into the nuts and bolts of its design, and then hand over the keys to see what you can do. Just interested in watching? Attend one of our presentations showcasing a number of projects and techniques. Browsing for new tools? Sit down at one of our open stations where you'll be able to explore some of the latest and best of tools available. Anyway you cut it, there's something for everyone. Most of all, have fun creating, exploring, and taking advantage of the amazing tools and projects that are available in the Guerilla Studio.
* Collaboration Area
Area Chief: Lyn Bishop
Often the creative process is singular and individual, but when the work becomes collaborative, the resulting imagery becomes more than the sum of its parts. In the Collaboration Space, attendees share collaboration, cultural exchange, and cooperative art-making. Artists and attendees collaborate, in real time, on networked projects with students from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. Live collaborative sessions with Srishti take place each morning. We invite you to drop in anytime to get involved with the international collaboration or local collaborations with other conference attendees and artists.
* Drawing Circle
Area Chief: Dave Nutty
As in the past, the drawing circle will be available to attendees to drop in and sketch away their thoughts and/or stress or doodle up the next masterpiece on an informal basis. This year, we've added a few projects that allow attendees and artists to contribute to a community image montage and other projects throughout the week.
* Guerilla Editions: AKA the 2D Area
Area Chief: Karl Lang
Attendees will have the chance to utilize powerful workstations, versatile software, and the expertise of several artists, scientists and engineers to create imaginative concepts in 2D, 3D, 4D, and n-dimensional media. This year's Guerilla Studio program provides attendees with creative freedom throughout several technologies and creative areas.
"We are very excited about some of the new additions to this year's Guerilla Studio," stated Rebecca Strzelec, SIGGRAPH 2007 Guerilla Studio chair from Pennsylvania State University - Altoona. "The Guerilla Studio is one of the few venues that allows for attendee interaction. Add to that collaboration with some of the industry's finest and you have a unique atmosphere for creative production that you wouldn't find anywhere else."
Highlights from this year's Guerilla Studio include:
* Artists In Residence Program
Area Chief: Phil Carrizzi
This year, the Guerilla Studio is hosting six emerging and established resident artists who come from 2D, 3D, digital, non-digital, production, one-of-a-kind, large and small scale-traditions. These artists will have their own group workspace, integrated into the overall studio design, to help facilitate the best possible mix of their personal visions and skills, group and collaborative energies, and the array of technical resources represented in the Guerilla Studio. They will blend their dynamic individual studio practices, in media not always well represented at SIGGRAPH, with the emerging technologies and public nature of the Guerilla Studio to help their work evolve and provide inspiration to attendees. The 2007 Artists in Residence are: Harriete Estel Berman, Matthew Hamon, Philip Mallory Jones, Mike and Maaike and Michael Wright.
* Animation Area
Area Chief: Gene Cooper
Explore both the very high tech and the low tech of animation techniques, processes, and technologies. Only 5-10 minutes to spare? Sit down and have some fun at our stop-motion animation stations as you build a quick animation to take home. A little more time to spare? Meet one of our creative specialists, who will be ready to open up the engine compartments of their own work, get into the nuts and bolts of its design, and then hand over the keys to see what you can do. Just interested in watching? Attend one of our presentations showcasing a number of projects and techniques. Browsing for new tools? Sit down at one of our open stations where you'll be able to explore some of the latest and best of tools available. Anyway you cut it, there's something for everyone. Most of all, have fun creating, exploring, and taking advantage of the amazing tools and projects that are available in the Guerilla Studio.
* Collaboration Area
Area Chief: Lyn Bishop
Often the creative process is singular and individual, but when the work becomes collaborative, the resulting imagery becomes more than the sum of its parts. In the Collaboration Space, attendees share collaboration, cultural exchange, and cooperative art-making. Artists and attendees collaborate, in real time, on networked projects with students from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. Live collaborative sessions with Srishti take place each morning. We invite you to drop in anytime to get involved with the international collaboration or local collaborations with other conference attendees and artists.
* Drawing Circle
Area Chief: Dave Nutty
As in the past, the drawing circle will be available to attendees to drop in and sketch away their thoughts and/or stress or doodle up the next masterpiece on an informal basis. This year, we've added a few projects that allow attendees and artists to contribute to a community image montage and other projects throughout the week.
* Guerilla Editions: AKA the 2D Area
Area Chief: Karl Lang
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