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Winning prints by Melissa Griffith
Once again, Bowling Green is making its mark in the international SIGGRAPH exhibition, taking place in Los Angeles this week
(Aug. 11-15).
Hosted by the Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Technologies, the annual conference will draw an estimated
30,000 computer graphics and interactive technology professionals from six continents for the industry's most respected technical
and creative programs focusing on research, science, art, animation, gaming, interactivity, education and the Web.
BGSU senior Melissa Griffith, a digital arts major from Cleveland, has won third place for her series of prints in the student
competition called SpaceTime. Only 40 works were selected for the exhibit out of more than 200 entries worldwide. Another
student, Wayne Silasi of Uniontown, also had work accepted into the exhibit, which was curated by Dr. Dena Eber, chair of
digital arts. The works were juried in a “blind selection” process, of which Eber was not a part.
Eber and digital arts colleagues Anthony Fontana and Bonnie Mitchell will be presenting a talk Thursday (Aug. 14) on "Artistic
Expression Using Second Life in the Classroom." Selected from over 1,000 entries, the presentation focuses on educational
opportunities in the arts in Second Life and summarizes aspects of their work. Second Life is a three-dimensional, virtual
environment open to multiple users.
BGSU art faculty and students have been leaders at SIGGRAPH for a number of years, from serving on committees to exhibiting
their work to curating various divisions. Last year, a trio of Bowling Green students won the top prize in the world's first
international FJORG! “Viking Animator” Competition, held in conjunction with SIGGRAPH. In 2005, Mitchell’s students were invited
to produce the promotional video for the conference’s Emerging Technologies exhibit. Mitchell, a past member of the executive
board, chaired the 2006 Art Gallery—which Eber chaired in 2001—and Heather Elliott-Famularo, also digital arts, was chair
of the ETech venue in 2004.
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