Monday, May 23, 2011

DGC Graduation Exhibition 2011



21 students, 21 works
DGC Graduation Exhibition (GradX) is an annual event organized by the final year students. The GradX will show their Honours Projects and other portfolio, which reveals the achievements of the three-year DGC courses and the effort that they have put into various design areas. Providing the students a platform to display their fruitful outcomes, and to interact with the general public as well as the professionals in the design field.

Exhibition
Date: 18-26/06/2011
Time: 3-9pm (18/06/2011), 10am – 9pm (19-26/06/2011)

Opening Ceremony:
Date: 18/06/2011 (Saturday)
Time: 2-3pm
Location: G/F – 1/F, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Communication and Visual Arts Building, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong

Monday, May 16, 2011

IdN Video v18n2: Projection Mapping — Shedding new light on the art of the impossible

You really can't believe your eyes these days — not when you're exposed to Projection Mapping. Shining stars in this issue's DVD are 17 leading international studios and designers who specialise in making magic by playing with our optical perceptions, creating imaginative illusions in real time in the real world.



http://idnworld.com/video/?id=v18n2

IdN v18n2: Street Art Issue — From vandalism to avant-garde

The day when graffiti was reviled as "vandalism" have long been left behind - top street artists are now a big draw for both galleries and collectors. But the original impetus to decorate public space with personal with artistic statements ranging from the revolutionary to the intensely intimate still makes a liberating appeal to these creative types.




http://idnworld.com/mags/?id=v18n2

SIGGRAPH 2011, Vancouver



Now in its 38th year, the SIGGRAPH conference is the premier international event on computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2011 is expected to draw an estimated 25,000 professionals from five continents to Vancouver, British Columbia.

The SIGGRAPH conference attracts the most respected technical and creative people from all over planet Earth. The SIGGRAPH community includes people everywhere who are excited by research, science, art, animation, gaming, interactivity, education, and the web. SIGGRAPH 2011 is sponsored by The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 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.

Location: Convention & Exhibition Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Conference: 7 - 11 August (Sunday through Thursday)
Exhibition: 9 - 11 August (Tuesday through Thursday)
Website: http://www.siggraph.org/s2011/