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BCNM at SIGGRAPH 2019

18 Jun, 2019

BCNM at SIGGRAPH 2019

ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 is taking place in Los Angeles from July 28-August 1 and the agenda for the Diversity and Inclusion Summit, a day long workshop designed to educate and inform SIGGRAPH 2019 attendees about inclusion, diversity, equity, access, and leadership, is now out!

BCNM's own Jacob Gaboury and alum Bo Ruberg will present in a panel, titled "Rendering Gender: Identity, Representation, and Sexuality in 3D Design, Interactive Media, and Animation."

From the website:

The topic of this panel discussion is Rendering Gender: Identity, Representation, and Sexuality in 3D Design, Interactive Media, and Animation. This conversation between speakers and audience members connects rendering, resolution, lighting, and the history of computing hardware with the depiction, development, and representation of the gender spectrum in both animation and interactive media. Bringing together voices from the computer graphics industry and cultural theory, this talk is concerned with how the gender spectrum is represented graphically in video games, how characters in animation challenge or confirm gender stereotypes, and how LGBTQ communities adapt or reconfigure characters and images from animation to speak to their cultural experiences.

Find out more information here!