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ACCAD served as an institutional sponsor for the 2026 New Media Caucus (NMC) Symposium, Restoration / Regeneration, held at Arizona State University's MIX Center. As an international,…
History is rarely a single, clean narrative; it is a dense, shifting accumulation of artifacts and memories. In Layers In History, Yeoleum Choi, a second-year MFA student in the…
It’s not every day that you get to trace the history of generative art, rave to live-coded algorithms, and celebrate the legacy of ACCAD’s founder all in one afternoon. But that’s exactly what 25…
This summer (2025) Jean-Yves Munch and Michelle Wibbelsman embarked on a research collaboration supported through an Arts and Humanities…
ACCAD is pleased to welcome Jason and Debora Bernagozzi for a 2 day visit, September 22 and 23, 2025. Jason and Debora co-created Signal Culture, an…
ACCAD is pleased to announce a new full time Faculty position. This will be a shared appointment between the Ohio State University Department of Art and The Advanced Computing Center for…
March 12th through March 15th, ACCAD Director Chris Coleman co-organized a series of events and conversations at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University in NYC. The…
XR Performance and Previsualization: ACCAD Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw Partners with Doris Duke Foundation to Convene National Leaders in Performance and Technology
COLUMBUS, Ohio—…
ACCAD had the honor of hosting Afrotectopia for an immersive journey into the Black Metal Starship Program from February 6–7. This experience, blending speculative design, Black culture, art,…
Miller Puckette, Kerry Hagan, and Irwin presented concerts and lectures at ACCAD for 3 days, February 23-25.
Miller Puckette, recipient of the 2023 Silver Lion at La Biennale di Venezia, is…
ACCAD welcomed instructors Matt Ragan and Zoe Sandoval of SudoMagic. Matt and Zoe offered a 3-day hands-on workshop to teach TouchDesigner software. Attendees were introduced to the software and…
Join us for the premiere of "The Sacred Society", an animated short film by Benny Zelkowicz! Benny is an ACCAD Lecturer and a core instructor for the animation track of the Moving Image Production…
Charles Csuri was a pioneering artist, researcher, and professor at The Ohio State University, revolutionizing computer animation through research, funding, and innovation. He played a key…
ACCAD was pleased to welcome Ohio State’s new Executive Vice President and Provost, Ravi V. Bellamkonda to our labs in Sullivant Hall. Accompanied by the College of Arts and Sciences Dean Horn,…
ACCAD is delighted to announce publication of the 2nd edition of Digital Media Projection Design & Technology for Theatre by Associate Professor Alex Oliszewski…
ACCAD’s new 25-speaker immersive audio system was officially commissioned on January 13, 2025. This marks a significant leap forward in spatial audio capabilities at the center. Powered by Spat…
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) mourns the passing of Dr. Thomas E. Linehan, a cherished alumnus of The Ohio State University and an integral figure in ACCAD's early…
Current Position / Employer: Senior UX Designer, Research Information Technology Department, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Degree with Department…
Jean-Yves Munch, sound designer and Sr. Lecturer at ACCAD collaborated on an immersive soundscape for the current Wexner Center photo exhibition entitled “Ming Smith: …
ACCAD, along with its partnering departments at Ohio State, expresses deep gratitude for the inspiring visit from artist and animator, Director Ahn Jae-Huun. During a weeklong event at the…
The Department of Design at The Ohio State University is hosting an exciting exhibition, with_, running from October 1 to November 17, 2024, at the Urban Arts Space,…
It is our pleasure to announce ACCAD's new Director is Chris Coleman. A warm ACCAD welcome, Chris!
This article was originally written by James…
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce that Dr. Matthew Lewis has been promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Lewis, who…
Current Position / Employer: Lead Animation Programmer at Epic Games
Degree with Department Affiliation and Graduation Date: MSc Computer Science 2004
ACCAD is delighted, along with The Wexner Center for the Arts, OSU departments of Design, Art, TFMA, and DEALL, to welcome and present the beautiful works of renowned animator Jae…
Kio (Qihao) Zhu has been working as a post-MFA scholar since the summer of 2022. Co-sponsored by the Ohio State University Department of Design and ACCAD, Kio developed…
This spring, Ati Cachimuel, Ecuadorian-born Kichwa-Otavalo musician and composer, visited The Ohio State University (April 8-May 24, 2024) for an artist residency with the Advanced Computing…
Current Position / Employer: Senior Pipeline Technical Director at LAIKA
Degree with Department Affiliation and Graduation Date: MS in Computer and…
In eager anticipation of ACCAD's annual spring Open House this Friday, April 5th from 3:00-6:00 PM, we invite you to watch a recap of last year's Open House, produced by ASC Tech…
ACCAD will host our annual spring Open House on Friday, April 5th from 3:00-6:00 PM! The event is free and open to the public. Join us and explore interdisciplinary research…
Starting on February 28th, the Ohio State Theatre will proudly present "Silent Sky," a live, theatrical performance by award-winning playwright Lauren Gunderson, directed by Tom…
Mark your calendars for an exciting, free event coming Sunday, March 3rd, at 3:00 pm! As part of OSU's Science Sunday lecture series, ACCAD/Design/TDAI Faculty member,
On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, The Institute for Chinese Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University, in collaboration with the Advanced…
On August 31 and September 1, 2023, Harmony Bench, Crystal Michelle Perkins, and Vita Berezina-Blackburn hosted visiting scholars and artists working in the field of dance to consider…
Design MFA (2017) alumnus Lakshika Udakandage is the recipient of a Dreamworks Animation Ingenuity award. Nominated by his Technical Direction department, Lakshika received this…
Brenda Chapman, the first woman to direct an animated feature for a Hollywood studio, was invited by Dave Filipi, to screen the film, “The Prince of Egypt”. The…
College of Arts & Sciences
The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences seeks a Center Director who will provide innovative leadership for its Advanced Computing Center…
The Ohio State Alumni Magazine has featured ACCAD in an article titled "ACCAD: Where art and tech meet to help people." This piece highlights a new project, led by John…
Current Position / Employer: Producer - The Ohio Channel, Digital Media Specialist - OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection®
Degree with Department Affiliation and…
Jeremy Patterson (OSU/ACCAD) and Dean Hensley (OSU/AAA Digital Learning) were interviewed by local news station NBC4 on Friday, August 25th. The news piece that…
(posted 8/29/23)
The Performing Arts Production Manager works with both novices and experts to create a welcoming environment for performance and technology research,…
Charles Csuri: Art & Research in Three Acts is a collaborative project featuring a number of free community programs. For the full list of exhibition and event dates, visit the…
The Ohio State University's Master’s in Translational Data Analytics (MTDA) program, only two years after being established, was recently announced among the Top-10 online…
Current working Title / Employer: Assistant Professor of Animation and Game Design / Eastern Michigan University
Degree with Department Affiliation and Graduation…
JOIN US! for 4 live performances of a newly devised digital media work by Alex Oliszweski, Associate Professor of Theatre, Film and Media Arts and ACCAD. Alex and…
The Arts and Sciences Communications team recently wrote a robust feature article about a long-term, interdisciplinary research and teaching project between the College of Medicine and ACCAD. This…
ACCAD is pleased to share this news feature from the Ohio State University "Teaching and Learning" page. This article explored unique and leading edge education and training spaces on campus. The…
An Animated Past, Present and Future
Artists Talk
Thursday, March 30, 2023
1:00-2:45 pm
220 Sullivant Hall
Michael Holzl is an animator…
Friday, the 24th - 10:00-11:30AM
Presentation + Discussion/Q&A
Joe Ellis, from Plaid Hat Games (Plaid Hat Games), will be presenting on
Join us! Free and open to the public
Thursday, April 6, 2023;
1:00-2:00 pm
220 Sullivant Hall (Schulz Classroom)
Stone Librande,…
ACCAD will host our annual spring Open House on Friday, April 7th from 3:00-6:00p. Free and open to the public. Join us and explore interdisciplinary research projects, thesis…
Current Position / Employer: Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Degree with Department Affiliation and Graduation Date: MFA…
Our community is proud and pleased to welcome Wobbe Koning to ACCAD! Wobbe is an “alum” (Department of Art) and faculty member at Monmouth University. He is spending the month of…
After serving a second term as Interim Director, Maria Palazzi is ending her interim work and embarking on a well-deserved sabbatical spring 2023 semester. Again, the ACCAD…
ZHU Kio, post MFA scholar with the OSU Design Department / ACCAD announced his participation in With Roots Deep, Foliage Thrives. This new exhibition opened at Foster…
Current Position / Employer: Sr Manager, Substance 3D Tech Transfer, Adobe
Degree with Department Affiliation and Graduation Date: Phd, Computer Science…
Join us! for a new Play Test Day in the labs at ACCAD. Students, Faculty and Staff will showcase PC games and AR/VR interactive experiences. See game development in…
Current Position / Employer: Staff Interaction Designer for Google Cloud Security
Degree with Department Affiliation and Graduation Date: MFA in Design,…
Join us for this inaugural event of XR-101 on September 22 from 6:30-8:00 pm EST supported by VRARA, ROTO, and The Ohio State University Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and…
On Friday, September 2nd, OSU Alum Steve May was in town to give an invited lecture for the Dave and Margie Williams Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by the Department of Computer…
Team members Mario Peruggia (Statistics, Psychology) and Shadrick Addy (Design, ACCAD) from Ohio State, with Deborah Kunkel from Clemson …
ACCAD is pleased to welcome creative sound researcher and senior lecturer, Jean-Yves Münch to our interdisciplinary community.
Jean-Yves brings a wide-breadth of…
The Department of Design and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) are pleased to welcome our new two-year post MFA Scholar, Qihao (Kio) Zhu.
朱祺皓 …
Current Position / Employer: Production Designer, Netflix Animation Studios
Degree with Department Affiliation and Graduation Date: MFA in Design,…
The Ohio State University Alumni Magazine included a commemorative article about Charles A. Csuri in their summer 2022 edition. Professor Charles Csuri would have been 100 years…
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design is actively searching for a new Director for the Center. All interested, qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
Application…
How did the COVID pandemic affect eating habits in the United States? Two OSU faculty members decided to investigate that question and teamed with ACCAD and OSU Libraries to re-design a website to…
OhioDance Film: Ohio: A State of Dance will screen in-person on April 29, 4:30-5:30pm in Sullivant Hall Room 225. With performance capture and animations…
ACCAD is hosting a spring Open House this Friday, April 22nd from 3:00-6:00 pm. This year we welcome our campus community in light of COVID concerns and protocols. The event is free. We hope you…
Collaboratively created, this visual and sonic poem is assembled from messages shared across the globe by fellow artists living through the lockdowns and protests of 2020.
ACCAD…
Current Position / Employer: Design Generalist Contractor
Degree with Department Affiliation and Graduation Date: MFA in Design, 2017
Thesis…
Barnett Center Creative Pathfinder Series Guest
Thursday, April 7th, 4-5 pm Interviewer - Vita Berezina-Blackburn
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Please join us for the…
ACCAD and the OSU Department of Design are pleased to welcome Shadrick Addy as a full-time faculty member. Shadrick will hold an Assistant Professor appointment with Design and…
On March 16th, Vita Berezina-Blackburn and Jeremy Patterson along with Dr. Doug Danforth (College of Medicine) helped OSU medical students across multiple majors and programs learn to triage…
Part-time Lecturer in Web Media Design needed for Autumn semester 2022
Position open as of March 2022
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at…
The Sonic Arts Ensemble celebrates the launch of their first CD / recording Live From the Multiverse with a Global Discussion of Networked Performance…
Current Position / Employer: Software Engineer, Electronic Arts
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Simone Downie (R) and Kayla Lehman (L) pictured here are both Graduate Students in the OSU Department of Design. They will present their thesis work at the 36th Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research…
Performance + Technology Seminar is an online graduate research studio course that will be offered during an intensive 4 week session (May 10–June 3).
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Three OSU Dance BFA student theses productions will be performed in ACCAD’s Motion Capture studio February 24-26. Madeline Denman, Simone Burnett and Kara…
ACCAD is pleased to announce a new Alumni Interview feature for our website and on Facebook, introducing you to our illustrious alumni. ACCAD alumni work all around the world doing amazing…
Interim Executive Dean David Horn, Dean of Arts and Humanities Dana Renga and Interim Chair Susan Van Pelt Petry surprised Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw at the Spring 2022 Department Gathering held…
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at The Ohio State University, in partnership with the Department of Design, seeks a recent graduate of an MFA program in design or a…
During the week of December 13th, we captured a sampling of 3 different Autumn 2021 course finals held at ACCAD. Each of these courses (2 ACCAD, 1 Design and 1 Music course) challenged students to…
Over the next several days, concurrent with the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference #COP26, Norah Zuniga Shaw will be offering sonic and visual resources inviting reflection, interaction…
On Sunday, November 7th from 1:30–2:30 PM EST, The Sonic Arts Ensemble, featuring Ann Stimson, Marc Ainger, and Oded Huberman from ACCAD; Atelier Avant (Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler) from…
On November 2nd from 4-7pm ACCAD instructor Vita Berezina-Blackburn will offer the first in a series of workshops entitled, Digital Movement: Working With…
Design MFA candidate Simone Downey has had her digital tabletop game, Murder on Mansion Hill, accepted in the game competition at IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing. Simone…
Sara Caudill, Design MFA candidate, was recently featured on the NASA Armstrong news site in a article about her internship and exciting work on designing an interactive virtual reality experience…
In a collaboration with Wexner Medical Center, ACCAD researchers and students are developing VR training to help prepare first responders for mass casualty incidents. Now in its fourth year of…
We are so pleased to announce that Maya Jenkins graduated this spring 2021 with her MFA in Design with an emphasis in Digital Animation and Interactive Media. Maya also worked throughout her MFA…
The Sonic Arts Ensemble (directed by Marc Ainger, Ann Stimson, and Federico Camara Halac) will be featured as part of Earth Day Art Model 2021. The festival runs for 24 hours, but…
The Director of ACCAD, Maria Palazzi, was recently interviewed by Ohio State Insights about a virtual reality project that uses VR to build empathy for people living with dementia…
On Tuesday, April 13th from 5-6pm (EST), Adrian Ledda, Senior Game Designer with Activision will lead a discussion over Zoom on…
The Sonic Arts Ensemble welcomes the Spring season in a live-streamed networked concert with performers in the United States, Austria, and Argentina. The event takes place on Sunday, April 11th at…
TEDx Ohio State University will feature a presentation by Assistant Professor Scott Swearingen during the spring 2021 event, Horizons. All presentations are…
On February 5 the second event in the Creative Pathfinders webinar series took place with alumna Dina Abdul Karim, PhD City and Regional Planning '12;…
The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise has partnered with the Department of Art, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), the School of Music, the Department…
During the Autumn 2020 semester, Dr. Jian Chen (Computer Science and Engineering) and Visiting Prof. Shadrick Addy (Design/ACCAD) brought their…
Join us in the multiverse for an evening of sonic emersion and visual poetics on Tuesday, November 10th from 7:00–8:00 PM.
Directed by Marc Ainger (Music/ACCAD) and Fede Cámara Halac (GAHDT…
Efforts across the University are converging to provoke action on climate crisis and invent collaborative ways forward in uncertain times. ASCENT 2020 magazine, highlights Prof. Norah Zuniga-Shaw…
Design and ACCAD alumnus Abigail Ayers is speaking at this year’s AIGA Design Conference taking place virtually from November 9–14.
Abigail’s talk is entitled The Collaborative Nature…
Join Professors Kyoung Lee Swearingen and Scott Swearingen along with other panelists for the Making of 'The Woods' webinar on Monday, October 19th from 4-5pm via Zoom.
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On November 8th the Ohio State University Sonic Arts Ensemble will present a concert demonstration at the NowNet Arts Conference 2020 co-directed by Professor Marc Ainger and Fede Cámara Halac …
The Department of Design offers two complementary MFA program tracks: Design Research and Development (DRD) and Digital Animation and Interactive Media (DAIM). There are three Webinar events for…
Are you interested in animation or want to develop your skills as an animator?
Do you have a passion for storytelling and bringing your characters to life through digital art?
Would…
Since the coronavirus swept across the country and Zoom meetings have become part of daily life, people have gotten used to lags in the connection that interrupt the flow of a meeting.
What…
ACCAD in Sullivant Hall will officially reopen Monday, Aug. 24. With the ongoing safety and security protocols, precaution is being taken to provide a safer environment. With the transition to…
Maria Palazzi, Professor of Design and former Director of ACCAD has graciously agreed to return as an interim Director of ACCAD through next May 2021. She will be replacing Janet Parrott …
It is going to be a busy week for Fede Cámara Halac who is flying from Columbus to Madrid on the afternoon of this coming Monday March 2nd
On March 4th he will perform in a concert at…
ACCAD is pleased to welcome Jessica Cavender as a Production Manager this semester.
Jess is a specialist in the merger of dance and technology focused on visual and interactive media. Her…
Do you want to help us make great games even better?
Faculty and Students from ACCAD will present their games, AR and VR prototypes that are currently in development, and we need your…
Join us March 1st 3-5 pm
Ohio Union U.S. Bank Conference Theatre
ACCAD is hosting Kate Zwaard, director of digital strategy at the Library of Congress, as part of the Science Sunday…
ACCAD is pleased to welcome Jeremy Patterson as a System Developer. Jeremy is not new to ACCAD; he has been teaching as a lecturer for 15 years now and will continue to teach Interactive Arts…
Pr Kyoung Lee Swearingen is one of the TEDx speaker this year at OSU.
Kyoung Lee Swearingen is a visual storyteller with years of experience as a Lighting Technical Director at Pixar…
An immersive theatrical experience that uses virtual reality, a dream-like digital environment, and live performers.
The University of Iowa's VR Club is coming to OSU for a week-long…
A must read.... the once-per-year Arts and Sciences College publication ASCENT includes a robust article about current ACCAD research in Virtual Reality.
Highlighted are graduate student…
A very unique presentation at the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater.
One of the first animated films to employ real-time rendering with the Unity game engine, Sonder
Video game company ActiVision's Central Tech group will visit ACCAD and give a presentation from 9:00a to 11:00a in the Collaboratory space (Rm 141), in Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street. This…
Livable Futures is hosting a Public Dialogue with Detroit-based art and media collective Complex Movements as part of their weeklong Creative Residency. October…
Join us as we get ready to welcome Complex Movements for a Creative Residency.
In advance of their arrival, we will screen a short film about Complex Movements’ recent…
The composer-performer duo Atelier Avant Austria (Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler) will present a portrait concert at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD).
The…
ACCAD and the Department of Design are pleased to welcome visiting faculty member, Shadrick Addy. Shadrick will be teaching both Design and ACCAD courses over the 2019- 2020 academic year.
This past spring (April 2019), The OSU Department of Theatre presented, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time about a teenager with autism spectrum disorder. Alex Oliszewski …
ACCAD has been pleased to welcome Professor McArthur Freeman II (pictured left) and M.F.A candidate, Jezabeth Gonzalez from The University of South Florida. They are visiting ACCAD for a week this…
Dr. Ching-Chun Lai, is a professional orchestral conductor and an associate professor at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam. She is a visiting…
MFA Design candidate Kevin Bruggeman (pictured below) and B.S. Computer Science & Engineering candidate, Skylar Wurster (pictured left) have been working together…
You Are Invited! to attend ACCAD's spring 2019 Open House on Friday, April 5th from 3:00-6:00p. All are welcome. This event is free and open to…
With funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ACCAD and the OSU Wexner Medical Center are evaluating virtual reality (VR) as a training and assessment tool for first responders…
Kim Mills is currently a Director on Shimmer and Shine at Nickelodeon. Invited by the OSU Animation Club, Kim will give a presentation about her experience and work as a storyboard artist in the…
On March 1st and 2nd, James McDonald, DMA composition student from the OSU School of Music will be performing his dissertation composition. The performances will be held in the ACCAD Motion Lab …
ACCAD, partnering with the OSU College of Social Work and Wexner Medical Center, received a grant entitled, Building Empathy in Patient Care with VR Simulation for Practitioners.
…
Sonder is a 3D animated short film, created by 144 artists, designers, and engineers all around the world including Kyoung Lee Swearingen, Assistant…
ACCAD and the Mathematical Biosciences Institute are hosting guest lecturer, Dr. Naomi Lenoard on Sunday, Dec. 2nd, 3:00pm as part of the Science Sundays lecture series. Dr. Leonard is the Edwin S…
Professor Marc Ainger explained, "The Fourier Festival began on October 5, 2018, in Vienna, Austria and lasted for several days. According to the festival director, Thomas Gorbach: …
On November 5th, Vita Berezina-Blackburn presented the work on Virtual Reality Performance Platform for Learning about Dementia simulation developed in collaboration with Design MFA…
This October, ACCAD was pleased to host OSU alum Brent Watkins and his colleagues from ActiVision, a video game development company. Brent received his degree from the OSU Computer Science and…
PUBLIC LECTURE & COFFEE Performing Encryption and Conspiracy Archives two artistic encounters with digitization and movement…
After seventeen years of leading the vision and mission of ACCAD as its director, Professor Maria Palazzi has decided to return to full-time teaching in the Department of Design…
Design Professors Kyoung Lee Swearingen and Scott Swearingen have had a busy year presenting the multiplayer game they co-created. This month, Scott presented the game in Galway, Ireland at the…
Ohio State Professors Maria Palazzi and Norah Zuniga Shaw’s co-creation with choreographer William Forsythe, Synchronous Objects is featured currently at the Pompidou Center…
Dear ACCADians.... and OSU attendees of SIGGRAPH 2018 in Vancouver, Canada, ACCAD is hosting an alumni reception. Please feel free to join us!
Location: Fairmont Waterfront Hotel…
This event features the traveling exhibit Columbus Crossing Borders, in which 34 artists have created paintings centered on the stories of refugees. The artists "cross borders" into each…
One of Professor Charles Csuri's early works, Flies, (1967) will be on display at the Pompidou Museum in Paris. The Pompidou wrote, "We will show the work
ACCAD is pleased to welcome Dreamworks Animator, JP Sans to Ohio State. JP will be giving a workshop at ACCAD on Saturday, March 24th from 1:00-5:00 PM. His visit is being…
On Sunday, March 4th, invited guest artist, Pamela Z. "kicked off" a week long investigation into the topic of "Well Being" as it relates to Humane Technologies. Hosted at ACCAD,…
An interdisciplinary concert experience will be open to the public this Sunday, February 25th. Two newly devised performances will be offered of the Carl Orff masterpiece, Carmina…
An animator and filmmaker of uncommon empathy and creativity, Chris Landreth visited Ohio State Jan. 17 and 18, 2018 as The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) artist-in…
OSU Alumnus, Matthew Derksen (MFA Art, 2004) was awarded an Oscar in Technical Achievement by the Academy Awards. Matt and 2 colleagues from Rhythm and Hues received the award for…
New research is under way at ACCAD, focused on bettering the future through humane technologies. With a special grant from the Humanities and Arts Discovery themes initiative, ACCAD is bringing…
Professor John Young of the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom performed and gave an artist talk on September 20, 2017. His work…
Starting this August 2017, long time ACCAD staff member, Matt Lewis (PhD Computer Science & Engineering) is transitioning into a new role with a joint appointment between the Department of Design…
Ohio State was named one of the "Top 25 graduate schools to study game design in 2017", by the Princeton Review. The article specifically named The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts…
The exhibition for the Of Land and Dreams interactive project opened April 21st at Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota. The exhibition highlights a 2 year collaboration between media…
Cara Malek presented the April 2017 Science Sunday presentation before a packed auditorium. With 10-years rigging experience at DreamWorks Animation, Cara explained how it’s done…
Award Winning Independent Animator - Tess Martin gave an artist talk on Thursday, April 13th as an invited guest of the ACCAD /OSU Animation Club. The talk was free and open to…
As part of the ongoing Humane Technologies investigation at ACCAD / Ohio State, guest artist Jennifer Monson presented a Lecture the evening of April 11th. Monson is creative…
Interdisciplinary artists based in Tel Aviv, Ohad Fishof and Noa Zuk joined the Humane Technologies team of collaborators at OSU in arts-driven research…
Visiting artist and scholar Rosalie Yu conducted a hands-on workshop on depth photography and photogrammetry, and how capturing the depth axis can further unfold the real world…
January 28 & 29, Demolition One, was installed at the Columbus Museum of Art. Created by Assistant Professor, Isla Hansen, the virtual pinata game allows players to crush a dark and mysterious…
November 2016, Professor Stern gave a public lecture then spent 1-1/2 days at ACCAD leading a workshop for graduate students in Art and Design. Director Stern works on the disputed borderlands…
Academy Award–nominated Kung Fu Panda director Mark Osborne gave a behind-the-scenes look at his enchanting stop-motion, computer-animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint…
Autumn of 2016, ACCAD was pleased to welcome new joint Art/ACCAD Faculty Member, Isla Hansen. Professor Hansen's work reenacts forms of popular media, play, and systems of…
Professor Marc Ainger's musical work, Windswept premiered at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY as part of 2016s New York Philharmonic Biennial. Windswept was…
ACCAD alums, Kyoung Lee Swearingen and Scott Swearingen returned to OSU as new faculty in the Design department autumn semester 2016. Both return to Ohio State…
ACCAD welcomed 15 young women (grades 6-8) to attend the Digital Animation: A Technology Mentoring Program for Young Women. During the two week experience, the award winning Broad &…
Jeremy Patterson, long-time ACCAD instructor and Nationwide Children's Hospital staff member along with graduate students, Alice Grishchenko (Design) and
Spring semester 2016, Alice Grishchenko, a 3rd year MFA candidate in Design spent Thursday after school hours with young women at the Columbus Metro High School. Alice was been…
Alan Price has been busy during his sabbatical year, traveling to and presenting workshops and lectures on his work in Real Time Animation at: Nanyang Technological University, School of Art,…
Mark Coniglio, co-founder of Troika Ranch creates large-scale performance works that integrate music, dance, theatre and interactive media. His writings about new media in performance have…
As Fran explained, "We've just launched Pixar in a Box our collaboration with the Khan Academy. We've made videos and tutorials to help students and life-long learners…
The Department of Theatre at The Ohio State University announced The Katie Whitlock Memorial Fellowship for Graduate Student International Travel. Katie Whitlock (1970-2015) earned her…
The College of the Arts produced a feature story about 2015 graduate, Malory Spicer. Malory graduated with her MFA in Digital Animation and Interactive Media (DAIM) from the OSU…
Professor Wooksang Chang was invited to present his sabbatical research during the Ohio State University’s 10th Annual International Scholar Research Exposition,…
The Peanuts Movie was released worldwide November 2015. That same month, the Director of the film, Steve Martino (an ACCAD/OSU alum) and Charles Schulz's son, Craig Schulz…
October 27th, ACCAD was pleased to host Pixar Animation Artist, Bryn Imagire. Bryn was Shading Art Director for The Good Dinosaur which open November 2015. Bryn gave a…
Director of Product Experience at THRED, Ms. Shute lectured on “The Future of Story Telling: What are we going to do with our super powers?” This new era of computing is not just about…
Columbus hosted the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics this August 5-8. As part of the conference, various biomechanics and movement research labs at OSU are opening their…
Cool Tech Girls is a joint initiative between Cybervation, City of Dublin and Dublin Entrepreneurial Center (DEC). Their vision is to provide a supportive and collaborative environment to school…
ACCAD and OSU Theatre were represented this month at The International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) at the Sorbonne in Paris. Jeanine Thompson (Theatre Faculty), Alex Oliszewski (Theatre…
The Ohio State University has been ranked number one in the top 25 animation schools and colleges in the Midwest by Animation Career Review, an online source for aspiring animation, design and…
The Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs Endowment fund (BETHA) awarded $53,933 to principal investigators, Mary Anne Beecher (Design), Maria Palazzi
Alan Price, Design | ACCAD Faculty
Alice Grishchenko, Shumeng Zhao - Design | ACCAD graduate students
Drums Downtown is a collaboration between the OSU School of Music…
Fran Kalal, BA (2005) and MFA (2008) in Design gave a lecture Sunday, March 8th as part of the Science Sundays lecture series. Ms. Kalal is a Cloth and Simulation Technical…
ACCAD's Virtual Patient Project was cited in the news and several medical journals as part of the "ground-breaking curriculum" being used in the OSU College of Medicine…
Professor Chang will spend his research sabbatical at ACCAD from January 2015 through December 2015. He will also teach during Spring 2015 and Autumn 2015 semesters. Professor Chang studied at…
ACCAD will be joining ASC centers/institutes as a sponsor of Science Sundays, beginning in the Autumn of 2014. The Science Sundays lecture series began in 2011 to showcase the leading-edge work…
Cheng Zhang, earned an MFA in Digital Animation and Interactive Media (Design), currently studies at ACCAD and is completing a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. Cheng was been awarded a…
Maria Palazzi was awarded a $28,000 grant from Women & Philanthropy in support of the summer program: Digital Animation: A Technology Mentoring Program for Young Women. Women &…
Melissa Quintanilha combines technical savvy, an artist's passion for design, and a global perspective that comes from growing up in Brazil; to design a car that doesn't just drive, but learns who…
Nikki Lemon’s MFA thesis film Wonder is an official selection for screening in the Le Femme International Film Festival in Beverly Hills, CA and the Philadelphia Film &…
Rebekah Edie, a 4th year undergraduate Dance major at OSU, is concentrating in Choreography & Technology and minoring in Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies. Bekah won 3rd place at the Denman…
ACCAD extends enthusiastic congratulations to ACCAD Alumni who helped create the Oscar winning films, Life of Pi and BRAVE. Life of Pi, about a boy stranded at sea with…
Kellen Maicher won first prize in the Arts Category at the Edward F Hayes 2013 Graduate Research Forum. Kellen's presentation was entitled, Designing Interactive Affective Virtual…
ACCAD was recently recognized for its excellence in preparing students in the discipline of animation. Animation Career Review recognized ACCAD as the #2 animation program in the Midwest and…
Built in 1916 as the original home to the Ohio Historical Society, Sullivant Hall will be refurbished to a LEED Silver-certified home for ACCAD, the Department of Dance, the Billy Ireland Cartoon…
Fran Kalal (MFA, Design, 2008) returned to ACCAD November 7th & 8th to give a presentation about working at PIXAR. Fran met with animation graduate students to review their portfolios and provide…
Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios announced plans to make a feature film based on Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts”. The film release in 2015 will coincide…
ACCAD and OSU were pleased to welcome Steve Martino to campus for a full agenda on October 4 & 5. Along with several distinguished alumni, Steve gave a special presentation during the But For Ohio…
ACCAD | Ohio State Alumni were recently featured in Ohio news for their "home" town connections with 2 summer blockbusters: Brave and Ice Age 4 Continental…
BalletMet Columbus approached ACCAD last year about creating a new performance entitled, DanceTech. Alan Price agreed to collaborate. Alan worked with Choreographer …
ACCAD was pleased to welcome Senior Recruiter Deb Stone and Lighting TD Jasmine Katatikarn. After an overview presentation about Blue Sky, Ms. Katatikarn gave a…
ACCAD recently upgraded our motion capture system to a Vicon MX 40Ts system. This system enables us to increase the quality of captured data to under 1mm accuracy (previously 2mm). The Vicon MX…
City Life was performed February 24 & 25, 2012 at the Capitol Theater, Columbus as part of the Drums Downtown event created by the OSU School of Music, in collaboration with the…
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) hosted visiting artist Claudia Hart for a lecture February 9th. Hart, who is active as an artist, curator and critic,…
Robert Flowers was a guest lecturer at ACCAD during Winter 2012. Dr. Flowers has been making films and videos since 1985. He received his Ph.D. in Humanities – Major in Aesthetic Studies from the…
During autumn quarter 2011, Matt Lewis (ACCAD) teamed up with Professor Jeff Haase (Design) and Professor David Staley (History) to co-teach a…
Professor Charles Csuri has been selected to receive the ACM-SIGGRAPH Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art award for 2011. ACM-SIGGRAPH is recognizing the important…
The Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted several ACCAD motion capture related images in its summary of the May 2011 dance preservation meetings in Washington, D.C.. Created by Vita Berezina…
This project is for the design of an interactive computer application for analysis and understanding of the geometric relationships of Ohio's Newark Octagon Earthworks to observations of the Moon…
On Friday and Saturday (June 3 & 4), Todd Palamar presented a special Master Class workshop for ACCAD Graduate Students. The focus was Special Effects/Cloth. Todd has worked in computer animation…
Design/ACCAD MFA candidates: Steve Conroy, Susana del Rio Kuroiwa, Jane Claire Drozd and Zachary Maynard introduced and presented their thesis animations at the Wexner Center Film/Video Theatre…
Parachutes. Codes. Disguise. Subversion. Deception. Sabotage. All part of the day-to-day existence of a British secret agent in World War II France. This three part interdisciplinary endeavor…
The course covered an overview of tools used for rigging as well as the creation of skeletons for biped characters. Moore is a veteran technical artist, animator, manager, department director and…
ACCAD held a two day Master Class on previsualization for advanced students on April 29-30 with previs / layout supervisor Brian Pohl. Pohl has 16 years of experience as a graphic designer, visual…
Blue Sky Studios recruiter Debra Blanchard and Lighting Technical Director Michael Tanzillo visited ACCAD on Thursday, April 21st. They met with individual students to discuss job opportunities…
ACCAD's new website uses MODx CMS. Check out the Research Project Gallery with lots of our projects for you to explore. Many thanks to the University Marketing Communication's Kevin Miller (design…
Applications have been accepted and registration is now closed for ACCAD's two week (July 5-15, 2011) summer program in digital animation. Young women who have either completed or are entering 7th…
Alan Price introduced responsive computer animation into elements of the Drums Downtown production. See video documentation of Dark Full Ride. Both ACCAD and the Department of…
Alan Price's project, Empire of Sleep is on exhibit at Electronics Alive VI from January 21 through February 24, 2011. Located at the University of Tampa, FL, the biennial invitational exhibition…
Steve May (CSE 1998) and Fran Kalal (Design 2008) visited ACCAD October 26 & 27, 2010 to recruit students. Steve presented a lecture on digital lighting in Up and Fran presented a lecture…
Both Professor Charles Csuri and Professor Alan Price were featured in open-to-the-public exhibitions at the OSU Urban Arts Space in Downtown Columbus through…
Professor Alan Price's interactive virtual environment installation, Empire of Sleep: The Beach was exhibited in the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery with the theme, Touchpoint Haptic Exchange Between Digits…
The Sundagger Explorer software was designed and programmed by Alan Price at ACCAD/OSU, based on research by Anna Sofaer of the Solstice Project and utilizing laser scans of the Sun Dagger site…
Maria Palazzi (ACCAD/Design) participated in a panel discussion: Corporeality and the Digital Gaze March 1, 2010 and hosted a gallery talk about the Synchronous Objects project, March 2, 2010…
Dreamworks visited ACCAD on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Marilyn Friedman, Director of Outreach presented an overview of the company, work environment and opportunities; then met with students…
ACCAD staff, Vita Berezina-Blackburn, Matthew Lewis and Maria Palazzi participated in the multidisciplinary conference entitled, Gesture at Large at OSU. Hopkins Hall Gallery featured art works…
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The awards, Best in Category-Interactive and Judges Choice begin what could be a series of accolades for Synchronous Objects as the project enters a season of…
ACCAD's Motion Capture Studio was highlighted on the Big 10 Network. Graduate students Brent Haley (CSE), Neelima Karanam (CSE) and Zach Maynard (Design) were each interviewed in a very…
The Wexner Center for the Arts featured an evening of experimental animated films created by Janie Geiser. Ms. Geiser also visited ACCAD on Friday, Oct. 23rd, to meet individually with ACCAD…
ACCAD was pleased to welcome back Steve May, OSU/CSE/ACCAD alum and PIXAR Supervising Technical Director. Steve discussed the PIXAR production pipeline and company culture on Wednesday evening…
Invited guest, Rafael Rosado, Director/Storyboard artist met October 19, 2009 with students enrolled in Arts College 730. The course, Concept Development for Sequential Imaging is taught…
The Mountain-Plains Museums Association (MPMA) announced the winners of the 2009 Publications Design Competition and the Technology Competition. Established in 1953, MPMA is a regional museum…
Maria Palazzi (ACCAD) and Norah Zuniga-Shaw (Dance/ACCAD) were invited to present the Synchronous Objects project during the Information Aesthetics Showcase, a new focus area at the…
Professor Alan Price, ACCAD/Design, participated in the May 13th opening installation of his 3D interactive model of the ancient calendar site in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The Sun Dagger Explorer…
Maria Palazzi, Vita Berezina-Blackburn and Graduate Student Iuri Lioi traveled to Kalamazoo, MI to present Animation at the Center of Interdisciplinary Collaborations. They were invited…
The Synchronous Objects project was recently unveiled at the Wexner Center for the Arts. In collaboration with world renowned choreographer William Forsythe, ACCAD and the Department of Dance…
Join us (Feb. 27 & 28) for an evening of percussion, dance, and animation at the Capitol Theater, Riffe Center in downtown Columbus. Digital creations from Beth Albright, Tyler Ayres, Amber Cecil,…
Students and Staff at Ohio State’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) brought the beloved drawings of dogs by humorist James Thurber to life via animation. The animated…
Alan Price (Design | ACCAD) traveled to Linz, Austria this December 2008 to participate in the grand re-opening exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center. His work will be permanently installed in…
ACCAD's Vita Berezina-Blackburn was part of the creative team that produced the Bebe Miller Companys newest work, necessary beauty. Vita's animations were featured in short, intimate, multimedia…
Tyler Ayres, recent MFA graduate (Design) is gathering attention for his animated short RED & blue, the story of a little blue balloon dealing with a bully. Last weekend (10/3/2008) Tyler flew to…
OSU President Gordon Gee, in his annual Speech to the Faculty, held up ACCAD an exemplary Center of multidisciplinary research and collaboration. "Ohio State is the nations most comprehensive…
Student film productions from ACCAD and Theatre's Video Production courses will be screened on Thursday, May 27th at 7 p.m. at the Wexner Film and Video Theatre. Following the screening, student…
Join us!...for a fun, interactive self-guided tour. You will observe state of the art and experimental computer animation, digital media performances and interactive objects. You will meet the…
Tyler Ayres (Design), Amber Cecil (Design) and Lilly Skove (Dance) have had their films selected for inclusion in the Wexner's annual Ohio Short Film an Video Showcase, on Saturday, May 10 at 7:00…
Cimaise magazine, a highly respected French quarterly journal, long associated exclusively with painting and sculpture, will feature the work of ACCAD founder Professor Emeritus Charles…
You are invited!!... to a special presentation by ACCAD Alumnus, Steve Martino, co-director of 20th Century Fox's "Horton Hears a Who!". Martino will show behind the scenes footage…
Design/ACCAD graduate student Matthew Bain will debut his realtime animation system at the OSU School of Music's Drums Downtown V in Columbus, at the Riffe center on Friday, February 29…
This second episode features the world of motion graphics where OSU's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design (ACCAD) graduate student Brent Haley takes viewers through the basics of…
As part of the project, a "DNA Workbench", DNA Unbound was developed as an interactive multi-touch display with which multiple participants can interact with the application, and with each other,…
The performances, Nov 14–17, takes place in the EMMA (Experimental Media and Movement Arts) Lab at ACCAD. Creative new works will be spotlighted from six resident and visiting artists, including…
Dreamworks Animation will be lecturing and recruiting at ACCAD and CSE this week. On Wednesday, October, 31st, 4:00pm at ACCAD, Dreamworks will present an overview of their company and the kind of…
Lillian Schwartz will be on campus this week to attend a reception in her honor celebrating the exhibition of some of her work at OSU. Schwartz is best known for her pioneering work in the use of…
OSU Cartoon Research Library is holding their 2007 Festival of Cartoon Art
"Graphic Storytelling" October 26-27, 2007
There are a number of prominent cartoon artists speaking, so don't…
The Experimental Media and Movement Arts Lab (EMMA) is a new facility now available for creative research projects. We are currently accepting project proposals for the 2007-2008 year from…
Digital Artist Matt Derksen, Art and Technology/ACCAD alumni, is returning to ACCAD on April 24th and 25th. Matt will give a talk about R&H and his work in rigging on Tuesday evening, 4/24, at 5pm…
A collaborative student animation from Winter Quarter's Procedural Animation class is receiving nice press. "Rock, Paper, Swords", the story of an unfair game of rock-paper-scissors which launches…
Applications are now available for ACCAD's summer program, Digital Animation: A Technology Mentoring Program for Young Women, June 18-29, 2007. Digital Animation is a free summer program in which…
Computer animation great Pixar Animation Studios will be at ACCAD to visit with and interview students. Pixar will talk about their work and company on Monday, March 5 at 6pm at ACCAD. CABS bus…
Blue Sky Studios, founded by ACCAD alumni Chris Wedge, has been nominated for an Academy Award in animated shorts category for its short "No Time For Nuts". The animation's producer is John C…
Design/ACCAD graduate student Matthew Bain will have his computer animation featured at the OSU School of Music's "Drums Downtown IV" in downtown Columbus, at the Riffe…
ACCAD Artist in Residence Charles Csuri will present his current work at the Megaconference Jr, a worldwide videoconferencing event, on Thursday, February 22 at 2:55pm EST. Megaconference Jr…
ACCAD/Design faculty member Alan Price has been invited to by the University of Tampa to show his work "Tartarus" at the Electronics Alive IV conference.
An evening of dance and media artworks will be held February 10 between 6-10pm in Dragonfly's NEO Gallery (247 King Ave, Columbus). Throughout the evening you can witness a variety of moving…
The Mystery Dinosaur, a collaborative project between ACCAD and Brave New Pictures airs on the Science Channel this month. The one-hour program "is the story of a mystery dinosaur called…