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Awards, Screenings, Presentations and Publications


Faculty, staff, and students from ACCAD are very active in film festivals, exhibitions, conferences, publishing and professional organizations. The following list indicates recognition for this work. Recorded achievements begin circa 1989-present, reflecting early honors for many talented colleagues and ACCAD alumni.


Columbus Society of Communicating Arts - Creative Best 2009
  • Best in Category-Interactive
  • Judges Choice Award
  • Synchronous Objects
    William Forsythe, Maria Palazzi, Norah Zuniga-Shaw
       
    Communication Arts 2010 Interactive Annual
    Winner
    Synchronous Objects
    William Forsythe, Maria Palazzi, Norah Zuniga-Shaw
       
    AdobeMAX 2009 Awards
    Finalist
    Synchronous Objects
    William Forsythe, Maria Palazzi, Norah Zuniga-Shaw
       
    11th Annual Sidewalk Moving Pictures Festival, Alabama
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    2009 Chicago International Children's Film Festival (CICFF)
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    2009 Southern Appalachian International Film Festival
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    2009 Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival, Chicago, IL
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    2009 Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival, Chicago, IL
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    2009 AniMazing Festival, Hollywood CA
    Winner - Excellence in Animation Q2
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    2009 Ohio Independent Film Festival
    Official Selection
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    Kalamazoo Animation Festival International 2009, Kalamazoo, MI
    Finalist
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    2009 Reel Festival for Women, Los Angeles, CA
    Official Selection
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    Hubbub 2008: Las Vegas Global Animation Festival, Las Vegas, NV
    Official Selection
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    Hubbub 2008: Las Vegas Global Animation Festival, Las Vegas, NV
    Official Selection
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       

    3rd Annual San Francisco International Children's Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
    Official Selection

    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    3rd Annual San Francisco International Children's Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
    Official Selection
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    6th Annual San Diego International Children's Film Festival, San Diego, CA
    Official Selection
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    6th Annual San Diego International Children's Film Festival, San Diego, CA
    Official Selection
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    4th Annual Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
    Official Selection
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    4th Annual Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
    Official Selection
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    2008 Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Austin, TX
    Performance with The Ohio State University Percussion Ensemble
    "Arctic Fracture"
    Matthew Bain
       

    Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, 2008, Burbank, CA
    Finalist

    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    2008 Mid-Ohio Comic Con Film Festival, Columbus, Ohio
    Best Animation and Best Short
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    2008 Mid-Ohio Comic Con Film Festival, Columbus, Ohio
    Official Selection
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    The 2008 Flint Film Festival, Flint, MI
    Official Selection
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    The 2008 Flint Film Festival, Flint, MI
    Official Selection
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       

    The 56th Columbus International Film & Video Fest, Columbus, OH
    Honorable Mention

    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    The 56th Columbus International Film & Video Fest, Columbus, OH
    Honorable Mention
    "Goldilocks, Redirected"
    Beth Albright
       
    4th Annual Blue Plum Animation Festival, Johnson City, TN
    Best Student Animation and Best of the Festival Award
    "RED & blue"
    Tyler Ayres
       
    SIGGRAPH 2008 Posters, Los Angeles, CA
    "Arctic Fracture"
    Matthew Bain
       
    Jim Henson Award for Innovation, 2007, St. Paul, MN
    Puppeteers of America National Festival

    Brian Windsor

       
    Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture, June 2007
    Matthew Bain, Jason Banks
    and Matthew McCarren
    ACCAD and Theater Dept.
       
    Microsoft Research Female Academic All-Star, 2006
    Lane Kuhlman
       
    New York Performance and Dance Award (Bessie), Choreographer/ Creator Category, September 2006 "Landing Place"
    Bebe Miller Company
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn

       
    2006 AAM MUSE Award
    Excellence in Exhibition Award
    with the Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL
    "Jane: Diary of a Dinosaur"
    ACCAD Students and Staff
       
    2006 AAM MUSE Award
    Science Category, Interactive Exhibit, Honorable Mention
    with the Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL
    "Meet the Researcher:
    Dr. Greg Erickson"
    ACCAD Students & Staff

       
    CyberArts 2006: Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
    Interactive Art, Honorable Mention
    "Tartarus"
    Alan Price
       
    "Body +", MIT Museum, April / May 2005 "Visible Movement"
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    Warsaw Electronic Festival, Zacheta Gallery. October 2005, Warsaw, Poland "When I Am Little Again"
    Kareen Balsam,
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn"
       
    VisionFest 2005 - 3D Animation category, Indianapolis, IN
    Finalist
    "Lady Shaves"
    Mike Altman

       
    VisionFest 2005 - 3D Animation category, Indianapolis, IN
    Finalist
    "Limited"
    Jun Oh
       
    VisionFest 2005- 3D Animation category, Indianapolis, IN
    Finalist
    "Zeev's Journey"
    Todd Delman
       
    Harry M. Warner Festival of Short Films and Video, Slippery Rock University
    Finalist
    "Lady Shaves"
    Mike Altman
       
    7th Annual BAMKids Film Festival. March 12-13, 2005, Brooklyn, NY "Zeev's Journey"
    Todd Delman
       
    Animex Student Animation Awards 2005
    Official Selection
    "Lady Shaves"
    Mike Altman
       
    2004 CINEME International Animation Festival
    Official Selection
    "Lady Shaves"
    Mike Altman
       
    2004 CINEME International Animation Festival
    Official Selection
    "Limited"
    Jun Oh
       
    2004 CINEME International Animation Festival
    Official Selection
    "Zeev's Journey"
    Todd Delman
       
    2004 CINEME International Animation Festival
    Official Selection
    "Memory of Hope"
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    52nd Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Columbus, OH
    Bronze Plaque
    "Memory of Hope"
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    52nd Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Columbus, OH
    Honorable Mention
    "Lady Shaves"
    Mike Altman
       
    52nd Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Columbus, OH
    Certificate of Participation
    "Zeev's Journey"
    Todd Delman
       
    52nd Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Columbus, OH
    Certificate of Participation
    "Enclosure #2"
    Eunkyoung Lee
       
    52nd Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Columbus, OH
    Certificate of Participation
    "Limited"
    Jun Oh
       
    2004 Cinedance Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands "When I Am Little Again"
    Kareen Balsam and
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    SIGGRAPH 2004 Student Animation Competition
    Honorable Mention
    "Lady Shaves"
    Mike Altman
       
    SIGGRAPH 2004 Student Animation Competition "Limited"
    Jun Oh
       
    Youngstown State University Animation Festival, 2004
    3rd Place
    "Lady Shaves"
    Mike Altman
       
    Youngstown State University Animation Festival, 2004
    Honorable Mention
    "Memory of Hope"
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    The 34th Annual USA Film Festival / Dallas, TX. National Short Film & Video Competition,
    Finalist
    "Memory of Hope"
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    The 34th Annual USA Film Festival / Dallas, TX. National Short Film & Video Competition,
    Finalist.
    "Limited"
    Jun Oh
       
    12th International Animation Festival of Brazil, ANIMA MUNDI, 2004. "Limited"
    Jun Oh
       
    12th International Animation Festival of Brazil, ANIMA MUNDI, 2004. "Memory of Hope"
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    2004 Zlinsky Pes - The Student Film Competition, Czech Republic "Limited"
    Jun Oh
       
    2004 Zlinsky Pes - The Student Film Competition, Czech Republic "Enclosure #2"
    Eunkyoung Lee
       
    2004 Zlinsky Pes - The Student Film Competition, Czech Republic "Memory of Hope"
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    2004 Ohio Short Film/Video Showcase "Limited"
    Jun Oh
       
    2004 Ohio Short Film/Video Showcase "Memory of Hope"
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    2003 Wexner Center Student Film & Video Showcase, Columbus, OH "Limited"
    Jun Oh
       
    2003 Wexner Center Student Film & Video Showcase, Columbus, OH "Enclosure #2"
    Eunkyoung Lee
       
    2003 Wexner Center Student Film & Video Showcase, Columbus, OH "Memory of Hope"
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
       
    2003 SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, San Diego, CA "Anima"
    Carrie Wilson
       
    Visual Fantasy 2002: The World of Computer Graphics.
    Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo.
    "Pa"
    Clarke Stallworth
       
    IDEAS 2003 Festival - Gesture Category
    Best of Show
    "Benign Beings"
    animation by
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
    w/Bik Lee, Sherri Schmitz
    Jon Woodring, Jason Witherell
       
    Great Designs for the 21st Century, Metropolis Magazine "Virtual Sketch"
    Jeff Haase, Maria Palazzi,
    and Wayne Huang
    with OSC's Interface Lab
       
    2003 Carolina Film and Video Festival "Gladden"
    Ian Butterfield, Todd Fechter
    Scott Swearingen
       
    29th Annual Student Academy Awards
    Certficiate of Regional Achievement
    "Gladden"
    Ian Butterfield, Todd Fechter
    Scott Swearingen
       
    Kalamazoo Animation Festival, International 2002 "Gladden"
    Ian Butterfield, Todd Fechter
    Scott Swearingen
       
    Kalamazoo Animation Festival, International 2002
    High Honor
    "Benign Beings"
    animation by
    Vita Berezina-Blackburn
    w/Sherri Schmitz,
    Jon Woodring, Jason Witherell
       
    2002 Ohio Short Film & Video Showcase "Gladden"
    Ian Butterfield, Todd Fechter
    Scott Swearingen
       
    2002 SIGGRAPH Art Gallery "Formation I", "Formation II"
    "Formation III", Formation IV"
    Dan Lu"
       
    Central Ohio Technology Hall of Fame
    Technology Leadership Council of Central Ohio, January 2001
    Charles Csuri
       
    Governors Award
    Best Individual Artist in the State of Ohio, March 2000
    Charles Csuri
       
    Joseph Sullivant Award, November 2000 Charles Csuri
       
    Academy Award, 1999
    Best Animated Short Film
    "Bunny"
    Chris Wedge, Blue Sky Studios
       
    Academy Award for Technical Achievement, 1998
    proprietary "TRACK" software development
    "Titanic"
    Doug Roble, Digital Domain
       
    SIGGRAPH, Electronic Theatre, 1999 "Impel"
    Brandon Morse
       
    Dream Centenary CG Grand Prix, 1999
    Silver Award
    "Impel"
    Brandon Morse
       
    Image in Isaac Kerlow's, "The Art of Digital Imaging and Animation", 1999 "Impel"
    Brandon Morse
       
    SIGGRAPH, Animation Festival, 1999 "Only"
    Wooksang Chang
       
    SIGGRAPH, Animation Festival, 1999 "Under Construction"
    Wooksang Chang
       
    New York, Animation Festival, 1999 "Only"
    Wooksang Chang
       
    Seoul Cyber Film Festival, 1999 "Under Construction"
    Wooksang Chang
       
    New York, Digital Salon, 1999 "Under Construction"
    Wooksang Chang
       
    SIGGRAPH, Oasis Gallery, 1999 "Don't Pull the Plug"
    Wobbe Koning
       
    17th Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival, Belgium, 1998 "Deadly Mr. Misty"
    Alison Colman
       
    17th Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival, Belgium, 1998 "Butterflies in the Rain"
    Mark Fontana, Kirk Bowers
    Steve May
       
    Imagina Prix Pixel-INA, Monaco, 1998 "Butterflies in the Rain"
    Mark Fontana, Kirk Bowers
    Steve May
       
    NICOGRAPH CG Film Show, Tokyo, Japan, 1997 "Butterflies in the Rain"
    Mark Fontana, Kirk Bowers
    Steve May
       
    ORF Prix Arts Electronica, Vienna, Austria, 1997 "Butterflies in the Rain"
    Mark Fontana, Kirk Bowers
    Steve May
       
    24th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles. ACM SIGGRAPH 97 Film Show. "Butterflies in the Rain"
    Mark Fontana, Kirk Bowers
    Steve May
       
    Edith Fergus-Gilmore Scholarship awardees, 1997 Jon Berge, Janice Braverman, Michelle Lach
       
    pARTners for the Arts grant, 1997 Jon Berge
       
    24th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles. ACM SIGGRAPH 97 Film Show. "Deadly Mr. Misty"
    Alison Colman
       
    Big Muddy Film Festival at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
    Finalist in the Film Alternatives category.
    "Deadly Mr. Misty"
    Alison Colman
       
    The Drive-In Independent Short Film Exhibition in New York City, 1997 "Deadly Mr. Misty"
    Alison Colman
       
    19th Annual Utah Short Film and Video Festival, 1997 "Deadly Mr. Misty"
    Alison Colman
       
    Festival International de la Imagen, Manizales, Columbia, 1997 "Deadly Mr. Misty"
    Alison Colman
       
    1997 Multimedia Grand Prix, Tokyo, Japan "Deadly Mr. Misty"
    Alison Colman
       
    Leonardo Magazine, cover image "Burn", November 1997 Matthew Lewis
       
    Simulation of 1994 Northridge Earthquake Aftershock, SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, 1997 Greg Foss
       
    "Visualization of Compressioin Neuropaths Through Volume Deformation", Proceedings, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR'97). John McDonald, Roni Yagel
    Petra Schmalbrock
    Don Stredney, David Reed
    Dennis Sessanna
       
    Graphics Student Design publication / competition in the Multi-Media category, 1996 "Processing of Perception"
    CD-ROM
    Traci Temple, Pierre St-Jacques
       
    "Hardware Assisted Volume Rendering of Unstructured Grids", Proceedings 1996 Symposium on Volume Visualization, San Francisco, CA, 1996 Roni Yagel, David Reed
    Ashish Law, Po-Wen Shih
    Naeem Shareef
       
    Yomiuri Shinbun Computer Graphics Competition in the Internet, 1996.
    Finalist
    Rina Wayanti
       
    Fulbright Scholarship, Art Education Department, 1996 Rina Wayanti
       
    Graduate Student Alumni Research Award, OSU, 1996 Rina Wayanti
       
    "A Look at Censorship in the Arts", Columbus Museum of Art Panelist for Film Series sponsored by OSU Photography and Cinema Alumni Society, 1996 "The Photographs of Sally Mann: A Documentary"
    Marla Mayerson
       
    Educators Program presenter and CD-ROM, ACM/SIGGRAPH 1996 Marla Mayerson
       
    pARTners for the Arts Grant, 1996 Marla Mayerson
       
    Edith Fergus-Gilmore, Materials Grant, 1996 John Warren
       
    Japan Dream Science Grand Prix, Computer Animation, 1996
    Bronze Award
    John Warren
       
    ACM SIGGRAPH, San Francisco, 1995
    Student First Place Award
    Pete Hriso & Tonya Ramsey
       
    Electronic Journal of Vocational Colleges, University of Hawaii Community College, 1995 "Future of the Net"
    Marla Mayerson
       
    The Dream Centenary CG Grand Prix, 1995
    Silver Award
    "Scanning the Horizon"
    Marla Mayerson
       
    Women Artists of Ohio, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, 1995 Marla Mayerson
       
    Emmy Award - National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (for animated graphics), "Magic of Television II", Ohio Valley Chapter, 1991 Greg Foss
       
    Computer Graphics Society, Japan, 1991
    Art & Design Award
    Joan Staveley
       
    Japan CG Grand Prix, General Section, 1991
    1st Prize
    William Woodard
       
    Prix Arts Electronica, 1991
    Golden Nica Award
    William Woodard
       
    Japan CG Grand Prix, Still Fine Arts, 1991
    1st Prize
    Marsha McDevitt
       
    Japan CG Grand Prix, Still Fine Arts, 1991
    1st Prize
    Yina Chang
       
    Japan CG Grand Prix, Still Fine Arts, 1991
    1st Prize
    Leslie Bishko
       
    National Computer Graphics Association, 1990
    1st Prize Student/Faculty
    Robert Lurye
       
    Prix Arts Electronica, 1989
    Golden Nica Award
    Joan Staveley
       
       

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