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performance of a professor caring for someone with dementia

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…

Sonder screen capture

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

Central Tech Professionals from ActiVision will visit Thursday, 10/24

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…

Complex Movements Public Dialogue

Livable Futures is hosting a Public Dialogue with Detroit-based art and media collective Complex Movements as part of their weeklong Creative Residency. October…

Complex Movements Public Dialogue

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…

Picture of Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler

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…

profile picture of Shadrick Addy

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.

stage image from Curious Incident of the Boy in the Night-Time

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 …

McArthur Freeman and Kyoung Swearingen collaboarting

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 picture in motion capture studio

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…

Skylar Wurster Adjusting Wires for the Haitus Project

MFA Design candidate Kevin Bruggeman (pictured below) and B.S. Computer Science & Engineering candidate, Skylar Wurster (pictured left) have been working together…

Photo from 2018 Open House

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…

Image of Virtual Subway Station for Mass Casualty Incident Training

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…

Image from Kim Mills social media sites

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…

Image from James Mcdonald's audio visual piece, Study in Rain and Light

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 …

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Building Empathy in Patient Care with VR Simulation for Practitioners

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.

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Still image from the 3D animation "Sonder"

Sonder is a 3D animated short film, created by 144 artists, designers, and engineers all around the world including Kyoung Lee Swearingen, Assistant…

Science Sunday Guest Lecturer, Dr. Naomi Leonard

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…

picture of Marc Ainger preparing for concert

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: …

Vita Berezina-Blackburn at ACM conference

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…

OSU alumnus Brent Watkins visits ACCADs SIM lab

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…

Susan Kozel to Give Public Lecture on Sept. 27th

PUBLIC LECTURE & COFFEE Performing Encryption and Conspiracy Archives two artistic encounters with digitization and movement…

Maria Palazzi is stepping away from being ACCAD Director after seventeen years.

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…

Game Controller for Wall Mounted Level game

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…

Synchronous Objects included in Paris exhibition at the Pompidou

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…

SIGGRAPH 2018 conference logo

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…

Digital Interactive Exhibit on Display at the Dublin Arts Council

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…

Feeding Time Plotter Drawing by Charles Csuri

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

image of JP Sans and animation stills from movies he's worked on

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…

picture of guest artist Pamela Z

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,…

picture of faculty members Alex Oliszeweski and Anna Gawboy

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…

Chris Landreth, Oscar Winning Animator

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…

Oscar

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…

Humane Technologies

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…