Chapters
The ACM SIGGRAPH Professional and Student Chapters Committee strive to unite and grow ACM SIGGRAPH’s community of researchers and practitioners of Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques by empowering our worldwide network of chapter leaders to operate as entrepreneurs to organize local events, collaborate across topics of expertise, interest, and emergence, bridge geographical and cultural distance, and promote learning and professional networking all year long.
Communications
The Communication and Membership Committee recommends and then implements appropriate communication channels for the organization and its constituents. Designs and supervises the build-out of ACM SIGGRAPH electronic presence. Works with the EC to realize strategic communication and marketing goals. Oversees the SIGGRAPH Village at both SIGGRAPH conferences.
Digital Arts
Fosters year-round engagement and dialogue within the digital, electronic, computational, and media arts. Facilitates dynamic scholarship and creative programming for the digital arts within the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. Promotes collaboration between artists and the larger computer graphics and interactive techniques community. Promotes collaboration between the Digital Arts Committee (DAC) and the art programs of the conferences.
Diversity and Inclusion
Celebrates the diversity that exists within the ACM SIGGRAPH community and provides opportunities, both in-person and year-round, to connect with others with common backgrounds, ethnicities, and gender for mentoring and inspiration. The goal of this committee is to create a welcoming and nurturing community for everyone working in computer graphics and interactive techniques independent of gender, sexual orientation, ethnic background, or abilities.
Education
The Education Committee works to support educators in computer graphics and interactive techniques. This encompasses technical, creative, applied, and interdisciplinary studies in higher education that intersect curricular areas of computer science, engineering, art, design, and related disciplines. The Education Committee undertakes a broad range of projects and activities in support of the computer graphics and interactive techniques education community, such as developing curriculum guidelines, providing instructional resources, organizing SIGGRAPH conference-related activities, and outreach.
External Relations
Manages relationships with professional societies and organizations that are external to ACM. Working with the EC, this committee identifies and establishes relationships with new organizations according to the current strategic plan.
Governance
The Governance Committee examines the policies, procedures, and structure of ACM SIGGRAPH and recommends changes to the Executive Committee who approves or rejects them. All of the changes below are reflected in the ACM SIGGRAPH Policy Guidelines.
History
The committee’s goals and priorities are: (1) to preserve the stories and artifacts of our community and industry, (2) to make the collected materials broadly accessible by the public, and (3) to document the impact of SIGGRAPH on the development of computer graphics, the computer graphics industry, and industries enabled by the graphics and imaging. (EC added this in 2019.)
Interactive and Immersive Experiences
The vision of the Immersive and Interactive Environments Committee is to support researchers and practitioners involved in the design and creation of interactive and immersive experiences and promote them throughout the SIGGRAPH organization. The Immersive and Interactive Environments Committee was created to raise awareness of Interactive and Immersive Experiences at the SIGGRAPH conferences and in the broader community. This includes creating a web portal showcasing Interactive and Immersive Experiences, identifying leading examples of Interactive and Immersive Experiences, promoting education and innovation in the area, etc.
Information Technology Services
The Information Technology Services committee manages and supports various services for ACM SIGGRAPH including the servers used to host organizational websites; creating, maintaining, and supporting email lists used within the organization for committees, conferences, and chapters; and the management and support of the ACM SIGGRAPH Google GSuite site.
International Resources
Promoting ACM SIGGRAPH and Connecting our global community of computer graphics and interactive techniques with both on-site and year-round activities.
Nominations
Selects slate for the annual Executive Committee election. Recommends candidates for Chairs of Standing Committees to the Executive Committee.
Practitioner Career Development
The Practitioner Career Development Committee plans, develops and facilitates activities that support the career development of practitioners working in industry and academia.
Publications
Documents the content presented at our annual events, using channels that are efficient and cost-effective. Works with ACM Publications Board as new situations arise and on items with broader implications.
Specialized Conferences
Approves and monitors specialized conferences to ensure that they are financially and intellectually healthy and aligned with the mission of ACM SIGGRAPH. Promotes awareness of the specialized conferences and the resulting archival content to the broader community and works to improve the integration of the specialized conferences with other SIGGRAPH events. Together with the External Relations Committee, the SCC works to strengthen existing ties and identify new venues, emerging themes, or potential relationships with other conferences and organizations to broaden the scope of SIGGRAPH.
Student Services
The S3 committee, in their role as the Early Career Development Committee, continued to bring additional year-round value to ACM SIGGRAPH student members and emerging professionals. S3’s mission is to plan, develop, and facilitate activities that assist with integration into the larger SIGGRAPH community and enhance career development. Emerging professionals are defined as undergraduate and graduate students, as well as, those within the first three years of graduation.
S3 also provides continuity and institutional memory for the student volunteer and intern programs at SIGGRAPH North America and SIGGRAPH Asia and collaborates with other SIGGRAPH entities (conferences, chapters, committees, etc.) on issues that affect student and emerging professional members. S3 has four key programs – resume and reel reviews known as S3R3, mentoring for ACM SIGGRAPH student members known as MentorMe, XSV, and a series of webinars and talks.
Standing Committee Chairs
When a committee chair position is open, the position opening is posted on the web site. The Nominations Committee reviews applicants, consults with the existing committee, and makes a recommendation to the Executive Committee. In addition to its recommendation, the Nominations Committee provides the Executive Committee with the names and application materials of all those who applied for the position. Committee Chairs must be members of ACM SIGGRAPH.
The timeline for this process is:
1-30 April: Call for Nominations Open
1-15 May: Review by Nominations Committee
15 May: Recommendation to EC
1 June: New Chair(s) Announced
Standing Chair Terms
Committee chair terms are three years, beginning on 1 September. Nominations for open chair positions will accepted by the Nominations Chair until May 1 of the year the term in question ends. Chairs are eligible to run for succeeding terms. If a committee chair is unable to complete the three-year term, a replacement will be appointed by a majority vote of the EC to fill out the remaining term.
If you would like to devote some of your time and energy to one of these committees, please review the committee charge and description, and fill out the organization volunteer form. Good volunteers are always welcome.