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Most Recent Event
(At End of School Year)
-- Computer Graphics and Animation Talk --
WHO:
JUDSON ROSEBUSH of Rosebush Visions Corp, NYC,
will speak. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the ACM.
This is part of the ACM Technology Outreach Program of the
ACM Membership Activities Board.
Judson Rosebush is a producer and director of computer
animation, an author, and media theorist. He was born in
1947. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster in art
and has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Public
Communications. He has worked in radio and television
broadcasting, sound and video production, print, and
hypermedia. His specialty is computer animation.
Rosebush completed his first computer animations in l970
and has worked artistically and professionally with the
medium since that date. His best known animations include
Space++ (1974), a collection of MTV-styled demonstration
reels from Digital Effects Inc. (1978-1984), and work from
his own company (formed in 1985). He has exhibited
computer-generated films, numerous museum shows,
conferences, and on television. His syn- thetic images are
reproduced in hundreds of magazines and books, as well as
art exhibits. His credits include work for national
advertising accounts, networks, and scenes from feature
films including TRON. Rosebush is the programmer of much
of the software used to make his pictures.
Rosebush is the coauthor of Computer Graphics for
Designers and Artists, published in 1986 by Van Nostrand
Reinhold Co. He is currently com- pleting a book on
Computer Animation and is the author of the serialized
"Pixel Handbook" for Pixel Vision magazine. He has
lectured at computer graphics conferences worldwide as
well as to more generalized audiences in entertainment,
business and industry, education, and art, where he
explores the broader implications of his work.
He currently produces and directs computer animation and
special effects work for film and video, consults on
software and facility planning and writes--words as well
as software. Typical projects during the past year have
included coauthoring and directing two one-hour
television programs on Volume Visualization and HDTV and
the Quest for Virtual Reality, writing "The Proceduralist
Manifesto" a statement on computer art published in
Leonardo, publishing a tutorial on "Using APL for
Computer Graphics Notation", and programming a
HyperCard controlled videodisc system.
WHAT:
Title: Computer Graphics and Computer Animation.
Abstract: Few people are better qualified to talk about
the use of computer graphics in advertising, feature film,
and television than lecturer Rosebush. Profusely
illustrated with slides and videotapes, this insider's
view presents the step-by-step process of how computer
graphics and animation are designed and fabricated, how a
commercial studio is organized, what hardware and software
is employed, and what things cost. Besides reviewing the
history of the medium, Rosebush will also detail
state-of-the-art research in kinematics, dynamic physical
modeling, character animation and the simulation of famous
people, and the emerging relationships between animation
and architecture, CAD, frac- tals, growth simulation, and
genetic compilers.
WHERE:
Room 206 Claxton Complex, in the Computer Science
Department on the UT Campus. You should use the north
entrance to Claxton. It is the end near the University
Center Plaza and Garage, and it is diagonally across
from the library.
You can park in the University Center Garage for about
$5. (Or you may be able to park on the street -- you
don't have to put coins in the parking meter at that
time of day.) Turn onto Philip Fulmer Way (formerly
Stadium Drive) from Cumberland. Half-way down the block
on the right is the garage entrance. After you park,
walk to the garage exit, turn right (on Philip Fulmer
way -- goes toward Neyland Stadium), then take first
right. Claxton is last the building on the left before
the cross street.
For a campus map see: http://www.utk.edu/maps/
WHEN:
Thursday, April 19, at 7:00pm.
WHY:
The ACM Distinguished Lectureship Program has been one of
the computer industry's premier outreach endeavors in the
United States for the past four decades.