Academy of Art University Students Win Awards at the Prestigious Space-Time Competition at SIGGRAPH 2007
Academy of Art University students from the digital arts school took home awards from the Space-Time Student Competition & Exhibition at SIGGRAPH 2007. Kyle Yugawa won first place for his project Verve and Molly Quan won one of the four Honorable Mentions for her project Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought both in the interactive category. This is the fourth year in a row that an Academy of Art University Graduate New Media student has taken the first place title at the Space-Time Competition.
Verve, Yugawa’s MFA thesis, is a web tool that lets artists and musicians compose, orchestrate, and illustrate using sound, shape, and motion. According to the Verve website, the project “strives to mold techniques of painting/illustration, music, and kinetic performance into a single fluid process.” It developed from his frustration as a new media designer to have to learn so many different applications and processes.
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