The ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Mixer was held in gather.town, a virtual platform for social events. The DAC team was very busy decorating its virtual party room to create a space for the virtual avatars to mingle.
The Party was organized by the DAC Standing Committee:
Andres Burbano
Sue Gollifer
Kathy Rae Huffman
Bonnie Mitchell
Hye Yeon Nam
Derick Ostrenko
Melentie Pandilovski
Jan Searleman
Victoria Szabo (Chair)
Victoria Szabo is a Research Professor of Visual and Media Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She also directs the Information Science + Studies Program and the PhD in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures. She has a PhD in Victorian Literature and Culture and works in digital humanities and media art, with an emphasis on location-based urban histories, multimodal cultural heritage, and digital storytelling. Before moving to Duke, she worked in Academic Technology at Stanford University. She is also part of the Psychasthenia Studio Art collaborative and the international Visualizing Cities consortium. She has been involved in a variety of SIGGRAPH Art-related roles, including SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair, Art Papers Chair, Art Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia, Chair of the Year-Round Digital Arts Community for the Org, and is the current Chair of the Arts Advisory Group. She is also part of the SIGGRAPH Governance Committee. Victoria is the Art Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2025.