ACADI@NY Event @ THE GREAT HALL
curated by Meredith Bostwick

WHERE:  The Great Hall, The Cooper Union
WHEN:  Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 9:30pm-Midnight

CALL FOR STUDENT WORK
*DEADLINE EXTENDED! OCTOBER 8, 2010*

ACADI@NY Event will provide a venue as a student forum exploring and communicating new student-driven innovation through processesing and digital architecture research.  The Great Hall of Cooper Union will again provide an academic venue where historically, contemporary questions have been raised, debated, and challenged. 

ACADI@NY Event will select 20 student submissions and invite those students, each in succession to another, to present a 4-minute-interval narrated synopsis of imagery and thought process towards innovative and avant garde digital strategies where software is challenged.   Students are encouraged to present ideas, processes, and techniques of transferring of information among different software, interfaces different applications and abstract processes discussing their conceptual implications within a student project or work-study.   Students are encouraged to present abstract explorations in parametric modeling, surface geometry, and mathematical equations producing formal vocabulary. There is no interest in renderings, but rather the relational capacity of structural compositions that challenge spatial organization.

*SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCES TO BE ANNOUNCED!!!!*

WHAT:
The ACADI@NY Event will take place at the Great Hall at Cooper Union directly after the opening of the peer review exhibition of work on Saturday October 23rd of 2010.  The basic format of the event will take place as an informal gathering where students will be invited and selected to share latest ideas, trends, student works, thoughts, sketches, snapshots, and thumbnails of varying contexts and subjects within the theme of information, in a 20x20 format.  The 20x20 format  is a simple presentation format whereby 20 selected students will show 20 images, each for 10 seconds through a single powerpoint presentation (each student will be given a total of 4 minutes each for presentation).  The images are timed and cycle through automatically while the presenter speaks to his/her selection of images.

 

WHO:
ACADI@NY Event will invite and select university students of graduate and undergraduate levels to submit and show experimental work developed in advanced computer seminars, and personal investigations/study from universities in the New York region.  Students will be asked to present their work which supports the ACADIA 2010 theme of information in the 20x20 format.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Students are invited to submit 20 images (maximum) which describe current work/study/thinking towards the general ACADIA 2010 Conference theme Life In:formation. Submission requirements emphasize strong and informative visual material with succinct analytical text which speaks to each slide and its content, and an overall presentation synopsis.   Each applicant must complete the ACADIANY Event Form and submit along with submission requirements.  While we are asking for images, after the selection process is made students will be able to submit short animations within the time frame given. Animations will be no longer than 2-3 minutes.

Submission requirements are as follows:

  • Student(s) Details
    Fill in details of the author(s) and collaborators if any.  If the project/work was generated under a professor or course please include this information (Name of University/Name of Professor/Name of Course)
  • Presentation Title
    The presentation title, followed by the site location if applicable and date/year of study.
  • Keywords
    Provide between three and seven keywords that describe the theme/motivation of the  submission material.
  • Synopsis (300 words)
    A short synopsis/description which describes the work and its process.  Please pay particular attention to this part of your submission. Synopsis should both introduce the project and note any special innovations in design/fabrication/digital manipulation.

 

  • Images (Between 5 and 20)                                                                                                                                                     Each student should submit a maximum of 20 images in JPG format, no larger than 1mb each. 
    • The student should include a succinct analytical description of the image, per image (this text should be reflective of what will be presented aurally per slide) 
    • If there is an animation within the slides which support the theme, the total presentation should not exceed 10 seconds and 25mb including the slides. 
    • Animations should not be submitted for selection but only for presentation after selection is made.
    •  Image files should be named in succession (1,2,3,4, etc.) in a progressive order for presentation with the student name. eg.: JohnSmith-001.jpg

 

Deadline for preliminary submission is OCTOBER 8, 2010, 11:59PM EST

All applicants must submit the above with completed ACADIANY Event Form to: acadiany2010@gmail.com
*The submission process is only online, no postal submissions will be accepted.
All student entries will be reviewed by the ACADIA selection committee, and 20 students will be selected for merit on the basis of (20 images, approximately 10 seconds each for presentation).   Each student will be given 4 minutes in total for presentation; thus a 1.5 hour event.

Revisions/Comments will be submitted to the final selected 20 candidates, and a final submission due date will be set for the 20 images to be incorporated into a final powerpoint format. 

Important Dates:
September 30 –Deadline for Proposal & Slides Submission to ACADIA
October 11th – Notification to Students of Acceptance of Proposal

  • Students will receive reviewer feedback and acceptance decision by this date.  Accepted works will then have a short period of time to integrate reviewer feedback before submitting for the final “Camera-ready” deadline.

October 15th   – Final “Camera-ready” Deadline for Final Submission

  • Students will submit final material which may include animations at a maximum of 10mb files and a duration of no longer than 2-3 minutes.

October 23rd  - 9:30pm – 11:30pm - Live Event – The Great Hall at Cooper Union

Selected Students will present their works at the Great Hall at Cooper Union.  Students will be given a presentation order and will be expected to adhere to the time limitation per student as outlined in the submission requirements

 

 

 

   


 

Welcome

The ACADIA 2010 conference will focus on the changing nature of information and its impact on architectural education, research and practice. With the ever-increasing integration of information technologies in the design laboratory, the discipline of architecture has changed profoundly in recent years. The emerging fields of digital fabrication, generative and evolutionary modeling among others, are now at the core of investigations in a growing community of digital design practitioners and researchers.

ACADIA 2010 will explore the ways designers, architects, engineers and scientists collect, analyze and assemble information through computational systems that redefine the notions of design performance and optimization, evolutionary and responsive models. These notions are today inherently related to the possibilities and limitations offered by our increasing computational capabilities, and the way information shapes relations between the human, the environment, and the machine.

ACADIA 2010 will gather leading practitioners, theorists, and researchers who will examine the relation that architecture has with technology and information, and how the latter propels today’s most innovative design experimentations and research. The conference will be centered on a series of peer-reviewed paper sessions and a groundbreaking exhibition including peer-reviewed projects.

ACADIA 2010: October 21st to 24th 2010, The Cooper Union, NY

Conference Chairs: 
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa,Aaron Sprecher, Shai Yeshayahu