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SIAT showcases

November 19, 2024

SIAT end-of-term showcases are back! See the showcases schedule below and join us to see some of the interesting and diverse projects created by SIAT students throughout the Fall 2024 semester.

Students are also encouraged to submit their project to the Digital Showcase where projects will be highlighted on our online showcase page: Digital Showcase submission form.

Showcase schedule

Thursday, November 21

IAT 312 Foundations of Game Design
Location: Mezzanine (SRYC) or on Zoom
Time: 3:00-6:30PM in-person at the SFU Surrey campus mezzanine or 12:40–2:20PM on Zoom

Students from IAT 312 Foundations of Game Design will showcase their final game design projects where they were tasked to design a (digital) boardgame that is not only fun to play (addresssing what Lazzaro calls “People Fun”), but also “transformative” or “purposeful” (aka “Transformative Fun,” what Lazzaro refers to as fostering altered states). That is, apart from being fun to play, the game should also be meaningful/purposeful or add value by somehow changing the player’s out-of-game behaviours or perspectives.

During the course, students reflected on topics that they care deeply about that could help create a better world, and designed a game to tackle that topic.

Online Showcase: Join us on Zoom for a live-streamed showcase from 12:40–2:20PM. Zoom link: https://sfu.zoom.us/j/87197218883?pwd=1URwXSbqKtGSEc2czE1koT53oDpgPP.1
In-Person Playtesting: Try out the games and chat with the designers at the SFU Surrey campus mezzanine) from 3:00–6:30 PM.

More info: http://ispace.iat.sfu.ca/riecke/teaching/iat312/

Come playtest innovative games, provide feedback to student designers, and experience the future of transformative play!

Tuesday, November 26th

IAT 848 Mediated, Virtual, and Augmented Reality
Location: SRYC 3850
Time: 2:30-4:20PM

Graduate s tudents in the class dove into the emerging field of virtual, augmented, mediated, and mixed reality from human-centered, research, technical, and ethical perspectives. Students will be presenting their virtual, augmented, and mixed reality projects.

More info: http://ispace.iat.sfu.ca/riecke/teaching/iat848/

Wednesday, November 27th

IAT 202 New Media Images
Location: SRYE 1002
Time: 4:30-6:30PM

The IAT 202 showcase will be a screening of short films created by students. Awards will be presented after the screening and the audience will have the opportunity to vote for the People's Choice Award!

Friday, November 29th

IAT 222 Interactive Arts

Location: SRYC Mezzanine
Time: 11:00am-2:30pm

Throughout the course, IAT 222 students reflected upon issues relating to interactivity in the context of contemporary media art and towards making meaningful interventions within this field. On November 29th, students will be presenting a variety of interactive experiences and art projects.

IAT 267 Introduction to Technological Systems

Location: SRYC 5140
Time: 9:40am-10:20pm

Students will present their course projects featuring a variety of interactive systems, including but not limited to educational toys and games, interactive sculptures, smart home devices, health monitoring, and robotics.

Tuesday, December 3rd

IAT 344 Moving Images

Location: SRYE 1002
Time: 12:30-2:20pm

Students in IAT344 collaborated with curator Denise Fong and the Museum of Vancouver to produce short films for the forthcoming exhibition Deep-Seated Histories: Chairs from the Collection. The show aims to explore Vancouver's social history, seating design, and culture through an interdisciplinary lens. Each chair had a unique story waiting to be told. The IAT students rose to the challenge and produced a brilliant series of films telling the stories of the people, places and historical moments connected to the chairs

Wednesday, December 4th

IAT 313 Narrative and New Media
Location: SRYC 5100
Time: 10:00am-12:30pm

In IAT 313 Narrative and New Media, students learn to shape their ideas into compelling and well-structured narratives and complex story worlds. Students explore the role of narrative in both traditional linear environments and multi-linear interactive media environments. Student teams worked on diverse final projects related to their own areas of interest, such as film, animation, interactive graphic novels, video games, tabletop RPGs, scroll-telling websites, and spec ads, among others. In these projects audience interaction with the work is looked at through the lens of narrative.

IAT 410 Advanced Game Design
Location: SRYC 3050
Time: 6:00-8:30pm

This event will feature the games designed by our senior students this term and will give you an opportunity to test them out and vote for your favourite games. This is an informal session where you can engage with students, play their games, offer thoughtful feedback and critiques, and talk to students about their design process. In addition, we are pleased to be joined by a number of professionals from the game industry who will be on site to evaluate the games.

Monday, December 9th

IAT 445 Immersive Environments

Location: SRYC Mezzanine
Time: 2:00pm-7:00pm

Students from IAT 445 will be showcasing their interactive and immersive projects. Throughout the course, students designed, created, and refined deeply engaging immersive experiences that guests will be able to explore at the final showcase. The virtual reality applications were designed to provide users with meaningful and transformative immersive experiences for making positive impacts on society.

Tuesday, December 10th

IAT 343 Animation
Location: SRYE 1002
Time: 2:30-4:20pm

Students in this course were introduced to techniques for 3D computer animation such as keyframing, performance animation, procedural methods, motion capture, and simulation. On December 10th, they will be screening there final animation projects.

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