Ep 7: “SIGGRAPH Asia 2022” | Hyungseok Kim XR Chair

Welcome back to the Digital Doha Podcast, our Qatar-based interview series exploring the cutting-edge of emerging media happening in Doha and the greater Middle East. Hosted by Spencer Striker, PhD Digital Media Professor at Northwestern Qatar, and creator of the award-winning History Adventures digital learning series.  

For the seventh episode, we continue our exclusive coverage of SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, the world’s leading conference on computer graphics and interactive media, which took place in Daegu, South Korea, December 6-9. Celebrating the theme ‘Colorful World’, the finest minds redefining the future of cutting-edge technologies gathered to inspire an audience of thousands from around the world.

Today’s guest, Hyungseok Kim, is Program Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia’s XR Track. XR was a juried exhibition within the SIGGRAPH Asia Experience Hall that showcased novel VR, AR, MR prototype systems and/or innovative content with off-the-shelf consumer products and software such as Unity or Unreal Engine. Designers and engineers explained and showcased the concepts behind these novel technologies.

Extended Reality (XR) refers to all environments that combine real and virtual elements generated by computer technology. It includes representative forms such as Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Virtual Reality (VR). XR is a superset which includes the entire spectrum from “the complete real” to “the complete virtual” in the reality–virtuality continuum.

Hyungseok Kim (“Prof Kim”) is a leading researcher and developer in computer graphics and virtual reality. He researches real-time interaction in virtual environments, multi-resolution modeling of shape and texture, and multi-modal interaction mechanisms. He teaches at Konkuk University on topics including: Computer Graphics, Multimedia Programming, Game Programming, and Linear Algebra.

We hope you enjoy our special event coverage of SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, and our conversation with Hyungseok Kim, Program Chair of XR, and one of the world’s leading authorities on the vanguard of Extended Reality research.

• Hosted by: Spencer Striker, PhD

• Special Guest: Hyungseok Kim

• NU-Q Research & Production Assistants: Shaikha Alkubaisi; Ayah Mohamedain; Samson Mbogo; Laiba Mubashar; Xingyu Qin; and Tasmia Belal. 

• Emerging Media Research Team: Venus Jin, PhD; Greg Bergida, PhD; John Pavlik, PhD, Justin Gengler, PhD; Farina Amir; and Christopher Fwalanga

• Artwork: Fernanda Jimenez

• Music and Sound Effects: Courtesy of Epidemic Music

Official links for SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 & Special Guest, Dan Sarto

• https://sa2022.siggraph.org/en/

  • SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 Official Website

• https://sa2022.siggraph.org/en/full-program/?filter1=sstype124&date=all

  • XR, Full Program

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The Digital Doha Podcast is supported by funding from the Qatar National Research Foundation, Grant ID #: NPRP12S-0227-190165

Ep 4: “Chaos Antidote” feat. Hadeer Omar

Welcome back to the Digital Doha Podcast, our new series bringing you informative conversations with local experts exploring the cutting-edge of emerging media happening in the dynamic international capital of Doha. Hosted by Spencer Striker, PhD Digital Media prof at Northwestern Qatar, and co-hosted by Shaikha Alkubaisi, Media Info & Tech student at NU-Q. 

Presenting our amazing fourth guest of the season, Hadeer Omar—an Egyptian time-based media artist, designer, and educator. Omar holds an MFA in Design and BFA in Graphic Design. Her work explores cultural identity and memories, the self, and narratives artfully through immersive XR media and technologies, graphics, photography, and video art installations. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor at VCUarts in Qatar, and an artist in residence at Doha Fire Station program in Qatar.

Her work has been showcased in Egypt, Qatar, San Francisco, Austria, Bulgaria, Dubai, and Berlin. “3arabizi keyboard” project was given an honorary mention at the STARTS Prize – Grand prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry, and Society Stimulated by the Arts (2017), Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. The project was showcased at Drive: Volkswagen Group Forum in Berlin, Germany (2017). She served as one of the co-chairs for Tasmeem Doha Art and Design Conference 2019. We hope you enjoy our conversation with one of Doha’s leading innovators in the cutting-edge space of emerging media, immersive XR, and AR/VR Design.

Hosted by: Spencer Striker, PhD

Co-hosted by: Shaikha Alkubaisi

Special Guest: Hadeer Omar

Producer: Shaikha Alkubaisi

Sound Design & Editing: Ayah Mohamedain

Social Media Manager: Samson Mbogo

Project Management: Laiba Mubashar

Emerging Media Research Team: Venus Jin, PhD; Greg Bergida, PhD; John Pavlik, PhD, Justin Gengler, PhD; Farina Amir; and Christopher Fwalanga

Artwork: Fernanda Jimenez

Music and Sound Effects: Courtesy of Epidemic Music

Official links for Special Guest, Hadeer Omar

http://www.hadeeromar.com

https://www.instagram.com/hadeersomar

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hadeer-omar-625b2a83

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The Digital Doha Podcast is supported by funding from the Qatar National Research Foundation, Grant ID #: NPRP12S-0227-190165