Marc J. Barr
About Marc J. Barr
- Affiliations
- Middle Tennessee State University, Professor Emeritus
- Location
- Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States of America
- Bio
SIGGRAPH 2021
Marc was the manager of the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee booth at the SIGGRAPH conference for 1993-96. During this time he also was a general member of the Education Committee and participated in meetings and seminars for planning and development of curriculum for computer graphics. He was Director for Education in 1996-98 and served in that role on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee (EC). He was Chair of the Education Committee in 2009.
He has served in many different capacities in the SIGGRAPH Conference. In 1994 he served on the sigKIDS Committee. In 1995 and 1996 he was the Co-Chair of the Educator’s Workshop. He was a proposal reviewer for the Educator’s program from 1996-2004. He was 2000 and 2002 sigKids Program Chair. He was on the 2004 Educators program Committee. He served as the 2006 Teapot Exhibition Chair. In this capacity he convinced Martin Newell to come to SIGGRAPH 2006 and sign replicas of the famous teapot. He was Chair of the Educators Program in 2006.
Marc served as the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference Chair and was on the Conference Advisory Group (CAG) from 2013-2016. He served as the CAG Chair from 2017-2020 and served in that role on the EC from 2017-2020. He has served as a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Nominations Committee from 2020 to the present.
Marc was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award in 2021.
- SIGGRAPH Member Profile
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- Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 2021 Outstanding Service Award: Barr
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Chair
- SIGGRAPH 2015: 42nd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
- SIGGRAPH 2002: SIGKids
- SIGGRAPH 2000: SIGKids
- SIGGRAPH 1995: Educators’ Program
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 1994: SIGKids
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2004: Educator Program
Conference Contributions
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- Sessions Moderated
- “Educators Meet and Greet” by Barr
SIGGRAPH Organization Contributions
- Community Events
- 2023 Conference Chair Interview: 2015 Conference Chair Marc Barr
Other Information
- Roles
- Art Show Artist
- Awardee
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Conference Chair
- Education Program Jury Member
- Education Program Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Panel Presenter
- SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award Committee Member
- SIGKids Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- SIGKids Organizing Committee Member
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