Erik Brunvand – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

Erik Brunvand

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  • University of Utah, School of Computing, Computer Science, Associate Professor

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  • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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  • Erik Brunvand is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, where his research and teaching interests include the design of application-specific computers, graphics processors, asynchronous systems, and VLSI.

    As an artist, he is fascinated by connections between arts and technology, and by how the benefits of these connections flow in both directions. This interest in arts/tech collaborations has led him to explore and show a variety of kinetic mixed media artworks, many involving electronic control. He is also a printmaker, and co-founder of Saltgrass Printmakers, a non-profit printmaking studio and gallery in Salt Lake City since 2003. He works in relief (woodcut, photopolymer), letterpress, etching, experimental media (including electronics and micro-silicon art), and kinetic mixed media.

    SIGGRAPH 2022

    I’m a professor of computer science in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, where I’ve been on the faculty since 1990. As a computer engineer, my research interests are generally related to domain-specific computer architectures, most recently for computer graphics. My interests extend from the high-level design of the processor, and the modification of the graphics algorithms to match the hardware, to the implementation on integrated circuits. As a teacher, I’ve won the University of Utah Distinguished Teaching, the College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching, and the School of Computing Outstanding Teaching awards. As an artist, I’m fascinated with arts/technology collaborations, including teaching courses in kinetic sculpture, and showing my work in a variety of venues, including the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery in 2014. I was the SIGGRAPH Education Chair in 2017 and 2018, co-chair of SIGGRAPH Labs in 2020, and chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award Committee, 2019–2021.

    SIGGRAPH 2013

    Erik Brunvand is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. His research and teaching interests include the design of application-specific computers, graphics processors, ray tracing hardware and software, asynchronous systems, and VLSI. Starting in 2009 he has co-developed and taught an arts/tech collaborative course with a colleague, Paul Stout, in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah entitled Embedded Systems and Kinetic Art (www.eng.utah.edu/~cs5789/). As an artist he is a printmaker, co-founder of Saltgrass Printmakers (a non-profit printmaking studio and gallery in Salt Lake City: www.SaltgrassPrintmakers.org), and also  works in mixed-media computer-controlled kinetic arts.  

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