Victoria Szabo
About Victoria Szabo
Affiliations
- Duke University, Visual and Media Studies, Research Professor
Location
- Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Website
- http://www.duke.edu/~ves4
Bio
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Victoria Szabo is a Research Professor of Visual and Media Studies and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She also directs the Information Science + Studies Program and the PhD in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures. She has a PhD in Victorian Literature and Culture and works in digital humanities and media art, with an emphasis on location-based urban histories, multimodal cultural heritage, and digital storytelling. Before moving to Duke, she worked in Academic Technology at Stanford University. She is also part of the Psychasthenia Studio Art collaborative and the international Visualizing Cities consortium. She has been involved in a variety of SIGGRAPH Art-related roles, including SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair, Art Papers Chair, Art Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia, Chair of the Year-Round Digital Arts Community for the Org, and is the current Chair of the Arts Advisory Group. She is also part of the SIGGRAPH Governance Committee.
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Victoria Szabo is a Research Professor in Visual and Media Studies in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She is also graduate faculty in the Computational Media, Arts & Cultures program, Director of the Information Science + Studies program, and leads the Duke Digital Humanities Initiative at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Her work focuses on digital media authorship in scholarly contexts, with special attention to virtual worlds, geo-temporal platforms, and immersive narrative environments. She is also co-principal in the Psychasthenia Studio, a digital arts collaborative, and is active in the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community. She holds a PhD in English, with a certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Rochester.
SIGGRAPH Member Profile
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SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Chair
- SIGGRAPH 2015: Art Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Art Papers
- SIGGRAPH 2025: Art Papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2024: Art Papers
- SIGGRAPH 2013: XYZN: Scale
- SIGGRAPH 2009: Information Aesthetics Showcase
Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Art Gallery: In Unruly Times
- SIGGRAPH 2007: Global Eyes
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2016: Art Gallery: Mediated Aesthetics
- DAC Online Exhibition 2018: The Urgency of Reality in a Hyper-Connected World
- DAC Online Exhibition 2018: Origins + Journeys
- DAC Online Exhibition 2017: Immersive Expressions: Virtual Reality on the Web
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2024: Art Papers
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2009: Music Performances
- SIGGRAPH 2008: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2009: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2024: Ambient Art Culture – Art Papers
- SIGGRAPH 2008: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2009: Courses
- SIGGRAPH 2008: Classes
- SIGGRAPH 2011: Tracing Home in The Age of Networked Techniques
- SIGGRAPH 2010: TouchPoint: Haptic Exchange Between Digits
- SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
- SIGGRAPH 2007: Global Eyes
SIGGRAPH Organization Committee Positions
Steering Committee Member
- ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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ACM SIGGRAPH Village
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Contributor(s):Entry #: 09Birds of a Feather
Sessions Moderated
- “A Concert in a Vanished Church: Contextualizing Peace Island’s Auditory History with Modern Technology” by Hui and Kuo
- “VR Body Calligraphy – Whole-body Performance Writing for Chinese Calligraphy” by Shum and Klein
- “Design and Conversion of Ink Brushstrokes in Three-dimensional Space” by Yao, Liu and Mi
- “I Light U Up: Exploring a New Emergent Narrative Paradigm through Physical Data Participation in AI Generative Experiences” by Wu, Wen, Sagesser, Ma, Xian, et al. …
- “ScribGen: Generating Scribble Art Through Metaheuristics” by Debnath, Tiwari and Raman
- “The Next 50 Years” by Reyes and Burbano
- “Pulse Memorial” by Vann, Molina-Garci and Black
- “Déjà Vu: Uncanny and Serendipitous Re-encountering of Audiovisual Archives” by Yang
- “Synedelica: Mixed Reality Reimagined” by Desnoyers-Stewart, Miller and Riecke
- “The Posthumous World: Our selves, Our Bodies and a World that Will Continue Without Us” by Wright
- “Hyborg Agency: Fostering AI Agents Through Community Conversations in a Digital Forest” by Sun, Cheng, Xu, Lee and Asadipour
- “Learning to Move, Learning to Play, Learning to Animate: a Multimedia Exploration of the More-than-human Intelligence” by Cheng, Sun, Zhang and Gu
Other Information
Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Village Presenter
- Art Papers Author
- Art Papers Jury Member
- Art Papers Organizing Committee Chair
- Art Papers Organizing Committee Member
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Jury Member
- Art Show Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Art Show Organizing Committee Member
- Art Show Reviewer
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- SIGGRAPH - ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Committee Member
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