Just got back from my third straight trip to the state of Pennsylvania (the first was the Penn State conference + Philly IGDA Chapter meeting + IGDA admin office stuff, the second was the IGDA board strategy retreat). This third time was as an invited guest to SIGGRAPH’s 2009 strategy/planning weekend in Pittsburg. Ya, those guys really plan ahead!

While in town, I took the opportunity to hook up with Heather Kelley, who has been a “visiting” professor at Carnegie Mellon over the past semester. It was a crazy art show week in Pittsburgh and Heather took me around to a few shows and related events. Also, I gave a lecture at the 8-Bit Poet Collective (a student group at CMU promoting indie game development).

Here are some photos from the trip:


Drew Davidson (CMU ETC) welcomes the SIGGRAPH committee members to the Entertainment Technology Center.

 


ETC student project Quasi.

 


The “lobby” area to the ETC.

 


Must be a lot of Star Wars nerds at the ETC…

 


University of Pittsburgh’s “tower of knowledge”, the tallest university building in the world (or so I was told by the taxi driver).

 


Playing some dodgeball after the 8-Bit Poet meeting.

 


Checked out the I-am-a-Heather art show at Future Tenant. Heather Kelley had an interactive/game piece.

 


A larger scale piece at the Pittsburgh Biennial art show.

 


More standard photos on a wall art at the Biennial.

 


Heather rides the rocket chair!