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At SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, we sat down with Raqi Syed, co-director of the award-winning VR experience Minimum Mass and Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington.
We asked her about her work since her critically-acclaimed VR project Minimum Mass (read our interview) and her upcoming project Shadow Work, co-directed by Areito Echevarria. She also gave us her thoughts on generative AI, discussed a project done in partnership with Epic Games and Dove on diversity in CG, as well as her take on bias and diversity in computer graphics.
Chapters are available below the video. English (and French) subtitles are available. Last, but not least, don’t forget to subscribe to our Youtube channel and to check out our other videos, such as our interview with Rob Coleman (Creative Director, ILM)!
00:00 – Intro
00:15 – Minimum Mass, Shadow Work
04:10 – Thoughts on generative AI
06:33 – Animation panel @ SIGGRAPH Asia
08:01 – Thoughts on SIGGRAPH Asia
09:45 – Dove & Unreal – virtual beauty project
10:25 – Bias, diversity, inclusion & tech
11:18 – Student projects
12:38 – Bias & technical papers at SIGGRAPH
- Our interview with Raqi Syed & Areito Echevarria on Minimum Mass
- Dove & Unreal – Real Virtual Beauty Training
- SIGGRAPH paper: Countering Racial Bias in Computer Graphics Research – (Theodore Kim, Holly Rushmeier, Julie Dorsey, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Raqi Syed, Wojciech Jarosz, and A.M. Darke. 2022. Countering Racial Bias in Computer Graphics Research. In Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Talks (SIGGRAPH ’22 Talks), August 07-11, 2022. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532836.3536263 )
- How can we move towards anti-racist Graphics Research? – our article on the conference given by Theodore Kim at SIGGRAPH 2021
Huge thanks to Raqi Syed and the SIGGRAPH Asia team as a whole.
