Carlye Archibeque Project Manager, C & B scene STATEMENTOver the last three years I have enjoyed working with the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival. I've learned a lot about event planning, new technologies and networking beyond my own field to find the best content for the computer graphics community. Most of all, however, I have enjoyed serving the community by using my free time to organize the CAF first as assistant producer to Paul Debevec in 2007, then as producer to Jill Smolin in 2008 and finally as Chair myself in 2009. I would love to continue planning events and serving the community as the Chair of the LA SIGGRAPH chapter. I would be bringing a wealth of experience and contacts to the group and I would be equally benefited by being allowed to have a group to shepherd since I'm a natural den mother, aka producer. I have asked two colleagues to run with me for office: Brooke Keesling in the Secretary position: Brooke works at New Deal studios as the director of development and brings a MFA's worth of knowledge about the animation community with her; and Amy Morie, for the position of Vice Chair, whose academic background will bring a nice balance to my more visual effects based background. My main goals in leading the Chapter would be to increase membership; increase sponsor relationships; make more events available to the wide geographical space that is Los Angeles; and make the chapter a medium thorough which new ideas and innovations flow.BIOGRAPHYCarlye Archibeque is an active member of the Computer Graphics and Motion Pictures community. In 2009, she founded C & B scene, an outreach company designed to bring motion graphics arts, artists and companies together to optimize their visibility in the industry and expand cross-discipline communications. Carlye began her career at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and working as the assistant to the Archive Director for a year before moving on to the Awards Administration department where she coordinated the craft branch awards and membership meetings, the Student Academy Awards, and the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards. In 2002, she moved to Sony Pictures Imageworks where she contributed her services visual effects coordinator for the Academy Award(R) winning Spider-Man 2 (Achievement in Visual Effects). She then moved onto the marketing department as senior marketing coordinator and administrator of asset management for their visual effects facility. During a brief hiatus from Sony Imageworks, Carlye worked as the special project manager for the Mixed Reality Research and Development projects at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technology as the Special Project Manager where she coordinated the efforts of the research team and managed the grant budgets for each program. Her contribution to the community includes 3 years at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival as assistant producer in 2007, producer in 2008 and executive producer/chair of the festival in 2009. Carlye is a member of the Visual Effects Society, ACM SIGGRAPH, served as a juror at the 2009 Stuttgart Animation Festival and has presented her lecture on production and history of the Computer Animation Festival at PrixArs Electronica (Austria), ArtFutura (Spain), Anima (Belgium) and the VIEW Conference (Italy). She currently serves as the International Outreach Chair for the SPARK FX and Animation festivals which are presented by the Vancouver chapter of SIGGRAPH and as a member of the Visual Effects Society Archive Committee. She will be serving as a member of the Ars Electronica Festival jury in April 2010.