{"id":14,"date":"2025-04-12T01:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-04-19T04:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T04:13:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MetroCAF is the annual NYC Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival organized by the New York City chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH. Over the past two decades, MetroCAF has grown into the most important local festival of its kind. It provides an exciting opportunity for all students in the NYC metropolitan area to show their work not only to their fellow students, but also to industry professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The MetroCAF 2025 Team\u200b<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Co-Chair: Danesh Taraporevala, Independent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-Chair: Patty Wongpakdee, New York Institute of Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Webmaster: Wobbe F. Koning, Monmouth University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design: Savannah Garces, New York Institute of Technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can contact the team through <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/ArvzLcK33cxjr87J9\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/ArvzLcK33cxjr87J9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our contact form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/LogoBlue_edit-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/LogoBlue_edit-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/LogoBlue_edit-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/LogoBlue_edit.png 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About NYC ACM SIGGRAPH<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.siggraph.org\/wp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NYC ACM SIGGRAPH <\/a>is a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACM SIGGRAPH<\/a> network of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/chapters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professional and Student Chapters<\/a>. We are a non-profit, membership organization that as a part of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACM SIGGRAPH<\/a> organization values passion, integrity, excellence, volunteerism, and cross-disciplinary interaction in all of our activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.siggraph.org\/wp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nyc.siggraph.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MetroCAF is the annual NYC Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival organized by the New York City chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH. Over the past two decades, MetroCAF has grown into the most important local festival of its kind. It provides an exciting opportunity for all students in the NYC metropolitan area to show their work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrocaf.org\/metrocaf\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}