2010 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

86 2010 Yearbook CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2010 Marcelo Risi, Econ. (Spain) Head of Media Relations at the World Tourism Organization. Activity: Delivered the lecture "Tourism and Its Relationship with the Media. Tourism in the News: Positioning the Sector on the Economic Agenda,” September 14. Ryan Woodward (United States) Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts/Animation at Brigham Young University. Activity: delivered the lecture “Back to the Roots” as part of the 2010 International Animation Festival, October 26. George Scribner (United States) animator Walt Disney Imagineering projects and Professor at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Activity: Taught the course “Expressive Representation 1” for the Bachelor’s Degree in Animation and Video Games as part of the ORT-CalArts agreement; led the workshop “From Idea to Pre-production” as part of the Professional Development in Animation Workshop Series, May 3–June 21. Jesse López (United States) Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Character designer at the video game company WayForward. animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Activity: taught the extracurricular courses Character Design and Animation Production in the Bachelor’s Degree in Animation and Video Games, as part of the ORT-CalArts agreement, August through December. Marcelo Risi, Ec. Prof. Jesse López