Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD)

The Ohio State University Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) is a collaborative creative research space where scholars, visual artists, computer scientists, engineers, designers and performance artists come together to make, create, imagine and connect.

ACCAD is internationally known for pioneering work in computer graphics and animation and as a best-practices model for multidisciplinary creative research collaborations. ACCAD’s mission is to foster, support, inform and inspire innovative thinking and experimentation in the arts and technology for graduate students, faculty and research staff.