Immersadesk[tm]
Exhibition
May 9 to May 20 only
Poverty Island with video skies
Virtual environment by Dan Sandin, Sound by Laurie Spiegel
Hall of Mirrors, From a Harmonic Algorithm
Kyaking partner Dick Ainsworth
Electronic Visualization partner Tom DeFanti.
A sunset on Poverty Island is followed by luminescent waterfalls
http://www.evl.uic.edu/dan/Poverty_Island.html
The Thing Growing
Josephine Anstey, Dave Pape, Sam Thongrong, Joe Alexander, Muhammed
Ali Khan
The Thing Growing is the construction of the
"Thing", an autonomous, virtual character who responds to the user
in real time. The application creates a story with the user in the
role of protagonist, engaging with the Thing and its world at an emotional
level.
http://www.evl.uic.edu/anstey/THING/
Dimension
Ya Lu Lin Music by Tom Frisch
This is a journey to different state of minds. By submitting users
to unique surround-ings, users' moods are changed corresponding to
environment and the method of control.
Historiae Naturalis
Dave Pape
Historiae Naturalis will be a visualization of
'outdated' science. Specifically, it is based on the natural history
writings (and drawings)of Pliny the Elder, Edward Topsell, and others.
http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/projects/Historiae/
On the Revolution of Spheres (for Ptolemy)
John Landry
A Pre-Copernican model of the solar system with homes for the
planets' ruling gods.
http://www.evl.uic.edu/landry/
Silk Road Cave Shrines, 1998
Sam Thongrong, Maggie Rawlings, Mohammed Ali Khan, Ya Lu Lin,
Jason Leigh, Harlan Wallach
A VR exhibition explores the treasure of one of the greatest arts
and cultural discoveries of the 20th Century, the most spectacular
Mogoa Grottoes of Dunhuang in Western China.
http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/users/silk.html
http://www.evl.uic.edu/samt/silkshrine/mogao.html
