Researchers: Deb Lowman (1966-2018), Jason Leigh, Jim Barr, Joe Insley, Johnny Lawson, Kathy OKeefe, Maria Roussou, Tom Coffin, Keith Beu, Chris Stewart

URL: http://www.evl.uic.edu/beu/CIRCUS/circus.html

“The Great Sandini Virtual Reality Circus of the CAVE™” was originally created for EVL’s EVE4 presentation in Spring 1995; this premiere also marked EVL graduate student Jim Barr’s MFA Thesis show. An updated version of this CAVE™ experience showed at SIGGRAPH 96, the opening of the Ars Electronica Center, and at the Total Museum Conference.

“The Circus” environment consisted of several virtual “attractions”. Participants traveled through a virtual midway and visited “tents” containing circus-like experiences along the way. “The Circus” was a collaborative effort whereby developers from art & design and computer science disciplines created a single attraction or “tent” within the virtual environment.

The attractions included the following:

• The Food Court
• Jack in the Box
• Jaws of Death
• Haunted House
• PsychoTunnel
• Leakey’s Room
• Vomit Mountain

Email: jimkat@sirius.com

Date: August 28, 1994 - April 15, 1995

Related Entries

Art:

• Vomit Mountain

Directory:

• Maria Roussou
• Deb Lowman (1966-2018)
• Johnny Lawson
• Tom Coffin
• Kathy OKeefe
• View more…

Events:

• Ars Electronica Center Opening ’96
• Neither Here Nor There
• EVE 4 - Electronic Visualization Event 4

Related Categories

• MFA Thesis
• VR Art