synthecology at WIRED NEXTFEST 2005
Participants: Geoffrey Allen Baum, Helen-Nicole Kostis, HyeYun Park, Marientina Gotsis, Todd Margolis, Ben Chang, Dan St. Clair, Hyunjoo Oh, Robb Drinkwater, Jon Greene
Institutions: Applied Interactives, SAIC, Columbia College URL: http://www.appliedinteractives.com/synthecology June 24-26, 2005 (9:00am - 6:00pm) Navy Pier Festival Hall A Chicago synthecology combines the possibilities of tele-immersive collaboration with a new architecture for virtual reality sound immersion to create a environment where musicians from all locations can interactively perform and create sonic environments. COLLABORATORS synthecology is being created as a collaboration of students and faculty from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Columbia College Chicago, through the Applied Interactives organization. ABOUT APPLIED INTERACTIVES The purpose of Applied Interactives, NFP is to educate the art and science community about the medium of Virtual Reality as an interactive, computer-generated, immersive computer graphics environment. Applied Interactives, NFP plans to advance the medium through research and experimentation as well as provide a bridge to bring the technology out of institutional labs and into more publicly accessible arenas. Applied Interactives, NFP intends to propagate the medium by providing support and direct access to the resources necessary for artists and scientists to exhibit and develop works in the medium. Email: xiccarph@evl.uic.edu Date: June 24, 2005 - June 26, 2005 |