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SIGGRAPH 2005 – Remote Site Participation Schedule and Information
Please join us during SIGGRAPH (August 1-4) as Boston University will be
participating as a remote Access Grid site as part of SIGGRAPH’s Emerging
Technologies program. For directions to the Access Grid Conference Facility at
Boston University please click here.
Information on the sessions and times are listed below. All times are EDT
(Eastern Daylight Time).
If you are planning to attend any of these sessions please
RSVP to ariella@bu.edu.
Planetary Collegium/CAiiA Panel
1 – Consciousness and Connectivity
Roy Ascott and panel
Monday, Aug 1, 12:00-2 p.m.
What is the impact of telematic connectivity, hypermedia, virtual reality,
and new media art, on the ways we perceive ourselves, our minds, and construction
of our own realities?
Telematic Mind in the Domain of Moistmedia
Roy Ascott
Monday, Aug 1, 2:15-3p.m.
Dry computational systems and wet biological processes are converging
to provide /moistmedia/ for the artist. The human mind and telematic
systems
are interacting to produce a /technoetic/ sense of self and planetary
collaboration. Immaterial connectedness defines both quantum reality
and the spiritual
domain. The /biophotonic/ information network of the body parallels the
telematic flows of electrons and photons across the planet. The media
artist’s
interactive technology of silicon valley, and the shaman’s psychoactive
technology of the forest offer immersive pathways into altered states
of consciousness.
Planetary Collegium/CAiiA Panel 2 – Extensions of Embodiment
Roy Ascott and panel
Tuesday, Aug 2, 12:00-2
p.m.
Transformation of human behavior, the body and the material world, and
the repetoire of somatic intervention, are raised as significant issues
in both performative and imaging aspects of new media art.
Network Touch
Network Touch
Wednesday, August 3, 2-3 p.m.
At the moment of touch we give reference to our self and to our surrounding.
Touch not only spatially orients us but also symbolically orients ourselves
to another. The idea of a Network Touch plays on the possibilities and
impossibilities of this moment in cyberspace where two people try and
make a haptic connection. The video streams of two cameras from two distant
locations are stitched together to form a single image. Using the software
Max and softVNS2 these images appear to join seamlessly. In both locations
a users hand enters into the video space. As they reach their hand into
the space they also see the hand of someone else reaching out to touch
their hand. As the two hands move closer together and finally make contact,
sounds and words are triggered signifying that moment of contact. The
two participants playfully ‘touch’ and create music off of
each other, poetically giving a new form and understanding to reference.
AG Juggler
Dioselin Gonzalez
Wednesday, August 3, 4-5p.m.
AGJuggler is a toolkit for collaborative virtual reality (VR). It provides
routines for enabling existing VR applications to run in geographically
distant Access Grid(r) nodes. Supported hardware setup ranges from fully
immersive
CAVE(tm)-like systems with tracking, to PCs equipped with active stereographics
ability, or even personal laptops. We intend to show a collaborative
VR session of “Castle Highmoore”, a tour through a virtual
haunted house. The conference site will include a semi-immersive stereographics
display -where many participants can experience the virtual world simultaneously.
Remote AG nodes at other locations will also be joining the experience.
Global
Distributed Art Panel
Don Foresta
Thursday, August 4, 12:20-2 p.m.
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