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BOSTON UNIVERSITY HOSTS CYBERARTS FESTIVAL EVENTS
"Luminage(tm) Prints" by Kenneth A. Huff and "Gateway to Spirited Ruins: A Virtual Adventure", to be featured
(Boston, Mass.) - An exhibition of Luminage(tm) Prints by Ken Huff and Gateway to Spirited Ruins, a new multi-user virtual reality experience, will be presented by Boston University as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival being held at cultural institutions throughout Boston during the month of May.
VIRTUAL JOURNEY AT SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND VISUALIZATION
"Gateway to Spirited Ruins," takes the visitor on a virtual journey through the remains of a palace built by an imaginary ancient civilization. The people of this civilization believed that inanimate objects such as artwork and furniture would be infused with life if created in precisely the right forms and proportions. Through the magic of technology and the vision of contributing artists, the palace comes to life as the visitor traverses its hallways, rooms, and gardens.
"Gateway to Spirited Ruins" is presented on an ImmersaDesk large-format display with an eight-speaker surround sound system. 3D glasses provide stereoscopic vision and a hand-held wand allows one to move through the palace and interact with participants at other ImmersaDesks across the country. Participants will also be able to experience "Gateway to Spirited Ruins" via satellite installations, which may include workstations, Web clients, and interactive kinetic sculptures.
"Gateway to Spirited Ruins" is a project of High Performance Computing in the Arts (HiPArt), a collaborative effort between artists and the staff of the Boston University Scientific Computing and Visualization Group.
What: Gateway to Spirited Ruins: A Multi-User Virtual Reality Experience
Where: Boston University Computer Graphics Lab
111 Cummington Street, 2nd floor, Boston
When:
Tuesday, May 4 3 - 8 PM
Thursday, May 6 3 - 8 PM
Saturday, May 8 noon - 5 PM
Tuesday, May 11 3 - 8 PM
Thursday, May 13 3 - 8 PM
Admission: Free
For Information:(617) 353-7800
http://scv.bu.edu/HiPArt/
KENNETH A. HUFF AT THE PHOTONICS CENTER:
Kenneth Huff has been creating digitally originated images for more than fifteen years. His Luminage(tm) Prints have the curves, delicacy, and rich surfaces of early 20th century decorative art. He creates the lush detail of his images with alias/Wavefront PowerAnimator and Maya software on a Silicon Graphics workstation and prints them with a Light Jet Direct Digital Laser Printer that uses RGB lasers to expose photographic film. The final Luminage(tm) prints are by EverColor.
The exhibition, which runs from May 1 - 29, includes ten recent prints curated by Mary Ann Kearns of 911 Gallery. It can be seen in the 9th floor atrium of the Boston University Photonics Center, 15 St. Mary's Street, Boston, between 8:30 AM and 5:30 PM.
Other work of cyberart on permanent display at the Photonics Center include:
* "First Light," one of a series of digital images created by Hugh O'Donnell that was inspired by the poetry of Dylan Thomas. Located in the St. Mary's Street lobby, the 12' x 14' image, was created on computer and transferred to Ilfochrome transparency film using a Light Jet 5000 Direct Digital Laser Printer. The film is positioned behind glass and illuminated from behind by fluorescent lights.
* " . . . On the Shoulders of Giants," a light painting created by Bill Bell, a retired engineer living in Brookline who has been creating light-based art for the past 18 years. The images of events, equations, names, and faces related to photonics that move across the screen are comprised of LEDs controlled by a Macintosh computer. Additional images can be called upon by speaking specific phrases into a microphone mounted on the wall.
* "Time," created by sculptor Robert Smart, who will receive a Master of Fine Arts from the Boston University School for the Arts in May, is located in the first floor Atrium. The sculpture is composed of two columns of light, which create a kaleidoscope of changing color. The light sources, clusters of LEDs, are connected to a computer that varies their color output. Mirrored surfaces create the illusion that the columns stretch endlessly up and down, and are replicated infinite times to the right and left. Michael Lewis, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, collaborated on the computer interface for this work.
What: Luminage Prints by Kenneth Huff and Other Works of Light-Based Art
Where: Boston University Photonics Center
15 St. Mary's Street, Boston
When: Saturday, May 1 - Saturday, May 29
Hours: Daily, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Admission: Free
For Information: (617) 353-8899 http://www.bu.edu/photonics/html/fs_news.htm
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