From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Subject: Re: EVENT: Munich Showing of Virtual Art Museum, Sept 10-11, 1992
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 20:45:44 GMT
Organization: WORLDESIGN, Seattle



REVISION
 
Announcing the What: Networked Virtual Art Museum Technical
Demonstration, to be conducted at ~Expedition 92: Launching New Worlds
of Learning,~ Munich, Germany,. September 10-11, 1992
 
The ~Networked Virtual Art Museum~ is a project directed by Carl
Loeffler, Research Fellow, at the Studio for Creative Inquiry, College
of Fine Arts, CMU. The pioneering project investigates
telecommunications and virtual reality, and provides a basis for
multiple users located in distant geographical locations to be
conjoined in the same virtual, immersion environment.  The project
employs telecommunication hardware, as well as the hardware associated
with virtual reality: data eyephones and multi-directional navigation
devices.
 
The immersion environment is an art museum, which contains galleries
offering exhibitions.  The exhibition presented for the Munich
demonstration is conceived by Director Carl Loeffler and is titled
~Fun House.~ While based on the traditional concept of the fun house,
the exhibition features advanced programming concepts such as agents
with Artificial Intelligence, mirrors offering reflections, and a game
room which explores gravity and other aspects of physics illustrated
by thrown objects.
 
Considered as a whole, the project is on the advancing edge of
telecommunications thru the exploration of immersion environments,
networked over long distance, while supporting multiple users. The use
of agents, and the articulation of physics and other details like
reflective mirrors , places the project at the forefront of the design
of virtual worlds.
 
The Networked Virtual Art Museum utilizes the WorldToolKit, a virtual
world development software, available from Sense8 Corporation.  The
Virtual Research head mounted display, and the Ascension Technology
6-D mouse (The Bird), and 486/50 compatible with DVI and MIDI comprise
the basic system hardware.
 
The first public demonstration of the project will take place September
10-11, in conjunction with ~Expedition 92: Launching New Worlds of
Learning,~ held in Munich, Germany., under the auspices of UNESCO  and
the Commission of the European Community.  ~Expedition 92~ conducts two
days of keynote addresses, workshops, and technical demonstrations.
Select participants include: Michael Eisner, Manager, Disney World;
 Myron Krueger, Producer, Artifical Reality; Kevin McGee, MIT Media
Lab; Siegmund Prillwitz, Director, Institute for Sign Language;
Kristina Hooper Woolsey, Director, MultiMedia Lab, Apple Computer;
among many others.
 
For information contact:
Carl Eugene Loeffler
Project Director
Telecommunications and Virtual Reality
Studio for Creative Inquiry
College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University
Tel: (412) 268-3452
FAX: (412) 268-2829