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Final Wisdom I at SIGGRAPH 2010

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:50:24 +0000

FINAL WISDOM I SIGGRAPH 2010, Los Angeles July 25-29

IDIA at Philips NatLab during Dutch Design Week

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:19:12 +0000

TRAVERSAL FOR EINDHOVEN
during Dutch Design Week

Collaboration with IDIA Lab and MAD Emergent Art Center

IDIA Lab
Jesse Allison [Taggert Alsop] John Fillwalk [Mencius Watts]

MAD Emergent Art Center Rien Daamen [red Hexicola] Réné Paré [oppih Pera]

October 17-25, 2009 15-21 SLT every day live through the 25th

Virtual location
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ball%20State%20University2/181/128/21

Physical location: Philips NatLab in Eindhoven, Nederlands
http://www.hightechcampus.nl/

'Traversal for Eindhoven' is a live performance hybrid reality installation that bridges the physical and virtual worlds. It connects Philips NatLab in Eindhoven to a virtual environment as part of the 2009 Dutch Design Week. Avatars will be able to play a physical synthesizer in the Philips NatLab via an interactive online virtual instrument built by IDIA - located near a 3D model of the Eindoven High Tech Campus. The sound of the live synthesizer will be streamed back into Second Life, so the virtual and physical participants can hear their interactions with the instrument.

DUTCH DESIGN WEEK From October 17 through October 25 2009, Eindhoven presents the 8th edition of Dutch Design Week, the largest design event in the Netherlands. Around 1500 designers from home and abroad will show their work in more than 60 locations all over the city of Eindhoven from design disciplines such as industrial design, concept design, graphic design, textile & fashion, spatial design, fooddesign and design management & trends. Visitors will be given insight into the entire development process from concept to product in various disciplines ranging from industrial design to applied arts. The participants include established bureaus, high-profile designers, talented newcomers, and recently graduated designers, one of the reasons why this Dutch Design Week is the perfect meeting place for designers, companies, and public. http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl/indexmap.php

MAD EMERGENT ART CENTER The Foundation MAD is a platform and workshop for Emergent Art: art that exists in the exiting world between cultural and cutting edge technological developments.MAD emergent art center is laboratory, platform and provider on the intersection of art, science and technology. MAD addresses artists, designers, scientists, public groups, institutions, governments and businesses. This on regional as well as national and international level. http://www.mad.dse.nl/mad.html

IDIA Presents:The History of Interactivity in the Fine Arts

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:18:14 +0000

George Fifield is a new media arts curator, writer, teacher, artist and the founder of the Boston Cyberarts Festivalwww.bostoncyberarts.org. The Boston Cyberarts Festival is the first and largest festival of artists working in new technologies in all media in North America, encompassing visual arts, dance, music, electronic literature, web art, and public art. In addition, Fifield has written on a variety of media, technology and art topics for Artbyte, Bomb, Communication Arts, Digital Fine Arts and The Independent Film and Video Monthly among others. More recently he curated Act React: Interactive Installation Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

This lecture will examine the path artists took in the 20th century, which blurs the distinction between the reader/viewer and the author. The interactive artist has voluntarily relinquished a degree of control over the viewer's experience in a way that the linear artist has not. In digital literature, web art, interactive installations, even in the popular art form of computer gaming, the audience had the ability to control their experience within the work. Visitors to a work of interactive art choose the path they take through it, giving them a hand in determining their own experience. New environments grow from simple and branching hyperlinked structures to become complex dynamic systems, virtual worlds in which people engage with their surroundings and with one another.

RFID-Linked 3D Media Interface

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:16:07 +0000

Students participating in IDIA

MMFX/IMA Interactive Project

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:15:15 +0000

IDIA is creating a media rich interactive digital kiosk for the Digital Fabrication Institute

[un]wired

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:14:24 +0000

[un]wired is an installation that visually and sonically interprets wireless network traffic, and can be shaped by any personal electronic device including wifi, bluetooth, car key fobs and cell phones.

Intermedia Artist Timeline

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:12:53 +0000

This reactive kiosk tracks hand motions to navigate through a timeline and history of intermedia artists.

Digital Cinema Arts in the Virtual World, The Aesthetic Camera Project

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:11:54 +0000

The Aesthetic Camera Project was designed to deliver digital cinema curriculum through Second Life - an online virtual world. This intensive research and development project was hatched through a partnership between the College of Fine Arts, the Center for Media Design, and Information Technology.

Eco-Net

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:11:00 +0000

"Eco-Net" is an attempt to connect wireless network data with nature by visualizing that data with plant-like structures and organic motion.

Engaging Technology Exhibit

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:10:17 +0000

This exhibit is a rich collection of inviting and interactive works that will show how technology-based art emerged in the 1960s and how it will progress into the future.

Traversal

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:09:23 +0000

Traversal is a composition for virtual performance exploring connectivity between worlds.

Museum Scanning Project

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:08:30 +0000

The IDIA Seminar's current project focuses on virtually recreating the original settings of various sculptures found throughout the Ball State Museum of Art.

Ball Memorial Hospital Visualization

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:07:41 +0000

In collaboration with Ball Memorial Hospital, IDIA has created a training video and interactive media to help facilitate the transition into the Ball Memorial Hospital New South Tower.

Augmented Reality Research

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:06:48 +0000

IDIA research on possible applications of Augmented Reality

IDIA Blackboard / Second Life Building Block Project

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:55:38 +0000

IDIA has produced a bridging toolset, linking the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life with Blackboard - providing a unified, secure and fluid hybrid learning experience. This project is funded by the Blackboard Greenhouse Grant for Virtual Worlds.

Twitter Cloud

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:53:21 +0000

The Twitter Cloud is a real time visualization of Tweets posted on Twitter.com

iDMAa 2009 Conference Networking System

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:52:50 +0000

iDMAa 2009 Conference Networking System encompassing RFID conference badges, RFID enabled automated tweet stations, MS Surface conference information center, Second Life Hybrid networking area, and a central web application for mobile device conference information access.

IDIA Featured in IUPUI Intermedia Festival

Mon, 17 May 2010 13:48:08 +0000

Jesse Allison and John Fillwalk exhibited their interactive virtual worlds installation, Flickr Gettr at the IUPUI Intermedia Festival held on April 23-25 in Indianapolis. The festival had over 100 international performers from across the arts. For more information, Please visit, http://music.iupui.edu/intermedia/

IDIA performs at the International Annual Science and Technology Festival in India

Fri, 14 May 2010 18:45:47 +0000

John Fillwalk and Jesse Allison travelled to Mumbai, India for the International Annual Science and Technology Festival, January 22-24, to exhibit the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts' (IDIA) "Flickr Getter" installation. The festival, the largest of its kind in Asia, hosted more than 65,000 attendees. In addition to exhibitions such as "Flickr Getter", the festival featured keynotes such as Lars Rasmussen, Co-Founder of Google Wave and Google Maps; Vic Hayes, father of Wi-Fi; Ajay Bhatt, Co-Inventor of USB; Jonathan Gardner, Senior NASA Scientist; and R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser of the Government of India.

IDIA's Flickr Getter is an interactive, sonic and visual experience, immersing the viewer in a three-dimensional cloud of user searched Flickr images. The installation, completed in collaboration with the New Media Consortium, Linden Labs and the Institute for Digital Fabrication, was also highlighted in the festival's promotional video.

For more information, please visit http://www.techfest.org/scintillations/flickrgettr/

Between Two Worlds:Virtuality in Arts and Teaching

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:47:54 +0000

Between Two Worlds:Virtuality in Arts and Teaching

John Fillwalk, Ball State University
Jesse Allison, Ball State University

Abstract

Virtual worlds provide a platform in which to construct compelling experiences not possible within the material and temporal constraints of the physical world. The virtual realm has the potential to be united and engaged by physicality--informing and transforming the audience's experience of exhibition in a profoundly transformative nature. The Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts at Ball State University has been incorporating mixed-reality approaches into museum exhibitions, musical performances, installation art, and interface over the last several years. This paper documents specific explorations of the opportunities of the Second Life environment for mixed-reality experiences--analyzing approaches to bridging the worlds such as media streaming, client-side interaction, an external web server communication hub, as well as opportunities for human/computer interaction.

Displaced Resonance

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:47:03 +0000

Displaced Resonance consists of sixteen sculptural forms containing tubing of different lengths (the longest roughly ten feet, folded) mounted on boxes with internal loudspeakers driving sound through the tubes.

iDMAa 7th Annual Conference

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:46:11 +0000

Leading academics, professionals and artists will gather at Ball State for the International Digital Media and Art Association’s 7th annual conference to explore the frontiers of digital media and art in research, industry and higher learning. The conference will include pre-conference workshops, keynote and plenary presentations, panels, a lounge environment for ad hoc discussion, evening events and an insider's look at Ball State's state-of-the-art digital media facilities.

Keynote Speaker:
Tom Kelley, general manager of IDEO, will be featured keynote speaker. IDEO was recently ranked fifth in Fast Company's 2008 list of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies.

Traversal for Boston Cyberarts

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:08:48 +0000

Traversal for Boston Cyberarts is a live performance and hybrid reality installation that bridges the physical and virtual worlds. It will connect Faneuil Hall in Boston (virtualized in Second Life) with Shafer Tower at Ball State University as part of the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival.

Flickr Gettr

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:07:48 +0000

Flickr Gettr bridges the virtual world to the wealth of shared real life imagery and information in Flickr, providing an immersive sonic and visual experience of the collective image resource.