The Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA Lab) at Ball State University The Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA Lab) at Ball State University explores the intersection between the arts, sciences, and humanities. Founded in 2005, the IDIA Lab is centered in the BSU College of Architecture and Planning. Working with clients worldwide, the lab designs scholarly, creative, and learning projects that investigate a wide range of emerging technologies, including virtual reality, augmented reality, mobile apps, interactive art, museum exhibitions, and 3D animation.
RFID-Linked 3D Media Interface
The project allows the user to manipulate a digital world with wireless objects. Through the use of Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID), the virtual world can detect the presence of real-world objects and use them to manipulate its own attributes. In the case of this project, physical cubes link the user with virtual cubes within […]
Read More About RFID-Linked 3D Media InterfaceMMFX/IMA Interactive Project
IDIA is creating a media rich interactive digital kiosk for the Digital Fabrication Institute’s MMFX Exhibit hosted by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Students participating in the IDIA Immersion Seminar in Virtual Worlds are developing the interactive interface, which will act as a station within the exhibit where viewers can attain additional biographical and portfolio […]
Read More About MMFX/IMA Interactive Project[un]wired
[un]wired by Jesse Allison, John Fillwalk and Keith Kothman is a processing network visualizer that responds to interactions from personal radio-frequency devices such as mobile phones, WiFi signals, Bluetooth signals and car-key fobs. It tracks real-time statistical information from wireless access points (designed for seamless handoff of moving wireless traffic, like a cell phone network), […]
Read More About [un]wiredIntermedia Artist Timeline
This device was designed to take you on a journey through the history of intermedia art. The kiosk, made by the IDIA in collaboration with the Institute for Digital Fabrication at Ball State University, allows the user to interact using hand gestures to move through the timeline. The work includes a short bio, image and […]
Read More About Intermedia Artist TimelineFlickr Gettr: IDIA Featured in IUPUI Intermedia Festival
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/
Read More About Flickr Gettr: IDIA Featured in IUPUI Intermedia FestivalinterActivity: IDIA at Philips HighTech Campus during Dutch Design Week
TRAVERSAL FOR EINDHOVEN during Dutch Design Week Collaboration with IDIA Lab and MAD Emergent Art Center IDIA Lab John Fillwalk and Jesse Allison MAD Emergent Art Center Rien Daamen and Réné Paré October 17-25, 2009 15-21 SLT live daily through the 25th Virtual location http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ball%20State%20University2/181/128/21 Physical location: Philips HighTech Campus and NatLab in Eindhoven, Nederlands http://www.hightechcampus.nl/ ‘Traversal for […]
Read More About interActivity: IDIA at Philips HighTech Campus during Dutch Design WeekOculus Rift and Leap Motion Demo
The Oculus Rift allows users to be visually transported to virtual 3D worlds. When paired with the Leap Motion, users now have the ability to interact with a 3D virtual world using their own hands. The visual displays on the Oculus Rift project the user into an immersive 3D environment. The Leap Motion then allows […]
Read More About Oculus Rift and Leap Motion DemoVirtual Apollo 15
IDIA Lab’s Virtual Apollo 15 is a simulation of the mission which launched on July 26, 1971 from the Kennedy Space Center, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. During the launch, the S-IC did not completely shut off following staging for four seconds, creating the possibility of the spent stage banging into the S-II engines, damaging them […]
Read More About Virtual Apollo 15Virtual Kitty Hawk
IDIA Lab’s Kitty Hawk is a simulation of the moment recorded in the famous photograph of the flight of the Wright Flyer (often retrospectively referred to as Flyer I or 1903 Flyer). This flyer was the first successful powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it four times on December 17, […]
Read More About Virtual Kitty HawkVirtual Izapa
IDIA Lab’s Virtual Izapa, is a simulation of the site that is considered to be the birthplace of the Mayan Long Count, which ended its cycle today on December 21st, 2012 – the winter solstice. Viewed today, the site is oriented on an axis where it is aligned generally but not precisely to sunrise on […]
Read More About Virtual IzapaVirtual Giza Necropolis
BSU IDIA Lab’s Virtual Giza Necropolis is an archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments includes the three pyramids known as the Great Pyramids, the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers’ village and an industrial complex. It is located some […]
Read More About Virtual Giza NecropolisVirtual Mosque Demo
Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts at Ball State University (IDIA Lab). A demonstration level featuring architecture of the Mosque. Visit Virtual Mosque Demo in Blue Mars http://blink.bluemars.com/City/IDIA_Mosque/ Virtual Mosque Demo in Blue Mars Video Walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYS7Zafr0bk
Read More About Virtual Mosque DemoVirtual Chichen Itza
IDIA Lab’s Virtual Chichen Itza is a simulation of the large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Post-Classic era. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.The layout of the Chichen Itza core site developed during its earlier phase of occupation, between 750 and […]
Read More About Virtual Chichen ItzaOculus Rift + Leap Motion controller 3D printing.
Using our MakerBot Replicator 2X 3D printer, IDIA’s Chris Harrison worked with David Rodriguez to create a family of 3 brackets with varying uses and advantages to mount a Leap Motion Controller to the front of an Oculus Rift DK2. Finding that double sided tape was not doing a very effective job of holding the Leap […]
Read More About Oculus Rift + Leap Motion controller 3D printing.