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  Mixed Realities - An International Networked Art Exhibition and Symposium

Opening and Performance: February 7, 2008; 5-7 pm
Symposium: February 8; 10 am - 5 pm
Workshop: February 9; 1-5 pm
Exhibition: February 7 - April 15, 2008

Free and Open to the Public

To Register for Symposium: email jo at turbulence dot org with Symposium in the subject line (Lunch included)

To Register for Workshop: email jo at turbulence dot org with Workshop in the subject line (Limited to 12 participants)

Concept
 

Mixed Reality is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments where physical and digital objects can co-exist and interact in real-time.

Mixed Realities is an exhibition and symposium that explores the convergence — through cyberspace — of real and synthetic places made possible by computers and networks. Mixed Realities links and overlays the Huret & Spector Gallery (Boston), Turbulence.org, and Ars Virtua (Second Life).

Second Life is a shared, synthetic, 3-D environment through which people can interact in real-time by means of a virtual self or avatar. Although it's an imaginary place, it is often able to "masquerade as real" (Richard Bartle) because it approximates reality persuasively enough to facilitate player immersion.

Audience members — who will be embodied as avatars in Second Life, browsing the works at turbulence.org, and/or be physically present in the gallery — will interact with the works and with one another. Thus, Mixed Realities will enable people who are distributed across multiple physical and virtual spaces to communicate with one another and share experiences in real time.

Five works were commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. specifically for the Mixed Realities exhibition. Collectively, they combine sensor, video, sound, streaming, webcam, projection, processing, world wide web, and 3-D technologies to produce immersive, interactive and participatory performances and installations. They allow audiences to experience real and fictional places simultaneously in Imaging Beijing and The Vitruvian World; debate the value of virtual labor and currency in No Matter; communicate physical data from multiple sources through Remote; and question mediated communication itself in Caterwaul.

The competition was juried by Yasmine Abbas, Founder, Neo-Nomad; Michael Frumin, Technical Director Emeritus, Eyebeam; James Morgan, Director, Ars Virtua; Trebor Scholz, Founder, Institute for Distributed Creativity; and Helen Thorington, Co-Director, Turbulence. Bios >>

 
Exhibition  

Mixed Realities: An International Networked Art Exhibition
Dates:
February 7 - April 15, 2008
Times: Monday - Friday, 11 am to 3 pm

Opening Reception:
February 7, 5-7 pm
Pierre Proske's CATERWAUL will be performed by Emerson College students at 5:30 pm

Venues: Huret & Spector Gallery, 10 Boylston Place, 6th Floor [MAP: select #4, The Tufte Performance and Production Center], Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts; Ars Virtua (Second Life - Teleport >> *) and Turbulence.org.

* To visit Ars Virtua simply create a free account in Second Life and run the current client. Once you have this properly installed follow this link directly to Ars Virtua.

Artists/Works:
CATERWAUL

by Pierre Proske, with technical assistance from Artem Baguinski and Brigit Lichtenegger
Imaging Beijing

by John (Craig) Freeman
NO MATTER
by Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott
Remote
by Neill Donaldson, Usman Haque, Ai Hasegawa, Georg Tremmel
The Vitruvian World
by Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker and David Steele

Curated by Jo-Anne Green,
Co-Director, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.

 

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Presentations and Discussion:
February 8, 10 am - 5 pm

Morning Panel - Real World Implications of Virtual Economies:

Burak Arikan, Drew Harry, Scott Kildall/Victoria Scott, Gene Koo (moderator)

Afternoon Panel - Immersion, Presence and Place:

John (Craig) Freeman, Usman Haque, Pierre Proske, Michael Takeo Magruder/Drew Baker/David Steele, Eric Gordon (moderator)

 


  Venue: Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street [MAP: select #2, 216 Tremont Street], Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts; Emerson Island* (182, 112, 23), Second Life.

To Register for Symposium: email jo at turbulence dot org with Symposium in the subject line. (Lunch included)

* To visit Emerson Island, simply create a free account in Second Life and run the current client. Once you have this properly installed follow this link .
 
Workshop   NO MATTER by Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott
February 9, 1-5 pm
Venue: Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street [MAP: select #2, 216 Tremont Street], Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts.


In this 4-hour workshop, artists Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott will assist participants in building miniature paper models of famous imaginary and fictional objects, such as Kryptonite, the Flying Carpet and The Widget. The first section will be an overview of the processes they used to create their project No Matter. They’ll discuss how they commissioned Second Life builders to make 40 of these imaginary objects and demonstrate how they extracted and transformed these 3D models from Second Life into real 3D paper sculptures. In the second section participants will be instructed in the actual construction of the paper-craft 3D. Attendees will be paid for their labor in equivalent paper Linden Dollars.

Attendance: Limited to 12 people. Persons over 16 with intermediate to advanced skills with cutting, gluing or sculpture.

To Register for Workshop: email jo at turbulence dot org with Workshop in the subject line.


Support

  New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. commissioned five works ($5,000 each) for Mixed Realities with funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Hosted by Emerson College’s Huret & Spector Gallery, the exhibition and symposium are funded by Emerson College's School of the Arts and Department of Visual and Media Arts; and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Floating Points 5: Mixed Realities was organized by: John (Craig) Freeman, Eric Gordon, Brooke A. Knight, Anya Belkina, James Sheldon, and Robert Fleming (Emerson College); and Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington (New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.)
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