[Mdl] Minerva 2005 Symposium

[Ewing, M Keith]

MINERVA 2005 SYMPOSIUM

 

Virtual Futures: Media Immersion 
Weisman Art Museum
Wednesday, November 2nd 
8:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.  
www.minerva.umn.edu <http://www.minerva.umn.edu/> 

 

New forms of digital media are enticing educators, scholars and curators
to re-imagine their learning and research environments. This 'new
media,' involving interactive and immersion technologies, and first
explored as game software, is demonstrating significantly different
approaches to interacting with visual information, as well as other
"players" and "objects" that share the environment. 

 

Please join us on November 2nd from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the
Weisman Art Museum to hear from local experts in the field of new and
alternative media. The program Virtual Futures: Media Immersion will
explore the work of artists and technology and other specialists who
pioneered work with new media, and demonstrate interactive media
projects that have achieved some notoriety in the academic and museum
setting. 

 

Virtual Futures: Media Immersion Program:

*	Dr. Jane Blocker, Professor of Art History at the University of
Minnesota, will give a thematic and chronological overview of the
development of alternative media in the 20th and 21st centuries, and
consider how different media, including performance, happenings, video
art, installation, and digital art, have been involved with the
re-conceptualization of artistic production and reception. 
*	Assistant Director at the Office of Information
Technology/University of Minnesota, Mark McCahill, will explore Croquet,
a collaboration 3D environment in which users or groups of users may
build any number of private or shared "worlds" instantaneously. McCahill
will discuss the meaning of "deep collaboration" as demonstrated with
Croquet, and explore its capabilities as a delivery platform for visual
resources. 
*	The program welcomes a curator's examination of the meaning of
virtual galleries and the re-curating of exhibitions with media that
mimics video game standards such as Half-Life 2. Our special guest
curator will discuss interactive media exhibition strategies that offer
polarized projection as an ideal method for display.

 Conference registration is $50.00 and includes access to the full day
program, light breakfast refreshments and lunch. Please phone (612)
625-6438 or email ultan004 at umn.edu or (612)625-6982 or email Andrew
Palahniuk ampala at umn.edu with questions.  **Please register by October
19th**

 

The MINERVA Symposium continues to encourage cooperative sharing of
ideas, expertise, and resources among institutions building or
considering online image collections, by fostering collaborative
relationships between cultural heritage and museum institutions, the
academic community and libraries.  MINERVA is co-sponsored by the
Minnesota Digital Library Coalition, the Weisman Art Museum, the College
of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the College of Liberal Arts
and the University of Minnesota Libraries. 




-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.stcloudstate.edu/pipermail/mdl/attachments/20050922/e6fbfd45/attachment.htm