[Mdl] FW: Minerva 2005 Symposium

[Marian Rengel]

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 Œnew media,¹
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 ³players² and ³objects² 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 ³deep collaboration² as demonstrated with Croquet, and explore
its capabilities as a delivery platform for visual resources.
* The program welcomes a curator¹s 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. 

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