[Mdl] Reminder: MINERVA 2005: "Visual Futures"

[John Butler]

Registration deadline approaching (10/19/05)


***MINERVA 2005 SYMPOSIUM***

Virtual Futures: Media Immersion Weisman Art Museum Wednesday, 
November 2nd 9:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.

To register please go to: 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 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 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:

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

REGISTRATION DUE BY OCTOBER 19th 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.

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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