ConFIGURING the CAVE

Computergraphic installation
Jeffrey Shaw with Agnes Hegedues and Bernd Lintermann
1996

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ConFIGURING the CAVE is a computer based interactive video installation that assumes a set of technical and pictorial procedures to identify various paradigmatic conjunctions of body and space. The work utilises the CAVE technology stereographic virtual reality environment with contiguous projections on three walls and the floor. The user interface is a near life-size wooden puppet that is formed like the prosaic artists’ mannequin; this figure can be handled by the viewers to control real time transformations of the computer generated imagery and the sound composition.”

Quicktime video link
Link to reconFiguring the CAVE (An interactive, immersive audio-visual environment, Jeffrey Shaw with Agnes Hegedues and Bernd Lintermann
1997/2001)

Wed, October 5 2005 » Future Cinema

Future Cinema – 2015

This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacle to works probing the frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Drawing upon a broad range of scholarship, including film theory, communication studies, cultural studies and new media theory, the course will consider how digital technologies are transforming the semiotic fabric of contemporary visual culture. Our focus will be on the phenomenon Gene Youngblood described three decades ago as expanded cinema an explosion of the frame outward towards immersive, interactive and interconnected (i.e., environmental) forms of culture.

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