[Brown CS Talks] Brown CS and RISD Illustration Department: Gregory Little in the CAVE at 180 George Street on December 3 2002, at 1 pm

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		      Seminar and Demonstration


	   Brown University Department of Computer Science
		     RISD Illustration Department
	      
			      
			       presents

			Gregory Little, Artist
   William Drury , X3D Inc; Denise MacKay & Taren Tanner, VREX Inc.
		   
			    

		  Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 1 pm

		     The CAVE, 180 George Street
			     
	       

	      Innovation in Virtual Reality Environments
 
			       
			       Abstract

Artist Gregory Little will present ``The Dance of the Body Without
Organs'', a virtual reality environment based on a 3D laser scan of an
individual's body. The form of the body has been reorganized by means
of emotional, aesthetic, and irrational constructs and filled with
assorted texts, models of viscera, images and spatialized sounds
collected from different individuals. The fully immersive experience
is unstable, surprising, and intimately responsive to the
viewer/participant.

Little has been working with electronic media since 1986. His research
has been presented at several national and international venues
including ArtScii 2002, New York, NY, Invencao, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
ISEA Paris; CaiiA in Wales; and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.  His
most recent installation Rev15, The Body w/o Organs, a collaboration
with artist Patrick Lichty, was premiered in March of 2001 during The
Eighth Biennial Symposium of Arts and Technology, at the Center for
Arts and Technology, Connecticut College, New London. His essays have
been published in several venues, including the Ohio Journal of
Science, Interface (ACCAD, The Ohio State University) and Intertexts
(Texas Tech). Little is currently teaching in the Department of
Digital Art at Bowling Green State University, and is also Visiting
Artist/Researcher at the Virtual Reality and Innovation Centre, the
University of Teesside, UK.

William Drury ( X3D), Denise MacKay and Taren Tanner (VREX) are
representatives of New York-based commercial developers of VR 3D
technologies and applications. They will demonstrate new hardware for
creating portable, powerful and affordable virtual reality
experiences, as well as scientific educational models that have been
specifically designed to make use of new VR technologies.

				
Host:  Professor David Laidlaw, Brown CS and Professor Fritz Drury, RISD
Illustration