Please join us for the next Critical Media Lab Salon featuring presentations by Prof. Jane Tingley, Department of Fine Arts, and Judy Ehrentraut, PhD candidate, Department of English.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 25, 4:00-6:00pm
WHERE: Critical Media Lab, in the Dept. of English Digital Space at 44 Gaukel St., Kitchener (across from the bus terminal)
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Artist talk (Jane Tingley)
Jane Tingley will talk about her solo and collaborative projects since 2006. She will talk about her responsive and interactive installations, performative robotic projects with MoNo, and her gestural game with Researchers at the Technoculture Art and Games Research Centre.
Head-Mounted Displays: Altering Reality through Telepresence and Embodiment (Judy Ehrentraut)
Abstract:
Historically, there has been a tendency for digital realms/cyberspace to be regarded as platforms for the body’s abandonment of its physical flesh, and the re-materialization of the self in a purely digital form. As pervasive technologies have advanced to the point where humans can switch between digital and physical environments, blending traces of one into another, the physical body’s significance as a site for experience is brought back into the equation. With the recent resurgence of head-mounted display technologies, we are starting to see more reality-altering devices being incorporated into video gaming and social networking that step outside the virtual reality mindset of full cognitive immersion, focusing instead on utilizing the body to blend real and virtual life. This talk is part of a larger project that explores various head-mounted devices and the differences between experiencing digital life through simulated virtual reality, mixed reality, and augmented reality systems that overlay the physical world with holographic imagery.
Image Credit: http://janetingley.com/daredroid/
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