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2002 Award

MediartspaceLive!

Marcia Lyons, Architecture, Art and Planning, Margaret Corbit, Cornell Theory Center
Faculty Advisory Board on Information Technologies (FABIT)

Summary

Mediartspace Live! Provides the opportunity for students to become exposed to new ideas, perspectives and tools for digital media, while considering what it means to use the Internet for expression. Through an innovative cross-disciplinary studio/lab/seminar, students will explore the phenomenon of “telepresence”. Students will have access to multi-disciplinary media environments around campus using the latest in network technologies and digital media tools, creating and interacting in real, virtual, and hybrid spaces, including the 3-walled Windows CAVE at the Cornell Theory Center.

Instructional challenges

  • Create a novel environment that incorporates a wide variety of networked digital media and encourages reflection on what it means to be “wired”.
  • Create a new hands-on studio course that encourages students to explore, create, and communicate in this new environment, moving among and integrating applications for digital media ranging from straight text to live streaming in a multi-user 3D virtual world.
  • Develop a conceptual scaffold for the various lab experiences based on the dimensions of the user experience.

Technology solutions

  • A hardware environment was set up with the following components:
    • CTCUni, an ActiveWorlds Universe Server, was installed to provide a virtual space, Mediart World, and support user access to this multi-user environment.
    • Hardware and studio space for creating live and computer-generated portions of the performances online.
    • Extension of CAVE software to enable streaming content into and out of the CAVE.

Development highlights

  • CTCUni ActiveWorlds Universe Server installed, along with video cameras, hardware, streaming servers in Tjaden.
  • Introductory concepts and technology tested in the Media Arts Studio course in Fall 2002.
  • Media Arts “Telepresence” course offered to students in Spring 2003.

Students, captured with live video, reducing an apparently 3D object to 2D by reflecting its projection with mirrors.

Contacts

Marcia Lyons
ml113@cornell.edu

Margaret Corbit
corbitm@tc.cornell.edu

More Information

Email us at innovprojects@cornell.edu with questions about the program.

Project Contacts

Marcia Lyons
ml113@cornell.edu

Margaret Corbit
corbitm@tc.cornell.edu