C O N N E C T I O N S
the california polytechnic university-slo
the
university of oregon
the university of utah
2/16/99
Objectives:
- To examine current & developing applications for live interaction
- To look at place-making and expression in virtual worlds
Application Sharing
Netmeeting: audio, video, whiteboard and application sharingNetopia's TimbuktuPro Conference
Exercise: Connect with your local or remote partners and critique their parti by drawing over images in Photoshop or by editing the forms in FormZ.
Virtual Worlds
The Palace, visual chat
Virtual Identity
VRML HumanoidsVirtual Personalities
Exercise: Examine at least two worlds or two human representations and be ready to answer the following questions: What aspects matter the most in terms of creative expression? What makes a world vital or vivid?
References
Online Communities Class by Amy Jo KimPapers on Virtual Identity by Ioannis Paniaras
SIGGRAPH98 Artsites - Juried Websites
Reading Assignment - Bermudez/Neiman & Herbert
1. Provide an example of how the serendipity that Dan Herbert advocates comes into the design process. Describe how accidental discoveries could be introduced into the digital design process.
2. What hypotheses are the Digital/Analog studio based upon? What are the advantages of mixing media vs. staying in one medium? Provide an example to support your case (it can be non-digital or digital/analog).