The New Techne : Scott Fisher Keynote

March 23, 2004

Type: discussion

The New Techne
A Symposium on Collaboration in the Art & Sciences
Presented by the Center for New Media, Maryland Institute College of Art
and the Digital Media Center, Johns Hopkins University

Reception starting at 5 pm
Keynote Lecture by Scott Fisher at 7pm
Thursday, April 8, 2004

Maryland Institute College of Art
Brown Center
1301 Mt. Royal Ave., Baltimore, MD
free and open to the public

Sponsored by Intel and Firaxis Games

The New Techne Keynote Lecture will feature artist/scientist Scott
Fisher in the Hall @ Brown Center at 7pm. Fisher conducted seminal
research in virtual reality (VR) and telepresence in the late 1980s
at the NASA-Ames Research Center in California, where he worked on
the Virtual Environment Workstation (VIEW) project. There, he
pioneered the development of technology for multi-sensory interaction
with cybernetic devices, creating the powerful illusion of entering a
digitized landscape. "The possibilities of virtual realities, it
appears, are as limitless as the possibilities of reality, they can
provide a human interface that disappears - a doorway to other
worlds." - Scott Fisher

The lecture is preceded by a reception from 5 - 7 p.m, with DVD
presentations of MICA/JHU/Peabody Conservatory of Music
collaborations; Intel supported art and technology projects by
Rebecca Allen, Greg Niemeyer, Chris Chafe, Danny Rozin, Vibeke
Sorensen, Richard Brown, Ken Goldberg, Victoria Vesna, James
Gimsewski, and Bill Seaman; works by Hunt Valley-based Firaxis Games
including Pirates!, Civilization III, and SimGolf; and remarks by
Firaxis Founder, CEO, and President Jeffrey Briggs (6:45 pm).

The lecture and reception kicks off a two-day symposium that offers a
unique opportunity for artists and scientists at the participating
institutions to build bridges for collaboration and to seek support
from industry. The New Techne is an interdisciplinary initiative
whose objective is to advance opportunities for research and projects
in such emergent fields as biomedical engineering, telematics,
transgenics, hypermedia, data imaging, intelligent systems,
generative art, and other hybrid areas. The New Techne is organized
jointly by Randall Packer of MICA's Center for New Media and Joan
Freedman of the Johns Hopkins University Digital Media Center.

For more information:
http://cnm.mica.edu/events.html

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