Creative VR Futures
Fri 22 July
Sat 23 July
Artistic presentations, demonstrations and hands-on experience of current immersive and augmented virtual environment research. The event will take an in depth look into the current artistic applications and developments of virtual/mixed reality, ranging from telepresent networking, tele-immersion and collaborative VR interaction to both painted and virtual urban landscapes and panoramas.
Friday 22nd July
Centenary Building Lecture Theatre (10.00am to 4.50pm)
School of Art & Design, The University of Salford, Centenary Building, Peru Street, Salford, M3 6EQ
Introduction - Paul Sermon, School of Art & Design, The University of Salford - 10.00am to 10.20am
Horst Hoertner, Ars Electronica Future Lab - 10.30am to 11.10am
Anthony Steed, University College London - 11.20am to 12.00pm
Monika Fleischmann, Fraunhofer IMK/MARS Bonn - 12.10pm to 12.50pm
Buffet Lunch at Centenary
Maurice Benayoun, Interactive Media Artist, Paris - 2.00pm to 2.40pm
Ben Johnson, Arist/Painter, Liverpool Biannual - 2.50pm to 3.30pm
Wolfgang Strauss, Fraunhofer IMK/MARS Bonn - 3.40pm to 4.20pm
Conclusion - Dave Roberts, The Centre for Virtual Environments - 4.30pm to 4.50pm
Saturday 23rd July
The Centre for Virtual Environments (10.00am to 3.45pm)
The University of Salford, Business House, University Road, Salford, M5 4WT
CAVE presentations by Future Lab, introduced by Horst Hoertner - 10.00am to 10.45am
Demonstrations by UCL introduced by Anthony Steed - 11.00am to 11.45am
Demonstrations by: GMD/MARS introduced by Monika Fleischmann - 12.00pm to 12.45pm
Buffet Lunch at CVE
CAVE presentations by: Maurice Benayoun - World Skin - 2.00pm to 2.45pm
CVE Workshops - 3.00pm to 3.45pm
Two six months artist-in-residence opportunities available at The University of Salford Centre for Virtual Environments
For further information and symposium booking details please contact:
Nathalie Edwards n.j.edwards@salford.ac.uk