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This KU Theatre for Young people production is another step in the University Theatre's ongoing work with virtual reality technology. Director Patrick Carriere, Bemidji, MN, graduate student, and Mark Reaney professor of theatre & Film teamed

MACHINAL is a play in nine episodes by Sophie Treadwell, first produced in 1928 and published in 1929. The setting is 1920s New York and a seaside hotel. Suggested by a notorious murder case, this expressionistic play (also produced as The Life

This high-tech treatment of Shakespeare's masterpiece played June 29 - July 1, 2000 in the Lumley Studio Theatre at the University of Kent at Canterbury. The Y2K production of A Midsummer Night's Dream marks a collaboration between

Cross Control was initiated from the perspective of the rapidly changing experiences in the contemporary city, caused by the increased use of computer and mechanical techniques. Machines, intentionally developed as expedients, are being accepted at

An Explicit Volume is an interactive installation comprising nine books arranged in a three by three grid. Each book is operated by an electronic page turner. The project is sited in a darkened space where four red vinyl chairs are arranged facing

W E L C O M E T O M Y B R A I N The human brain has hitherto been considered a static organ with a fixed set of neurons that are being used up without ever being replaced again. Now research is discovering that the brain is an extremely dynamic

ELUSIVE SELF A room installation which deals with the capacity of our brain to remember - and to forget, focusing on how we constantly revalue and recreate our relation to ourselves and to our past. Our memory is not like a printed book with an

Three networked skyboards equip visitors to surf freely throughout a shared virtual space. Each fiberglass skyboard is a custom full-body input device, with force-sensing resistors driving the flight simulation for the occupant's on-screen

A large, empty room becomes the portal into an alternate universe, explored via two monitors pushed about on rolling stands. When viewed through the screen of each exploratory vehicle, clouds of passive brass flakes are swirled and grasped by unseen

The Mimetic Starfish is a virtual creature, projected onto a large circular table. It reacts to visitors hand gestures in a life-like manner, slowly extending a tentacle towards a gently moving hand, or receding rapidly in an impulsive manner if the