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...In the installation Frontiers of Utopia the visitor is confronted with eight virtual female characters, based on the histories of real women who were born in different periods: 1900, 1930, 1960 and 1990. All eight characters dream of the way in which they will change...

... of medical imaging and computer mapping of the interior of the human body. Such is the experience of "Interskin", a virtual reality game between two players and a moderator. The moderator can only observe and interrupt the players, while the players...

... project our selves, and play complicated identity survival games. Initially, the participant is invited to construct a virtual body out of predefined body-parts, textures, and sounds, and gain membership to the larger body-owner community. The main...

Virtual Concrete consists of six 3-ft slabs of concrete covered with large electrostatic (digital output) prints, along with light sensors and a computer connected to the Internet via a CU-SeeMe camera. The website www.arts.ucsb.edu/ concrete allows viewers to see the...

..."Poverty Island with video Skies" is the beginning of an exploration of the integration of video images into a virtual environment. This integration will allow me to combine a long-standing interest in the evocative similarities of the forms and movements in nature...

... We argue that a large part of human understanding is necessarily "embodied". In general, tracker systems for immersive virtual environments and spatial applications reduce the physical presence of the user to one (or a small number) of points. Rather...

... format. With the HyperDance, the work expands into three dimensions. In the HyperDance, the viewer can freely move from one virtual space to another, and has a possibility to combine the choreographic and audiovisual elements interactively. (Marikki...

... March 1996. ``The Telegarden creates a physical garden as an environment to stage social interaction and community in virtual space. The Telegarden is a metaphor for the care and feeding of the delicate social ecology of the net.'' --...

...Perceptual Arena is a realtime virtual environment. In the default state completely empty, it creates an audio visual space texture as a coding of the user interaction. The interaction is simply to be in the space, to perceive it, to move around and to grasp the...

... that is not allowed to have a natural death, that is kept alive artificially through restoration, citation and simulation. A virtual reality installation allows participants to tour the first Able Skin, which covers Palladio's Villa Rotonda. The...