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  • Palo Alto -
    ... pre-construction of reality has its own laws and boundaries; by simulating reality through virtuality these laws osmose through the membrane that connects them. In this way the virtual inflicts its glitches on our reality. This work exposes the...
  • ... in the late-80s, becoming a founding director of the 3-D software company Softimage. Her most renowned virtual environment, Osmose (1995), is considered a landmark in the history of new media art. Davies has also published numerous essays on virtual space,...
  • ...mpo saccadé qui suit à la lettre celui de la bande son,texte et musique de l’exposition. Dans sa vidéo M. Benayoun réalise une osmose entre l’image qu’il propose et le travail de Buren. [L.D.] source: Catalogue : «2e manifestation international de vidéo...
  • Éphémère - video
    ...Ephémère is iconography evolved through Davies' long-standing practice as a painter, and, as in Osmose, is grounded in 'nature' as metaphor: archetypal elements of root, rock, and stream etc. recur throughout. In Ephémère however, this iconographic...
  • ...Wertheim, Margaret. Virtual Nature: Osmose - Char Davies' Organo-Virtual Odyssey Metropolis (September 1996): 58-61.
  • ...Davies, Char. Landscape, Earth, Body, Being, World, and Time in the Immersive Virtual Environments Osmose and Ephémère In Emergent Futures: Art, Interactivity and New Media, edited by Angela Molina and Kepa Landa, 47-58. : Institució Alfonse el Magnánim, Diputació...
  • ...Davies, Char. Landscape, Earth, Body, and Time in the Immersive Virtual Environments Osmose and Ephémère In Women, Art, and Technology, edited by Judy Malloy, 322-337. Cambridge, London: MIT Press, 2003.
  • ...Deepwell, Katy. Reverie, Osmose and Ephémère: Dr. Carol Gigliotti interviews Char Davies n.paradoxa, international feminist art journal 9 (2002): 64-73.
  • OSMOSE - video
    ... graphics and interactive 3D sound, a head-mounted display and real-time motion tracking based on breathing and balance. Osmose is a space for exploring the perceptual interplay between self and world, i.e. a place for facilitating awareness of...
  • ...Davies, Char and John Harrison. Osmose: Towards Broadening the Aesthetics of Virtual Reality Computer Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH) 30, no. 4 (1996): 25-28.