This exhibit of interactive pieces from Studio IMC (Interactive Multimedia Culture)—a New
This exhibit of interactive pieces from Studio IMC (Interactive Multimedia Culture)—a New York City-based new media agency comprised of an international team of artists and software engineers—envisions the future of group entertainment and collaboration and imagines what's waiting for us beyond the relatively passive, "hands-off" experience of watching TV. Studio IMC fuses old and new media concepts and technologies to create a brave new world of participatory—at times even immersive—media consumption. There are no "Do Not Touch" signs here—instead, you're encouraged to touch everything and actually become part of the artwork yourselves.
Previous Studio IMC exhibits—hosted by art museums and galleries—focused on how these works expand the boundaries of art and the museum experience. This collaboration with MT&R ponders the ways in which Studio IMC's new media creations both borrow from and advance traditional home entertainment media like television and radio. Scholars Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin call this progression "remediation"—throughout time, emerging media have achieved aesthetic and cultural significance not by divorcing themselves from antecedents, but by paying homage to and refashioning them. Photography remediated painting; film remediated theater and photography; and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio. New media represents not only the remediation of TV and radio, but also the convergence of sound, image, the human body, and the real world, all integrated into an immersive experience that mixes the virtual and the real. This seismic shift toward a type of "total art," or "Gesamtkunstwerk" (a term coined by Richard Wagner) will empower people in ways we can only begin to imagine.
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Studio IMC held the 2nd Annual IMC Expo from April 14th to 23rd, 2005, at the Chelsea Art
Studio IMC held the 2nd Annual IMC Expo from April 14th to 23rd, 2005, at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City (556 West 22nd St. @ 11th Ave). The event was covered on TV by New York 1 News, the Discovery Channel, Sony News Network, and many others.
The IMC Expo is an annual exhibition showcasing cutting-edge immersive technologies, innovative art works, and commercial installations.
As a hybrid tradeshow, artshow, and educational symposium, the IMC Expo is a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. The Expo offers a networking opportunity promising to unite pioneering executives and entrepreneurs with the next generation of new media artists, engineers, programmers and designers.
The IMC Expo is produced in association with the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and features exhibitors and presenters from ITP, Yale University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and many other leading institutions.
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CINE 2.0 (Collaborative Immersive Networked Environment, pronounced "sign")
www.StudioI
CINE 2.0 (Collaborative Immersive Networked Environment, pronounced "sign")
www.StudioIMC.com
A mixed media environment inspired by Star Trek: TNG's Holodeck. Multiple users fly through an urban datascape in an immersive environment by using body gestures. Participants in the environment can also collaborate to compose music while participants in the real city can send photographs from their cell phones to the environment.
Artists: James Tunick, Miro Kirov, and Houston Riley with Tony Rizzaro and Braden Weeks Earp
CINE takes the computer screen out of the box and reconfigures it as a life-size environment in the room. Control of visuals and sound takes place through full-body gestures rather than just fingers tips. As the traditional computer screen and mouse-keyboard interface transforms to fill the room, it invites collaboration between multiple users, setting up the potential for a whole new worlds of learning, art, creativity, play, and entertainment.
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By Jaanis Garancs and James Tunick
Parallel Cityscapes (PC) is an interactive audiovisu
By Jaanis Garancs and James Tunick
Parallel Cityscapes (PC) is an interactive audiovisual environment that imagines the future of the personal computing while revealing the "hidden" spaces and relationships between memories. PC depicts the parallels between modern cities and future memory spaces, representing an archive of millions of user-generated photographs, video sequences, drawings and computer graphics from the Web, from mobile devices, and from public spaces. Each scene is a dynamic, algorithmically generated, stereoscopic, urban landscape with multidimensional hyperlinks that offer gateways to "parallel" scenes. This mind-bending journey is a breathtaking visual paradox between real and virtual, imagining a future in which 3D browsers and media spaces merge with real cities and encourage more advanced forms of collaboration.
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