***MINERVA (Minnesota Electronic Resources in the Visual Arts) 2005
SYMPOSIUM***
Virtual Futures: Media Immersion
Weisman Art Museum
Wednesday, November 2nd
9 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
www.minerva.umn.edu
**Register by October 19th**
New forms of digital media are enticing educators, scholars and
curators to re-imagine their learning and research environments. This
'new media,' involving interactive and immersion technologies, and
first explored as game software, is demonstrating significantly
different approaches to interacting with visual information, as well
as other "players" and "objects" that share the environment.
Please join us on November 2nd from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the
Weisman Art Museum to hear from local experts in the field of new and
alternative media. The MINERVA Symposium 2005 program - Virtual
Futures: Media Immersion - will explore the work of artists and
technology and other specialists who pioneered work with new media,
and demonstrate interactive media projects that have achieved some
notoriety in the academic and museum setting.
* Dr. Jane Blocker, Professor of Art History at the University of
Minnesota, will give a thematic and chronological overview of the
development of alternative media in the 20th and 21st centuries,
and consider how different media, including performance,
happenings, video art, installation, and digital art, have been
involved with the re-conceptualization of artistic production and
reception.
* Assistant Director at the Office of Information
Technology/University of Minnesota, Mark McCahill, will explore
Croquet, a collaboration 3D environment in which users or groups
of users may build any number of private or shared "worlds"
instantaneously. McCahill will discuss the meaning of "deep
collaboration" as demonstrated with Croquet, and explore its
capabilities as a delivery platform for visual resources.
* The program welcomes a curator's examination of the meaning of
virtual galleries and the re-curating of exhibitions with media
that mimics video game standards such as Half-Life 2. Our special
guest curator will discuss interactive media exhibition strategies
that offer polarized projection as an ideal method for display.
Conference registration is $50.00 and includes access to the full day
program, light breakfast refreshments and lunch. Please phone (612)
625-6438 or email [log in to unmask] or (612)625-6982 or email Andrew
Palahniuk [log in to unmask] with questions. **Please register by October 19th**
***The MINERVA Symposium continues to encourage cooperative sharing
of ideas, expertise, and resources among institutions building or
considering online image collections, by fostering collaborative
relationships between cultural heritage and museum institutions, the
academic community and libraries. MINERVA is co-sponsored by the
Minnesota Digital Library Coalition, the Weisman Art Museum, the
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the College of
Liberal Arts and the University of Minnesota Libraries.***
Deborah K. Ultan Boudewyns
Art History & Performing Arts Librarian
Subject Instruction Coordinator
University of Minnesota
170b Wilson Library
309 19th Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
ph: (612)625-6438 fax: (612) 626-9353
email: [log in to unmask]
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