Pump October 2017 - Virtual Reality

Jacki Morie

nick — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 05:13:12 +0000

The Scent Collar, developed by Jacquelyn Ford Morie while at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) in collaboration with Anthrotronix, Inc., was first featured at the SIGGRAPH 2004 Cyber Fashion Show with the tag line: The Ultimate in Cyber Diva Chic Couture. It provides the sense of smell by way of an innovative, lightweight and fashionable wearable design. A patent was awarded in 2009. In 2016 the scent device was re-engineered and named RemniScent™, and works with today's VR technology as a personal scent release device for use in all types of virtual environment experiences. Dr. Morie believe scent should be included in more immersive experiences, to provide a more emotional connection to these realities.

With advanced degrees in both art and computer science, Dr. Morie has 25 years experience in developing innovative techniques for rich, emotionally evocative virtual reality (VR) environments. As part of this pioneering work, she invented a scent collar to bring the emotional power of smell to immersive experiences, and developed new types of functions for VR, such as connections to multiple sensor and feedback systems to make VR more effective. Dr. Morie spent 13 years as a Sr. Research Scientist at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), which she helped found. In the mid-1990s, Dr. Morie started comprehensive computer animation training programs at Walt Disney Feature Animation combining art and technology topics, which she later expanded to the special effects industries at studios such as Rhythm and Hues. She is the Founder and Chief Scientist of her VR company All These Worlds, LLC and serves on the Advisory Board of the Virtual World Society. She is also currently VP of Education at Upload LA.

type of work:

Scent/Olfactory

Virtual Reality

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Margaret Noble

sheri — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 04:12:41 +0000

Margaret Noble’s experimental artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her interdisciplinary work resides at the intersection of sound, sculpture, installation and performance. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego and an MFA in Sound Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Noble has created sound works for collaborative projects in video, dance and object theatre. Her artistic works have now evolved into sculpture and installation influenced by interests in memory, history, narrative, and identity.

Drift is a participatory installation which provides the user an experience of dissociative roaming between real and simulated stimuli through binaural sound, touch, motion, and audience. This project began as an investigation of sound through the personal narratives told by persons with visual impairment after a life of sight. It has now expanded into an exploration of perceptual experience as modulated by technology.

type of work:

Interactive

Sound Art

Virtual Reality

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

2nd Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 5:00pm

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 7th, 2017, 5:00 PM

Andy Fedak

sheri — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 03:22:45 +0000

Andy Fedak was born in 1978 and lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from New York University and his MFA from the University of California, Irvine. His work has shown at laxart in Los Angeles, The Palace of Fine Art in Mexico City, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Laguna Art Museum, and other venues around the world.

His first solo exhibition, “You Have Nothing to Worry About" utilizing stereoscopic imaging and virtual reality techniques never used before in the gallery space, was held at the Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles in November of 2015, and was partially funded by a grant from the Artmatters foundation in New York City.

Andy currently is an Assistant Professor of Animation at California State University, Fullerton.

type of work:

Interactive

Virtual Reality

Location:

The Packard by Millworks, 205 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Exhibition Dates:

Saturday, October 7, 2017 to Saturday, October 21, 2017