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Creating for Mixed Reality involves a variety of disciplines and tools that need to be brought together into a single pipeline. Rarely does one person contain the experience to do everything to satisfaction, it takes a village. In this course we will investigate the wide array of disciplines (architecture, vfx, animation, game design, interaction design, character design) and look at different approaches to creating content including shortcuts to achieve a more lifelike experience with less effort.
Below you will find an overview of the Learning Outcomes you will achieve as you complete this course.
Knowledge of multiple approaches to rendering 3D content and the advantages/disadvantages of each
Thomas Wester works as an independent creative and technical director and is Faculty and Research fellow at the Make+Think+Code @ PNCA. Over the last 15 years he has blended digital and physical to create meaningful interactive experiences. His ever curious, ever inquisitive nature results in a wide and deep knowledge of both the creative and technical process with regards to producing for the interactive medium. He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Archives, Library of Congress, Hermès, Coca Cola, Target, MoMA and MFA Boston and exhibited at Tribeca and Sundance. Over a period of 12 years he built the technology practice at Second Story, establishing an interdisciplinary, experimental approach that uses technology as strategy for design innovation, resulting in a studio that is widely recognized as a leader and innovator in interactive design and storytelling.
Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is a lecturer and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.
He is working in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach, particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts.
As a media artist, designer and spatial thinker, Refik Anadol is intrigued by the ways in which the transformation of the subject of contemporary culture requires rethinking of the new aesthetic, technique and dynamic perception of space. Anadol builds his works on the nomadic subject’s reaction to and interactions with unconventional spatial orientations. Embedding media arts into architecture, he questions the possibility of a post digital architectural future in which there are no more non-digital realities. He invites the viewers to visualize alternative realities by presenting them the possibility of re-defining the functionalities of both interior and exterior architectural formations. Anadol’s work suggests that all spaces and facades have potentials to be utilized as the media artists’ canvases.
Yasmin Elayat is new media artist and experience designer who leverages emerging technology to push the boundaries of collaborative, participatory storytelling experiences ranging from new media documentary to immersive environments and site-specific installations. Yasmin’s interest is creating new constructs for shared experiences in digital and physical space.
Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, painting and performance. Her praxis engages with identity and the body, as informed by technology and the Internet. Olafson’s work has been included in international exhibitions and screenings with the Bauhaus Archiv (Berlin), SECCA - SouthEastern Center for Contemporary Art (North Carolina), OchoYmedio (Quito, Ecuador), The National Arts Center (Ottawa), Sequences Real Time Media Arts Festival (Iceland) and Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, Greece). Olafson has benefitted from residencies, most notably through EMPAC - Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (New York) and Counterpulse (San Francisco). Olafson holds an MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute and since 2017 is Assistant Professor in the Dance Department at York University in Toronto.
Victoria Scott is a visual artist working between the mediums of sculpture and digital media. Recent projects include constructing material representations of conceptual objects that exist in simulated digital environments, the public commons and in the space of cultural imagination. Her process involves working with electronic media and physical materials to create simulated and real site-specific interactive installations, sculptures and images. She is currently developing an interactive VR project based on visualizing emotional energy fields.
Scott has exhibited at galleries, and museums throughout North America and Europe, including the Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), San Jose Museum of Art (California), the University of Toronto Art Centre (Canada), Kasia Kay Art Projects (Chicago), Galleri Enkehuset (Stockholm), and the Zer01 Biennial (San Jose).
She has been awarded project commissions from the San Jose Museum of Art (2010), Zer01 Art and Technology Network (2010) and Turbulence.org (2007) and is the recipient of several grants from both the Ontario and Canada Arts Councils. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Oregon Story Board (Portland), and this spring 2018 at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn).
Victoria has taught digital media arts practice at SAIC, the California College of the Arts (CCA), and San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). She lives and works in San Francisco.
Laura is the founder choreographer and artistic director of Helios Dance Theater a Los Angeles based contemporary company. She has a BFA in choreography from CalArts where she was selected to attend the Laban Center in London for an intensive study in Choreographic theory. Miller has premiered her work in venues such as The Joyce Theater and Lincoln Center in New York, The Royal Opera House in London, UCLA’s Royce Hall and Schoenberg Hall, The Getty Center, The Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre in Southampton, Bermuda and Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica, to name a few. Her work has been set on ABT, ABT 2, The Milwaukee Ballet, Bodytraffic and CalArts. She has created choreography for multiple films, including DreamWorks Animation’s Academy Award nominated Puss in Boots and Madagascar 3 and the currently in production Larrikins.
Jeremy Rotsztain (b. 1977 in Toronto, Canada) is an artist and software programmer working with computer graphics to explore new modes of abstraction—across video installations, virtual reality worlds, mobile phone applications, and digital prints. Jeremy holds a Master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York Hall of Science, Boston Cyber Arts Festival, Festival Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, and New Forms Festival. Jeremy lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Melissa Painter heads MAP Design Lab, a multimedia design studio focused on emergent technologies. She has twenty + years of experience in narrative design, content strategy, interaction design, storytelling, both cinematic and live, and in leading large and small teams around creative collaboration. She is an award-winning filmmaker and author, and has premiered immersive content and feature films at Sundance, SXSW, Future of Storytelling, Unity Vision Summit, New York Film Festival, Cannes, and Telluride. Recent projects include Chion, a city scale augmented reality hike bringing the wilderness of Zion to the streets of Chicago, MOVE Studio, one of two featured demos commissioned by Microsoft as it unveiled Windows Mixed Reality to the world, and Heroes: A Duet in Mixed Reality, which premiered at Sundance and is released on Oculus. Painter was Executive Producer of Alex McDowell’s 5D Global Studio, which sent Leviathan, for AR and VR, to Sundance and CES for Intel and Unity Technologies.
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In order to receive college credit for these program courses, you must successfully complete and pass all 3 courses in this program. If a student signs up for the Creating for Mixed Reality program, it is recommended that these courses are taken sequentially.
*Partial credit will not be awarded for completion of only one course.
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