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The media of mixed reality allows for increasingly immersive experiences that blend the virtual and real, and that change how we perceive and think about what is real. This course attempts to place the evolution of mixed reality in the long history of humans hacking perceptions of reality: from pyramids to cathedrals to google earth VR, from cave paintings to novels to film to immersive cinema.
This course will introduce you to the different forms mixed reality takes. We will:
Below you will find an overview of the Learning Outcomes you will achieve as you complete this course.
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.
Perry Hoberman is a media, installation and performance artist whose work has been presented widely throughout the United States and Europe. Hoberman works with a variety of technologies, ranging from the utterly obsolete to the seasonably state-of-the-art. He has worked with stereoscopic media for several decades, beginning in the early 1980s with his award-winning 3D slide performances and installations. Unexpected Obstacles, a retrospective survey of his work, was exhibited in 1998 at the ZKM Mediamuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2002 he was both a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellow. Last year, Hoberman presented Denial Clinic, a performance with songs and 3D projection in Los Angeles and Vancouver. Hoberman is represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York, where he has had numerous one-person exhibitions. He has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, the California Institute of the Arts and the School of Visual Arts. Currently, Hoberman is an Associate Research Professor in the Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, where he heads S3D@USC, the Center for Stereoscopic 3D at the USC School for Cinematic Arts.
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.
Please note: Taking part in a Kadenze course as a Premium Member, does not affirm that the student has been enrolled or accepted for enrollment by Pacific Northwest College of Art.
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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