Michael Scroggins

 

 

A Topological Slide
Sliding on a Jorge-Meeks Trinoid Stewart Dickson and I collaborated on this VR installation as part of the Art and Virtual Environments Project at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Documentation of the project can be found in the MIT Press book Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments edited by Mary Anne Moser and Douglas MacLeod. Online documention of the project can be found at the Topological Slide site.


I proposed the Topological Slide for the Art and Virtual Environments Project because I felt that it was the most practical option given the state of VR technology at that time. My earliest --and continuing-- interest in VR is the potential for extending my work with absolute animation into the immersive space of VR. In 1991 I presented a paper entitled: My Work in Absolute Animation and Some Ideas About Extending that Work into the New Medium of Virtual Reality at a conference in Moscow . In 1996 I presented an updated section from that paper --Absolute Animation and Immersive VR-- at The Governor’s Conference on the Arts VII: Arts, Entertainment and Technology; The Role of the Artist in the Digital Age held in Los Angeles.

 

 

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