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April 8/9, 2004

Organized by Randall Packer, MICA Center for New Media and Joan Freedman, JHU Digital Media Center.

Sponsored by Intel Corporation and Firaxis Games

The New Techne symposium explores methodologies, strategies and current practice in the integration of art, science, and technology within the academic environment. More specifically, the symposium seeks to advance opportunity for joint research and projects between the Maryland Institute College of Art and Johns Hopkins University in such emergent fields as biomedical engineering, telematics, transgenics, hypermedia, data imaging, intelligent systems, generative art, and other hybrid areas. It will also speak to the collaboration between the scientist and the artist in the dissemination of research data critical to scientific and artistic inquiry.

Keynote Speaker - Scott Fisher

Scott Fisher's seminal research in virtual reality was conducted in the late 1980s at the NASA-Ames Research Center in Mountain View , California , where he worked on the Virtual Environment Workstation (VIEW) project. The NASA system included an updated version of the head-mounted display, with stereoscopic images that provided stereoscopic depth of field, a major advancement over the monoscopic vision of Ivan Sutherland's earlier device. Fisher added headphones for 3D audio, a microphone for speech recognition, and, in collaboration with Tom Zimmerman, adapted the "dataglove" - the wired glove worn by the user that makes it possible to grasp virtual objects in cyberspace. This multi-sensory interaction with cybernetic devices created the powerful illusion of entering a digitized landscape, a significant advance toward what Fisher termed "telepresence" - the projection of the self into a virtual world.

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