Wired NextFest 2005 - Synthecology

Our division's INIT LAB (Immersive Narrative & Interactive Technologies Lab) is remotely participating in Synthecology. Come visit our lab-in-progress in Lucas G152B (next to vault) for a networked vr experience. We're under construction but we will be running Friday (1-4pm PST), Saturday (9-11am PST), Sunday (1-4pm PST). There is also a Flash web interface that allows you to contribute audio and look at a simplified top view of the environment in real-time so you can track down the USC avatar!

Chicago - Applied Interactives announces Synthecology, a tele-immersive collaborative project with a new architecture for virtual reality sound immersion to create a garden of sonic experimentation for visitors to explore and cultivate.

Synthecology will debut at WIRED's NEXTFEST2005 in Chicago, June 24-26, 2005. During the festival, you will be able to visit the physical installation and/or connect to the virtual installation and contribute content to the project. You can experience Synthecology by visiting the Future of Communication Pavillion at the Navy Pier Conference Center, June 24-26, 2005, 9am-6pm. You can contribute content in the form of audio to the installation by visiting the project website, at www.appliedinteractives.com/synthecology

Synthecology is being created as a collaboration of Applied Interactives and students and faculty from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago and (art)n.

For this special event, the virtual environment of Synthecology will be networked from Navy Pier in Chicago to the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at Indiana University, the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at the University of California at San Diego and the Virtual Reality Studio, Department of Media Study, University of Buffalo and the Immersive Narrative and Interactive Technologies Lab (INIT LAB) of the Interactive Media Division at the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California.