Paintings by Ito Jakuchu were used as prototypes to produce an immersive virtual environment that allows people to enter the paintings. The result reveals possibilities for new collaborative studies.

A large umbrella acts as an overhead screen upon which animations shift through various destinations, with the top of the umbrella pole acting as a locator. Climate news, weather, and time are gathered from real-time RSS feeds and layered over an illuminated light-pollution satellite image of the globe.

Slurb (a word that collapses “slum” and “suburb") encapsulates a dreamy ode to the rise of slime, a watery future in which jellyfish have dominion. The animated, carnivalesque tailgate party loops and stutters like a vinyl record stuck in a groove.

Instances of Commediation recreates the multiplicity of environments we live in today, along with our spatial impermanence. Five LCD screens show different perspectives of simultaneous fictional events that begin as watercolor paintings and later become animated.

The system automatically superimposes animations on t-shirts and projects the resulting image on a screen. To achieve this effect in real time, the system first registers a deformable 2D mesh with the view of the t-shirt. Then it evaluates illumination to reproduce it on the virtual elements. It also segments possible occlusions.

This performance interlaces the movements of a performer with the choreography of the sound. The flutist uses the sound, the room, and her movements to affect the resonances of a space, mixing technology, music, and pathways to discover new meanings of space.

Platonic Tectonics reinterprets the discovery of geologic transitions and composes a contemporary earthquake myth that may awake the lonely planet. It is a live interactive video installation that explores the allegory of human connections. Through a simulated earthquake scenario in an immersive and participatory environment, the audience examines the poetry of spatial relations in a physically near and enclosed, yet visually mediated reunion.

Transformation of a reel-to-reel analog tape recorder, a device that some consider obsolete, into a musical instrument, as a convivial tool using today’s information technology.

The computational world of Artificial Nature consists of organisms interacting within an environment, consuming flowing energy and matter to grow and survive, generating continuous patterns of emergent beauty.

The Quintessence performance builds upon the characteristics of the elements. Each element is represented by one player, with video acting as an additional comment-track to the music, containing all five elements.