Andrew Vande Moere

Recombinant Realities: The Design of a Multi-User Environment in Cyberspace

Theme 7: Media Art Education. Teaching New Media

Andrew Vande Moere

Andrew Vande Moere

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Abstract

The combination of the field of architecture and currently available multi-user technology could be considered as an ideal testbed for designing the vision of shared cyberspaces. A concrete CAAD course is described to demonstrate how architectural knowledge is used to create a virtual exhibition inside an online, three-dimensional, avatar-based environment. Furthermore, the theme `Recombinant Realities' is proposed by fabric | ch [1] as an imaginative layer that tries to connect and elaborate the various ideas proposed by the different student groups. This concept represents a hybrid and mutated reality, as it suggests that real and virtual environments can be ultimately connected and mixed. Additionally, some issues dealing with the technical implementation and the remote collaboration process involved are explained. As a result, the created electronic world itself proves how both artistic and academic domains can merge their conceptual ideas into a creative and educational course.

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Organizer

MARS Exploratory Media Lab under the patronage of Edelgard Bulmahn, German Federal Minister for Education and Research

Location

Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Submission

, Mar 10, 2004

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