SIGGRAPH Asia Archive in Second Life (Completed)

SIGGRAPH Asia Archive in Second Life Project was completed now.



This is an art project that collects photographs concerning past "ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technlogy" and makes an 3-D image archive in Second Life, aiming at this year's SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008. 600 photographs or more were finally collected.

It is created by Hidenori Watanave (Supervisor of Photon,Inc. / Associate Professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University), and conception by Tomoe Moriyama (SIGGRAPH ASIA Art Gallery and Emerging Technology chair / Museum of Comtemporary art Tokyo). Please refer to the lower side of this article about cooperators.

It will be exhibited in SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery (Singapore, Dec.10 - 13 2008). I will make a machinima (movie) of this project and upload soon.

SLurl:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/nikkeibp/188/151/62













All photographs of SIGGRAPH were taken and granted by:

Jacki Morie - SIGGRAPH 1993 and 1994, The Zone And Neuro Baby/ The Edge
Brian Blau - SIGGRAPH 1996, Digital Bayou
Kathryn Saunders - SIGGRAPH 1999, Millennium Motel
Toshihiro Konma - SIGGRAPH 2002,2003,2005,2006,2007 and 2008, Emerging Technology / Art Gallery / Kids / NewTech / Slow Art

Thank you very much for their contribution!
(SIM sponsor: Nikkei Business Publications,Inc.)

SLurl:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/nikkeibp/188/151/62

SIGGRAPH Asia Archive in Second Life (Prototype)

Now I am developing "SIGGRAPH Asia Archive in Second Life" for Art Gallery of SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 in Singapore.





The aim of this project is "Developing 3D image archive of Emerging Technologies". This is due to a conception of Tomoe Moriyama (SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Art Gallery Chair). Thanks to the cooperation of several people, a lot of images of "Emerging Technology" are collected now.



"Photograph space" scatter when the plate of each age is clicked. Avatar can sit on "Photograph space" by clicking the photograph of the favor, and can be inspected peacefully. This mechanism is an application of "3-D image database of Oscar Niemeyer".



This is a prototype that uses the photographs of 1996. A lot of photographs until 2008 is prepared to be added.



This project will be exhibited in SIGGRAPH Asia, Dec.10 to 13 in Singapore.