04 March, 2009

FILE Rio 2009 Exhibiton

Our project "Archidemo" that was the starting point of our activities was selected for FILE RIO 2009 Exhibition. The work exhibited in FILE Sao Paulo 2008 last year will be exhibited again.



The event will take place at Oi Futuro Cultural Center, located at Dois de Dezembro street, 63, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It will be hold from March 10th to April 19th, 2009.


大きな地図で見る

23 February, 2009

Winners 2009: Laval Virtual ReVolution

Our work "Laval VRchive" has been accepted to the Laval Virtual ReVolution 2009 session as "Welcome", international VR competition by Laval Virtual - 11th international meeting of virtual reality.

We will exhibit "Laval VRchive", That is the Laval Virtual Revolution version of "SIGGRAPH Archive in Second Life" with 3D connection spacenavigator and Wii Remote. Laval Virtual will be held at Theatre de Herce - Salle Polyvalente (Multifunction Hall), Laval, France, 22-26 April 2009. And see also SIGGRAPH Archive.

Now we are calling for photographs of past Laval Virtual ReVolution. See more.

You can see Laval VRchive in Second Life:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/nikkeibp/168/76/76

Laval VRchive with Tobii Eye Tracker:



Prototype:



SIGGRAPH Archive:



Accepted Class "Invited"

  • YOTARO, University of Tsukuba
  • LevelHead, N/A
  • Copycat Hand for All, University of Tsukuba
  • Space Trash, Institute of Graphics and Paralell Processing, JKU, Linz

Accepted Class "Welcome"

  • Babbage Cabbage, Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore
  • Thermotaxis, Yonakani
  • Musical "gugugugu" and "A~", Otobane Project
  • LightTwist, Laboratoire Vision3D
  • La flèche de l'odeur, Kanawaza Technical College
  • Catopsys project, University of Auvergne
  • BrickLayer, Kyoto University
  • Joystick everywhere, University of Tsukuba
  • Scoop-and-Release, Tama University
  • Good-bye feet!, University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of the Arts
  • Surrounding of Firefly, The University of Electro-Communications
  • Laval VRchive, Tokyo Metropoilitan University / Photon, Inc

27 January, 2009

Media Arts in the World Mapping

"Media Arts in the World Mapping" is launched .




This is a art project made for the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival, and this is a visualization of information of a media art festival all over the world that used Google Earth and Maps.



Detailed place information, logomark of festival, and slideshow of photograph open to the public in Flickr can be inspected. Moreover, the holding time of the festival can be understood in Google Earth along the time axis. This project is exhibited with "SIGGRAPH Archive in Second Life" in the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival, holding on February 4-15.



Credits:
Hidenori Watanave, Tomoko Hatanaka, Tomohiro Okada, and Satomi Miwa