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| | Selbstdarstellung: | | From: "Melinda Rackham" Fusion: The 2001 Experimental Web Festival Australian Organiser – John Gillies, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Collaboration between universities and researchers internationally is not unusual. However, creating the opportunity to meet face to face to work on projects in progress is not always easy. It can be costly and logistically difficult to organise. This is especially the case when researchers from many countries wish to be involved in activities that require their presence in one place over a period of time. To help overcome such obstacles, Web programmers and designers are creating new and innovative alternative environments wherein research can take place. Using the Internet, they are establishing virtual research centres that allow researchers from many different countries to work cooperatively on a project in realtime. The Festival of Fusion 01 is a world-wide experimental web event that expands the potential of all research activities and the potential of the Web as a host for cooperative project endeavours. The event involves the participation of students and academics from the University of California Los Angeles, UCLA (USA), the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus-University Weimar (Germany) and the College of Fine Arts, the University of New South Wales (Australia). Twelve major projects, representing each of the three universities, have been generated for this year’s festival. They include, for example, the work of multi-award winning new media artist Melinda Rackham. A PhD student at the College of Fine Arts at UNSW, Rackham is the creator of a new type of Internet world that she calls empyrean. Having done away with the types of ‘markers’ that guide people in the real world, such as walls, signs and the horizon, the world of empyrean allows multiple users to fully inhabit and interact in the ‘newness’ of electronically constructed spaces – or – ‘soft scapes’. This research project is an exploration of interactivity in virtual space and the use of non-verbal and non-text based communication. All research projects, including live video and audio streams, will be on-line in realtime. Academics, students and members of the general public are invited to log on to the sites listed below to watch and participate. Alternatively, individuals are invited to visit the Research Lab, 1st Floor, Block F, COFA Campus, UNSW, between 9am and 3pm on Friday June 8. The Festival of Fusion 01 starts at 7:00am on Friday 8 June and runs to Monday 11 June. http://www.uni-weimar.de/~fusion http://www.design.ucla.edu/~fusion http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/fusion |
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