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Shimer College presents lecture on electronic visualization

By Swasti Khuntia
LAYOUT EDITOR

Shimer College organized a guest lecture
on “35 Years of Art & Science Collaboration’l
The lecture was based on Dr Daniel Sandin’s
“History of the Electronic Visualization Lab
at University of Illinois, Chicago’l Dr Daniel
Sandin is an internationally recognized pioneer
of electronic art and visualization, and 1964
alumnus of Shimer College In 1973, he co,
founded the Electronic Visualization Lab with
Computer Science professor Tom DeFanti. The
EVL is an interdisciplinary graduate research
laboratory that combines art and computer
science, specializing in advanced visualization
and networking technologies It represents the
oldest formal collaboration between art and
engineering in this country, offering graduate
degrees in electronic visualization

In the talk, Dri Sandin spoke about the
history of the lab and its significant creative,
scientific, and pedagogical impact In 1969,
he developed a computerecontrolled light
and sound environment called Glow Flow
at the Smithsonian Institution By 1973, he
developed the Sandin Image Processor, a

highly programmable analog computer for
processing video images in real time He then
worked with DeFanti to combine the Image
Processor with realtime computer graphics
and performed visual concerts, the Electronic
Visualization Events, with synthesized musical
accompaniment In 1991, Sandin and DeFanti
conceived and developed, in collaborationwith
graduate students, the CAVE Virtual Reality
(VR) theatre The concept of Virtual Reality
(VR) is being used on the development of
autoestereo VR displays (ier, free viewing, no
glasses), and on the creation of networkebased
teleecollaborative VR artworks that involve
video camera image materials, rich human
interaction and mathematical systems

The talk was a combination of power
point presentations and interesting videos of
Dr Sandin’s work He emphasized how the
collaboration between art & science has been
essential to the success of computer science
and math research at the lab, the production of
many art works, and the education of computer
science and art students Dri Sandin answered
queries of students Overall, it was an interactive
and interesting lecture which was enjoyed by
the audience

 

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