{"id":648,"date":"2016-09-17T18:50:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/?page_id=648"},"modified":"2016-09-28T19:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:13:26","slug":"art-in-virtual-reality-first-wave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/presentations\/art-in-virtual-reality-first-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in Virtual Reality (first wave)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Head mounted art<\/h2>\n

Walter Pichler<\/strong>, Austrian architect and artist.<\/p>\n

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Walter Pichler, TV-Helmet (Portable living room) 1967<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Small Room Prototype 4 – Walter Pichler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“(Architecture) is born of the most powerful thoughts. For men it will be a compulsion, they will stifle in it or they will live \u2013 live, as I mean the word \u2026 (Architecture) has no consideration for stupidity and weakness. It never serves. It crushes those who cannot bear it\u2026 Machines have taken possession of [architecture] and human beings are now merely tolerated in its domain.”
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Haus-Rucker-Co<\/strong>, also Viennese architects.<\/p>\n

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Environment Transformer Haus Rucker Co. 1968<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Haus-Rucker-Co, Gru\u0308ne Lunge (Green Lung), outdoor installation at Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1973<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Green Lung was an architectural breathing apparatus; it pumped artificially conditioned indoor air through a series of inflatable ducts to a grape-like cluster of transparent plastic helmets suspended to a pole in the square outside.<\/p>\n

Coop Himmelblau<\/strong>, Viennese architecture firm, still in business<\/p>\n

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Coop Himmelblau – Soul flipper, 1969<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nSoul Flipper – Coop Himmelblau – 1969
\nFace helmet that is sensitized to react to movements of facial muscle and skin to transmit optical and acoustical signals.<\/p>\n

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Coop Himmelblau – The White Suit, 1969<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThe White Suit broadcasts video images inside the helmet, complimented by the insertion of smells and the pulsing of the pneumatic vest.<\/p>\n

Vito Acconci, (concept artist and architect). Not quite VR, but also early ’90s
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Vito Acconci, Virtual Intelligence mask, (1993)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

But we will cover Augmented Reality related projects later in the semester…<\/p>\n

Virtual Reality<\/h2>\n

Two prominent pioneers of virtual reality were in fact artists\/technologists.<\/p>\n

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\nMyron Krueger<\/a> explaining his work and relationship with art and technology<\/p>\n

\u201cI know this sounds incredible, but the very first app we ever made on any of the original virtual reality equipment\u2014which included the first gloves for interaction\u2014was to play virtual musical instruments in the air.\u201d
\n-Jaron Lanier<\/p>\n