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igram salon
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| A group of
artists headed by Ellen Sandor from (art)n
Laboratory, and Dana Plepys from the Electronic
Visualization Laboratory, have created an artistically empowering aperture
that offers artists an exciting way to explore synthetic worlds through
a virtual photographic eye.
This new "eye," called iGrams, is a quick snapshot tool for CAVE users to directly print out 3D photographs on a printer while they are working in virtual reality. These documents are provocative objects that tell new stories from different angles about what lives inside of the CAVE. As a tool, the igram application is a dynamic pre-vis medium for virtual reality content during the production process and final documentation for exhibitions. Inspired by Man Ray and the Surrealists, who were known for using photography to record their fabricated worlds, this new direction celebrates the evolution of photography. The group's first works explore the healing powers of art with a poetic snapshot series from Margaret Dolinsky's CAVE environments: Blue Window Pane, Dream Grrrls and Strait Dope. The igrams bring the characters from these stories to life in different ways by manipulation of the igram's unique virtual camera movement. The series features engaging sculptural close-ups with variants and cropping studies. (art)n Laboratory: Ellen Sandor, Stephan Meyers, Janine Fron, Fernando Orellana, Nichole Maury, Kristine Grieber and Dan Miller Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago: Dana Plepys, Margaret Dolinsky, Mohammed
Dastagir Ali, and Debra Lowman
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