| Josephine Anstey | PAAPAB |
EVL:ALIVE on the GRID |
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PAAPAB - pick an avatar, pick a beat - was part of
EVL:
Alive on the Grid, a networked VR art show that premiered at the Ars
Electronica festival in September 2001. The show was organised
by Dan Sandin of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, and was built
using Ygdrasil a VR authoring system created by Dave Pape of Res Umbrae.
Users/audiences joined the VR from remote sites in Austria, the Netherlands,
Sweden, Hungary and the US. EVL: Alive on the Grid consisted of a central
lobby area, from which users could access different virtual works.
The environments were made by teams at EVL, the University of Indiana,
the Interactive Institute at Umea, Sweden and my team in Buffalo. In Buffalo
we exhibited the show on CCR's
ImmersaDesk.
In this picture Horst Hortner, director of the ARs Electronica Future Lab, has entered the PAAPAB environment and is recording motion onto an avatar or puppet, this puppet is the Thing. |