After doing some research on the original Venn diagram for my previous post on embodied container schema, I became obsessed. So I made some initial experiments, and it became clear that I needed to create a Venn Diagram House. At … Continued
Sculptures in Physical Materials This week I am writing from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada, where I am a resident artist in the Body as Site visual arts residency program. The Body as Site residency brings … Continued
Making the Bed is a VR space developed in Anyland. When it first loads you are plopped down on a red rug surrounded by a cloud of miniature beds. Each bed, in this frozen avalanche of doll furniture is numbered, … Continued
The idea of embodied knowledge seemed fuzzy to me at first, but after a bit of research and experience I’m convinced this is a rich area that is just now becoming ripe due to the cheap easy spatial tracking hardware designed for … Continued
We are beginning our 4th year! Every year we have had a loose theme around which the research has centered but this year we decided we should make it all public and official. So without further ado: (Itch your right hand) … Continued
Ever since joining eleVR a few months ago, I have been exploring various apps to test whether virtual social art studios are feasible. Some of my favorite apps in this vein have been SculptVR, Anyland and a handful of the … Continued
When I was invited to Newsgeist, an exclusive invitation-only unconference for “news professionals”, I thought there had been a mistake. Which of my lives had attracted the attention of news folks? My YouTube videos? Parable of the Polygons? Maybe our … Continued
It’s hard to believe that our little group has made it through another year. These are some of our highlights for 2016 – our most productive year ever by some measures (eg. number of blog posts or projects worked on). Here’s … Continued
Evelyn and I recently attended the Body of Knowledge conference at UC Irvine. The gathering was focused on embodied cognition and the arts. Embodied cognition, and here I’m going to steal Wikipedia’s phrasing, “is the theory that many features of … Continued
Exploring Anyland In the past few weeks here at eleVR, we have been exploring Anyland, yet another creative and social VR playground, created by Scott Lowe & Philipp Lenssen. Anyland is a successor to its two-dimensional counterpart, Manyland. In Anyland, … Continued