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2012
MONO/POLY Performs at the REVE theatre, A multi-screen, surround sound, immersive environment
Mono/Poly is an US electro-acoustic duo of saxophone and electronics. Made up of composer and electronics guru Nate Bliton and saxophonist and turntablist Geoff Deibel, this unique ensemble strives to create concert experiences built around contemporary musical works that also utilize different types of media. |
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LiveVibe TV Season Three Finale: AH, YES! : Arts & Humanities in the Digital Age
A full house live studio audience enjoyed the Season Three finale of LiveVibe TV on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7:30 pm EST at the UF Digital Worlds Institute’s REVE. Season 3 host Mandy Hill explored the ever-evolving role of the Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age through a series of inspiring interviews and performances with innovative musicians, artists, humanists, and researchers. |
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Digital Worlds’ DeVane to Co-Facilitate Seminar at 2012 AERA Conference
Dr. Ben DeVane, Assistant Professor of Digital Arts & Sciences at the UF Digital Worlds Institute, will be co-facilitating a 2 day long seminar at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference to be held in Vancouver, Canada on April 12-13, 2012. The AERA Conference is a highly respected international meeting of scholars in the fields of education, educational technology and the learning sciences and has become an extremely important vehicle for the study and design of serious games. |
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DIGITAL WORLDS INTRODUCES THE SERIOUS & APPLIED GAMING ENVIRONMENTS (SAGE) INITIATIVE
Building on the success of recent interactive media projects and the emergent use of modern gaming technology in the education sphere, the UF Digital Worlds Institute has created the Serious & Applied Gaming Environments (SAGE) initiative. Digital Worlds (DW) Production Coordinator Anna Williams and a team of faculty and professional staff will expand DW’s current portfolio of interactive media projects in 2012. Current work in the SAGE portfolio includes two major projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)… |
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2011
Live Vibe TV Presents: “What’s HAPNAN’? Arts and Sciences in the Digital Age”LiveVibeTV explored how the integration of science and the arts can be used to improve the quality and efficacy of education in an ever-evolving digital age. Episode 1 of Season 3 featured guests including visual artist and musician Richard Heipp, Nano-Scale technology engineer and STEAM education advocate Curtis Taylor, and exceptionally talented young musicians from PK Yonge School working afterschool with Gainesville music producer Sean Hunter …
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DJ Adrian Villaverde appears on the AV CLUB Show at the new Sante Fe TheatreFormer Sante Fe College student Adrian Villaverde returned to Gainesville as the headliner for AV CLUB 2011 show on Saturday, October 22 at the new Sante Fe College Fine Arts Hall. Villaverde established himself in the Miami club scene and is now an internationally recognized producer of dance music. Adrian has performed with artists and DJ’s including...
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Digital Worlds featured at Museum Nights at the HARNDigital Worlds faculty Dr. Angelos Barmpoutis showcased his innovative Augmented Reality Exhibit at the HARN’s Museum night to a large and enthusiastic audience. Barmpoutis is widely known as a creative researcher whose work spans computer science, arts and humanities, digital arts and sciences and the STEM disciplines.
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DW Professor and Collaborative Team Awarded National Grant to Further Research in Digital EpigraphyThe National Endowment for the Humanities funded the "Digital Epigraphy Toolbox" project, which is a collaborative research initiative between the Digital Worlds Institute and the UF Department of Classics. The PI and coordinator of this transdisciplinary team is Prof. Angelos Barmpoutis (Digital Worlds Institute). The total amount of the award is $50,000 and it will fund the project for the next 2 years.
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The UF Clinical and Translation Sciences Institute Funds Interactive Rehabilitation EnvironmentThe UF Clinical and Translation Sciences Institute awards a $7,500 grant to support a pilot project for promoting walking recovery and enhancing the sensory input in kids with spinal cord injuries. Digital Worlds Professor Angelos Barmpoutis is participating as a co-investigator in this project along with other professors from the UF departments of Neuroscience and Physical Therapy.
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Digital Worlds Grad Student Wins National Award and Presents at Southeastern Theatre ConferenceUF Digital Worlds Institute graduate student Brittany Powell recently earned the "Barbizon Award for Theatrical Excellence : Meritorious Achievement - Projection Design" for her work on "Dark Play", a production which premiered at the UF Constans Blackbox Theatre in October 2010. Ms. Powell worked with Digital Worlds faculty mentor Patrick Pagano and School of Theatre & Dance faculty Tiza Garland.
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2011 TEDxUF The 2011 TEDxUF expanded further into the university and Gainesville area to find only the finest of “edutainment” to blow your mind. Intellectual stimulation and research, groundbreaking technology demos, breathtaking performances, and a TED-like experiences were guaranteed.
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2010
“It MOVES Us: Music and Dance of Planet Earth” – LiveVibeTV Presents A Special International ProgramA nation's Music and Dance help define their Unique Culture. LiveVibe TV featured and saluted Dancers and Musicians from around the World in a special performance event.
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CONNECTING the EDGES: An Inter-Continental LiveVibeCreated specially for World Premiere at the International Digital Media and Arts Association (IDMAA) 2010 Conference in Vancouver, CONNECTING the EDGES: An Inter-Continental LiveVibe: An Inter-Continental LiveVibe joined artists and engineers located across the world together in real time.
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House of Horror: Macabre Game FestCome and fight Zombies, save the Earth from evil and get your game on at the Macabre Game Fest 2010. Presented by DW, Gator Gaming and the Association of Digital Arts and Media (ADAM). Creative costumes are welcome!!
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House of Horror: Macabre Film FestPresented by the Digital Worlds Institute, Gator Gaming and the Association of Digital Arts and Media (ADAM). Costumes optional (but highly recommended).
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LIVE VIBE TV RETURNS for a SECOND SEASON @ Digital Worlds with Host LUCIA TOLOSALVTV Presented "Joined at the HIP: The Afro-Brazilian Connection" on Thursday October 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM EST. Starring renowned Brazilian guitarist Welson Tremura and the dynamic African choral director Duncan Wambugu, this was a show that shouldn't have been missed! Other featured artists included Brazilian cellist Laura Maule and Scott Wilson and the LVTV House Band.
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Sci Fi Film Fest 2Excerpts shown in this 2 part mini-series include original and re-makes of: War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still as well as BladeRunner and other seminal works. Each evening the audience will choose which film to screen in its entirety after a compelling brief presentation.
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Sci Fi Film Fest 1From the War of the Worlds to Avatar, enjoy the best of both early and recent Science Fiction cinema. Featuring commentary from SciFi aficiandos, you will learn (and better appreciate) the importance of the films and how the genre has developed since the mid-20th Century.
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A/V ClubA unique evening of live electronic and digital music with a five-screen, real-time interactive video environment. "A/V Club" seeks to please the A/V geek in all of us.
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DIGITAL CONVERGENCE SERIES 2010 brings Eight Innovative and Entertaining Events to UFBeginning with a fresh live music and media show called A/V Club, the 2010 DIGITAL CONVERGENCE SERIES (DCS) showcased both local and international talent on the UF campus. In addition to several visual media and gaming events, the DCS allowed world-wide audiences to see, hear (and in some cases actually participate) through real-time video streaming and live online interaction.
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Summer B Gaming Tournament packs the House at Digital WorldsOver 160 UF students packed the Digital Worlds Institute’s Polymodal Immersive Theater (PIT) for the Summer B “BETA” Gaming Tournament. The tournament was held on July 22nd and 23rd beginning at 4pm each day. It was part of a larger initiative entitled Creative B which highlighted the creative activities and on-campus offerings during the Summer B at the University of Florida.
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2009
Augmented Reality & Interactive Storytelling Meet Ethnobiology at Digital WorldsUF Digital Worlds Institute grad student Elaine Sponholtz recently showcased collaborative work undertaken with Simone Ferreira de Athayde in response to an invitation from the 12th International Congress of Ethnobiology (ICE) in British Columbia, Canada. The research collaborators met in Digital Worlds’ “Interactive Storytelling” course during the Fall 2009 semester.
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LiveVibeTV Episode 4 : Season Finale"Music Meets Movement: The Whole Body Experience" featured Archie "Chip" Birkner who spoke about The Fightin' Gator Marching Band. Kelly Drummond Cawthon spoke and danced in SMOKE | WIRE | ROCK and Jill Sonke spoke about the Dance for Life project with guest performers Don and Judy Whitmore.
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LiveVibeTV Episode 3UF School of Music and Digital Worlds Institute honored Black History Month with a live studio/webcast performance. One of the largest population scatterings of pre-modern times was the African Diaspora, which began in the early 16th century. During the Atlantic Slave Trade, 9.4 to 12 million people from West, West-Central and South-east Africa survived transportation to arrive in the Western Hemisphere...
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LiveVibeTV Episode 2LVTV was a 60-minute live studio production simultaneously netcast worldwide from the UF Digital Worlds Institute. LiveVibeTV is a collaborative development of the University of Florida's College of Fine Arts, School of Music and the Digital Worlds Institute.
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LiveVibeTV Episode 1: Digital Worlds Brings Bach Back from the DeadThe premiere episode of LiveVibeTV aired on October 29, 2009. Musical performances featured Steven Thomas, cellist and assistant professor in UF School of Music; Welson Tremura, associate professor in UF School of Music and co-director of Jacaré Brazil; and No Southern Accent, a UF student accapella group. The first episode’s special guest was none other than famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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UF Student Wins First Prize at NanoFlorida Technology SymposiumDW student collaborator Lisa Morin received the first prize in the nanoeducation presentation category at NanoFlorida 2009, an annual technology symposium hosted by the University of Central Florida. Her presentation, “Experiencing the Nano-World: Touch Based Virtual Exploration of Nanoscale Features”...
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RICHARD KIDD Returns to UF to Speak @ Digital WorldsIn his early career, Richard spent seven years managing and supervising visual effects work and teams in the entertainment industry. He formed and oversaw the team that generated all of the ocean water in James Cameron's Academy Award winning Titanic. He was then hired to work with the Wachowski brothers to design and breakdown visual effects for 1999's visually stunning The Matrix.
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2008
UF Digital Worlds Institute Wins Top Award for Innovative University ProgramFrom out of the nearly 700 Digital Media programs recognized by its third annual survey of North American colleges and universities, the International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMMAa) bestowed its 2008 Innovative Program Award to the University of Florida Digital Worlds Institute.
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WORLD HOUSE:Connecting the Global Community
On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the University of Florida’s Digital Worlds Institute in cooperation with King’s alma mater Morehouse College in Atlanta kicked off the first of four interactive global webcasts at 10 a.m. EDT on Friday, April 4. Experts from UF and Morehouse, along with institutions in China, India, Kenya and South Africa, discussed and shared in real-time King’s meaning for the 21st century. The other three programs were also scheduled at 10 a.m. on successive Fridays in April, and all can be viewed at www.worldhouse.morehouse.edu.
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SECOND Life's "College Fair 2008"DW Staff and Students Build UF's Online Presence
To take advantage of this globally accessible online showcase, the University of Florida (UF) Digital Worlds Institute assembled an interdisciplinary team of staff and students to create an interactive presence for UF on Second Life’s Information Island.
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2007
Voyage to TomorrowA Multi-media Suite in Three Movements
A three-movement symphonic suite performed live to an original digital movie created by the UF Digital Worlds Institute incorporating dramatic time-lapse cinematography, 3D computer animation and imagery from historic Renaissance paintings and sculptures.
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In Common: TIME - Maximum ImpactIngenuity Festival
Percussionists from across North America convened LIVE onstage (physically and virtually) to present In Common Time: MAXIMUM IMPACT. The event included CODEX Tympanos, DRUMMA and the World Premiere of SMOKE|WIRE|ROCK, a new site-specific work created specially for the Ingenuity Festival.
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Virtual World Provides New Opportunities for EducationThe Digital Worlds Institute developed Gator Nation Island in the Second Life online world.
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*One Hand Clapping*World premiere performance of the piece *One Hand Clapping* for the Merce in Miami festivities held at the Ziff Ballet Opera House’s Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation lobby.
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Children of a Common MotherThursday February 15, 2007 at 5:30 PM in the University of Florida Constans Theatre. Live performance by ethnic and indigenous artists located throughout the Americas.
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DW Partners with KAISTThe Digital Worlds Institute and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) collaborated on the first International Symposium on Culture Technology.
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2006
In Common SPACE Choreographers located simultaneously at three divergent points across North America created a new “Distributed Collaboration” to demonstrate the potential of the high- speed Internet2 to bring audiences and performers together simultaneously across great distances.
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DrummaDRUMMA was a simultaneous and synchronous performance event with musicians and engineers located at four North American Universities ranging from Alaska to Florida. ICT was made possible by a suite of software tools invented by Digital Worlds called the NetroNome™, which comprised the musical sub-system of the NOME system (NetroNome Online Media Experience™).
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A New Design for ADAMThe Association for Digital Arts & Media (ADAM) and the University of Florida’s Digital Worlds Institute (DW) hosted an Awards Ceremony at the DW REVE on February 1, 2006. Student teams showed their conceptual designs for an update to the ADAM Website before an enthusiastic audience of ADAM members and UF students.
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Sculpture for the J. Crayton Pruitt family Department of Biomedical Engineering Digital Worlds created and managed an interdisciplinary team of artists and designers to create an original sculpture given to Dr. J. Crayton Pruitt. The sculpture was presented during a ceremony announcing his major gift of $10 million to the UF College of Engineering’s Biomedical Engineering Department.
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2005
In Common:TIMEBridging five continents and cultures by creating an unprecedented real-time global collaboration for the world’s largest computer art and interactivity conference in Los Angeles, California on August 1-4, 2005, “In Common: TIME” featured performers ranging in age from 11 to 68, including musical artists from the five diverse world cultures.
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Hands Across the Ocean“Hands Across the Ocean: The Lost Chord” featured musicians, dancers, actors, engineers and video artists from five cultures working together to create a multidimensional perspective on world music. On February 17 the University of Florida’s Digital Worlds Institute coordinated an unprecedented real-time global performing arts collaboration with partners representing Australia, Korea, Latin America, England and the USA.
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Peoria Prize for CreativityAn international team led by the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida has received the first Peoria Prize for Creativity for producing the globally distributed project “Hands Across the Ocean: The Lost Chord.”
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2004
MaskA dance and visual art collaboration over the Internet2 connected The University of Chile REUNA and Digital Worlds.
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Time to Fly Away"Time to Fly Away" was a tribute to the University of Florida Class of 2004. This five-minute digital media production premiered April 30th at the Convocation ceremony on Reitz Union Lawn for over 4,000 people. It included compelling interviews with students from the graduating class, original music by University students Lanae Hale and Gloria Castellon, and a live performance by Ms. Hale.
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World's First Distributed Timpani Master ClassThe University of Florida's Digital Worlds Institute and Miami's New World Symphony co-hosted the world's first distributed timpani Master Class between the Atlanta Symphony and the New World Symphony. Both timpanists saw and heard each other over DVD quality video links with stereo CD quality audio in real time.
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Syllabus Magazine The 21st Century Chalkboard - Distributed Collaboration in Higher Education
Technologies for presentation and collaboration in the classroom expanding the geographical boarders of the institution and helping to break cultural boundaries. Here, Syllabus speaks with James Oliverio, a professor and director of the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida, about that institution’s pioneering work in distributed collaboration.
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Digital Worlds Awarded 2004 Golden GatorsA 2004 Golden Gator was awarded to the Digital Worlds Institute in the category of "Tactics". The honor, given by the Office of Public Relations, was for two digital media productions in 2003 for UF's Sesquicentennial Celebration.
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Bernie Machen: A Passion for ExcellenceAn original wide screen digital movie celebrated Bernie Machen, the 11th president of the University of Florida.
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2003
Original SeedThe Digital Worlds Institute hosted Visiting Artists from Miami's New World School of the Arts to retell a traditional Chilean folk tale with ethnic musicians in South America and theatrical performers in North America. Conference attendees in Chile witnessed an unprecedented cultural exchange between Florida performers and Chilean musicians entitled "Original Seed".
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Non DivisiA distributed collaborative process between participants in three continents including Korea, Chile, Florida, and Indiana. The rehearsals and performance, using Internet2 and advanced media technology, demonstrated how telepresence can effectively empower multinational collaborations in the performing arts.
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Supercomputing Global 2003 Andy Quay and Joella Walz, via a multi-continent Internet2 video link, presented their exciting work in the use of collaborative technologies for Art and Culture at this years Supercomputing Global 2003 conference. The session was titled "Use of Collaborative Technologies: Artistic and Cultural Instincts.
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Dream Machine: The History of the University of FloridaAs a tribute to the 150-year legacy of the University of Florida, audiences experienced a wide-screen presentation of the "Dream Machine" at the Digital Worlds Institute's REVE, located in the newly renovated Norman Gym.
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DW Hosts SGI Principal Systems EngineerJohn Kichury, Principal Systems Engineer with Silicon Graphics (SGI) led two public sessions on 3D Visualization for researchers and students in the new Digital Worlds Research, Education and Visualization Environment (REVE) on Wednesday, October 29th.
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James Oliverio: Exploring the Digital HorizonIf James Oliverio has his way, the long war between the left-brained and the right-brained will soon be over. "My goal is to create a place where artists and engineers, creative people and technical people, can work together," he said. "I want to explore fields that don't traditionally overlap, to create new ways to solve problems, and new problems to solve."
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The Faux Taxi - Sound Image Light In Collaborative ArtsThe first performance of "The Faux Taxi" took place on April 3, 2003 at the 12th annual Florida Electro-acoustic Festival and featured an interdisciplinary ensemble of transmedia DAS sound & video designers operating as a portable television show- AmbienTV. Free in performing conception but directed by a shared "pallet" of audio and video source material, ++silica entity attempted to explore generative audio and video collaboration worldwide.
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National TV Spot for UFThe University of Florida promotional spot that aired on national television in 2003 was produced entirely by the Digital Worlds Institute.
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A Message from the DirectorWith the preparations leading up to the recent opening of the new Digital Worlds Research, Education and Visualization Environment (REVE) and the premiere of the digital movie "DREAM MACHINE", Fall 2003 was bustling at the Institute.
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"DEWIE" Awards CeremonyThe first-ever "DEWIE" Awards were presented at the new Digital Worlds Research, Education and Visualization Environment (REVE) to honor outstanding Individual Achievement in Digital Media during the production of DREAM MACHINE, the original movie created to commemorate the 150 year history of the University of Florida.
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The Pigskin ProfessorProfessor Tony Schmitz combined his love of football with mechanical engineering in a series of episodes that showed how engineering pervades our daily lives.
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2002
Grand GuardA tribute to the UF graduates of the post W.W.II era, Digital Worlds (DW) and students in the Digital Arts and Sciences (DAS) program partnered with the UF Foundation to create original digital movies. The movies were premiered at special banquets on the UF campus when the Alumni returned to be inducted into the ranks of the Grand Guard, a prestigious element of the UF community.
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CNN Visits Digital Worlds Media LabMoving through several labs and facilities on campus linked by new Access Grid technology, the CNN team spent five hours taping material intended for the new show NEXT, which aired internationally. CNN Producer Christian Cascone called DW after he visited the "Dancing Beyond Boundaries" web page on the Internet. As a result of his interest in this innovative project, Christian and his team came to the Digital Worlds Media Lab to interview project principals and gather imagery on the research and technology behind the intercontinental collaboration. The story aired on NEXT@CNN on Saturday, April, 27, 2002 and Sunday, April 28, 2002.
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Australian Artist presents innovative intercontinental performance pieceDuring her stay, Kellie Dipple developed a multi-sited event for the Access Grid linking between Gainesville (US), Manchester(UK) and Sydney(Australia). This collaborative work with Digital Worlds investigated the distribution of live performance and screen culture across networks, the impact of distribution on narrative and form and the integration of these technologies into cultural venues.
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Filmmaker and Director William VanDerKloot Visits Digital WorldsWilliam VanDerKloot described his philosophy as "making films that make a difference." His original films have thrilled and educated children by exploring an ocean-going submarine, crawling around the cockpit of a space shuttle, even straddling a volcano. Targeting adults, his films have raised awareness and generated funds to protect the environment.
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Digital Worlds Director is Featured Keynote Speaker at Syllabus fall2002 Professor James Oliverio gave an invited half-day tutorial at 8th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM2002). The conference was held in the ancient city of Gyeongju, Korea the week of September 23, 2002. The topic of the session was "Which Comes First in the 21st Century: Art, Technology and Esthetics?", presented as part of the conference focus on Media Art and Creative Technology.
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presented "The Messenger"A Collaborative Work with new Music Visualization Technology
"The Messenger" was a Concerto for "Batterie" (an old French term with no English equivalent, referring to both timpani and percussion instruments). The soloist actuated the images as he performed the new orchestral score. The computer programming utilized new music visualization techniques developed at the Digital Worlds Institute.
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2001
Dancing Beyond Boundaries"Dancing Beyond Boundaries" was an unprecedented distance collaboration between artists, engineers, computer scientists and video producers which premiered at the SuperComputing Global conference in Denver. The choreographer, dancers, animation artists, musicians, computer scientists, engineers and producers were all in different cities in North and South America as the piece was created, rehearsed and performed over the 4 days of the conference.
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