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A virtual fly through animation of the proposed J. Crayton Pruitt Biomedical Engineering building. |
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Live performance by ethnic and indigenous artists located throughout the Americas. |
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A virtual fly through of the proposed renovations to the College of Education building. |
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"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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As a tribute to the 150-year legacy of the University of Florida,
come experience the wide-screen presentation of the "Dream
Machine" in the Digital Worlds Institute's REVE at the
newly renovated Norman Gym CAVE environment. NAVE is an acronym
for Non-expensive Automatic Virtual Environment. |
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DRUMMA is a simultaneous and synchronous performance event with musicians and engineers located at four North American Universities ranging from Alaska to Florida. ICT is made possible by a new suite of software tools invented by Digital Worlds called the NetroNome™, which comprises the musical sub-system of the NOME system (NetroNome Online Media Experience™). |
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A 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 partner with the UF Foundation to create original digital
movies. The movies are premiered at special banquets on the
UF campus when the Alumni return to be inducted into the ranks
of the Grand Guard, a prestigious element of the UF community. |
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“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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Bridging 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” features performers ranging in age from 11 to 68, including musical artists from the five diverse world cultures. |
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A 3D visualization for the College of Education of a new international media union to be built between their current home in Norman Hall and the DW REVE in the historic Norman Gym. |
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An original wide screen digital movie celebrating Bernie Machen,
the 11th president of the University of Florida. |
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A dance and visual art collaboration over the Internet2 connecting
The University of Chile REUNA
and Digital Worlds. |
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An on-stage synchronous performance of live musicians performing simultaneously in Alaska, Florida and throughout Ohio in a large-scale virtual environment. 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 in Cleveland, Ohio. |
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The 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 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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The 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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Professor Tony Schmitz combines his love of football with mechanical
engineering in a series of episodes that show how engineering
pervades our daily lives. |
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A five-minute digital
media production for a UF Convocation ceremony
held on the Reitz Union Lawn. |
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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. |
