illustration:
Circuit Breaker by John Jennings

LIST OF CANVAS PROJECTS

MIXTAPESTRY. Real-time music/dance/movement/graphic collaboration with Duke University. [Sept 2006]MIXTAPESTRY. Real-time music/dance/movement/graphic collaboration with Duke University. [Sept 2006]

ICONS. A public call to entries using KAMScript (and other media). We invite you to express, define or create your definition of the concept of icon for the CANVAS gallery at Krannert Art Museum.

This project is a companion installation with A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal, organized and produced by the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and curated by Dr. Mary Nooter Roberts and Dr. Allen F. Roberts in collaboration with Senegalese community leaders and artists in both Dakar and Los Angeles. [Oct-Dec 2006]

KAMSCRIPT FRAMEWORK. http://www.canvas.uiuc.edu/kamscript.
A technology tool for non-programmers, KAMScript enables artists to display images (jpegs), 3D objects (.obj files), and sounds (.mp3) in 3D virtual space using a simple text file with a list of filenames and xyz locations.

CALCUL*RT. Math and Art installation. [Mar-Apr 2006]

360. Nan Goggin, Joseph Squier (Art & Design, UIUC), Rick Valentin (Narrative Media / Computer Science). Told in a non-linear narrative format, 360 is about three fictional couples at different stages in their lives and in their relationships. Visitors who go inside its three-walled environment are surrounded with the voices, thoughts, images, and feelings of the couples as told through conversations, 3-D images, on-screen text, and the display’s interactive capabilities. [more]. [Jan-feb 2006]

KABAKOV: PALACE OF PROJECTS. Jonathan Fineberg (Art History, UIUC), Kevin Hamilton (Art+Design, UIUC) and Roy Campbell (Computer Science, UIUC), Piotr Adamczyk (Computer Science), Erin Wolf (Math). A weighted,animated 3D mapping of the projects included in the PALACE OF PROJECTS appears in the CANVAS. This is a counterpart to the physical installation which will appear in the Krannert Art Museum, and a continuation of an extremely successful cross-disciplinary course taught at UIUC in Summer 2005. [more].

CIRCUIT BREAKER.John Jennings (Art+Design, UIUC) Jennings’ work spans a diverse array of visual arts media, including illustration, graphic design, fashion design, web based media and fine art. He is active in the Champaign community and experiments with visual statements that address social and political concerns. This project is a prototype of a future project that Jennings will be doing in CANVAS, and it uses the KAMScript framework. CIRCUIT BREAKER on CANVAS is an electronic, immersive adaptation of a piece which was exhibited at the same time in Parkland Art Gallery’s “Commercial Visions: Personal Illustrations." [Oct 2005]

CULTURAL ELEVATOR. Rick Powers (Beckman Institute / English, UIUC). Rick is developing an interactive visual ride through the twentieth century as told chronologically through visual art. [in development]

SIERRA MADRE PROJECT. Judi Ross (Art, UIUC), George Francis (Math, UIUC). Ross and Francis will use the CANVAS as part of a future project informed by Ross' time spent in travels to and from Mexico. She has become "fascinated with the majesty of the Sierra Madres and of how one is constantly aware of their presence as they move through the mythic landscape of valleys and ridges. Ever present, they seem to envelope one in their ubiquity and magic." Ross is working to capture this sense and the memory of wonder. [in development]

TORNADO - A PRESENTATION OF NCSA TORNADO DATA USING TEXTURE-MAPS OF ACTUAL CENTRAL ILLINOIS HOUSES. Tornado Data Liason: Stuart Levy. Data provided by Alex Betts, Matthew Hall, Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Robert Wilhelmson, Matthew Gilmore, Louis Wicker, Glen Romine, Lee Cronce, Mark Straka, variously of the NCSA, UIUC, Atmospheric Science, and National Severe Storms Lab. Application by Rose Marshack. [Dec 2005]

FLAGRANT WORLD. Joseph Squier (Narrative Media, UIUC). Squier is using KAMScript framework to create a navigable virtual world of images and sound. [in development]

3D TYPE. Daniel Goscha (Art+Design, UIUC). Goscha is studying the creation of 3D type. [in development]

Kevin Hamilton (Art+Design, UIUC). 3D manipulation of 2D pictures. [in development]

Gerry Guthrie (Art+Design, UIUC). 3D worlds created in 3D Studio ported to CANVAS. [in development]

Susan Harum (Library, IRIS, UIUC). Data visualization. [in development]

Chris Martens (Art+Design, UIUC). Scan of 3D artwork. [in development]

Joy Malnar (Architecture, UIUC). Shadowlight is a 3D drawing program that runs in the CAVE, would require a port for operation in CANVAS. [in development]

Canvas is looking for C++ and OpenGL programmers. Are you one? Contact rose2000 at uiuc.edu.