( in alphabetischer Reihenfolge der Künstler )
EXHIBITION CREDITSAn [e-body]
http://www.fabric.ch/Buzz
A text/sound space with philosophical musing in a VRML model by Patrick Keller. The aim is to find out one of the entrances (floor level) of the no-body model a black box with green text) in which is located the link to generate a final sound track. Each visitor can "[per]form … e-bodied music", which, (depending the number of sounds produced) the size of files vary between 80-500kb.
HOLO-X
http://www.holo-x.com (go to DOSE)
Berkeley Interactive Design and Alt-X have collaborated to bring this VRML Hyperfiction work online, where S.L.U.T. (Sorceress of Lanaguage in Uncharted Technologies) - a fully 3D polygonal human figure, offers collaborative advise, promiscuous language and unpredictable behavior.
De Waag of Amsterdam
http://www.dds.nl/~zone/waag/
3De_Waag/VRML/w__t___3tt.wrl
A 3D model of the oldest public secular building in Amsterdam, where today the Society for Old and New Media conducts Internet activity and serves great food. Located in the "exact center of the world" by 14th Century decree, it is a "must" place to visit in VR or IRL.
Conversations with Angels
CD ROM and online Chat World
http://angels.kiasma.fng.fi
A multi-user world peopled by bot characteres such as Carl the serial killer, Anne the lesbian princess, and Bob the redneck goldfish, where visitors can use their own avatar to explore, and question preconceptions about the nature of the Internet and virtual spaces. A co production with the Banff Center and MEET Factory.
Ready-Made VRML Active Objects
Offline
VRML Ready-mades are objects with a behavior. They are the building blocks for a richer experience. Ready-mades are used directly or can be composed to build more complex objects. In this example, this portable radio is built composing standard user-interface VRML ready-mades.
The Telepathic Motion Picture
of THE LOST TRIBES
http://www.telepathic-movie.org
This feature film on VRML (in progress) follows Blair's cult video project "WAX, or the Discovery of the Bees" (a ZDF televiison production) and the resulting Waxweb, a popular MOO communication space. The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES now has two 3D Documentary sections available online:
1. "Reconstruction of a Training Device for Telepathic Katsuben, as used during the Production of the Manchu-Edison film : "The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES", Hsinking, Manchukuo, Taisho 25."
2. Residential Housing Constructed By the Manchu-Edison Film Corporation for the Use of Employees During the Years Taisho 1-88, Shinkyo, Manchuria
Cybertown (formerly ColonyCity)
A Next-Generation Community Site
http://www.colonycity.com
Valentine's Day is past, but there is still some poetry in the air. Live poetry readings in the City Theater for anybody who likes to listen to romantic poems or, if you're more down-to-earth, stand-up comedy shows. There are also auditions for people who would rather entertain than be entertained. The City Guides, organized by Sherry, give tours of blaxxun's various multi-user worlds. The tours are scheduled for the last Saturday of each month at 4PM Colony City time and begin in the Colony City Theater. Look for more information about the tours in the Colony City Daily News.
Required software: blaxxun Contact or CCpro
Arcade
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~jonah/
ARCADE/MAZE.WRL
A runaway game parlor, challenges the trigger finger of its explorer. Designed and created by this student at the NYU department of Interactive
Telecommunications.
Virtual Kaleidoscopes
http://www.physics.orst.edu/~bulatov/
vrml/kaleidoscopes/index.html
A research associate in the Physics Department at Oregon State University, Bulatov demonstrates complex mathmetical symmatry with his mesmerizing 3D kaleidoscopic expressions of Euclidean, Spherical, Hyperbolic, Polyhedral and Spatial forms.
Siggraph Gallery
http://siggraph.org/artdesign/
profile/profile.html
An artist, computer graphics pioneer, and Professor at Ohio State University, Csuri began experimenting with computer graphics technology in 1964, and computer animated films in 1965. His work was highlighted in the landmark exhibiton Cybernetic Serendipity, at the ICA London in 1968. Csuri's current research supports a team of VRML and AI associates.
Rue#2
http://www.geometrek.com/members/
bugsy/rue/rue.html
An animated tour set to sound is cycled to a guided dancing figure, who explores the boundaries, never veering off course.
Artworks
http://170.140.65.180
Abstract works that evoke the images and illustrations of Dantes Inferno, or the Creation Story. They are complex constructions that evoke mystery and elegance.
Natjure/Nuture
Offline
A biological datafield, and body organs reassembled in discrete elements, is replayed in a 3D movie created by this student from New York's Parsons School of Design.
Happy Doomsday!
http://www.v2.nl/v2-lab/hd
Online documentation of a 3D room installation, which was part of the V2, DEAF '98 Festival in Rotterdam. It uses a game-like investigation of territory and the history of Europe, and compares eras, showing how war has changed the territorial boundaries.
3D Cathedral/3D Farmhouse
Offline
3D animations of historic Macedonian buildings, created in the offline environment, offer an introduction to the little known and seldom seen Orthodox Church at Lake Ohrid, and a historic country farmhouse. A new field in this East European region, 3D graphics offers a rare view into the esoteric vistas of the Balkan countryside.
Women's Virtual Check-up
http://www.betterhealth.com/
virtualcheckup/
The Women's Virtual Check-up can help assess risk of a heart attack through a personal profile and interactive 3D visualizations of heart health, and about self breast examination by viewing a 3d demonstration. The VRML component was designed and created by Delllinger of IdeograFX, as a component to iVillage.com"s "CheckUp" project sponsored by Intel. The project has been redesigned by Superscape"s Content Group in Superscape, (.svr format) to replace the VRML version, due to Intel and Superscape"s existing marketing agreements.
Lenin Masouleum
http://www.lenin.ru
An inside look at the Lenin Museum, which can be visited in person in
Moscow's Red Square. The project was created in collaboration with
Paragraph International, Moscow.
Summer
http://millenium.simplenet.com/summer.htm
The grand-prize winner of the 1998 Avvy Awards, Summer was created by Victoria D"Onofrio (a.k.a. MyTwokeys) and Rodolfo Galeano (a.k.a. Netropolis), who have been working exclusively on the Net designing avatars for the past 3 years.
Pariser Platz
http://www.open-berlin.de/echtzeit.html
Mitte, the Brandenburger Tor am Pariser Platz, Linden? These are all areas of Berlin that are outlined in a virtual Stadtplan (city map) to historic areas, social spaces, fun, business and events. A chat area allows the personal interaction of virtual residents as well as local citizens. The future is now.
Virtual Strasbourgh
http://www.silverhawk.com/bluebee/
vrstrasbourg/welcome.html
Bluebee enterprises, designers of 3D images, and Websites, created the Virtual Strasbourg as a guided tour.
Xmantic Worlds
http://caiia-star.soc.plym.ac.uk/
PROJECTS/XMANTIC/index.html
The Xamantic Webs is an interactive 3D environment which presents poetic actions of sharing and transforming signs. A senior researcher conducting post doctoral research at the University of Plymouth, UK, School of Computing (caiia-star) Fraga brings fine art to the investigation of virtual space by looking at the Concrete and Minimalist movements of art, which are specifically reflected in the 3D worlds she creates.
VR Poetry
http://noel.pd.org/~thatguy/lepervr.htm
A literary work which integrates multi-user performance art from Vnet. Sponsored by Public Domain, Inc.
Building Heaven
http://mva.banff.org/~oliverh/heaven/A.html
A demonstration of the Lindenmayer-system modelers (L-Systems) of Professor Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (Calgary) in a VRML environment, a research project of the Banff Center, Alberta, Canada.
Superfem Datavatars
http://www.konsum.net/fem/wwwpin/log4.wrl
A VRML Concept Art work, which integrates live situation as performance, DJ lecture, and theoretical discussions with Net traceroutings, that target servers and online traffic. The walk through datas_sets is displayed inside VRML objects as its texture, skin, its "Netz-Haut."
The Fragrance of Garam
http://Xtrem.newave.co.kr/~angee/Garam
A VRML world that outlines a symbolic ideal of Buddhism and "the way" to Nirvana, created by Kim, a 3D engineer for the Network Transmission Engineering Team of Korean Telecom.
Metaverse - alpha
http://www.cityarts.com/metaverse/
A blue world, inviting participation and musing. This site uses new browser technology, Sense 8, that must be downloaded and then restart your computer to view.
Digital Daydream
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/
~tk/v_spaces/tarikh.wrl
An interior view of the self, from the vortex of VRML. Created at the New York University Department of Interactive Telecommunications.
Untitled
http://www.sover.net/~tlongtin
An engineering and structural VRML of gadgets and objects, with a view to rapid prototyping and virtual product design.
Cyberpunk
Offline
A 3D exploration Cyberpunk from science to fiction through a portal, an iris, a camera lens and television screen. Transmitters of images dip in to the sea of possibilities, through a sequence of choices. A 3D animation work ready for VRML.
3D Starlight Express
http://www.lunatic-berlin.com/index_stella.htm
A 3D real time online booking site, created to order theatre tickets in as little as 30 seconds. But first, take a virtual preview and experience the site-lines before purchasing those box seats or orchestra seats. This site was created for Starlight Express theatre in Bochum, Germany in1998. The client: Stella AG, Hamburg, in partnership with Intel Europe.
Untitled Works
http:/www.yourserver.co.uk/vr/works/taylor
A geodesic dome creates the boundaries for a transparent world of text and images. Part of the Virtual Revolutions (not to be confused with VR) conference in Liverpool, and the Art Servers Unlimited program in London, 1998.
VRMLWORLD
http://www.attila.nl/vrmlsite/vrmlworld.htm
Oosterhuis associates, an architectural design team, has created a multi-user world that features live debate among architects, designers and theorists. The public can join, as a small 3D world, so that the various habitats communicate and trigger events. Saltwater Pavilions, Parascape and other computer generated models are created by Kas Ooserhuis, artist Ilona Lénárd and VRML programmer Andre Houdart.
ZKM Building, Karlsruhe
http://webhome.idirect.com/
~ulikhanian/vrml99.htm
A 3D model of the Zentrum for Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, created as part of the general architectural visualization for the ZKM. This new Media Museum opened in 1997, as the largest museum devoted to creative aspects of media technology.
Auworld
http://top.inria.fr/paouri/
AUTANT/AUWORLD.HTM
A multimedia work with sound, text and movies. The Samothraki's waterfall and the wave propagation simulation are the beginning points of this work, they were described by Plato in his dialogue Timaeus.
Staging Strategies
http://www.c3.hu/~p5/p5
Lilian Juechtern & Nicole Martin are Program 5, and together they focus on the design of a formal language for virtual reality, based on the idea that the virtual world is dynamic information. Staging Strategies demonstrates the sensual aspects and experiences of VR, the lack of gravity and the horizonless changing space.
Informing Interiorities
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/Projects/
Studio/Fall97/Rashid/index.html
Informing Interiorities is a project space of the Columbia University School of Architecture, composed by Hani Rashid and students as a theoretical framework for the investigaton of digital space. Using sounds and movies to point out where communication technology meets spacial manufacture. Rashid discusses transformation, temporal and mnemonics, anplasticity and form as architectural concerens. In this work, architects revisit the problematics of perception, the formation of meaning, to explore spaces that are simultaneouldy occupied, which question a new spatiality.
The Virtuum (D-Tripping)
http://home.t-online.de/home/kiwano2/dt.htm
Working under the log-on Kiwano, this project is a multimedia work of fiction, and non linear story modules, with a warning to those under 18, "beware." It is also viewable as a "text-only" environment.
Virtual Business Card
http://www-personal.wccnet.org/
~frisco/visuals/vrml/card/
An elegant animation of origami, morphed into a business card, which morphs again into a personal portrait of the artist.
Scientific Models
http://lucy.itc.virginia.edu/~wmr5a/
VRMLART/index.htm
Created for the University of Virginia's New Media Center, as explorations of 3D modeling and animation, as well as visualization of virtual technology. More info:
http://maewest.itc.virginia.edu/~wmr5a/
VRMLART/will.htm
Cyberarts
http://www.rpi.edu/~ruiz/
FINALCYBER/index.html
The Rensselaer Polytechinic Institute Cyberarts class, an advanced EMAC course taught by Kathleen Ruiz, encourages students to explore personal and interior space with 3D web technology. Works selected are by Hyewon Kang, Po-ju Ko, Tyson Law, Luke McDermott, Aaron Montague, Stephanie Noble, Sarah Pottle, Nicholas Waters, Laurie Brown, Richard Czyzewski, Hua Gan, and Justin Taylan.
Dancing Calligraph
http://207.139.143.141/rudolph/
A multi-user world done in a project contracted by a Canadian University, TechBC, in collaboration with Mr. Yannis Panieras. Sound, images and short skits form the landscape of this work.
F Port
http://www.salon-digital.de/fport
A single user exploration of Hong Kong, a work in Progress, this project was sponsored by the Goethe Institutes Hong Kong and München in 1997, as part the virtual portal to the fluctuating cultural scene. A workspace, the virtual gathering of local (Hong Kong) and global users will determine the actual content of the project. Site powered by info Age, a center for networking strategies.
Weightless Sculpture Project
http://www.denhaag.org/vrijeacademie
Reflecting on the differences between traditional painting and sculpture,
and the obvious discrepancy in the new art between enclosed physical space and the corresponding disclosed VIRTUAL space, this project defies all mystic hype about "virtual art" in real space. Created in the Vrijeacademie (Free Academy) Den Haag.
Johannes Kepler "Harmonice Mundi"
http://www3.osk.3web.ne.jp/~tomoo/
works/networkplanet.htm
"Network Planet Ensemble" is Kepler's imaginary world "Harmonic Mundi",. Kepler was trying to find common rules between music and planetary movement. Created at Inter Medium Institute Graduate School, Osaka, Japan, it is reproduced with VRML;, JAVA and MIDI. People are asteroid avatars and play Ensemble together. Within the space, one can find the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Modeler
http://space.arch.ethz.ch/~strehlke/
vrml99/html/form.html
A prototype for a collaborative three-dimensional modeling tool in a network environment. This modeler is written in VRML. It has a set of very simple rules which allow to compose an object within a defined Gridstructure and transform the structure by applying forces on it. The whole program is connected to a database which allows to interact between a personal model and the work from other people.
Virtual Shopping
http://www.virtual.ccg.uc.pt/
shopping/piso0/piso0.wrl
Created at the Centro di Computacao Grafica in Coimbra, Portugal, the virtual shopping center promises an elevator ride, and a hassle free shopping in shops that never close.
CyberTotem Avatar:
http://mission.base.com/tamiko/
vrml-art/eyehairb14a.wrl
Avatar design based on research into human-machine interface design at MIT, and fine art, bring fantasy and creativity into the visualization process of Tamiko Thiel.
The Negative River
More info: http://www1.tip.nl/~t046623/tnr.html
A navigable organic environment that uses the river as metaphor.The project is built from data contributed by users, and abstract concepts that form a flexible information system.
Virtual Museum System
http://www.vgtv.com/dhtml
A navigable database supported system for connecting html and vrml, for administrating and updating huge multi-media projects with content. Van Gogh TV, a media collaborative, has been active in combining various media with live audiences for television, radio and Internet since the early 1980s. Seen only in EXPLORER not in NETSCAPE !!!
Spaces: Real, Surreal, Abstract
http://home.earthlink.net/~lvigdor/Spaces.htm
Architectural models and sculpture in New York created as interactive spaces online include Grand Central Terminal, as well as columns and clouds, and exteriors and interiors. As artistic investigations, the virtual spaces represent the experience of being in space as both real and ephemeral. "Everyone needs a choice."
Marton Fernezelyi (Hungary)
Demedusator
http://demusator.c3.hu
A shared virtual world that is developed by its visitors. It is an infinite container-space ready for habitation by pioneers looking for new virtual homes. It is a "link-catalyzing" environment, that is influenced by the engineer Vannevar Bush (1945) who published "As we may think", describing the MEMEX, what is now the blueprint for the Net and WWW. Demedusator echos these questions, and allows the custom build info "trails" of data.
Bodyscan
http://thing.at/bodyscan
A development of Wohlgemuth's System Work, Bodyscan was began in Monterey, California, at Cyberware, inc. in 1997. There, a detailed full body scan was done (like the Astronauts, the Star Trek Crew, and other stars like Arnold Schwarzeneger had before), which reduced the body to a 35 Mb data_set. Th artistic explorations are both personal and ambivalent, connected to stories and memories, and related to issues of self-identity.
VRML-ART / 3D Web Art Expo was made possible by support from VRML '99 - the Fourth International Conference on Virtual Reality Modelilng Language & Web 3D Technologies, held at the Heinz Nixdorf Museum, Paderborn, Germany, February 23-26, 1999. Additional support was received from artemedia, Zurich, Switzerland and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept of Integrated Electronic Art, Troy, New York. Christian Bauer, VRML 99 General Chair and Gerd Schulz, C-lab and VRML 99 local chair, as well as the C-lab team, made the first showing of this program a success in Paderborn.
The VRML-ART committee is comprised of Karel Dudesek, Chair, Kathy Rae Huffman, Co-Chair, Zvonimir Bakotin, VRML Marshall, and Martin Schmitz, Virtual Gallery Advisor.
