ARVR Month @ UC Berkeley || April 2018
Experience the past, present, and future of AR/VR technology across UC-Berkeley’s campus landscape. Joining the creativity of film-makers, visual artists, engineers, composers, performers, and architects, you’ll find an incredible range of activity that promises to transform the research, education, and public mission of Berkeley. Immerse yourself…really.
Co-sponsored by Berkeley Arts + Design, April’s Immersions are co-produced and co-curated by the Academic Innovation Studio, BAMPFA, Berkeley Center for New Media, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, the Department of Art Practice, the Department of Film and Media, the Digital Humanities, The FHL VIVE Center for Enhanced Reality, the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and the University Library, amongst other campus organizations and external campus partners.
The Exhibit
Deep Dive, Or the Limits of Immersion
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Kroeber Hall
April 4 to April 26, 2018
Monday-Thursday, 12:00pm-5:00pm
Featuring work by 8 artists, this exhibit explores the possibilities and challenges of AR/VR as a medium that shapes and integrates aspects of reality, changing the experience of of gallery exhibition in the process.
The Archaeological Site
The Past is Present: Virtuality, Archaeology, and the Future of History
April 5, 10:00am-5:00pm, Sutardja Dai Hall
April 6, 10:00am-5:00pm, Blum Hall, Room 230
Bringing together scholars, students, technology innovators, and cultural heritage workers, this symposium and demonstration presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media ask how the study of the past is changing with rapid advances in documentation and interpretive technologies such as scanning, visualization, and Augmented and Virtual Reality.
The Classroom + Campus
Immersive Education: Teaching with and About AR/VR
Academic Innovation Studio, Dwinelle Hall
April 19, 3:00pm-5:30pm
Bringing together faculty from music, visual art, engineering, journalism, architecture and other wings of the campus, this symposium and demonstration workshop presented by the Academic Innovation Studio explores what it means to teach “with” and “about” cutting-edge AR/VR technology. How are immersive technologies transforming education?
The Industry
Gender Bias in Tech: A Virtual Reality Experience
Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 250
April 5, 1:00pm-5:00pm
The UC Women in Technology Initiative, the office of the CIO, ETS, and iSchool present a virtual reality experience that explores gender bias in the tech industry by showing the movie UTURN with Samsung virtual reality.
Vive Sponsored Industry Symposium
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
April 20, 9:00am-5:00pm
This event will feature a diverse range of faculty and industry experts focusing on society’s most pressing needs in areas of healthcare, education, communications and industrial applications. The FHL Vive Center will showcase the current and ongoing effort as it relates to critical fundamental research and high-impact applications in the emerging fields of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Expanded Screen
Medium/Environment
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142
April 27 and 28, 9:00am-5:00pm
Featuring media theorists and artists from around the world, this biennial conference presented by Berkeley Film & Media explores questions of “environmental media” broadly conceived. Scholars and practitioners consider how the environmental turn: in the cinematic medium coincides with the saturation of media technologies in the air, earth, ocean, and sky of our living environment.