DEMO
Ruth West, Eitan Mendelowitz, Zach Thomas, Christopher Poovey, Ian Afflerbach, Luke Hillard, I Chen Yeh, Violet Johnson, Lars Berg, Hannah Helgesen, Roger Malina, Lifan Wang
Time/Location: Siebel Center for Design - April 28 - May 5
INSTRUMENT | One Antarctic Night (IOAN) is a multi-player VR experience that brings the rhythms of the cosmos to life in an endless remix instrument. Created from the starlight of 817‚373 stars reaching robotic telescopes in Antarctica, after a 160‚000 year journey, the experience transports players inside of a star field from the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Inside this luminous space, multiple players explore and collaboratively create new visual and sound remixes from unique data about the stars.
In IOAN, big data has met its creative match. We’re transforming over 758 million data points about 817‚373 stars into a virtual world of light and sound.
IOAN online: https://oneantarcticnight.com/
IOAN is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (15-5400-7043) and BenQ America.
This exhibition is sponsored by the University of Illinois iSchool Fellowship, the IMMERSE Center, and the Siebel Center for Design.