Interacting with Ideas: Concept Visualization in Immersive VR: Museum of Color Case Study

Speaker
Anne Spalter
Artist in Residence, Computer Graphics Group, Brown University

When
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Where
Wean Hall 5409

Description

Color remains one of the most elusive yet compelling areas of visual research in both the sciences and the arts. Can computer technology help us better master its ways? This talk will demonstrate new research from the Brown University Computer Graphics Group that seeks to make color interaction in graphics software easier and more effective. The talk will include demonstrations of 2D desktop widgets as well as video footage of fully immersive interaction scenarios for learning about and using color.

Speaker's Bio

Anne Morgan Spalter is Artist in Residence with the Brown University Computer Graphics Group, where she strives to bring together technical and artistic approaches to research and writing. She is the author of “The Computer in the Visual Arts” (Addison-Wesley 1999), a text that integrates technical concepts, art theory, and art practice. She leads a Graphics Group project on color interaction (Accessible Color) that seeks to create new user interfaces for selecting and changing colors in computer graphics software, and a project to create Web-based educational content and document the experience in a design strategy handbook (Exploratories). She is also the Outreach Director for the NSF Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, a research consortium including Brown University, the California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Utah.

Spalter designed the first computer art course at Brown, which she taught jointly there and at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She has a BA in mathematics from Brown University and an MFA in painting from RISD. Her own computer art work has been exhibited in the US and abroad, and she is the founder of the College Art Association Special Interest Group for Computers in the Visual Arts.