IDIA performs at the International Annual Science and Technology Festival in India
John Fillwalk and Jesse Allison travelled to Mumbai, India for the International Annual Science and Technology Festival, January 22-24, to exhibit the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts’ (IDIA) "Flickr Getter" installation. The festival, the largest of its kind in Asia, hosted more than 65,000 attendees. In addition to exhibitions such as "Flickr Getter", the festival featured keynotes such as Lars Rasmussen, Co-Founder of Google Wave and Google Maps; Vic Hayes, father of Wi-Fi; Ajay Bhatt, Co-Inventor of USB; Jonathan Gardner, Senior ... + more +
Flying Forces is a museum exhibit built by Ball State University Music Technology senior, Matt Erwin for placement in the Academy of Model Aeronautics in Muncie, IN. This interactive exhibition was produced in partnership with IDIA Lab and the BSU Department of Theater. ... + more +
Flickr Gettr bridges the virtual world to the wealth of shared real life imagery and information in Flickr, providing an immersive sonic and visual experience of the collective image resource.
Human-Computer Interaction in the Arts
The Human-Computer Interaction Lab housed in Music Technology 227 is a learning and exploration space for how electronics can interact with the arts.
The IDIA has virtualized and digitally extended the BSU Bracken Library in Second Life
IDIA Blackboard / Second Life Building Block Project
IDIA has produced a bridging toolset, linking the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life with Blackboard - providing a unified, secure and fluid hybrid learning experience. This project is funded by the Blackboard Greenhouse Grant for Virtual Worlds.
Indianapolis Airport Simulator
The IDIA is working with the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and Ball State students enrolled in a special immersion seminar to help develop a Secondlife training module.
Traversal for Boston Cyberarts
Traversal for Boston Cyberarts is a live performance and hybrid reality installation that bridges the physical and virtual worlds. It will connect Faneuil Hall in Boston (virtualized in Second Life) with Shafer Tower at Ball State University as part of the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival.
AM Radio: The Red and The Wild at IDIA Labs in Second Life
IDIA hosts AM Radio's The Red and the Wild as the inaugural artist-in-residence at IDIA Labs - an exhibition and installation sim for virtual installation art and performance in Second Life. ... + more +
Displaced Resonance consists of sixteen sculptural forms containing tubing of different lengths (the longest roughly ten feet, folded) mounted on boxes with internal loudspeakers driving sound through the tubes. ... + more +
The IDIA Seminar's current project focuses on virtually recreating the original settings of various sculptures found throughout the Ball State Museum of Art.
Ball Memorial Hospital Visualization
In collaboration with Ball Memorial Hospital, IDIA has created a training video and interactive media to help facilitate the transition into the Ball Memorial Hospital New South Tower.
Indiana State Fair - Ball State Digital Dome
An interactive 3D touch screen kiosk designed by Nick Johnson was featured at the 2008 Indiana State Fair.
The Muncie Max Users Group is a collection of students and faculty who use MaxMSP/Jitter to sound and visual art. ... + more +
On November 10, the Las Americas Network held the grand opening of its Virtual Design Studio. The event unveils the studio, designed by CAP student Brandon Hoopingarner and created in Second Life by students in the IDIA Immersive Seminar in Virtual Worlds. "The nature of the tower's architecture is specific to Second Life. There are no stairs, and dynamic pods and audio bubbles allow groups to meet together or 'fly' away to have private meetings," said dean of CAP Guillermo Vasquez ... + more +
"Eco-Net" is an attempt to connect wireless network data with nature by visualizing that data with plant-like structures and organic motion.
This exhibit is a rich collection of inviting and interactive works that will show how technology-based art emerged in the 1960s and how it will progress into the future.
It is a movie. It is a stage performance. What began as a short story by one creative writing student has blossomed into a massive collaborative project featuring the talents of dozens of student actors, producers, composers, and many others.
Students from the IDIA Immersion Seminar designed and produced a 3D visualization of a therapeutic process developed by Dr. Tom Sevier of Performance Dynamics. S
Digital Cinema Arts in the Virtual World, The Aesthetic Camera Project
The Aesthetic Camera Project was designed to deliver digital cinema curriculum through Second Life - an online virtual world. This intensive research and development project was hatched through a partnership between the College of Fine Arts, the Center for Media Design, and Information Technology.
Immersive Seminar in Virtual Worlds
The Immersive Seminar in Intermedia Art is a project-based, interdisciplinary, collaborative production seminar exploring the intersection of aesthetics & emerging technology.
IDIA, in collaboration with the College of Architecture and Planning, will be constructing a virtual tour of the town of Reynolds, Indiana for Governor Mitch Daniels’s Biotown Project.
RFID-Linked 3D Media Interface
Students participating in IDIA’s Immersion Seminar were named as winners for an Award of Excellence at the International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) 2007 National Conference for a project allowing a user to manipulate a digital world with physical objects.
Students from Ball State University’s Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts created a music video for recording artist Ki: Theory. ... + more +
IDIA is creating a media rich interactive digital kiosk for the Digital Fabrication Institute’s MMFX Exhibit hosted by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. ... + more +
[un]wired is an installation that visually and sonically interprets wireless network traffic.
This reactive kiosk tracks hand motions to navigate through a timeline and history of intermedia artists.
interActivity was a collaborative art system at the Ball State University Art Museum on February 25th 2007. ... + more +