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"And so the arts are encroaching upon one another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental."
--Wassily Kandinsky
CREATIVE PORTFOLIO
Following is an assorted collection of recent art created by DISIS students and faculty:
2007
RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
DISIS fosters collaborations with various departments, institutions and entities. As a result, a vast majority of research that takes place at DISIS is collaborative in nature. Following terms are used to describe DISIS role:
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PI (Principal Investigator) for projects that originated in DISIS |
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CO-PI (co-Principal Investigator) in projects where main authorship is shared among several entities |
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Senior Personnel where DISIS was a paid contributor to an outside project |
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Collaborator where DISIS was an academic contributor to an outside project |
Following is a list of recent research at DISIS:
Ultrasonic Gesture Mapping (PI, Spring 2007-present)
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Use of ultrasonic beacons for the purpose of sonification of gestures |
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Prototyping phase complete |
DREAM: A Discrete REconfigurable Aural Matrix (PI, Fall 2006-present)
(formerly known as Aural Matrix Haptic Display Interface or AMHDI)
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Use of large speaker arrays for sonification of data |
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Foundation for an Aural Painting artistic genre |
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2 undergraduate summer assistantships |
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1 undergraduate summer assistantship via the VT REU program |
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$32,000 CLAHS Dean's Grant (Fall 2006) |
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$20,000 ISCE Summer Scholars Grant (Summer 2007) |
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Publication of preliminary findings pending (IEEE) |
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NSF CreativeIT proposal currently pending (Music/CHCI/LSU) |
munger1~ (PI, Fall 2007-present)
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Porting and enhancement of the munger~ real-time granular synthesis object from Dan Trueman's PErCoLate Max/MSP library |
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Presented at ICMC 2007 |
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Project completed in Spring 2007 |
Networked Ensemble (Collaborator, Fall 2007-present)
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Ensemble performance and coordination using network resources |
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$975,978 (Singapore currency) awarded to the National University of Singapore |
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Currently in the development phase |
Recontextualizing Contemporary Multimedia Kiosk Paradigm Using Sustainable Touchless Gesture Interface (PI, Fall 2007-present)
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Use of a proximity sensor array in conjunction with gesture tracking software |
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Focus on sustainable design |
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Prototyping phase complete |
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Basis for two creative interactive multimedia installations: |
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 community |
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heads will roll |
REVO - OVER (CO-PI, Spring 2006-present)
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Commission for the grand opening of the Arts Museum of Western Virginia |
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Project developed as part of the VT's Digital Arts Research Collaborative |
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1 graduate assistantship |
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Projected budget $500,000 |
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Prototyping phase complete |
SMILE Project (Senior Personnel, Spring 2007-present)
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Science and Mathematics Inclusive Learning Engagement program |
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Targets underrepresented population of the Appalachian region by building of creative metaphors to facilitate learning |
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6 undergraduate summer assistantships |
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$2,000 internal grant |
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$20,000 ISCE Summer Scholars Grant (Summer 2007) |
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NSF proposal pending |
VT Stakeholders Project (CO-PI, Spring 2007)
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Design of promotional audio-visual materials for the Performing Arts Center fundraising campaign |
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Soundtrack and effects design |
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2 undergraduate assistantships |
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$10,000 budget |
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Project completed in Spring 2007 |
Sustainable Silent Computing (PI, Spring 2007-present)
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Preliminary study used as the foundation for building the DISIS infrastructure |
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Low power consumption Workstations that use highly efficient PSUs |
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Silent air-cooled machines using a single <1200 RPM fan |
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Systems offering Workstation performance |
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Use of environmentally-friendly hardware |
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