Project Number
- 219
Title
- Media & Mythology
Description
- Immersive art installation for interactive story experiences.
Contact
- Kimberly Abel Parsons
Affiliation
- Institute for Simulation & Training
Address
- Visual Systems Laboratory
- 3280 Progress Drive
- Orlando, Florida 32826
- 3280 Progress Drive
- kparsons@ist.ucf.edu
WWW
Year
- 1998
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "In ancient times, mythology was the high-tech method for storing data on a society's history, rituals, and ethical systems. The paradigm in use for these early information systems was storytelling."
- "Myth & Mythology explores the link between traditional mythologies from several cultures and new technology/new media."
- - "Man and Minotaur allows visitors a fully immersive experience in a synthetic version of the Dadalus' Labyrinth, complete with two combatants and the gods who taunt them"
- - "Video Totem allows expressionistic visitors to create and view their own mythologies on a large digital totem pole"
- - "Dear Oracle integrates contemporary media into traditional soothsaying"
Sight
- graphics workstation, projection display
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 201 - virtual environment
Secondary
- 307 - art / commentary
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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