3D4K: Undergraduate Visual Arts Majors Showcase Ultra-HD Films and 3D |
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ABSTRACT: This is a combined event to showcase the student projects completed in two courses taught by Visual Arts faculty members Ricardo Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum, featuring large-format Ultra-HD videos and 3D virtual environments. On Friday, December 19, the Qualcomm Institute (QI) will host end-of-quarter public displays of undergraduate arts-related projects from two separate courses: Visual Arts 40, an introduction to the conceptual uses and historical precedents for the use of computers in art taught by professor Brett Stalbaum; and Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts (ICAM) 120, a course on virtual environments taught by Visual Arts professor Ricardo Dominguez. Under the title "Some Billions of Pixels," Professor Stalbaum will introduce three films developed by student teams from VIS 40. The large-format films will be shown in Ultra-High Definition, popularly known as "4K" because each frame is roughly 4,000 pixels across -- making it four times the resolution of regular HD. The films will be shown on the 4K projector in Atkinson Hall's Calit2 Auditorium from 7pm through 9pm. Also from 7-9pm in Atkinson Hall, Professor Dominguez will be in QI's Immersive Visualization Laboratory, where the 15 students in his Fall ICAM 120 class will showcase three 3D projects inside the StarCAVE virtual-reality (VR) environment. Their final projects for the course take the form of VR programs. The full title of the course is "From Cave to Cave: Virtual and Immersive Environments." The ICAM class investigated the deep history of virtual/immersive environments from the paleoart of the Lascaux Cave in France, to the histories of immersive theater, art, film, net art, video games and today's virtual/immersive CAVE environments such as QI's StarCAVE. Teams of students produced three different CAVE "gestures" that will be displayed in 3D on the StarCAVE environment, with support from QI gallery coordinator Trish Stone. Friends and family are invited to the Dec. 19 event, which is also open to the broader campus arts and research communities. SPEAKER BIO: Students in ICAM 120 included Christine Renee Biewer, Lawrence Win Chit, Nimah Dastmalchi, Jesse Gastelum, Hunter Evan Hirsch, Victor Wa Lau, Monica Cher Liu, Nassem Navab-Gojrati, Chelsea Nicole Pattee, Cindy Tzou, David Hong Wang, Xi Wang, Anna Tzu Hsien Yang, Tanya Zhang, and Yessenia Zhou. For VIS 40, credits include teaching assistants Emily Grenader, Erika Ostrander, and Angela Washko; music by Benjamin Breidenthal, Todd Everett, Ting Su, Kathy Huynh, Yuchen (Samantha) Liu, Angela Jimenez, Geoff Palomino, Sung Eun (Grace) Cho, Sal Moreno, Hyong Won (Mark) Yoon, Khue Tran, Sherman Aline; and animations by Sherman Maclennan Aline, Atl R Arredondo, Daryl Justin Auclair, Aaron Robert Barrall, James Palmer Boyd, Benjamin Marcus, Breidenthal, Jacquelyn Kathleen Bulkowski, Grason Hurley Caldwell, Jacqueline L K Chan, Kristen T Chan, Jia Chen, Wei-Yin Cheng, Min-Chieh Chiu, Sung Eun Cho, Nancy Nicole Cipriano, Brandon Alexander Contreras, John Anthony Wells Cutone, April Noelle Damon, Alicia Del Sol Fernandez, Dahlia Cecilia Dominguez, Landen Robert Douglas, Yuanbo Du, Kenneth Andres Escamilla, Jake Tan Espinueva, Todd Ashley Everett, Justin Fan, Yuxiao Fang, Jackson Miles Fatheree, Mayra Alejandra Frias, Yolanda Ho Ying Fung, James Joseph Gillcrist, Min Ji Go, Andre Jose Gomez, Joshua Luis Gomez, Sylvia Gong, Timothy Paul Hedstrom, Samuel Kelly Hessenauer, Alexis Charles Hithe, Vincent Duy Ngoc Hoang, Brandon Alan Hockersmith, Dayna Kellie Akemi Hom, Christiana Diane Hotton, Kathy Huynh, Safia Wael Ibrahim, Eun Chae Jang, Gabrielle Jarrett, Angela Francesca Rivera Jimenez, Keishya Chivita Johan, Patrick James Kiernan, Micaela Rose Kowalczyk, Fan Man Ku, Edwin Kwon, Kaitlin Gee-Mei Kwong, Tiffany Pak Yee Lam, Jeffrey Lau, Sandi Laura Lee, See Han Lee, Boyang Li, Tianyang Li, Eric Liang, Timothy Berean Liang, Xiaohan Liao, Yifeng Lin, Hanchao Liu, Jiayu Liu, Shiyao Liu, Yuchen Liu, Paul Chan Llanura, Le Lu, Mercedes Deedee Luangamath, Kaho Cliff Man, Ashley Bryan Marin, Gabrielle-Anne Custodio Miranda, Brian Patrick Monroe, Timothy James Montgomery, Sal Moreno, Ignatius Viet Nguyen, Jakob Magnus Ollen, Elizaveta Onatsko, Julian Ostensen, Geoffrey James Palomino, Harsh Patel, Jocelyn Paz Ledesma, Alexanderia Dayona Pitcher, Kendra Ann Quinlan, Zhihao Rong, Arpie Emmy Shekoyan, Ericca Lynne Speed, Dean Constantine Stavropoulos, Walker Edward Stevens, Ting Su, Cory Amon Swartzbaugh, Katie Ann Tam, Amber Hsin Rei Tang, Son Chau Tang, Leiya Anne Uehara Tatad, Bryon Dean Taylor, Yu-Hsuan Ti, Leslie Tong, Khue Vi Tran, Caycee Aquino Uril, Angelica Rosetta Uzzle-Sanchez, Catherine Chi Wang, Di Wang, Jiayu Wang, Ke Wang, Wei-Chung Wang, Yimeng Wang, Yinrou Wang, Christopher Kenneth Weller, Changxuan Wu, Muyao Wu, Lu Xu, Daniel Yang, Elliot Zesoo Yang, Jia Wei Yeap, Jonathan Andrew Yergler, Hyong Won Yoon, Lei Yu, Jinzhe Zhang, Tianyu Zhang, Yijun Zhang, Jane Zhao, Helen Zhou, and Chenyi Zhu. |
