cave writings 3- exhibit#2

On Sunday, my boyfreind and I went to see the Cave Writings III exhibit at Brown Univ. It was an amazing thing to have seen it on the Advent DVDs and then to go see it and use it for myself. The Virtual Cave is comprised of 4 screens, 2 on each side of you, one in front, and one on the bottom under your feet. we took off our shoes and put on special 3D glasses (just like the ones you get at IMAX, except a lot more high tech), it was nice that there weren't very many of us, just 6. the demonstration is about an hour, and we were able to see different projects that Brown students had done.

Cave Writing was created using text edit, but now it has its own text edit specifically for cave writing, which is accessible from their website for free, so you can download it and play around with the world thats already created, they obviously don't give out the source code, but I think its pretty awesome of them to allow people all over the world to access the program for free to enjoy.

My favorite part was the piece about memory, which was on Advent DVD, 3 different memories came up in white text on all of the black screens. They were read aloud for us, since only one of the 3D glasses had a mouse attached, we all took turns as words starting coming toward us, we had to bounce back the words with the light that emitted from the mouse, but when we bounced them back, they landed in different spots within the other memories.

also, a very cool thing was that Damon Baker, the guy who demonstrated cave writings, seemed eager to help me start up a cave writing class at Mass Art. I think that having a class like that really puts us at the forefront of virtual new media. The Brown Students did some awesome things with the program, but I think students at Mass Art could skyrocket it into something unique and amazing. So this was my interview, we want to get a cave writing class at mass art.