Space Echoes

Creative Director and Principal Investigator
ICAT Cube, Blacksburg, VA, Fall 2016
Funded by the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT), Virginia Tech
~Awarded tenure in spring, 2016

Space Echoes is a fully immersive experience that showcases an array of technologies available from the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology’s state-of-the-art Cube at Virginia Tech. 3D Animations and 3D sound compositions were presented in unison to create a sensation of other worldly experiences. The visual components of the animations were projected onto a Cyclorama screen that is 16 feet tall by 40 feet wide. Audience members wore 3D goggles while listening to 3D musical compositions relayed from an array of 139 speakers, collectively creating a new kind of visual and auditory encounter.

As the creative director and principle investigator on this project, I developed a set of drawings based on meditations of my own personal art work. These drawings then went through the process from modeling to animation to fit the unique 360 space. Collaborating with Eric, we developed visual cues to work with the 3D sound system to create a fully stereoscopic immersive experience. I also helped pioneer one of the first rendering pipelines for the project which is still used today.

Collaborator: Eric Lyon, Associate Professor of Practice from the School of Performing Arts