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Kathleen Ruiz, abd
Ph.D.,: Originator/Project Director/Producer Andrew Morris: GSAS/Computer Science 2015
Programmer/Designer Evan Gonzales: eARTs
2015 Music/Sound Sarah Plant: Independent Composer/Musician:
Music Yijia Chen: GSAS/eARTs
2017: Artist Project: The Other is an artistic research project that seeks to study new kinds of
experiences within virtual spaces which employ the natural ability of
simulation media to show multiple viewpoints, 1st person experience,
and intentionality. Our team consists of mainly marginalized and
underrepresented individuals in the world of games and simulation. We hope
that our research leads towards a better ethic of acceptance of “the other”
(E. Levinas) and that it can open new territories
of creative inquiry for others. Project: The Other sees untapped potential in interactive simulation and game worlds in
exploring one another. Simulation media naturally lends itself towards more
subjunctive thinking, thinking not in facts but, as contingencies or
possibilities. Project: The Other rejects the Cartesian split between
subject and object and the seeing of the world and others as an “it” which is
"out there.” Instead, Project: The Other embraces more
phenomenological spatial metaphors and the idea that we are embedded in the
world and in nature. “The Other” essentially shows how “other”
influences “each other”, and that existence is essentially co-existence.
(J.L. Nancy) You Light Up My World is a pilot world of Project: The Other that is investigating
virtual space with an entirely new approach to what can occur in interactive
experiences. Here the project team is exploring networked Unity 3D
worlds that use two Oculus Rift VR headsets with spatialized sound and music
in conjunction with programmed atmospheric effects to illuminate revelations
of a very unique sort.
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