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Featuring
the newest form of the World of Plankton World of
Plankton touch pool installation
World of Plankton touch pool
Young player of the World of Plankton touch pool
Video of QR AR 3d Plankton print sculpture animations
World of Plankton at the Innovation
Playground photos by Carolyn Crowley
World of Plankton Spiny Water Flea QR code World of Plankton Dinobryon
QR code The World
of Plankton is an interactive virtual 3 dimensional game-art and
science environment designed to viscerally engage the participant at the
micro-scale of unseen phytoplankton and zooplankton in order to gain
first-hand experience about the drama of underwater life and its potentials
for environmental impact. The
project can be experienced as a projected virtual artwork installation in a
gallery, a science or arts museum, in VR, or online. Created by a trans-disciplinary
group of artists, musicians, game designers, programmers, and scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, we
invite you to experience this prototype of the World of Plankton. The World
of Plankton connects learning, experiencing and creating. We are
resonating creative artistic inquiry and practice with the evolving research
of the Jefferson Project, (a
partnership between Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, IBM,
and The Fund for Lake George in
revolutionary environmental monitoring and remediation that combines a
network of sensors in and around Lake George in measuring physical, chemical,
and biological parameters.) The World
of Plankton seeks ways to expand this inquiry and connect into a
broader cultural understanding by creating artworks and environments that
will enable us to see and hear what the lake is telling us as a total entity,
and lead us to a deeper wisdom about how and why we need to protect our
waterways. Together
we are asking the questions that no one discipline alone can ask. ©
2016-2018 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
This work stems
from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department
of the Arts and the Games
and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program and is an outreach of the
Jefferson Project. We are in deep appreciation of the generous support
provided by the Rensselaer Knowledge and Innovation Program (KIP), Building a Three Dimensional Model of the
Plankton Distribution in Lake George. Research funding
was provided by the Jefferson
Project at Lake George, which is a collaboration of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IBM, and The FUND for Lake George. We are
deeply thankful for the support of the Darrin Fresh Water Institute
(DFWI) and the Jefferson
Project and all the amazing people there who made our student research at
Lake George possible.
Additionally,
we gratefully acknowledge the support of the NVIDIA Corporation’s Academic Research Grant that enabled
the GPU used for this research and 1st Playable Productions for supporting development.
Recent
support is also being provided by a grant from NYSCA (The New York State Council on the Arts) in
partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF)
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