Research : Multimedia

Multimedia at CRCA encompasses VR enhanced environments, CD-ROM works, hypertext, web, and database projects.

Research Projects

CRCA Director Sheldon Brown recently participated in BEYOND MEDIA/OLTRE I MEDIA, an international festival of architecture in video promoted by the Department of Architectural Technologies and Design "Pierluigi Spadolini" of the University of Florence, curated by Marco Brizzi and organized by iMage. The festival has been observing the advance of multimedia devices in the field of architecture by evaluating their impact on contemporary architectural production and by promoting quality and research in the development of communication media for design projects.

StudioLab was created with the assistance of eight UCSD students: Alex Dragulescu, CRCA Graduate Student Researcher, Cal-(IT)2 Graduate fellow; Matt Hope, CRCA Graduate Student Researcher, Cal-(IT)2 Graduate Fellow; David Poulin, CRCA Graduate Student Researcher; Joel Murphy, CRCA Graduate Student Researcher; Craig Donner, Computer Science PhD student; Ben Maggos, Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts (ICAM) Major, Cal-(IT)2 undergraduate fellow; Chris Berg, ICAM Major, Cal-(IT)2 Undergraduate Fellow; and Wes Middleton, ICAM Major. The maize-like environment, suggesting forms derived from the cinema and movie projectors, features two monitors highlighting Brown’s multimedia work Smoke and Mirrors and Istoria, as well as an 80-foot long digital print highlighting the work of the students who assisted with the project. The development of StudioLab reflects a unique pedagogical approach that has developed at UCSD incorporating aspects of art-making studios, media production facilities, as well as engineering and experimental gaming labs.

The Dawn Project - Filmmaker and professor Carroll Blue is designing interactive multimedia products for her book entitled The Dawn At My Back: A Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing 1900-2000. Seeking new ways to explore and involve interactivity and multimedia in the storytelling process, she has been developing a DVD at CRCA with support from USC's Labyrinth Project.

Freud-Lissitzky Navigator - An archeological project by Lev Manovich that reconstructs a mythical computer game whose history spans the 20th century.

LISA - "Logical.Insurance.Subject.Analysis" by Lisa Hutton.

Little Movies Vol. 1 - "Prolegomena for Digital Cinema" by Lev Manovich.

Mauve Desert - MAUVE DESERT is a CD-ROM Translation by Adriene jenik of Nicole Brossard's experimental novel Le Désert mauve.

Paint with Violin - Janos Negyesy is creating a graphic performance/painting project that is a product of the violin.

Persistant Data Conflict - The Persistent Data Confidante by Paul Vanouse is a public service for those who like to tell and those who like to listen.

Residue - Residue by Liz Sisco is a CD-ROM "meditation on ritual."

"waitingforgodot.com" - by Adriene Jenik is a performance and adaptation of Samuel Beckett's classic play for the internet.