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Date: | January 3, 2008 |
| Subject: | Amazing 3-D exhibition coming to the Dennos Museum Center | |
| Contact: | Eugene A. Jenneman, Director, (231) 995-1572 Hank Kaczmarski, CANVAS Project Director UIUC, 217.244.5412 |
Amazing 3-D exhibition coming to the Dennos Museum Center
Blue Julia (Nicholas Duchnowski, 2007) is a three-dimensional slice of a four-dimensional quaternion Julia set.
Tangle (George Francis, 1993) explores the rotation of objects connected by a belt or by strings to a fixed background. Such an object plus its connections to the background will be entangled by a 360 degree rotation, yet returned fully to its original configuration after a 720 degree rotation. This combination of topology and geometry has applications to the physics of an electron.
illiSnail (Francis, Bourd, Hartman & Chappell, 1995) is a surface that morphs between snail, mobius, Roman, and cross cap surfaces.
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Traverse City: The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will host the exhibition environment CANVAS January 20 – June 1, 2008. Because of the unique experimental nature of CANVAS the closing date is subject to change. A reception for museum members and guests to preview the exhibition will be held on Saturday, January 19, 2008. CANVAS is presented in cooperation the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. The featured exhibition of CANVAS is CalculArt where mathematical equations become art in a 3-D virtual world. CANVAS (Collaborative Advanced Navigation Virtual Art Studio) is a room-sized immersive 3D environment with origins in CAVETM technology from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Chicago. It is scalable, reconfigurable display technology for modern art museums and is not intended as a work itself but as an environment to facilitate the creation and display of immersive art works. CANVAS allows for the creation and presentation of virtual art that exists not in two or three-dimensional space like a painting or sculpture but in the multi-dimensional world of virtual images. Viewers see the CANVAS in 3D by wearing passive stereo glasses. For more information on CANVAS go to www.isl.uiuc.edu/canvas. “CANVAS will be a completely unique experience for our visitors,” says Gene Jenneman, Director of the Dennos Museum Center, “It is only the second installation of CANVAS at another art museum, the first being at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. We are fortunate to have this experimental project come to the Dennos Museum Center.” CANVAS is made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs with the support of the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Media support is provided by TV 7&4. The Dennos Museum Center is open daily 10 AM to 5 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $4.00 adults, $2.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and exhibition, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1701 East Front Street, Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.
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