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Visualization Sciences’ best to be displayed this week
By Jeremy Osborne
THE BATTALION
Attendees should expect a cyber circus spec
tacular as this year's Vizagogo promises to be a
true multimedia experience.
Vizagogo is the annual, year-end exhibition
of work from graduate students in the visuali
zation science program in the College of
Architecture. This is the 11th year for the
event.
“(Vizagogo) is going to be the biggest yet,"
said Tamara Cuellar, visualization science
graduate student and exhibition chair. "We
have everything from 3-D animations and
videos to interactive systems, photography and
flat work."
Cuellar said Vizagogo is similar to an art
show where the best work from many mediums
are juried in by students in the program.
"This year-end exhibition is a showcase for
our finest work,” said Nathan Bowden.
Vizagogo publicity chair and visualization sci
ence graduate student. “It’s pretty much the one
time of the year when the rest of the world gets
to see what we’ve been doing.”
For example, the summer 2(X)3 project. “3
in I,” produced by visualization science stu
dents and experts from the special effects firm
Industrial Light and Magic Inc. will be includ
ed in the exhibition, Cuellar said.
Choreography and music have been incor
porated into this year’s presentation for the
first time, said Karen Hillier. a visualization
science professor.
"I received an interdisciplinary grant and
worked with several professors to incorpo
rate different elements in the exhibition."
Hillier said.
Molly Snell-Witt, former Cirque de Soleil
performer and health and kinesiology assis
tant professor, assembled a dance troupe and
choreographed a dance based on music writ
ten especially for the exhibition by
Performance Studies Assistant Professor,
Leon Couch.
“This show is really going to push the enve
lope,” Bowden said. “This is the first year
we're trying to make a really big event out of it
(Vizagogo).”
Students in senior lecturer Donna Hajash’s
advanced graphics class have been producing
much of the advertising for the exhibition as
well, Hillier said.
A virtual master of ceremonies will also be
a part of Friday and Saturday night’s free pre
sentations of the time-based work. The virtual
projection will be interacting live in real-time
with an actor on the stage. Offstage, visualiza
tion science graduate student Ruben DeLuna
will be providing the voice.
“Every syllable, every phonetic sound you
can make has been programmed beforehand,”
Cuellar said. “It runs so smoothly that you
think it’s already been set up.”
Another part of Vizagogo is the presentation
of scholarships to students from leading indus
try firms.
“Former students (of the visualization sci
ence program) who now work for Industrial
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