Paper Info
Title
Smoke and mirrors.
Abstract
Smoke and Mirrors is an artwork created by Sheldon Brown that is now on exhibit at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego. Smoke and Mirrors allows two to six visitors at a time to enter into a shared virtual environment through their own projected computer graphic media portal. The environment engages viewers in a series of activities drawn from the cultural and social history of tobacco usage.Participants first have their faces 3-dimensionally scanned. Then they find which of the kiosks their scanned face has been sent to. The first stage of the narrative attaches their face to an avatar created out of an isolated biological system. The user now navigates this avatar through a series of maze-like environments.While in the shared virtual world, users can see the actions that all participants are undertaking. Each environment responds to people's movements through them, further revealing the ways in which an image of this particular product has been constructed over the years, using both overt and covert strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1145/641480.641525
SI3D
Keywords
DocType
Volume
virtual world,art,sheldon brown,scanned face,isolated biological system,virtual reality,virtual environment,authoring tools,gaming,covert strategy,reuben h. fleet science,san diego,graphic media portal,maze-like environment,multiuser networked environment,Stem cells, Health care, Policy, Government
Conference
496
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
7445
1476-4687
1-58113-645-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sheldon Brown111.05