"Looking Foward"

Thriving under the funding tree of the National Science Foundation and institutionally housed by the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory is an educational program dedicated to advanced scientific visualization. By bridging the disciplines of art and computer science, this synthesizing hub of utopian high-mindedness claims to never have the carnival of its art trump the grandeur of its science. Although this somewhat disputable weeded claim seems recondite in something like the abstract, yet playful “Sierpinski Blows his Gasket,” recent projects such as the interactive video performance of “Dream Grrrls” shows a potential for the mass-market introduction of a somewhat affordable and augmented virtual reality system. So, to put it clearly, it is not the chromatic fervor of E.V.L.’s videos that excite me; rather, it is the manual dexterity of their graphics and the distributed tele-immersion products that they forcast.

The website for the Electronic Visualization Laboratory can be found at:

http://www.evl.uic.edu/index2.php

The Electronic Visualization Laboratory's videos can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/evltube