Digital Artist Alex Lee will bring his virtual reality showcase entitled “Everything from Here to Infinity” to the North Country Children’s Museum on Saturday, November 5th from 1:00pm-2:30pm.
Lee is Associate Professor of Digital Arts & Sciences at Clarkson University. For this project, he utilized the data produced by the most comprehensive survey of the known universe, The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, visualized as virtual abstract expressionist style brush strokes. Lee invites viewers to tour the known universe with a heightened sense of presence wearing a virtual reality headset. Headsets will be available for visitors ages 7 years and older. Younger children can manipulate the virtual reality experience with a joystick on a large screen.
Lee utilizes 3D animation, video game engines, virtual/augmented/immersive reality platforms, machine learning and the potential of simulation technologies to investigate technical images from concepts within science, science fiction, and physics. Museum visitors will navigate the entirety of the cosmic map in VR starting from the Milky Way to the cosmic light horizon, which is approximately 13.8 billion light years away, ultimately terminating with a barrier comprised of an image of the cosmic background radiation.
Lee’s VR work creates an abstraction of time and perception using simulation technologies to great effect. This VR experience plays with the possibilities found in data representation and physics simulation to create a new experience. Lee has exhibited his VR in festivals in North America, Europe and Asia and is now bringing this experience to visitors at the North Country Children’s Museum!
This drop-in family program is included with membership and admission. No need to pre-register. For more information, visit the museum website at https://northcountrychildrensmuseum.org/
https://www.clarkson.edu/news/virtual-reality-showcase-north-country-childrens-museum
