{"id":2328,"date":"2017-04-28T06:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2017-04-28T06:54:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:54:19","slug":"vr-from-giotto-to-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/vr-from-giotto-to-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Reality from Giotto to Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IFF Director Margaret Wertheim is delivering a seminar at Monash University&#8217;s <strong>SensiLab<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seminar Title:<em> Being There &#8211; Virtual Reality from Giotto to Today<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>We are used to thinking of virtual reality as a technology of the computer era, but in this talk Margaret Wertheim will trace its roots to the Middle Ages. In the thirteenth\u00a0century, Franciscan friar Roger Bacon championed a new form of representation he called \u201cgeometric figuring\u201d and argued for artists to adopt this style. Soon Giotto was painting the Arena Chapel, a medieval environment consciously designed to make visitors feel they had been projected into a 3D simulation of Christ\u2019s life. Following the development of what later came to be called \u201cperspective,\u201d Wertheim will discuss a lineage of visual verisimilitude from Giotto to Grand Theft Auto.<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-28-at-7.38.40-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2335\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-28-at-7.38.40-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-04-28 at 7.38.40 AM\" width=\"567\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-28-at-7.38.40-AM.png 567w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-28-at-7.38.40-AM-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>Location:<\/strong> SensiLab<br \/>\nBuilding H, Level 6<br \/>\nMonash University<br \/>\n900 Dandenong Road<br \/>\nCaulfield East, 3145<br \/>\nMelbourne, Australia<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sensilab.monash.edu\/home\/\">SensiLab<\/a> is a research group and experimental laboratory at Monash University specializing in the development of virtual reality environments\u00a0and other new media tools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seminar Flier:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Margaret-Wertheim.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFF Director Margaret Wertheim is delivering a seminar at Monash University&#8217;s SensiLab. Seminar Title: Being There &#8211; Virtual Reality from Giotto to Today We are used to thinking of virtual reality as a technology of the computer era, but in this talk Margaret Wertheim will trace its roots to the Middle Ages. In the thirteenth\u00a0century, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}