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April – June 2017 Apr – Jun 2017
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Apr
28
Fri
Wacom presents: an evening with Aaron Blaise @ Wacom Experience Center
Tickets
Apr 28 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Wacom Experience Center Presents: An evening with Aaron Blaise

 

Wacom Experience Center Presents: An Evening with Aaron Blaise

The Wacom Experience Center is proud to bring the talent of Aaron Blaise to Portland.

After graduating from the Ringling College of Art & Design in 1989, Aaron Blaise was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation for his love of illustration and his wonderful imagination. During his 20 + years at Disney, he worked as an animator or supervising animator on many of Disney’s leading films including “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “The Lion King,” “Pocahontas” and “Mulan.” Aaron was co-director of “Brother Bear,” which earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. Today, his The Art of Aaron Blaise website keeps him very busy and creating images of all the amazing creatures on Earth continues to be his passion…and we are all lucky for it!

Join us for this exciting evening and the opportunity to hear some fantastic stories and behind the scenes details on our favorite Disney animations.

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May
10
Wed
Reel Science: VR/AR @ OMSI! (screening: The Matrix) @ OMSI Emperical Theater
Tickets
May 10 @ 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Enter the Matrix with us as we embark on a night of VR/AR, Portland style!

Web page:  http://www.omsi.edu/calendar?start%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=&end%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=&keywords%5B%5D=348&keys=#nodeid-9526

Tickets available soon (check above web link for latest info)

5:30PM | Virtual Reality Showcase:

Meet local artists & studios showing off their newest creations and demo VR equipment.

  • Hinge Digital
  • 360 Labs
  • Quarter4/Headcase
  • SuperGenius
  • Giant Astronaut
  • Wild
  • Intel
  • Oregon Story Board

 

6:30PM | Lecture on the future of Virtual Reality with Isaac Cohen

 

7:45PM | Movie: The Matrix (Duration: 2 hr. 16 mins. | Rating: R | Year: 1999)

ABOUT THE FILM

A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

Watch and learn at The Empirical Theater as OMSI brings the science of your favorite movies to life on the big screen. Perfect for science and film lovers alike, this monthly series combines the best of Science Pub with the fun of movie night, bringing in experts to amplify your movie-watching experience.  All ages are welcome; 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

 

The Empirical Cafe will be open serving hotdogs, grilled cheese, movie snacks plus beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages.

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May
26
Fri
VR Events, Pioneer Square @ Pioneer Square
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May 26 @ 4:00 pm – May 28 @ 8:00 pm

Houseguest Presents “You Are Here” by Portland Immersive Media Group

Portland, Oregon — This May, Houseguest will activate Pioneer Courthouse Square with its fourth Artist in Residence of the 2016-2017 season. Portland Immersive Media Group (P.I.M.G.) will exhibit “You Are Here,” an immersive and interactive virtual reality experience and physical installation May 26-28, 2017. “You Are Here” will be free and open to the public, with viewing accessibility Friday 6pm-10pm, Saturday 11am-10pm, and Sunday 11am-6pm at Pioneer Courthouse Square.

During the weekend, visitors to Pioneer Courthouse Square will be able to interact with Virtual Reality (VR) through multiple experiences. Audiences will be able to traverse the physical and digital world through “Liminal Passage,” experience an idealized digital version of Pioneer Courthouse Square in VR, escape to anywhere in the world through Google Earth VR, and be transported by several experimental performances throughout the weekend. Join in throughout the weekend to hear from VR experts Kent Bye and Amber Case, and attend performances by Golden Retriever.

 

“YOU ARE HERE” – Schedule of Events

All events are at Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, Oregon.

Friday

4PM-6PM – TGIF “VR Spa” treatments for Portland’s hard working folk

8PM-9PM – Commencement ceremony featuring music by Golden Retriever and movement artists exploring ‘motion capture.’

8-10PM – Pioneer Courthouse Square in High Fidelity

Saturday

3PM-4PM – Tech Talk: Kent Bye – “The Ultimate Potential of Virtual Reality”

4PM-5PM – Workshop: “Metafesto: Refiguring Social Media, Preparing for the Metaverse” w/ Matt Henderson

6PM-7PM – Performance: EMA + EMS with movement artists exploring motion capture.

7PM-8PM – Live DJs + VR lounge

8PM-10PM – Google Earth VR + Pioneer Courthouse Square in High Fidelity

Sunday

1PM-4PM – Pioneer Courthouse Square in High Fidelity

2PM-3PM – Tech Talk: “Calm Technology” with cyborg anthropologist Amber Case

3PM-4PM – Workshop: “Adventures in Anyland”

7PM-8PM – Down tempo dance party in virtual & real Pioneer Courthouse Square.

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Jun
9
Fri
New Social Entanglements: Mixed Realities Tech Summit @ University of Oregon's White Stag Block
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Jun 9 all-day

What is the current state of reality? Virtual, augmented, merged, and mixed realities are all hyped in recent announcements promoting new devices, prototypes, platforms and startups. Artist, designers, and technologists are just beginning to tackle the challenge of being social with technologies that in their current form tend toward bulky face, eye and ear covering gear. Questions about the importance of our sense of embodiment and kinesthesia also arise in relationship to these new experience machines. What is it about our cultural moment that accounts for this blossoming in the field of immersive technologies? Has the technology simply matured enough for a wider market, is there an escapist cultural element? What are the other factors at play?

This summit explores the social ramifications, opportunities, and trajectories of these new immersive technologies through the lens of art, research, and design. It brings together artists, technologists, designers, and social thinkers for a day of talks, demonstrations, and experiences. It is intended to break open the conversation and tease out distinctions amongst these various realities and how these intersect and mesh with the body social.

Agenda
9:30-10:30a Coffee + pastries + demos
10:30-11:45a session 1
– Tawny Schlieski – Challenge + Importance of Diversity in VR
– Stephanie Mendoza Shapeshifter Culture
– Donna Davis Diversity Access Gaps and Benefits for Work
– Jamie Sherman VR for diversity: working with NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism
11:45-1:00p lunch (independent recommend Pine St Mkt – nearby food court)
1:00-2:15p session 2
– Matt Henderson – VR social experiments and the emerging Metafesto
– Jeremy Rotsztain Mantissa: an historic cinema project
– David Reuter Site specific VR 3d worlds and headsets
– Theo Downes-LeGuin exhibition design for new technologies
2:30-4:00p session 3
– Amy Hillman Creating Shared Holographic Experiences
– John Sherry – Intel Research on immersive experiences
– Reese Bowes – Conscilience: presence and affordance in art
– U of O Art and Technology: advanced student projects
4:00-5:30p demos, hors doeuvres, and schmoozing
5:30-6:30p interactive performance – harmonic laboratory (http://harmoniclab.org/intermedia/)

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PSU Portfolio Show @ Lincoln Hall
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Jun 9 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Come see and hear work produced by the PSU Film students at the conclusion of another successful year!  Friday June 9th.

Portfolio show – 4:00pm to 6:00pm, room 315

Experimental Media Installations – 4:00pm to 6:00pm, rooms 211 and 331

Catered Reception – 5:30pm to 6:45pm, Lobby, Park Blocks entrance

Showcase and Awards – 7:00pm, Recital Hall room 75

Portland State Film Program
Lincoln Hall
1620 SW Park
Portland, OR 97207

 

 

 

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April – June 2017 Apr – Jun 2017