A Journey into the picture plane

The Conference
EVA'96: The seventh annual conference participants from Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. It draws together key people interested in sensitive, cost effective use of the new imaging technologies in applications across a variety of sectors including museums, libraries and education. (from the conference programme)

The programme
For this live presentation, as part of the 'Education and the Arts' programme, a real-time virtual gallery was navigated in order to discuss new developments in Virtual Reality technology and their critical implications and potentials in Art and Design.

A Journey into the Picture Plane
The use of a personal visual language to visualise the space. Using drawing as a way to describe the world, challenged the notion of 'reality' in Virtual Reality. We could move beyond the frame and be 'in the picture'.

Simultaneous Sketchbook, Studio and Gallery
Bringing drawings of the gallery to life allowed for the testing of the relationship between the Artist, the Audience and the Work. The drawn virtual space became a studio, a laboratory and a gallery for creative exploration, experimentation and immersive narrative presentation.