Abstract
"Virtual Environment and The Internet", is a firsthand report of when the author attended the Web 3D/VRML, The Fifth International Conference on Virtual Reality Modeling Language & 3D Web Technologies. It was hosted by the Web3D Consortium and held February 21-24, 2000, at the Hyatt Monterey in Monterey, California. During this conference, she met and spoke with several of its artists, exhibitors, curators, and attendees and discussed their ideas and perspectives of the event and VRML, including Professor Kathy Rae Huffman, Melentie Pandilovski, and Nicole Stenger. Huffman, who studies Electronic Media Arts and Communication, greeted the author and explained virtual environments' capabilities and benefits. Pandilovski, the director of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Skopje, Macedonia, showed interest in the philosophical implications of VR and raised questions about the evolution and structure of the human mind. Finally, Stenger, an artist, and pioneer in VR, demonstrated her project inspired by American cities and based on handmade books and manuscripts. The author concludes her article with a perplexing poem about VR and how the world is changing because of it.
Preservation Process
Archived from http://switch.sjsu.edu/archive/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php%3Fartc=232.html. Documentation of the preservation processes used for this collection is available at https://github.com/NickSzydlowski/switch. Metadata for this item was created and augmented by Rosa Salangsang, Spring 2022, ART 104.
Recommended Citation
Angel, Wendy
(2000)
"Virtual Environments and The Internet,"
SWITCH: Vol. 14:
No.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/switch/vol14/iss1/1