Cosmix II: Dome Works, Installation Art and Science Fiction/Fantasy Illustration
from Faculty, Staff and Students of the Ringling College of Art at the The South Florida Museum and Bishop Planetarium March 16-April 5 Theme: Inner Dimensions/Outer Spaces This year's Cosmix theme is framed to reflect an interest in the International Year of Astronomy and the popular fascination with other worlds and other planets. Many of these worlds co-exist, overlaying the planet we live on. Our organization of these various worlds is expressed as cosmology, and in our cosmology we measure perception in terms of dimension. Work for the Cosmix will be made in two dimenisions and three dimensions, it will have projected dimensions and introspective dimensions. it will bridge the universe of the inner with the universe of the outer. It will run in time and space, but wander into dimensions timeless and unmapped. Cosmologies will be re-mixed and mixed together, domed and framed. Latest Press Release from the Museum: Fantastic Art At South Florida Museum Here are the Press Release Photos:
Notice to Faculty Showing Work: From Suzanne White: All faculty will have to fill out and return the exhibit form with insurance waiver before work is onsite. Am attaching the forms with this email should you want to forward to those involved. As last year, please understand we do not have security in the museum and all art is subject to touching by visitors. Works will not be insured by the museum. We will do our best to protect what is here. Museum Loan Short Form (Insurance Waiver) page 1 in word format Photos of the Cosmix I Event Lance's Latest Revision to AfterEffects Tutorial Page for Dome Work Information on File Conversion Techniques for making mpeg-2 files that can be adapted to dome projection Click Here to go to Press Photos for Cosmix I Cosmix I Performance Documentation Page SkySkan render settings with Map of Dome
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Intentions: This is conceived as a community-building project. We are continuing to bulid a number of collaborations between the Ringling College of Art and the South Florida Museum/Bishop Planetarium. There are many natural points of contact between the institutions, among them the spectacular immersive planetarium theater and our own interests in training content makers for such new technologies. This year we are continuing to provide students at Ringling an opportunity projects for an extraordinary venue that offers a wide range of challenges and encouragements to those interested in making intermedia performance and installation of all types. This year we are also developing a partnership in the use of the Museum's formal exhibition space in an exhibit of faculty and student work from the Ringling College Illustration Department. Planetarium pieces: We are currently soliciting work for possible inclusion in the planetarium event. These works should fit with the theme of the event. Work can be offered in the form of dome masters or mpeq files. Work in mpg file will be projected from the seven high-definition digial projectors around and at the center of the planetarium dome. The naming convention for the seven projectors in the dome theater is as follows, in terms of where they project. if you are in the booth looking toward the front of the dome, the front and center 'slice' is 'B'. Immediately to its left is 'A'. Going around clockwise, then, from A, to B, C (front right), D, E (rear of the dome), F, with G being the circular cap at the top of the dome. The techniques for working with After Effects to produce the correct file types are ennumerated by Lance Ford Jones in these two posts: If you are using AfterEffects to convert a file to an Mpeg-2 It is possible to submit work for full-dome projection. This work has to be in the form of what are called dome masters and are produced out of Maya as single targa images that will be later combined by the proprietary software of the planetarium and put into motion. These images should be at a resolution of 4,000 x 4,000 or at least 3600 x 3600 and are very slow to render. Full-dome animations run at 30fps. For information about making dome masters for full-dome projection you can go here for tutorials: Project Proposals: We are asking that all students working on a project for the event submit a written project proposal as part of our initiative to encourage writing across the curriculum. Proposals should come from students or groups of students who are working on their project as part of a class assignment. Students who submit mpeg's for inclusion in the planetarium performance do not have to submit proposals. Academic support for proposal writing is available by special arrangement for classes or from the ARC. In addition, any Ringling student who wishes may propose a project for this event regardless if it is for a class assignment or not. Project proposals should be emailed to the project facilitator: David Steiling (dsteiling@ringling.edu) Any individuals, groups, or classes that which to participate should contact David as soon as possible.
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