J. Walt To Perform Spontaneous Fantasia Live at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
CIDAT presents J. Walt, digital artist and virtual world pioneer, who will be creating 3D computer generated art synched to music live at the UMFA Dumke Auditorium in a free show on January 30th
The Center for Interdisciplinary Art and Technology (CIDAT) is very pleased to announce that it will be bringing J. Walt, digital interactive artist, to the University of Utah on January 30th. J. Walt will be performing Spontaneous Fantasia at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium live on at 7pm, and speaking at the School of Computing Colloquium at 3:40 in the Warnock Engineering Building room 101.
Winner of a Technical Academy Award, in Spontaneous Fantasia J. Walt creates virtual worlds in real-time and guides the audience through them in a combination of computer-generated imagery and music that the Los Angeles Times described as “indescribably delicious.”
Spontaneous Fantasia is free and open to the public thanks to collaboration between CIDAT and Students’ Museum Advisory Council (SMAC), along with financial support from the SCI Institute, the School of Computing, and the Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program.
J. Walt will also be speaking on Software for One: Challenges and questions surrounding the development of a large software project with a user-base of one at the School of Computing colloquium on January 30th at 3:40 in the Warnock Engineering Building (WEB), room 101, on the University of Utah campus. He will present and answer questions on the software he developed and artistic challenges faced in creating Spontaneous Fantasia.
“We cannot express how excited we are to be able to have J. Walt perform at the University of Utah,” said Roger Altizer, Director of CIDAT. “His work is not only a perfect marriage of art and technology, but a glimpse at the direction new media art is headed. Spontaneous Fantasia is a piece that immediatly grabs people of all ages with its dazzling use of color, computer generated imagery, and music. At the same time it is deep enough to fascinate both technologists and artists who will appreciate the nuances of creating such complex art in real time. “
This event is open to the public and admission is free. Attendees are encouraged to bring friends and family to what should be an incredible night of digital art.
For more information about the event or the colloquium contact
Roger Altizer, Director or Sara Pickett, Executive Secretary
Center For Interdisciplinary Art and Technology
801-585-5339 or 801-915-9057
About J. Walt and Spontaneous Fantasia
http://www.spontaneousfantasia.com/
About the events sponsors
SCI Institute: http://www.sci.utah.edu/
School of Computing: http://www.cs.utah.edu/
Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program: http://www.eae.utah.edu/
Students’ Museum Advisory Council: http://www.umfa.utah.edu/smac
Directions to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
http://umfa.utah.edu/
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Marcia & John Price Museum Building
410 Campus Center Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0350
From the North or South: Travel on I-15 to the 600 South exit then turn left on State Street and right on 400 South. Head east on 400 South to 1300 East. (400 South becomes 500 South). From 500 South and 1300 East, proceed east on 500 South to 1580 East. Turn left at the light and take the next immediate right before the roundabout onto South Campus Drive. Continue east to the next light and turn left onto Campus Center Drive (1725 East). The UMFA is on your immediate left. The visitor parking lot is located east of the Museum.
Event Poster: http://cidat.finearts.utah.edu/smacpostereblastsm.pdf
PDF of this press release: http://cidat.finearts.utah.edu/prjwalt.pdf