Immersive Interactive Environments

Immersive Interactive Environments: the illusion of existing within another space
Spatial audiovisual interaction
Roberto Vitalini / www.bashiba.com

Paolo Solcia / www.paolosolcia.com/plisito/INDEX.html
The design of interactive environments concerns a world apart: it means designing a world in itself, cutting it off the real world and establishing new modalities of interaction within it. It is moreover a way to challenge the perceptions of users and to encourage them to rediscover themselves and their actions. This workshop will focus on the design of interactive environments where modalities of natural interactions contribute to immersive experiences generated by real time digital videos manipulation.

Goals
The workshop aims at developing interactive environments based on projections that respond fluidly to sound waves and users' physical movements.
In the phase dedicated to visual programming participants will be introduced to the use of visual programming softwares such as Isadora (www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html), vvvv (www.vvvv.org), and Max/MSP (www.cycling74.com), which allow to manage the interaction between digital media. At this stage the real time manipulation of digital videos will be deepened.
During the phase Ambient lights, projections and sound effects, the audiovisual experience and the features of the interactive environment will be defined, i.e. by manipulating lights through a lighting system of infrared LEDs for night vision.