Arts, Media & Humanities

Overview

The International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) will launch its inaugural program featuring the latest developments in the Arts, Media and Humanities (AMH) research and applications.

Artists, designers, media producers and futurists will present new frontiers in the power of Mixed and Augmented Reality to express, convey, impact and improve human experience and interpretation in the areas of education, training, entertainment, communications, design and media production.

 

The programs will be covering how Mixed and Augmented Reality is revolutionizing diverse application domains and how its innovators are applying the art and craft of melting the boundaries between the real, virtual and imagined.

Who should attend?

 

Any researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, content producers and students who are inventing or innovating with the latest applications of Mixed and Augmented Reality should attend. 


If you are:

- doing research in the applicability of AR in the arts, media or humanities disciplines,
- developing AR applications for mass markets (advertising, retailing, etc), museums, media production,
- learning and exploring AR technology and its potential,
- considering to develop further some of your AR conceptual ideas in a range of applications,

          you should attend the AMH program.


    The program will attract experience designers, historians, art curators, digital media producers, game designers, experiential marketing, exhibit developers, human performance trainers and other professional and companies who want to stay on the edge of Mixed and Augmented Reality experience and research developments.

     


    Your Journey

     

    ISMAR 2009 Arts, Media and Humanities Program will present the breadth and depth of the Mixed and Augmented Reality research and application. 


    The program will include:

    - research presentations, 
    - discussion panels,
     - keynote speakers from Arts, Media and Humanities,
    - hands-on demonstrations, 
    - interactive participation,
    etc. 

       

      Parallel to the Science & Technology Program, the Arts, Media and Humanities Program covers the creative advancements in the application of Mixed and Augmented Reality.  


      The next generation student and practitioner with a cross-disciplinary view of the state-of-the-art will be able to review a diverse array of disciplines, cultures and sectors conducting the next generation of stimulating collaboration and discourse.


      For this inaugural event, we are organizing a Flash AR Contest, see the section Contribute for more information.

       

      The program will also be in a novel and open format, so feel free to contact us to participate and share your ideas for this event ! (see also the Contribute section).

       


       

      (pictures from this page are from Julian Oliver Levehead and from the Augmented Environment Lab AR Karaoke projects).

       

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