Date & Time:
November 8, 2019 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location:
Crerar 134, 5730 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL,
11/08/2019 06:30 PM 11/08/2019 08:00 PM America/Chicago Virtual Reality: A Faculty Roundtable The Council on Advanced Studies, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and the Department of Computer Science Crerar 134, 5730 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL,

Virtual Reality: A Faculty Roundtable

​Please join us on Friday, Nov. 8 from 6:30-8pm for an interdisciplinary conversation about the technological and aesthetic dimensions of virtual reality. The panel will take place in the Media Arts, Data, Design Center Seminar Room (JCL 134). 

Agenda
6:30pm — panel start time
Acknowledgments & Introductions
7:00pm — Conversation moderated by Sasha Crawford-Holland (see prompts below)
7:30pm — Audience Q&A
8pm — end of event

Please note:
• Dinner will be made available at 6:15pm.
• Exhibition of Snow Yunxue Fu’s VR piece Karst from 5-9pm in adjacent VR space; 
visitors are welcome to experience the work any time before or after the panel.

Host: The Digital Media and RAVE Workshops

Panelists
• Snow Yunxue Fu (New Media Art, NYU)
• Pedro Lopes (Computer Science, UChicago)
• Lisa Zaher (Art History, SAIC/UChicago)
 

Related News & Events

Tanya presenting research
UChicago CS News

Ranya Sharma Receives CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

Jan 22, 2026
Tensormesh CEO Junchen Jiang
Video

Building Tensormesh: A Conversation with the CEO (Junchen Jiang)

Jan 08, 2026
cityscape
UChicago CS News

UChicago Researchers Help Launch First International Conference on AI Scientists in Beijing

Jan 08, 2026
test of time headshots
UChicago CS News

Five Paths to Lasting Influence: Celebrating Five UChicago CS Test of Time Award Recipients

Dec 02, 2025
technology architecture
UChicago CS News

Researchers Built Their Own ISP to Fix the Internet– A Decade Later, It’s Still Running

Nov 20, 2025
presenting research at a conference
UChicago CS News

Hard to Discover, Harder to Use: The Widespread Failure of Ad Transparency Settings

Nov 18, 2025
computation performed on qubits
UChicago CS News

Constraints on Quantum-Advantage Experiments Due to Noise

Nov 13, 2025
headshot
UChicago CS News

Data Movement Without Borders: Ian Foster and the Globus Team Honored with SC25’s Test of Time Award

Nov 13, 2025
Video

How artists can protect their work from AI | Dr. Heather Zheng | TEDxChicago

Nov 05, 2025
figure detailing how net diffusion works
UChicago CS News

AI-Powered Network Management: GATEAU Project Advances Synthetic Traffic Generation

Oct 29, 2025
girl with robot
UChicago CS News

Sebo Lab: Programming robots to better interact with humans

Oct 28, 2025
Inside the Lab icon
Video

Inside The Lab: How Can Robots Improve Our Lives?

Oct 27, 2025
arrow-down-largearrow-left-largearrow-right-large-greyarrow-right-large-yellowarrow-right-largearrow-right-smallbutton-arrowclosedocumentfacebookfacet-arrow-down-whitefacet-arrow-downPage 1CheckedCheckedicon-apple-t5backgroundLayer 1icon-google-t5icon-office365-t5icon-outlook-t5backgroundLayer 1icon-outlookcom-t5backgroundLayer 1icon-yahoo-t5backgroundLayer 1internal-yellowinternalintranetlinkedinlinkoutpauseplaypresentationsearch-bluesearchshareslider-arrow-nextslider-arrow-prevtwittervideoyoutube