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)
 

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