Cabinet of Dreams
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URL: dolinsky.fa.indiana.edu/IMA Contact: Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University Bloomington (IUB), USA, dolinsky @ indiana.edu Collaborators: IUB, USA: Margaret Dolinsky, Dimitrij Hmeljak, Adam Schweigert, Craig Strubing, Mathew A. Powers Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA: Jim Robinson, Rhonda Winter, Linda Duke, Daniel Incandela Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: Daria Tsoupikova, Helen-Nicole Kostis, Julieta Aguilera International Media Centre (IMC), China: Eldon C. Hylton, Li Wang San Diego State University, USA: Eric Frost, John Graham GLORIAD / Chinese Academy of Sciences, China: Baoping Yan, Kai Nan Cabinet of Dreams highlights the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Chinese art collection in 3D virtual reality. Visitors confront surreal worlds: for example, a small mountain landscape with a dragon reveals a philosopher’s inkstone; scenes of country pursuits show layers of lacquers upon a brushpot; and, a ritual cooking vessel carries a precious inscription of a man on a chariot. The actual wood, bronze and clay ceremonial pieces range in date from 1000 BC to the mid-1800s. They are mediated on 21st-century collaborative networks in an effort to integrate earlier treasures into an extended version of modern reality. |
  
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