Date: Friday, August 23
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Visual Arts Gallery

This event was  free and open to the public.

UTD to Participate in "Intervallum," An Interactive Art Exhibition, With the ArtCentre of Plan and CCCCD

RICHARDSON, Texas (July 15, 2002) -- The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) collaborated with the ArtCentre of Plan and THE ARTS gallery of the Collin County Community College District (CCCCD) to present "Intervallum," three interactive installations featuring light, sound, video and sculpture

The installations -- Psychronometric Fantasy (UTD), Spatium (CCCCD), and Flexus (The ArtCentre) -- shared the common theme of human perception of time and space, and were linked so that interactivity in one space is reflected in the other "Intervallum" locations.  Collaborators for "Intervallum" include UTD faculty member Christopher Morgen, Billy Chilton, Andrew Duckworth, and Rex Reece.

The exhibitions ran in all three locations from August 19-30.  They opened concurrently with receptions in all three locations on Friday, August 23 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The UTD installation was centered on a large sundial sculpture in the Main Gallery of the Visual Arts Building.  It included a series of light columns designed to be built by local artist and art professor Rex Reece; they act to change the apparent passage of time and are programmed to respond to participants walking through the sculpture.  Ambient sounds and conversation are picked up by microphones, processed with time effects and reproduced over a multi-loudspeaker spatial audio system.

All UTD art exhibitions are free and open to the public.  The visual art building is open Mondays to Fridays from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.  The building is closed on Sundays.

Spatium, hosted by THE ARTS gallery at CCCCD, created a completely immersive environment using 360-degree video projections.  The images included space perception illusions, models of the UTD and ArtCentre installations, as well as real-time processing of the participants who were captured on video as they wander around.  As with the other installations, ambient audio will be recorded, processed and spatialized through a multi-loudspeaker sound system.  THE ARTS gallery is located at the CCCCD Spring Creek Campus, 2800 E. Spring Creek Parkway, in Plano.  Gallery hours are Monday - Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.  For more information, please contact THE ARTS gallery at 972-881-7809.

Flexus, hosted by the ArtCentre of Plano, focused on the concept of space-time curvature.  This installation featured computer-controlled lights, 3-D video animations and live audio which was recorded, computer processed, and spatialized.  The ArtCentre is located in downtown Plano at the corner of 15th Street and Avenue K.  Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.  For more information, please call the ArtCentre at 972-423-7809.