APPARITIONS: detail of audience member with projection in background

The collaborative group VITAL SIGNS, composed of artists and computer programmers at the University of California, San Diego, created a computer-generated virtual reality environment using video projections that combined the real with the virtual. An effort to understand and investigate the then new virtual technology and its impact of the real gave rise to the group's project for inSITE94, titled "APPARITIONS." Within the created environment of "APPARITIONS" one could interact on screen under an assumed identity with other participants who had entered the created world. VITAL SIGNS members for inSITE94 included Sheldon Brown, Kelly Coyne, Cheryl Devereaux, Jason Ditmars, Brian Duggan, Christa Erickson, Dorota Jakubowski, Tim Nohe, Eric Riel, Mark Tribe, Niklas Vollmer and Payton White.

• 1994

• Vital Signs (American artist's collective, contemporary)

• InSITE94

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 394)

University of California, San Diego. University Art Gallery

virtual reality installation; computers; projectors (image projectors); reclining chairs

• InSITE94

• Installations (visual works)

• Audiences
• Identity (Philosophical concept)
• Technology
• Video art
• Virtual reality (VR)

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715675

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Unknown (US)

Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.

Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires the written permission of the copyright holders(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Libraries. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Libraries department having custody of the work.

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)

2020-10-27