Digital technology has spawned new spaces, processes and forms that offer exciting possibilities for creative research and scientific investigation. Through the exploration of these realms, emerge new ways of conceptualizing ourselves: our bodies, the spaces in which we reside and the potential for artistic expression. As artists, architects, cultural theorists and scientists working with new technologies, we come together from diverse disciplines and find ourselves asking similar questions. What is the dialogue between corporeality and the virtual? How do we engage our embodied sense perceptions in virtual worlds? How do we address form, time and space as both apparition and reality, and how are these questions answered through our various and overlapping practices? What can the blurred boundaries between our practices teach us about our identity as individuals and a society in the 21st century?

The University of Utah's Center for High Performance Computing, in conjunction with the College of Fine Arts and the College of Architecture + Planning, will be hosting a three-day symposium, "Arts of the Virtual: Poetic Inquiries in Time, Space, and Motion". The weekend will consist of presentations, performances, workshops and discussions by some of the leading artists working in the hybrid spaces between dance, music, architecture, performance, visual arts, and technology. The purpose of this symposium is to foster a stimulating intellectual and aesthetic environment, creating a sense of intimacy in which all can actively participate and share in a dynamic exchange of ideas.

Please check back to this website for program information.

Call for Participation