Browsing by Subject "Big Tent"

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    Big Tent: A Portable Immersive Intermedia Environment
    (2016) Smith, Benjamin D.; Cox, Robin; Department of Music and Arts Technology, School of Engineering and Technology
    Big Tent, a large scale portable environment for 360 degree immersive video and audio artistic presentation and research, is described and initial experiences are reported. Unlike other fully-surround environments of considerable size, Big Tent may be easily transported and setup in any space with adequate foot print, allowing immersive, interactive content to be brought to non-typical audiences and environments. Construction and implementation of Big Tent focused on maximizing portability by minimizing setup and tear down time, crew requirements, maintenance costs, and transport costs. A variety of different performance and installation events are discussed, exploring the possibilities Big Tent presents to contemporary multi-media artistic creation.
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    Big Tent: an Immersive Inter-Media Performance Environment
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Smith, Benjamin
    Conventional, static concert venues have significant deficiencies and problems when presenting artistic work made possible by recent developments in music and visual technology. These new works necessitate a highly flexible, configurable environment to support their dynamic, explorative nature. Big Tent, an environment for artistic and aesthetic research being constructed in this project, seeks to demonstrate, through repeatable concerts of original mixed-media compositions, a fully immersive, yet portable solution beyond the capacities of traditional performance venues. This exploration comprises designing and constructing the environment, followed by artistic research through the creation of new aesthetic works and performances.