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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Char Davies
| Char Davies E-mail: char@immersence.com |
Char Davies' immersive virtual environments are internationally recognized as landmarks in the field of interactive media art. Integrating full body immersion, navigation via breath interface, and interactive 3-D digital imagery and sound, her immersive artworks are known for challenging conventional thinking about "virtual reality". Her work in this medium is based on two decades of artistic research into nature, psyche and perception. Davies' work has been written about extensively in the international press, including New Scientist, Art in America and World Art, and has been discussed in numerous scholarly essays and books. Her work has also been the subject of several documentary films, and has been featured on primetime American news, including NBC Nightly News and CBS Sunday Morning. In the past decade, Davies has lectured around the world at venues ranging from the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, to the University of Cambridge, England (Space: 16th Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2001). She has also written in depth about her work and the medium of immersive virtual space; one of her most recent essays entitled "Virtual Space" is included in the upcoming publication by Cambridge University Press of the 16th Annual Darwin Lecture Series. Davies has received numerous prizes and honors for her work: most recently she was named a finalist for the 2001 World Technology Award for the Arts (London), and was awarded the 2001-2002 Regent's Lectureship in Design/Media Arts at UCLA (University of California - Los Angeles). In June 2002, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Davies is based in Montreal and San Francisco. In 1998, she founded Immersence, an art & technology research company, to facilitate the production of new work. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of California - Berkeley, and is a PhD Fellow in the Philosophy of Media Arts, at CAiiA: Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, UK. An extensive bibliography can be found at: http://www.immersence.com | |
| Updated 8 November 2006. |
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