Faculty members receive a grant to create an interactive physio-digital facility
Friday, April 10, 2015
Congratulations
to
Fine
Arts-Stratford
Professors
Jane
Tingley
and
Jessica
Thompson
and
their
colleagues
in
Computer
Science
–
Dan
Vogel,
Ed
Lank,
and
Michael
Terry
–
on
securing
a
major
prestigious
Canadian
Foundation
for
Innovation
(CFI)
Grant
to
create
a
facility
for
Fully
Interactive
Physio-digital
Spaces.
This
globally
unique
facility
will
provide
the
infrastructure
consisting
of
a
fabrication
shop
(with
3-D
printers,
a
lazer
cutter,
wood
tools,
electronics
station,
sound
booth)
and
staging
area
(with
a
grid,
many
Christie
projectors,
lights,
tracking
systems,
and
speakers)
for
ground-breaking
human-computer
interaction
and
new
media
art
research.
It
will
be
a
fully-interactive
digital
media
environment
where
every
surface
and
object
can
display
interactive
digital
information.