SCRIPTED SPACES An ITA Conference on Entertainment Design, Narrative Architecture, and Virtual Environments Saturday, April 18th, 1998 | 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM |Ahmanson Auditorium Art Center College of Design | 1700 Lida Street | Pasadena, CA 91103 http://www.artcenter.edu/scriptedspaces.html/ Art Center's Institute for Technology and Aesthetics (ITA) hosts SCRIPTED SPACES, a discussion about how space can be designed to tell a story, moving from malls (think Universal City Walk) to theme parks (Disneyland as the granddaddy of them all), from special effect-driven blockbusters to the latest in computer games like Riven. Panelists include Rocket Science Games co-founder MICHAEL BACKES, Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor JOHN DYKSTRA, Disney Imagineer BRAN FERREN, architects CRAIG HODGETTS and MING FUNG, cultural critic NORMAN KLEIN, architectural historian SYLVIA LAVIN, new media theorist PETER LUNENFELD, interactive artist MICHAEL NAIMARK, and Virtual Reality Modeling Language co-creator MARK PESCE. For reservations contact: [log in to unmask] or 626.568.4710 By post: Scripted Spaces c/o Peter Lunenfeld Art Center College of Design | 1700 Lida Street | Pasadena, CA 91103 ----------- SCRIPTED WEEKEND The SCRIPTED SPACES conference is a one day, single track event, but it is part of the larger SCRIPTED WEEKEND. On Friday night, April 17, Norman Klein, the Chair of Scripted Spaces, and Peter Lunenfeld, the Director of the ITA, will present SCRIPTED SCREENS, a selection of film clips, animations, VRML sites, virtual environments, computer games, and other screen-based scripted spaces. All day Saturday, E.D./A.C., a show of Entertainment Design projects by Art Center students will be open in studios and galleries around campus. On Sunday afternoon, April 19th, Klein will lead SCRIPTED SITES, a bus trip to four scripted spaces in Southern California. SCRIPTED SPACES, SCRIPTED SCREENS and E.D./A.C. are free of charge, but require registration by email, phone, or post [please send full contact information]. Seats on the SCRIPTED SITES bus must be ordered in advance by mail: checks for $20.00 payable to "Art Center/Scripted Spaces" at the address listed above [the 35 seats are available on a first come, first served basis]. ----------- SCRIPTED SCHEDULE * Friday, April 17: SCRIPTED SCREENS | 7:30-9:00 | Ahmanson Auditorium * An illustrated lecture by NORMAN KLEIN and PETER LUNENFELD * Saturday, April 18: SCRIPTED SPACES | 9:30-6:30 | Ahmanson Auditorium * 9:30-12:30 | Morning Session A welcome from DAVID BROWN, President of Art Center College of Design NORMAN KLEIN, Chair, Scripted Spaces Conference CRAIG HODGETTS and MING FUNG, Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates MICHAEL BACKES, Games Designer and Visual Effects Supervisor BRAN FERREN, Walt Disney Imagineering 12:30-2:30 | LUNCH | Art Center Cafeteria 2:30-5:30 | Afternoon Session SYLVIA LAVIN, Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA MICHAEL NAIMARK, Interval Corporation JOHN DYKSTRA, Visual Effects Supervisor MARK PESCE, blitcom 5:30-6:30 | Open Forum PETER LUNENFELD, ITA, Respondent E.D./A.C. | 9:00 AM-7:00 PM | Studios and Galleries A show of Entertainment Design projects by Art Center students. * Sunday, April 19: SCRIPTED SITES | 11:00-5:00 * NORMAN KLEIN's bus tour leaves from and returns to the Art Center Student Parking Lot ----------- PANELISTS MICHAEL BACKES, Computer Games Entrepreneur and Cinematic Polymath Backes co-founded Rocket Science Games, co-authored the script for Rising Sun (1993), was associate producer of Congo (1995), display graphics supervisor on Jurassic Park (1993), and visual effects supervisor for The Peacemaker (1997). JOHN DYKSTRA, Visual Effects Supervisor A legend in the field of special effects and winner of two Academy Awards, Dykstra's career stretches from Star Wars (1977) to Batman Forever (1995) and Batman and Robin (1997). BRAN FERREN, Executive VP, Walt Disney Imagineering Ferren believes that it is the art and technology of storytelling that creates engaging and memorable experiences. He is responsible for Research & Development for The Walt Disney Company and runs the Creative Technology group at Walt Disney Imagineering (Disney's theme park master planning, design and development group), and is known for establishing a brain trust at Disney that includes Danny Hillis, Allen Kay, and Marvin Minsky. CRAIG HODGETTS and MING FUNG, Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates Hodgetts and Fung are innovative and award winning exhibit designers and architects. Recent projects include the Eames exhibit at the Vitra Museum and redesign of the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood for the American Cinematheque. NORMAN KLEIN, Chair, Scripted Spaces Conference A member of the faculty at CalArts, Klein is a far ranging cultural critic and historian, and the author of numerous books, including Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon (Verso, 1993) and The History of Forgetting: The Erasure of Memory in Los Angeles (Verso, 1997). SYLVIA LAVIN, Chair, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Planning Lavin is an architectural historian with an expertise in modernism. She is the author of Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture (MIT, 1992). PETER LUNENFELD, Director, Institute for Technology & Aesthetics (ITA) A new media theorist, Lunenfeld is one of the coordinators of Art Center's Graduate Program in Communication & New Media Design. He is the editor of The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (MIT, 1998) MICHAEL NAIMARK, Media Artist, Interval Corporation Naimark spent twelve years as an independent media artist before joining Interval Research Corporation in 1992. He was instrumental in making the first interactive laserdiscs in the late 1970s at MIT and has worked extensively with projection and immersive virtual environments. His current project can be found at <www.interval.com/projects/be_now_here>. MARK PESCE, President, blitcom Pesce is the visionary computer programmer who co-created VRML, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language that offers the first truly interactive, networked, world wide three dimensional environment. blitcom is the first network to use VRML to create narrative entertainment. ----------- CREDITS "SCRIPTED SPACES: An ITA Conference on Entertainment Design, Narrative Architecture, and Virtual Environments" is supported by the Graduate Programs at Art Center. Other support from the Office of the Vice President for Institutional Advancement, and the Departments of Illustration, Environmental Design, and Product Design. All speakers, times and venues subject to change without notice. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.