{"id":21151,"date":"2017-12-13T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/watching-in-awe-as-artists-bring-their-visions-to-life-in-mixed-reality\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:35:37","slug":"watching-in-awe-as-artists-bring-their-visions-to-life-in-mixed-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/watching-in-awe-as-artists-bring-their-visions-to-life-in-mixed-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching in awe as artists bring their visions to life in mixed reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching in awe as artists bring their visions to life in mixed reality
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I\u2019ll never forget the first time I experienced mixed reality.<\/p>\n

It was a pre-production version of Microsoft HoloLens, and I tried a demo that had fish swimming around the room, seaweed on the floor and bubbles floating around me.\u00a0 Eventually, the demo team had to gently suggest I leave, because I was mesmerized.\u00a0 The fish were bouncing off the walls. The bubbles were popping on the ceiling.\u00a0 I could see everything in the room and the people in it, and I could see more \u2013 things that felt just as real.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t get enough.<\/p>\n

Part of me is still in that moment because it\u2019s what has motivated me to work as hard as I can with teams across Microsoft to build the devices, platforms, experiences and services that will enable infinite mixed reality experiences.<\/p>\n

Everyone working in mixed reality today is a pioneer as they push forward, defining boundaries of technology, design and user experience while reinventing industries, education and communication.<\/p>\n

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Today, I want to talk about one group of pioneers who are using mixed reality to change the way we see the world: artists.
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Since the early days of HoloLens, we have had the chance to see what happens when artists use their unique ability to see the potential of a new medium or technology. I have always been passionate about paying attention to what artists are doing with new technology platforms.\u00a0 Artists, whether visual artists, media, sculpture, dance, theater or others, have both courage and the ability to see things differently.<\/p>\n

It has been amazing to see what has been created.<\/p>\n

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Exhibit at Art Basel<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Last week we kicked off a partnership with Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) at Art Basel in Miami. Their exhibit, \u201cSandu Darie: An Immersive Experience,\u201d aims to make important Cuban works of art accessible beyond the constraints of their physical location. The experience makes available public works of art that are permanently located in Cuba and brings them to life using Mixed Reality Viewer, Windows Mixed Reality headsets and HoloLens. For the first time outside of Cuba, visitors could view large-scale works of art in their real world through these two immersive experiences.<\/p>\n

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A photographer captures images of Cuban artist Sandu Darie\u2019s El D\u00eda y La Noche (1982) in Havana that were used to digitally recreate the sculptural mural as a hologram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Case Western Reserve University mixed reality dance shared experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Case Western Reserve University has truly been a pioneer in mixed reality<\/a>. From the building of anatomy class experiences, to expanding to physics classes, and more recently exploring the arts with the British Museum and others, the team at Case has been leading from the edge.<\/p>\n

I recently had the opportunity to have another once-in-a-lifetime experience: the first-ever, large-scale shared mixed reality dance performance. Eighty people all wore HoloLens to see dancers and holograms in the same performance, for the first time.\u00a0 The team had no idea how to pull this off when it was conceived by the Creative Director, but that\u2019s why we\u2019re in this space: to bring things that seem impossible into focus, and then to just figure out how to do them.<\/p>\n

Take a look at their blog post<\/a> and video to learn more about how the vision ultimately came to life.<\/p>\n

Cornish College of the Arts<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I spent two years in early HoloLens development saying, \u201cImagine when you go to the first holographic art gallery opening.\u00a0 There will be wine and cheese, maybe some light music, but no art.\u00a0 You walk in and see empty walls, empty stands. But then you put on HoloLens and the gallery is full of rich art.\u201d<\/p>\n

I would marvel over this with other people.<\/p>\n

Well, this has happened, and much earlier than I expected.<\/p>\n

Cornish College of the Arts pioneered the first exhibit in 2016, called \u201cThrough the HoloLens<\/a>,\u201d which allows students to bring to life their artistic expression in new ways through painting, dance, performance and other forms. I was fortunate to experience this firsthand with the students of Cornish, a moment I will never forget.<\/p>\n

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Gallery goers check out students\u2019 holographic works at the Cornish College of the Arts 2016 BFA show<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Artsy at the Armory<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Earlier this year we partnered with online art platform Artsy<\/a> and Amsterdam-based Studio Drift to create a mixed reality art installation at The Armory Show in New York.\u00a0 The project was called “Concrete Storm<\/a>” and was our first collaboration in a commercial art context.\u00a0 It blended physical structures with holograms, which changed perspective depending on where you stood within the exhibit, allowing visitors to experience art in an entirely new way. It was fascinating to watch the typically jaded New York art crowd\u2019s expressions the first time they put the device on; lighting up as they walked through the concrete pillars and reaching out to touch something that wasn\u2019t really there. Proof that mixed reality can make art more accessible and interactive when it comes alive, up close and personal.<\/p>\n

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Studio Drift founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta view their original HoloLens work, Concrete Drift (2017), at The Armory Show in New York<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I\u2019d like to thank all working artists for your commitment to your craft and work.\u00a0 And for those of you who are deeply engaged with technology, thank you again.\u00a0 Your work is so very important. As we get ready for the year ahead I am eager to see what comes next.<\/p>\n

Lorraine<\/p>\n

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Watching in awe as artists bring their visions to life in mixed reality I\u2019ll never forget the first time I experienced mixed reality. It was a pre-production version of Microsoft HoloLens, and I tried a demo that had fish swimming around the room, seaweed on the floor and bubbles floating around me.\u00a0 Eventually, the demo team had to gently suggest I leave, because I was mesmerized.\u00a0 The fish were bouncing off the walls. The bubbles were popping on the ceiling.\u00a0 I could see everything in the room and the people in it, and I could see more \u2013 things that felt just as real.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t get enough. Part of me is still in that moment because it\u2019s what has motivated me to work as hard as I can with teams across Microsoft to build the devices, platforms, experiences and [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-21151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-windows"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21153,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151\/revisions\/21153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}