Projects Developed in Classes Taught:

• Deep Cyberspace Seminars 1997 and 1998, completely online seminars conducted internationally with 3D virtual worlds and Internet message boards. Students study the interface theory and design of virtual worlds by learning inside the virtual dimension. 
• ACCD World designed and built over 9 terms (1997-2000) at Art Center College of Design, this 3D interactive world (in ActiveWorlds software) pioneers 3space avatar navigation in virtual worlds. Video captures of this cumulative student work are available from the Projects page of this resume.
• CyberForum@ArtCenter, a series of online interactive events hosted and moderated by graduate students 1999-2001. Log files and screen captures of the events are available along with published reviews by journalists who witnessed the events.
• Adobe Atmosphere Gallery from 2000-2001. Students began building with the beta version of Adobe Atmosphere, using 3D worlds to host events and to visualize environmental designs.
• "Avatars Dance Kung-Fu" Collaboration UCLA / SCI-Arc / Art Center, September 2000, performed on two occasions: in the UCLA Visualization Portal (Westwood) and also in the EDA Building (Westwood), Students produced events in which international 3D avatars dance in real time with bodies in physical space.
• Avatecture for the Hotel Pro Forma, 2001. Architectural collaboration to design a performance space for the Danish dance company Hotel Pro Forma in a suburb of Copenhagen. Collaboration with PUSH / SCI-Arc Architect Christophe Cornubert developed a finalist proposal for a building with "avatar alcoves" that embed the virtual (online, real-time) informational aspect of contemporary architecture.
• Avatar Diplomacy, After September 11, 2001, developed an International Avatars Initiative. Still in development, the proposal involves on-site mentoring of youth in conflict zones and college-hosted international "avatar encounters" where youth meet to share the process of trans-national avatar design through games and role-playing.

• Avatar Initiatives, book-in-progress, MIT Press
• Electric Language, Yale University Press, 1999, update of 1987 book of the same title
• Virtual Realism, Oxford University Press, 1998
• The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, Oxford University Press, 1993
• Co-authored with Jerry Isdale the chapter on "Content in Virtual Reality" for The Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications, edited by Kay Stanney, Erlbaum Associatese, 2002
•  Authored three entries on "Cyberspace", "Multimedia", and "Virtual Reality" for the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, edited by Michael Kennedy, Oxford University Press, 2000
• Many articles published in international journals (Research page has bibliography)

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• SIGGRAPH 1995 and SIGGRAPH 2000, Los Angeles
• "VR and the Body", 1993-95, Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
• "Press Enter" Exhibit, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Netherlands Institute for Design, Amsterdam, Holland
• Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK
• The Incident, Geneva, Switzerland
• Doors of Perception, Amsterdam, Holland
• Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Tampa, Florida
• Ringling School of Design, Tampa, Florida
• UNESCO conference on New Media, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• "Wired Thinkers," Princeton University, NJ
• Text 21 conference, Alfred University, New York
• VR Research, IIE conference, Kyoto, Japan
• VR Software Technology 2000 (ACM), Seoul, Korea
• Future Developments in VR, Umea University, Sweden
• Digital Cities conference, Lund University, Sweden
• Computer Science Dept., Aarhus University, Denmark
• Academy of Arts, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Academy of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2001 Digital Summit, University of Buffalo, New York
• 2002 Day at Schindler House, Kings Road, Los Angeles
• 1997 Visiting Researcher Professor in the Visual Construction of Reality, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 1999 Guest Professor, University of Graz, Austria

EXHIBITS: Several of the these presentations included keynote speeches and as well as video exhibits. Some included seminars and research workshops.

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