{"id":41428,"date":"2020-01-14T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=41428"},"modified":"2020-01-14T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:25:08","slug":"virtual-dream-center-strange-loops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2020\/01\/14\/virtual-dream-center-strange-loops\/","title":{"rendered":"~VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER . . ‘STRANGE LOOPS’"},"content":{"rendered":"

BACK TO THE FUTURE \/
\nBY THE LIGHT – OF THE MOON<\/p>\n

‘STRANGE LOOPS’ . . A GROUP SHOW
\nCURATED BY JOHANNES DeYOUNG & FEDERICO SOLMI
\nARTSPACE, NEW HAVEN<\/a> – UP THRU . . . FEB 29, 2020<\/p>\n

see: ‘STRANGE LOOPS’ \/ ARTSPACE, NEW HAVEN<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nVIRTUAL DREAM CENTER, ‘Strange Loops’, 2019
\nvirtual reality experience
\nDirector & Game Designer: JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET
\nGame & Level Designer: NICHOLAS STEINDORF
\n(‘Strange Loops’ lead) Graphic Designer: THOMAS ROCHON<\/p>\n

“REALITY ..isn’t what it used to be. In the summer of 2019, it was hard to miss the semi-centennial celebrations
\nof the Apolllo 11 moon landing. Museum exhibits, cinematic features, daily news coverage, and social media buzz kept much of the American public occupied with swiping, tapping, and clicking gestures in commemoration of the emblematic <\/strong>moment.”
\n“The moon landing on July 20, 1969 was as much a sign of human desire <\/strong> as it was a feat of scientific
\n& technical accomplishment.”
\n~JOHANNES DeYOUNG<\/p>\n

my biggest<\/strong> take-away from this summer’s media coverage of the 1969 Apollo moon landing . .
\nwas the incredible fact that . . the “iPhone in your pocket has over 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed men on the moon 50 years ago”.
\n~Real Clear Science<\/p>\n

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\nthere were banks of screens \/ rows upon rows of men working screens . .
\nit was more of an ‘industrial’ era setting, than a digital one. <\/p>\n

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\nmonitoring all aspects of the mission.
\nand I do mean: men \/
\nthough a handful of the top manager\/supervisor\/scientists . . were women.
\nnotably: SUSAN FINLEY performed trajectory computations for the rocket launch, by hand<\/strong>.
\nMARGARET HAMILTON was the lead Apollo flight software designer.
\nDOROTHY VAUGHAN, “the first black section lead at Langley Research Center \/ she managed the all-black
\nWest Area Computing Unit.”
\nsource: Science Friday<\/p>\n

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\nI was struck<\/strong> by all the (skilled) 3-D – mock-ups !!
\nso retro !! <\/p>\n

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\nscientists were, or relied heavily upon . . armies of skilled draftsmen.
\ndocumentary commentator after commentator – paused to comment in awe, of the hands-on skills.<\/p>\n

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\nevery aspect of the mission – required waves upon waves of individual man power.<\/p>\n

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\nNEIL ARMSTRONG . . first man on the moon.
\nALL ARCHIVAL APOLLO 11 PHOTOS: via PBS<\/p>\n

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\nthe installation lighting was just flat-out: INCREDIBLE.
\nthe back rooms, comprising the BLINN & LAMBERT project \/ and the adjacent VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER interactive
\npresentation were absolutely<\/strong> enhanced by the lightning. more blue in the Blinn & Lambert room \/
\nmore opalescent ‘pearl’ in the Virtual Dream Center experience.<\/p>\n

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\nEMILY THELANDER & HAYLEY JOSEPHS . . bathed in the ‘moonlight’.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: FROM THE OPENING DEC 14, 2019 \/ NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BACK TO THE FUTURE \/ BY THE LIGHT – OF THE MOON ‘STRANGE LOOPS’ . . A GROUP SHOW CURATED BY JOHANNES DeYOUNG & FEDERICO SOLMI ARTSPACE, NEW HAVEN – UP THRU . . . FEB 29, 2020 see: ‘STRANGE LOOPS’ \/ ARTSPACE, NEW HAVEN VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER, ‘Strange Loops’, 2019 virtual reality experience Director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41428"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41454,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41428\/revisions\/41454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}