[ISEA95] Paper: Rob Fisher — Work-in-Progress: Interactive Art/ Science Planetarium Event on Cell Biology

Abstract

The Cell Project is a National Science Foundation interdisciplinary project. The event focuses on the structure, functions and communication systems of the living cell. A “Renaissance team” of artists, computer scientists, biologists and multimedia experts from Carnegie Mellon University are in the process of transforming Pittsburgh’s Buhl Planetarium into a group immersive visualization environment. The event will place the audience inside a microscope where they will interact with startling new images of the cell.

  • Rob Fisher [1939-2006] (USA) was an internationally recognized sculptor, author and lecturer and a pioneer in the application of the computer to large-scale sculpture. He has received many commissions throughout the U.S.A., Japan and Saudi Arabia. He was a research fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was Artistic Director of the “Living Cell” project, a group-immersive, interactive visualization event for planetariums. groundsforsculpture.org/artists/rob-fisher