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.