forum MARGARET WERTHEIM BEING THERE: VIRTUAL REALITY FROM GIOTTO TO TODAY 3 May 2017 @ 3pm

We are used to thinking of virtual what later came to be called the New York Times, Los Angeles reality (VR) as a technology of “perspective,” Wertheim will Times, Guardian and many the computer era, but in this talk discuss a lineage of visual others. Wertheim has designed science writer Margaret verisimilitude from Giotto to science+art exhibits for the Building H, Level 6 Wertheim will trace its roots to Grand Thef Auto. Hayward Gallery (London), Monash University the Middle Ages. In the 13th Science Gallery (Dublin), Art 900 Dandenong Road century Roger Bacon championed BIOGRAPHY Center College of Design Caulfield East 3145 a new form of representation he Margaret Wertheim is an (Pasadena), and Mass MoCA called “geometric figuring” and internationally noted science (USA). By inviting audiences to sensilab.monash.edu argued for artists to adopt this writer, artist and curator whose play with ideas, her work offers a style. Soon Giotto was painting work focuses on relations radical approach to maths and the Arena Chapel, a medieval between science and the wider science at once intellectually environment consciously cultural landscape. She is the rigorous and aesthetically aware. designed to make visitors feel author of six books, including The Her Crochet Coral Reef project is that they had been projected into Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A now the world’s largest a 3D simulation of Christ’s life. History of Space from Dante to participatory art+science Following the development of the Internet, and has written for endeavour.