ICAT Day: Mind = Blown
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Date: Monday, May 4, 2015
Time: 12:00 - 7:30 PM
Event Types: Miscellaneous, Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
Virginia Tech's Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) presents the 2015 ICAT Day with this year's theme "Mind = Blown" on Monday, April 4th at the Moss Arts Center.

From luminescent forests to laptop orchestras to 3D tornado visualizations, see how ICAT is blazing a path between transdisciplinary research and artistic output, scientific and commercial discovery, and educational innovation.

ICAT Day is a celebration of the work of Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts,
and Technology. These interactive exhibits, workshops, panel discussions, tours, demonstrations, and performances at the Moss Arts Center show how ICAT is forging a pathway between transdisciplinary research and artistic output, scientific and commercial discovery, and educational innovation. The ICAT community will share engaging experiences from virtual worlds to luminescent forests to laptop orchestras. Have your mind blown at this invigorating SEAD (science, engineering, art, and design) event.

Schedule of Events:
• 12:00 PM - “What is ICAT?” talk and discussion, Balcony Lobby
• 1 PM - “Who/What/Why is ICAT?” panel discussion, Balcony Lobby
• 2 PM - “Dialogues on Innovation,” panel discussion, Balcony Lobby
• 3 PM - “Social Computing Meets Creative Computing,” presentations, Balcony Lobby
• 4 PM - “Thinking Through Technology with Performance Techniques,” Movement Workshop, Mezzanine Lobby
• 5 PM - “Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from the Harmonious Melodious Jellyfish: An Open Conversation on Arts Engagement through the Center for the Arts and ICAT,” Workshop, Balcony Lobby
• 6 PM “My Take Talk,” talk and discussion, Ruth C. Horton Gallery
• 6:30 PM - “Composition Student Concert,” Grand Lobby
• 7:30 PM - “Spring Digital Interactive Sound and Intermedia Studio Event,” Musical Performance, Cube

Exhibits will be on display from 12-6 pm in the Grand Lobby from more than 30 exhibitors.

The Cube, the four-story, high-tech laboratory used for research, immersive environments, performance, and audio and visual installations, will be open to the public from noon until 3 pm. Visitors to the Cube will experience research demonstrations, including 3D visualizations of a tornado, the house of the future, Lane Stadium, and a World War I battlefield. The demos are free, but tickets are required.

To view the event flyer, visit the NextThreeDays Pinterest Pin at: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/560276009869840924/

Parking is available in the North End Parking Garage on Turner Street. Limited street parking is also available.

For more information, visit: http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2015/04/042215-icat-icatday.html or http://www.icat.vt.edu/ or https://www.facebook.com/icatatvt