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Bay Area Multimedia Arts and Lecture Series

                  VIRTUAL WORLDS: BEYOND THE SCREEN

The UC Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, San Francisco Museum of
Modern
Art, Berkeley Art Museum, and San Jose Museum of Art will host a lecture
series showcasing renowned artists, scientists, and theorists who have
founded
interactive art forms, multimedia technologies, and new perspectives on
the
digital age. The fall lecture series includes

Michael Naimark, Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Media artist and technologist Michael Naimark has always managed to be
well-positioned in seminal developments of interactive multimedia and
virtual reality.  Michael Naimark will discuss his pervious and current
work, including the Apple Multimedia Lab's Visual Almanac, the first
interactive multimedia for the personal computer, and his ground
breaking
virtual reality installation Be Now Here.

Mark Pesce, Thursday, November 6, 7 p.m.
Berkeley Art Museum

Author, theorist, and co-founder of VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling
Language),
Mark Pesce is one of the leading visionaries today committed to
expanding
the web beyond the two-dimensional perspective.  Mark Pesce has
developed
paradigms for cyberspace which have titled him as one of Network's
Computing's Most Influential People in Networking.

Scott Fisher, Thursday, December 4, 7 p.m.
San Jose Museum of Art

Founder and director of NASA's Virtual Environment Workstation Project,
artist
and scientist Scott Fisher pioneered the first virtual-reality system
that
combined computer graphics and video imaging, 3-D sound, the head mount
display, and the data glove. As a result of Fisher's virtual research,
he
has first captured the virtual imagination of the mainstream public.

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All lectures will be held on Thursdays at 7 p.m. For tickets: call the
City
Box Office at (415)392-4400 or Bass at (800)225-2277.  Series Pass
(three
lectures): $45 general, $30 students/museum members.  Individual
tickets:
$16 general, $12 students/museum members. For more information, visit
the
web site at http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/VirtualWorlds or contact the
Berkeley
Multimedia Research Center at (510) 643-0800.