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eGaLab: a new dimension for artists
Author(s) -
Masa Michal,
Zara Jiri,
Smetana Pavel
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
computer animation and virtual worlds
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.225
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1546-427X
pISSN - 1546-4261
ISBN - 0-7695-1922-9
DOI - 10.1002/cav.63
Subject(s) - computer science , presentation (obstetrics) , the internet , point (geometry) , sculpture , architecture , multimedia , dimension (graph theory) , field (mathematics) , digital art , character (mathematics) , world wide web , simple (philosophy) , human–computer interaction , visual arts , art , art history , medicine , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , performance art , pure mathematics , radiology
Presenting art in the age of the Internet brings along several misunderstandings: there occurs, for instance, a profound difference between online galleries or museums providing a simple point and click navigation in multimedia documents on the one hand, and some of the newly emerging presentation platforms that reflect contemporary artistic creation in its essential dependence on electronic media (e.g. net.art or virtual sculpture), on the other. The eGaLab (Electronic Gallery and Laboratory) project advances possibilities to create and present artworks on the Internet. It introduces an intuitive approach in the field of virtual environments as well as communities oriented towards visual art and shared artistic collaboration. eGaLab combines and transforms the advantages of collaborative virtual environments with the traditional aspects of artistic creation and presentation. In this paper we describe the architecture of the eGaLab platform. We describe its networking part based on a concept of General Variables and discuss several implementation issues related to its specific character. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.