Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (www.rpi.edu) will have works exhibited at the IMC Expo at the Chelsea Art Museum and will also host an interactive booth. The
award wining game installation, Stunt Dummies will be shown by Associate Professor Kathleen Ruiz in the IMC area. Aura, by Assistant Professor Shawn Lawson will be among the works shown in the RPI booth. Aura is an experiment in finding and playing with the human form as a light object. Also featured is the work of Associate Professor Katherine Isbister & collaborator Rainey Straus. They will show SimBee, which references the work of performance artist Vanessa Beecroft within the Sims game space. Undergraduate students Andrew Horton, Brian Ratta, and Matthew Giacomazzo will exhibit the exhilarating game Synergy, a classic cooperative overhead action game with a twist. There is lots of synergistic action as one player uses a classic keyboard mouse interface while a second player uses an original handmade dance pad. Additional works by Rensselaer students will also be shown…..and played. Many thanks to John P. Harrington, Dean School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kathy High, Chair, Department of the Arts, Sharon Roy, Director, Academic and Research Computing, and James Watt Department of Language, Literature and Communication.

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