Margaret Dolinsky
Indiana University, Bloomington
Margaret Dolinsky creates virtual reality (VR) portraits of people and landscapes. She welcomes visitors into digital worlds that combine aesthetic whimsical play with visceral and subversive confrontation. Dolinsky began working with CAVE VR in the mid 90’s and recently at UCSD with CAVE Cam VR. Her work exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The ICC in Tokyo, The Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and more. She has spoken at conferences including the International Society of Electronic Artists, SIGGRAPH, IEEEVR, Towards the Science of Consciousness, and Consciousness Reframed. Dolinsky is featured in the book “New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts'' by Donna Cox, et al. Dolinsky has contributed to several books including Reframing Consciousness: Art Mind and Technology (Ascott, Ed.), VR Developer Gems (Sherman, Ed.), Understanding Virtual Reality: Interface, Application, and Design (Sherman et al.) and Chinese and Portuguese publications. Dolinsky's work is found in Leonardo, Discover, Computer Graphics World, US News and World Report and ACM's Computer Graphics. Dolinsky's work also involves digital projections for opera and experimental film. She designed interactive video for several operas, including the American Opera Theater. Dolinsky co-chairs IS&T Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality conference with Ian McDowall. Dolinsky is Associate Professor, Digital Art, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University in Bloomington. She received a PhD from University of Plymouth, UK and an MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago.
Winona’s Way
Winona’s Way
Winona’s Way “Winona’s Way” is an artwork that pays homage to the namesake of Winona, Minnesota. In keeping with the IDMAA’s "weird" theme, I turn to her apocryphal story of plunging to her death to avoid marrying a brute. Winona threw herself into Lake Pepin and merged with the Mississippi River. I will throw myself and my art into the water to pay homage to Winona by traveling in a kayak dressed with my stream of consciousness drawings. I would like to give an artist presentation from the kayak near dusk in Lake Winona, which is adjacent and walking distance from the university campus. I will light the kayak from the inside in order to accentuate the images on the kayak. The kayak will, in essence, glow, to represent the spirit and energy of Winona. I would like to float dry ice in the water to create a mist in the air to represent the spirit of womanhood, Native American history, and the mystique behind the founding of Winona, Minnesota. To that effort, I would ask the conference to help secure dry ice and its delivery to Lake Winona’s Lake Lodge Recreation Center. I propose using three kayaks, representative of Shakespeare’s three witches that made the word ‘weird’ so celebrated in our language. I can bring two 14 foot kayaks to the conference for use in the presentation/performance during the conference. These are homemade kayaks, fully functional, dressed with my stream of consciousness drawings and lit from the inside. The two fourteen foot kayaks would float in the water to represent the body and spirit of Winona. If the university or the Lake Lodge Recreation Center has a kayak available, I would like to secure the use of one of their kayaks and dress it with drawings and have that kayak on exhibit in the gallery and include their facilities as a partner in the event.