01 Oct 9/25/18 Rus Gant
In conversation with:
Rus Gant
Tuesday | September 25th | 12:00 – 1:30 PM
MIT Open Documentary Lab | E15-318
MIT Campus, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge MA 02139
Rus Gant is a well-regarded international multi-media artist, computer engineer and educator. Currently on the Research staff at Harvard University and the teaching faculty at Tokyo’s Showa Women’s University he is currently pursuing work in the future of real-time immersive computer graphics, including virtual reality, augmented reality and heightened reality. He is currently the Director of the Visualization Research and Teaching Laboratory at Harvard University and the Lead Technical artist for the Giza VR project at Harvard reconstructing the pyramids, temples and tombs on the Giza Plateau in Egypt in virtual reality. For more than 40 years he has applied his visualization skills to work in computer science, education, art, archaeology and museology for some of the world’s leading museums and universities.
As a computer hardware and software engineer he has constantly been at the forefront of the science of computer visualization. As a Fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies and as a Fellow at the Center for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University he has created and developed new techniques in 3D graphics, virtual reality and digital archaeology. These techniques have often been applied to the reconstruction of the art and architecture of ancient cultures.