New Town Project
New Town was an African American neighborhood in Blacksburg, Virginia from the late 19th century until the mid- 1960’s. It consisted of Gilbert Street and a small lane that were home to about 20 families.
Be the Data: Embodied Interaction in Bayesian Visual Analytics
Be the Data promotes creative interactive data exploration through the novel combination of the physical and virtual worlds.
3D Meteorological Immersion Experience: Tornado in the Cube
In-situ observation and sampling of significant weather phenomena is meaningful, but often it is meteorologically uninformative given significant limits to positioning observers and instrumentation near what are often dangerous atmospheric conditions.
Development and Demonstration of the AURA Building Enclosure System
This research seeks to develop and demonstrate a new dynamic building enclosure system, the AURA, that actively responds to environmental conditions such as sun and light while transforming the boundary between indoors and out.
Stepping into the Past Through Visualization: Exploring America’s Forgotten War
This project aims to create a learning environment that is a hands-on, mixed-reality exhibit of the human experience in the contested landscape of World War I.
Virginia Tech Science Festival returns Oct. 27
The Virginia Tech Science Festival returns to campus Saturday, Oct. 27, with 93 free hands-on, minds-on learning interactive booths and activities that showcase dozens of science education and research programs throughout the university, including physics, space, engineering, communication, geology, health and medicine, history, transportation, computers, chemistry, and more.
Middle schoolers design, program, and build instruments
There is just a handful of music venues in the world where you can experience a still very new kind of audio known as ‘spatial music’ and Blacksburg is home to one of them.
The third annual “Cube Fest” kicks off Thursday August 9th for four days of immersive sound performed and explored, at the Moss Arts Center and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech.
3rd Annual Cube Fest Celebrates Spatial Music
There is just a handful of music venues in the world where you can experience a still very new kind of audio known as ‘spatial music’ and Blacksburg is home to one of them.
The third annual “Cube Fest” kicks off Thursday August 9th for four days of immersive sound performed and explored, at the Moss Arts Center and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech.
Guiding Faculty into Immersive Environments
In 2015, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology (ICAT) launched the Cube, an adaptable space for research and experimentation housed in the campus's Moss Arts Center.
One of the first things ICAT did was to hire an immersive environment specialist to help faculty members who were incorporating the new space into their curricula.
Virginia Tech professor awarded musical Guggenheim fellowship to combine computers, instruments
A Virginia Tech professor of creative technologies in music, Lyon is a leading creator of spatial music at the school. His primary instrument is the Cube, a $15 million facility in which Tech researchers use screens and speakers to explore augmented reality, data and immersive art.
He’ll be using the vast speaker arrays, plus acoustic instruments, to make new and innovative music thanks to a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in the coming year.
Scientists are harvesting water by building fog harps and zapping the air
A corporate grant will fund efforts to transform an existing Virginia Tech classroom into a living laboratory to support learning strategies that promote engagement, creativity, and collaboration, while helping researchers better understand patterns of active learning.
The educational arm of Steelcase, a company that produces office furniture and architectural and technology products, awarded one of its Active Learning Center grants to a team led by Timothy Baird, assistant professor of geography in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and senior fellow for the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.
Steelcase funds work to create an active learning space where students and faculty collaborate
A corporate grant will fund efforts to transform an existing Virginia Tech classroom into a living laboratory to support learning strategies that promote engagement, creativity, and collaboration, while helping researchers better understand patterns of active learning.
The educational arm of Steelcase, a company that produces office furniture and architectural and technology products, awarded one of its Active Learning Center grants to a team led by Timothy Baird, assistant professor of geography in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and senior fellow for the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.
Experience music in 360 degrees at Moogfest
DURHAM, N.C. — Sound will literally wash over you during a special spatial sound exhibit at the Durham Armory during Moogfest this week.
A3 (Audio Cubed) will host this 360-degree sound experience starting Thursday afternoon. Featuring more than 20 independent audio sources, the sound is designed to come from every angle throughout each performance.
A3 has been working with Meyer Sound and Virginia Tech's Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology for the project.
"The music is going to be all around you. It is going to be moving. You might hear things coming on one way or from behind you," Virginia Tech grad student Ryan McHugh said. "This is one of the largest scale spatial audio performances that has been done in the states."
Virginia Tech collaboration brings virtual reality to Montgomery County Public Schools
The University Libraries at Virginia Tech is teaming up with Blacksburg Middle School to create a virtual reality laboratory and integrate virtual reality technology into the middle school learning experience.
Jonathan Bradley, the innovative technologies coordinator for learning environments at the University Libraries, is assisting in the creation of this pilot installation to spark a larger initiative to bring virtual reality to all Montgomery County public middle schools.
Photos and video: 2018 ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day
April 30 marked the sixth annual ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day. The day celebrates the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design. Exhibitors from all over campus and across the state displayed their projects at the Moss Arts Center. The theme of the 2018 ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day was Trace, as in to find or discover by investigation, to take a particular path or route, an indication of the existence of something, palimpsest, and a small road.
We are a collection of artists, designers, engineers, and scientists coming together in a living laboratory that fosters creativity and promotes critical reflection.
The Cube is highly-adaptable and has been used to create immersive environments, intimate performances, audio and visual installations, research, and experimental investigations of all kinds.
Proposals must be transdisciplinary in nature and explore some aspect of technology and at least two of the following areas represented by the Institute and its studios...
