Margaret Dolinsky | Indiana University (original) (raw)

Margaret Dolinsky has been creating virtual environments since her first CAVE piece in 1995 and constructing interactive art experiences that have been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ICC in Tokyo, and the Walker Art Center.

She was commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to create "Cabinet of Dreams" a VR experience of Chinese antiquities. She has had several exhibits in China, including her piece "Emotable Portraits" which uses facial detection and was recently showcased on a sphere at Supercomputing14.

Dolinsky's work also involves digital projections for opera and experimental film. She designed interactive video for the American Opera Theater’s production "Annunciation + Visitation: Operatic Projections of her sexual insight" and has worked with the American Opera Theater's director Timothy Nelson on several projects.

Dolinsky's hand crafted, AR and 3D printed sculpture focuses on how digital art provokes shifts in perception and enhances sensory awareness. These have been exhibited in San Jose, San Francisco, New York, and Shanghai.

Dolinsky's work is published in Leonardo, Discover, Computer Graphics World, US News and World Report and ACM's Computer Graphics. Lectures include Tsinghua University (China), Ciber@rts Bilboa (Spain), Sensorial Net (Brazil), BEAP (Australia), and ISEA (France, Albuquerque).

Dolinsky co-chairs IS&T & SPIE Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality conference with Ian McDowall, Fakespace Labs.

She creates bio-art with Dr. Roger P. Hangarter, plant biologist, by manipulating chloroplast movements in live leaves in order to embed her imagery in their cellular structure. Their work together, along with musician John Gibson, garnered one of IU's first inaugural Collaborative Research Award.

Dolinsky is Associate Professor and Area Head of Digital Art in the Department of Studio Art and Senior Research Scientist with the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington.
She received a PhD from University of Plymouth, UK and an MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago.
Supervisors: Roy Ascott, Plymouth University, UK and Daniel J. Sandin, University of Illinois, USA

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