Dan Sandin received his B.A. in Natural Sciences from Shimer College in 1964 and his M.S. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967.[3] He became interested in video in 1967, while helping to organize student demonstrations at the University of Illinois.[citation needed] In 1969, he joined as a teacher at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), in order to bring technology into the arts program.[4] This was shortly after his presentation of "Glowflow", a computer controlled light and sound system, created with Myron Krueger, Jerry Erdman, and Richard Venezky.[citation needed] By 1972, Thomas A. DeFanti joined UIC and together with Sandin they founded the Circle Graphics Habitat, now known as the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL).[4]
In 2018 Sandin's work, the Sandin Image Processor and the Sayre Glove, was included in the Chicago New Media 1973-1992 exhibition, curated by jonCates.[5] He also gave a demonstration of Particle Dreams in Spherical Harmonics in the CAVE 2 system, and was part of the symposium both of which were connected to the exhibition as a series of events.[6]
His major achievements were working on a series of projects including: Glowflow (1969), Sandin Image Processor (IP) (1971–1973), Sayre Glove (1977), PHSColograms (1988), CAVE (1992) and ImmersaDesk and Infinity Wall.
Dan Sandin has said that his career has three main objectives:[10]
the design of electronic instruments and computer programs for visual performance and personal growth;
the development of educational facilities and programs related to the use of electronic screens; and
the production and exhibition of computer processed visual works for personal expressive reasons.
Sandin Image Processor
Sandin Image Processor, exhibited at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
From 1971 to 1973, he designed the Sandin Image Processor, a patch programmable analog computer for real-time manipulation of video inputs through the control of the grey level information. His friend and neighbor Phil Morton helped with the early schematic plans diagram which they shared in a manual called the Distribution Religion.[11] Sandin demoed his Image Processor in a recorded live video “5 Minute Romp Through the IP” (1973).[12] This modular design was based on the Moog synthesizer. With Tom DeFanti, he would combine it with real-time computer graphics and synthesized music and perform visual concerts. He has performed worldwide and has received grants in support of his work from the Rockefeller Foundation (1981), the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (1980) and the Guggenheim Foundation (1978). His piece "Spiral PTL" was one of the first pieces included in the Museum of Modern Art's video art collection.[citation needed]
The Sayre Glove
In 1977, with Tom DeFanti and Rich Sayre, he designed the Sayre Glove, the first data glove, as part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This device used light based sensors with flexible tubes with a light source at one end and a photocell at the other. As the fingers were bent, the amount of light that hit the photocells varied, thus providing a measure of finger flexion. It was mainly used to manipulate sliders, but was lightweight and inexpensive.[citation needed]
By 1988, Sandin was working on a type of digital photography called PHSColograms; a system whereby a number of still images were situated in an autostereoscopic manner and back-projected with light. The effect was very similar to holograms and many times viewers would mistake them as such. The initial system supported roughly 13 images but further improvements now could easily allow 100 such images to be used. This system was designed primarily for use in the medical field where these quasi-3D images could benefit surgeons.[citation needed]
A group of people viewing Sandin's From Death's Door to the Garden Peninsula in the CAVE at Ars Electronica '99
The first CAVE was invented by Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, and Thomas A. DeFanti in 1992.[13] This is an immersive system that became the standard for rear projection-based virtual reality systems. The normal full system consists of projections screens along the front, side and floor axes, and a tracking system for the "user". Although they used the recursive acronym Cave Automatic Virtual Environment for the CAVE system, the name also refers to Plato's "Republic" and "The Allegory of the Cave" where he explored the concepts of reality and human perception.
Since then there have been a couple offshoots of the CAVE technology, including ImmersaDesk, Infinity Wall and Oblong Industries' G-speak system. The ImmersaDesk is a semi-immersive system, resembling a drafting table, while the Infinity Wall is designed to cater to an entire room of people, such as a conference room. Extending this concept, G-speak supports gestural input from multiple-users and multiple-devices on and expandable array of monitors.
"Triangle in Front of Square in Front of Circle in Front of Triangle"
1979
"Christmas Morning in Sister Bay"
Flm with computer graphics
Producer
experimental video featuring sounds of waves and church bells playing Christmas carols, while computer processed video pans across the beach of Sister Bay.[15]
1980
"Spiral PTL"
Experimental film with computer graphics
Video synthesis
"Probably The Last" with Thomas A. DeFanti (computer graphics) and Mimi Shevitz (audio synthesis), in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.[16] Short film features a computer processed image of a spiral transforming shape/form, set to new age music.[17]
1980
"Spiral for A.C.M."
Computer animation creates different spirals and effects.[14]
1990
"A Volume of Two-Dimensional Julia Sets"
1995
"The Kinetic Sculpture Garden"
1996
"The Oort Continuum"
VR application for the CAVE
The developers of the app include Alan Cruz, Alan Millman, Daniel J. Sandin, Deb Lowman, Ka-Leung Jark, Marcus Thiebaux, Margaret Dolinsky, Milana Huang, Tom Coffin, Margaret Watson, Joe Insley, Bor Tyng Lin, Robert Grzeszczuk, Lou Kauffman, Gary Minnix.[18] Featured in ACM Siggraph 1996 festival, Ars Electronica Center, and Total Museum Conference.[18]
1997
"Poverty Island With Video Skies"
An integration of video images into a virtual environment. Featured in ACM Siggraph 1998 festival.[19]
1999
"From Death's Door to the Garden Peninsula"
2001
"EVL: Alive on the Grid"
References
^"Daniel J. Sandin". EVL. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
^Johnson, Tobi (November–December 1992). "Pioneer Award: Interview with Dan Sandin". VIDEO: The Center for New Television: 8. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
^Annie Koval (2011-03-16). . Medill Reports. Archived from the original on 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
^ abJones, Steve (2002). Encyclopedia of New Media: An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology. SAGE Publishing. p. 398. ISBN978-1452265285.
^Cates, Jon (2018). Chicago New Media 1973-1992. Illinois: University of Illinois. pp. 9, 21. ISBN978-0-252-08407-2.
^Parmet, Sharon (October 23, 2018). "UIC Electronic Visualization Lab featured in 'Chicago New Media 1973-1992' exhibit". University of Chicago Today. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
^"Fellows, Daniel Sandin". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
^Cruz-Neira, Carolina; Sandin, Daniel J.; DeFanti, Thomas A.; Kenyon, Robert V.; Hart, John C. (1 June 1992). "The CAVE: Audio Visual Experience Automatic Virtual Environment". Commun. ACM. 35 (6): 64–72. doi:10.1145/129888.129892. ISSN 0001-0782.
^ ab"Image Union, episode 0044". Media Burn, Independent Video Archive. Media Burn Archive. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
Daniel Sandin at the Media Burn Independent Video Archive
January 20, 2023
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For other uses see Sandin disambiguation This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately especially if potentially libelous or harmful Find sources Daniel J Sandin news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2010 Learn how and when to remove this template message Daniel J Sandin born 1942 is an American video and computer graphics artist designer and researcher He is a Professor Emeritus of the School of Art amp Design at University of Illinois at Chicago and co director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory EVL at the University of Illinois at Chicago 1 He is an internationally recognized pioneer in computer graphics electronic art and visualization 2 Dan Sandin Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Awards 2 Work 2 1 Sandin Image Processor 2 2 The Sayre Glove 2 3 PHSColograms 2 4 Cave Automatic Virtual Environment 3 Works 4 References 5 External linksBiography EditDan Sandin received his B A in Natural Sciences from Shimer College in 1964 and his M S in Physics from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1967 3 He became interested in video in 1967 while helping to organize student demonstrations at the University of Illinois citation needed In 1969 he joined as a teacher at the University of Illinois at Chicago UIC in order to bring technology into the arts program 4 This was shortly after his presentation of Glowflow a computer controlled light and sound system created with Myron Krueger Jerry Erdman and Richard Venezky citation needed By 1972 Thomas A DeFanti joined UIC and together with Sandin they founded the Circle Graphics Habitat now known as the Electronic Visualization Laboratory EVL 4 In 2018 Sandin s work the Sandin Image Processor and the Sayre Glove was included in the Chicago New Media 1973 1992 exhibition curated by jonCates 5 He also gave a demonstration of Particle Dreams in Spherical Harmonics in the CAVE 2 system and was part of the symposium both of which were connected to the exhibition as a series of events 6 His major achievements were working on a series of projects including Glowflow 1969 Sandin Image Processor IP 1971 1973 Sayre Glove 1977 PHSColograms 1988 CAVE 1992 and ImmersaDesk and Infinity Wall Awards Edit Dan Sandin received several awards including the Guggenheim Fellowships awarded for video and sound in 1978 7 the National Endowment for the Arts NEA for video art with Stevenson Palfi in 1981 8 the Rockefeller Foundation s Video Fellowship in 1981 the Inventor of the Year award from the University of Illinois in 2000 and the Rockefeller Foundation s Film Video and Multimedia Fellowship in 2002 for Looking for Water 2 a virtual reality 3 D installation 9 Work EditDan Sandin has said that his career has three main objectives 10 the design of electronic instruments and computer programs for visual performance and personal growth the development of educational facilities and programs related to the use of electronic screens and the production and exhibition of computer processed visual works for personal expressive reasons Sandin Image Processor Edit Sandin Image Processor exhibited at School of the Art Institute of Chicago SAIC From 1971 to 1973 he designed the Sandin Image Processor a patch programmable analog computer for real time manipulation of video inputs through the control of the grey level information His friend and neighbor Phil Morton helped with the early schematic plans diagram which they shared in a manual called the Distribution Religion 11 Sandin demoed his Image Processor in a recorded live video 5 Minute Romp Through the IP 1973 12 This modular design was based on the Moog synthesizer With Tom DeFanti he would combine it with real time computer graphics and synthesized music and perform visual concerts He has performed worldwide and has received grants in support of his work from the Rockefeller Foundation 1981 the National Science Foundation the National Endowment for the Arts 1980 and the Guggenheim Foundation 1978 His piece Spiral PTL was one of the first pieces included in the Museum of Modern Art s video art collection citation needed The Sayre Glove Edit In 1977 with Tom DeFanti and Rich Sayre he designed the Sayre Glove the first data glove as part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts This device used light based sensors with flexible tubes with a light source at one end and a photocell at the other As the fingers were bent the amount of light that hit the photocells varied thus providing a measure of finger flexion It was mainly used to manipulate sliders but was lightweight and inexpensive citation needed PHSColograms Edit Main article PHSCologram By 1988 Sandin was working on a type of digital photography called PHSColograms a system whereby a number of still images were situated in an autostereoscopic manner and back projected with light The effect was very similar to holograms and many times viewers would mistake them as such The initial system supported roughly 13 images but further improvements now could easily allow 100 such images to be used This system was designed primarily for use in the medical field where these quasi 3D images could benefit surgeons citation needed Cave Automatic Virtual Environment Edit Main article Cave automatic virtual environment A group of people viewing Sandin s From Death s Door to the Garden Peninsula in the CAVE at Ars Electronica 99 The first CAVE was invented by Carolina Cruz Neira Daniel J Sandin and Thomas A DeFanti in 1992 13 This is an immersive system that became the standard for rear projection based virtual reality systems The normal full system consists of projections screens along the front side and floor axes and a tracking system for the user Although they used the recursive acronym Cave Automatic Virtual Environment for the CAVE system the name also refers to Plato s Republic and The Allegory of the Cave where he explored the concepts of reality and human perception Since then there have been a couple offshoots of the CAVE technology including ImmersaDesk Infinity Wall and Oblong Industries G speak system The ImmersaDesk is a semi immersive system resembling a drafting table while the Infinity Wall is designed to cater to an entire room of people such as a conference room Extending this concept G speak supports gestural input from multiple users and multiple devices on and expandable array of monitors Works EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed August 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message Year Title Genre Role Notes1973 5 Minute Romp through the Image Processor with Phil Morton 11 1975 Wandawega Waters Experimental film with computer graphics An experimental piece using computer processed video to give the surroundings of Lake Wandawega an other worldly appearance 14 1974 Poop for the NCC with Thomas A DeFanti1974 Triangle in Front of Square in Front of Circle in Front of Triangle 1979 Christmas Morning in Sister Bay Flm with computer graphics Producer experimental video featuring sounds of waves and church bells playing Christmas carols while computer processed video pans across the beach of Sister Bay 15 1980 Spiral PTL Experimental film with computer graphics Video synthesis Probably The Last with Thomas A DeFanti computer graphics and Mimi Shevitz audio synthesis in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art MoMA in New York City 16 Short film features a computer processed image of a spiral transforming shape form set to new age music 17 1980 Spiral for A C M Computer animation creates different spirals and effects 14 1990 A Volume of Two Dimensional Julia Sets 1995 The Kinetic Sculpture Garden 1996 The Oort Continuum VR application for the CAVE The developers of the app include Alan Cruz Alan Millman Daniel J Sandin Deb Lowman Ka Leung Jark Marcus Thiebaux Margaret Dolinsky Milana Huang Tom Coffin Margaret Watson Joe Insley Bor Tyng Lin Robert Grzeszczuk Lou Kauffman Gary Minnix 18 Featured in ACM Siggraph 1996 festival Ars Electronica Center and Total Museum Conference 18 1997 Poverty Island With Video Skies An integration of video images into a virtual environment Featured in ACM Siggraph 1998 festival 19 1999 From Death s Door to the Garden Peninsula 2001 EVL Alive on the Grid References Edit Daniel J Sandin EVL Retrieved 6 December 2010 Johnson Tobi November December 1992 Pioneer Award Interview with Dan Sandin VIDEO The Center for New Television 8 Retrieved 3 August 2012 Annie Koval 2011 03 16 Visualization pioneer creates virtual worlds Medill Reports Archived from the original on 2011 03 18 Retrieved 2011 03 16 a b Jones Steve 2002 Encyclopedia of New Media An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology SAGE Publishing p 398 ISBN 978 1452265285 Cates Jon 2018 Chicago New Media 1973 1992 Illinois University of Illinois pp 9 21 ISBN 978 0 252 08407 2 Parmet Sharon October 23 2018 UIC Electronic Visualization Lab featured in Chicago New Media 1973 1992 exhibit University of Chicago Today Retrieved September 25 2019 Fellows Daniel Sandin John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation NEA Annual Report PDF NEA 1981 2002 ANNUAL REPORT PDF The Rockefeller Foundation 2002 Archived from the original PDF on 2018 08 30 Retrieved 2018 08 30 de Lignieres Christine Dan Sandin Image Union episode 333 Image Union Retrieved 3 August 2012 a b Cates Jon May 2009 COPY IT RIGHT Media Art Histories of Open Collaboration and Exchange PDF p 9 5 Minute Romp thru the IP retrieved 2022 06 26 Cruz Neira Carolina Sandin Daniel J DeFanti Thomas A Kenyon Robert V Hart John C 1 June 1992 The CAVE Audio Visual Experience Automatic Virtual Environment Commun ACM 35 6 64 72 doi 10 1145 129888 129892 ISSN 0001 0782 a b Image Union episode 0044 Media Burn Independent Video Archive Media Burn Archive Retrieved 2018 08 28 Image Union episode 0040 Holiday Show Media Burn Archive Retrieved 2018 08 28 SURVEY OF VIDEOS FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART S RENOWNED COLLECTION TRACES THE HISTORY OF THE MEDIUM PDF 2000 09 01 Spiral PTL Video Data Bank www vdb org Retrieved 2018 08 30 a b The Oort Continuum EVL electronic visualization lab Retrieved 2018 08 30 POVERTY ISLAND WITH VIDEO SKIES BY DAN SANDIN ADA Archive of Digital Art www digitalartarchive at Retrieved 2018 08 30 External links Edit Biography portalDaniel Sandin EVL art n web site Daniel Sandin in the Video Data Bank Daniel Sandin at the Media Burn Independent Video Archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Daniel J Sandin amp oldid 1116310010, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
