Jaimes Krutz helps create virtual reality experience for Doomsday Clock exhibit

2018 May 11

Jaimes Krutz of Bauxite, AR, was one of two student researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Emerging Analytics Center who helped create a virtual reality experience in honor of Martyl Langsdorf, the Chicago artist who designed the Doomsday Clock.

Created in 1947, the Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe, such as the threat of global war and climate change.

The exhibit, "It is two minutes to midnight," will be on display at the Weinberg/Newton Gallery in Chicago May 11-19. The exhibit transverses a geopolitical landscape of nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies starting in 1947 through today.

The student researchers at the Emerging Analytics Center worked in conjunction with students from the Art Institute of Chicago and the company ART(n). The exhibit will feature a new product, CAVE-in-a-BOX, currently in development at the Emerging Analytics Center.

The exhibit's opening reception on May 11 will double as a book release for "New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts." The book features a chapter about Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, director of the Emerging Analytics Center and interim chair of the Department of Computer Science.