Stacey Spiegel
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Stacey Spiegel is a Canadian artist, artistic director, and new media visionary.

Life and work

Stacey Spiegel was born in Hespeler, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and attended York University
York University
York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

 in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 where he studied fine arts (BFA). He currently resides in Canada and Norway.

New Media

From 1985-1987, Spiegel was a fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Study, from where he moved on to become Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

 from 1992-1997. As a new media installation designer and artist, Spiegel worked early on with Dr. Rodney Hoinkes creating state-of-the-art digital installations at events such as DEAF (Dutch Electronic Arts Festival) in 1995 and 1996, Rotterdam City Festival (Safe Harbour, a harbour simulator of Marine Safety featuring a 360-degree Virtual Reality environment for experiencing the multicultural city of Rotterdam) http://web.t0.or.at/scl/0046.html, MultiMediale, and Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival. Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995...

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After years of exploring new media through art, in 1997 Spiegel joined with Hoinkes to start Immersion Studios (later renamed I-mmersion) to explore the potential of interactive films, theatres and classrooms. During the firm's existence from 1997–2006, I-mmersion was considered one of Canada's most innovative new media companies and a forerunner in the arena of social computing http://www.imat.ca/imatinno.shtml. Its products included the Immersion Cinema, a 180-degree HD digital cinema experience http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/~servin/vrlandscape/long-version.html which has been installed in museums and science centres around the world, including Mote Marine Laboratory
Mote Marine Laboratory
Mote Marine Laboratory is an independent not-for-profit marine research organization based on City Island in Sarasota, FL. The laboratory aims to advance the science of the sea, both through its marine and estuarine research labs and through the public Mote Aquarium and its affiliated educational...

 in Sarasota Florida, Discovery Center of Springfield
Discovery Center of Springfield
The Discovery Center of Springfield in Springfield, Missouri, is an interactive hands-on museum committed to inspiring people of all ages with a life-long love of learning and an appreciation of the world and our place in it...

 Missouri, Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration
Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration
The Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration is an aquarium and oceanography institute in Mystic, Connecticut. The Aquarium is one of only four U.S. facilities nation where people can see Steller sea lions and has one of the largest outdoor Beluga Whale exhibits in the United States. It is also...

 in Connecticut, and The Smithsonian in Washington DC.

Since the mid-90s, Spiegel has produced and directed 40 major interactive projects, including installations for the likes of The Smithsonian Museum http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3419/is_200106/ai_n8183012, British Science Museum http://www.bnfl.co.uk/content.php?pageID=89&newsID=119, the Department of Canadian Heritage
Department of Canadian Heritage
The Department of Canadian Heritage, or simply Canadian Heritage |department]] of the Government of Canada with responsibility for policies and programs regarding the arts, culture, media, communications networks, official languages , status of women, sports , and multiculturalism...

, and EXPO 2005
Expo 2005
Expo 2005 was the World's Fair held for 185 days between Friday, March 25 and Sunday, September 25, 2005, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, east of the city of Nagoya. It was a Specialized International Exhibition under the scheme of the 1972 protocol of the Convention relating to International Exhibitions...

. Spiegel has also worked with renowned experts and scientists such as Dr. Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard
Robert Duane Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology. He is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989,...

, discoverer of the Titanic and founder and president of the Institute for Exploration at Mystic Aquarium
Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration
The Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration is an aquarium and oceanography institute in Mystic, Connecticut. The Aquarium is one of only four U.S. facilities nation where people can see Steller sea lions and has one of the largest outdoor Beluga Whale exhibits in the United States. It is also...

 in Connecticut, where he created the experience at the center of the groundbreaking Immersion Institute in 2002. The Immersion Institute employed the same robotics used in sea exploration, wiring Monterey National Marine Sanctuary (on the U.S. west coast) to Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration (on the U.S. east coast) through a live digital feed enabling visitors, for the first time ever, to explore the sanctuary remotely in real time http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/4528.

Recent work

In 2007 Spiegel was named the Artistic Director of Rockheim, the new National Rock and Pop Museum in Norway which opened in August 2010 to critical and public acclaim. As with most of Spiegel's work, the museum experience includes a significant virtual component - Virtual Rockheim - as a co-creation tool for visitors.

Spiegel also serves as:

- New Media Advisor to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Culture and Education for the Youth Olympic Games Singapore 2010, for which he designed an online game on ethics in sport called Taking the Heat for The Ethics Commission of the IOC.

- Director of Avatar Development for the A2E2 project of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme, a joint research and development (R&D) funding activity with the financial support of the European Community.

- Director of Industry Relations at the Center for Advanced Media Research in Amsterdam (CAMeRA) located at the VU University Amsterdam, where his work is focused on establishing commercial partnership opportunities that establish real world applications for the innovative academic research happening at the CAMeRA.

Other recent projects (2005–2008) include creative direction of the Canada Interactive Network / Virtual Canada for the Canada Pavilion at EXPO 2005
Expo 2005
Expo 2005 was the World's Fair held for 185 days between Friday, March 25 and Sunday, September 25, 2005, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, east of the city of Nagoya. It was a Specialized International Exhibition under the scheme of the 1972 protocol of the Convention relating to International Exhibitions...

 in Aichi, Japan; design and development of an interactive educational exhibit at W5 Discovery Centre in Belfast
Belfast
Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

, Northern Ireland; design and development of “The Ledge”, an immersive large-format film part of the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Centre opened 2007 in County Clare, Ireland; and numerous other interactive installations and productions in Canada, USA, Australia, Europe, and Japan.

Awards

Spiegel has won numerous awards for his new media work, including a 2002 Electronic Multimedia Awards (EMMA) for Technical Excellence & Innovation http://www.imat.ca/emma_winners.shtml; a 2002 Innovation Award http://www.imat.ca/imatinno.shtml from the Interactive Multimedia Arts & Technologies Association (IMAT); a 2002 Canadian New Media Award for New Media Visionary http://www.cnma.ca/index_e/02winners.html, a 2000 Canadian New Media Awards nomination for Company of the Year, and two Golden Reel nominations as producer/director. In the fine arts, he is a winner of the Bernice Adams Memorial Arts Award and a recipient of grants from the Canada Council
Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...

 and Ontario Arts Council
Ontario Arts Council
The Ontario Arts Council is a publicly-funded Canadian organization in the province of Ontario whose purpose is to promote and assist the development of the arts for the enjoyment and benefit of all Ontarians...

. His immersive large format film "The Ledge" and interactive "predator and prey" game at the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Center in Ireland were part of the highly acclaimed exhibition that won an Interpret Britain & Ireland Award 2007 from the Association of Heritage Interpretation.

Education

Maintaining ties to education and art, Spiegel has also continued working closely with post-secondary institutions around the world. For several years, Spiegel collaborated with the Annenberg School at The University of Southern California in a study on the impact of interactivity in learning among children, and installed "Immersion labs” http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/users/servin/vrlandscape in post-secondary institutions such as Harvard University, University of Toronto, and Sheridan College. He has also penned the foreword for two textbooks on video games, guest-lectured at the University of Queensland, Australia, and has appeared as keynote or guest speaker at numerous international events, including the Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, Trondheim Matchmaking (an annual international festival for electronic arts and new technology), the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney (Australia's largest and most popular museum), SIGGRAPH Toronto http://toronto.siggraph.org/pastmeetings99.html, DEAF Netherlands http://wayback.v2.nl/DEAF/persona/spiegel.html, and the USC Annenberg Workshop on Games for Learning, Development & Change http://games.uscannenberg.org/abstracts.php#stacey.

In 2006, Stacey Spiegel and Dr. Rodney Hoinkes presented a talk titled “The Evolution of Real and Virtual Communities” http://blogs.imedia.mie.utoronto.ca/iml/?p=116 at the University of Toronto. In October 2007 Spiegel inspired an international symposium at the University of Western Ontario called "Playing the Gallery: The art of games" http://www.techalliance.ca/latest/techpulse-games-people-play.html, which focused on understanding issues between virtual reality and the implications for social change and technology-driven environments for creative expression. In the mid-1990s, Spiegel was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Software Engineering and Game Design at McMaster University
McMaster University
McMaster University is a public research university whose main campus is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens...

.

Art

In addition to his work in the business, education and art of new media, Spiegel is also a renowned artist "whose thesis on the mechanisation of nature informs his multidisciplinary work"http://wayback.v2.nl/DEAF/persona/spiegel.html. His sculptures and computer-based artworks have been exhibited in many international venues at more than 35 solo exhibitions and 14 group exhibitions, and are included in both public and private collections, and in the permanent collections of over 22 galleries and museums including the National Gallery of Canada
National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...

 and the Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario
Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...

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Aside from creating and exhibiting artworks internationally, Spiegel has also been an Artist-in-Residence in a number of prestigious institutions, including Cité des Arts in Paris; the Zentrum for Kunst and Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; the Banff Centre's New Media Centre in Banff, Alberta; the Museum of Science and Technology in Hull, Quebec; and a MIT fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Study.

Some of Spiegel's location-based installations are viewable in Toronto. Toronto's Sheppard-Yonge
Sheppard-Yonge (TTC)
Sheppard-Yonge is a station on the Yonge-University-Spadina and Sheppard lines of the subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the third busiest subway station in the system, after Bloor-Yonge, and St...

subway station features "Immersion Land", a mosaic composed of 1.5 million one-inch tiles. The installation was developed from a digitized and pixilated blend of 150 photographs depicting lush landscapes, country homes, and rural scenes from Yonge Street as it stretches towards North Bay. Another of his installations is nestled in a courtyard near the intersection of Yonge and Adelaide Street East: a collection of eclectic, sculptural water fountains called "Synthetic Eden" http://www.dittwald.com/torontosculpture/search.php?Artist=Stacey%20Spiegel.

External links

I-MMERSION

Parallel World Labs Inc.

Rockheim

Publications

▪ Spiegel, Stacey. Immersive serious games for large scale multiplayer dialogue and co-creation (chapter) in "Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects", edited by Ute Ritterfeld, Michael Cody and Peter Vorderer. New York: Routledge, in press (2008).

▪ Spiegel, Stacey. Foreword to textbook “Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences”, edited by Peter Vorderer and Jennings Bryant, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.

▪ Teitelbaum, Matthew. “The Ethics of Making Things”, catalogue essay, San Francisco, 1991.

▪ Bell, Carolyn. “Art and Technology: Phase Shift”, catalogue essay, Canada, 1991.

▪ Bell, Carolyn and Ihor Holubizky, “Art and Technology”, catalogue, Canada, 1994.

▪ Moos, David. “Diaspora”, catalogue, Canada, 1995.

▪ Spiegel, Stacey. Crossings. "Mythos Information- Welcome to the Wired World: @rs electronica 95" Wien and New York: Springer-Verlag. 305-307, 1995.

▪ Nonomura, Fumihiro and Hideki Yoshimatsu. Riding the Internet Transnational Railway - "Crossings". "Intercommunicat ion: A Journal Exploring the Frontiers of Art and Technology" (Tokyo, Japan) 13, summer: 1995-99.

▪ Sperlich, Tom and Florian Wenz. Cyber-Web: Dreidimensionale Welten auf dem Internet. "Grafikkarten: Magazine fër Computer Technik" (Hannover, Germany) July: 110-114, 1995.

▪ Spiegel, Stacey. Crossings. "Multimediale: das Medienkunstfestival des ZKM Karlsruhe" Karlsruhe: ZKM/Zentrum fër Kunst und Medientechnologie, 49, 1995.

▪ Moderini, Claudio. Ars Electronica 95: Non sparate sull'artista. "Virtual:Il Mensile Dell'Era Digitale" (Milano, Italia) August: 22-24, 1995.

▪ “The Arts” Canada Year Book 1992, 125th Anniversary Edition, Statistics Canada, 1991.

▪ Holubizky, Ihor. “Visible Flow” catalogue, 1991.

▪ “Art and Technology: Teaming Up to Serve you Better”, Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA) XXIV Congress, 1990.

▪ “Now You See It, Now You Don’t”, ETC (revue internationale de l'art actuel du Canada), Montreal, Sept. 1990.

▪ “New Langton Arts Catalogue”, San Francisco, 1990.

▪ “Computer-Altered Photographs”, San Francisco Chronicle, November 18, 1989.

▪ “Thunder and Lightning”, Canadian Craft Magazine, Winter 1988.

▪ “Waterworks Catalogue”, Visual Arts Ontario, Fall 1988.

▪ Reed, Cecelia. “A New Train of Thought for Subway Denizens”, Advertising Age, June 1, 1987.

▪ Teitelbaum, Matthew. “Stacey Spiegel—Messages from the new-Old World”, Vanguard (cover article), Sept. 1986.

▪ MacDougall, Anne. “Les Sculptures-Installations de Stacey Spiegel”, Vie des Arts, Autumn 1985.

▪ Pineau, Lucie. “Stacey Spiegel, Axe-Neo 7”, Vanguard, Winter 1984.

▪ Tiffet, Paul. “Continuous-Passage-Continuel”, Parachute, Spring 1984.

▪ Rans, Goldie. “London, Ontario”, Vanguard, Sept. 1983.

▪ Rans, Goldie. “Mayim” catalogue, London Regional Art Gallery, 1982.

▪ Spiegel, Stacey. “Machine Show” catalogue, Cambridge Art Gallery, Ontario, 1981.
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