(Names in parenthesis are the exhibit names as they appear in TheTechVirtual.org and in Second Life)

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Wall of Musical Buttons (Wikisonic)

	Conceptualized by Jon Brouchoud, an architect and responsive environment designer in Madison, WI. This exhibit demonstrates the fundamentals of harmonics and chord structure by allowing visitors to experiment with note intervals in familiar musical melodies.
Wall of Musical Buttons	For more information, see the Wikisonic project page	Wikisonic

Musical Seats (Musical Chairs)

	Conceptualized by Leanne Garvie, a philosophy Ph.D. student and artist in Toronto, Canada. This exhibit demonstrates how individual instruments are coordinated to create complex musical compositions. It is a physical analog to the way that digital music is created using Garage Band and related Silicon Valley technologies.
Musical Seats	For more information, see the Musical Chairs project page	Musical Chairs

Be a VJ (Golden Age of MIDI)

	Conceptualized by Nick Chen, musician and teacher of digital music at Blue Bear Music School in San Francisco, CA. This exhibit showcases a representative variety of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) controllers, each mapped to a unique and innovative set of audio and video outputs.
Be a VJ	For more information, see the Golden Age of MIDI project page	Golden Age of MIDI

Panoramic Photos (Reprojecting San Jose)

	Conceptualized by Richard Milewski, a photographer in San Jose, CA (and Tech Museum member). This exhibit demonstrates how to create panoramic and polar projection photos and explores the transformations involved in turning flat photos into a 360-degree panorama.
Panoramic Photos	For more information, see the Reprojecting San Jose project page	Reprojecting San Jose

Mashup Masterpiece (The Painter)

	Conceptualized by Marie Crandell, an accountant and Second Life artists in Plymouth, England. This exhibit lets visitors enter the mind of an artist by observing the artistic process and adding their own creative modifications.
Mashup Masterpiece	For more information, see the Painter home page	The Painter

Human/Avatar (Connecting Point)

	Conceptualized by Alan Hook and Pete Wardle, creative technologists at the University of Salford in Manchester, England. This exhibit lets visitors explore the intersection between real and virtual space via a human-avatar streaming video portal.
Human/Avatar	For more information, see the Connecting Point home page	Connecting Point

Tilty Table (Component Shift)

	Conceptualized by Jason Nelson, digital artist and professor of digital poetics in Gold Coast, Australia. This exhibit lets visitors explore the artist’s interpretation of “the shifting landscape of Silicon Valley” with an intuitive mechanical interface.
Tilty Table	For more information, see the Digital Poetics and Playthings home page	Digital Poetics and Playthings

(Names in parenthesis are the exhibit names as they appear in TheTechVirtual.org and in Second Life)

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