Ruth G. West – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

Ruth G. West

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts & Design and xRez Art+Science Lab, Center for Research in Computing, _Director and Professor

Other / Past Affiliation(s):


  • The Arts University of California
  • National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
  • University of California, San Diego

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  • Denton, Texas, United States of America

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  • SIGGRAPH 2024

    Ruth West is an artist and professor at University of North Texas cross-appointed in Design and Computer Science, and director of the XREZ Art + Science Lab.

    Her work expands the potentials of immersive technologies to create new contexts and forms of engagement, and to connect us cross-culturally and cross-generationally. She creates multi-modal, social and collaborative data-driven extended reality (XR) interactive experiences. Ruth’s prior affiliations include UCSD National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing and Cedars-Sinai Health System. Her work has been published in journals including SPIE/IS&T Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality, MIT Leonardo journal, American Journal of Human Genetics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and presented internationally at venues including MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, FILE 09 Sao Paulo, SIGGRAPH, WIRED Magazine’s NextFest.

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    Ruth West is a creative technologist bridging big data? visualization? sonification? virtual and augmented? reality? 3D fabrication? and social and mobile media with domains such as neuroscience? genomics? astronomy? urban ecology? microbiome? entertainment and digital remix culture. She creates works with multiple entry points that can exist concurrently as aesthetic experiences? cultural interventions or entertainment and serve as the basis for artistically-impelled scientific inquiry and tools. This results in technology R&D? novel artworks? large-scale public engagement and entertainment experiences? new knowledge and insight? cross-disciplinary educational and research opportunities and industry-academic-community partnerships.

    She is developing the concept and practice of DataRemix a reappropriation and recombination practice blending digital remix culture and big data to create novel associations and experiences. Receiving both grant and industry sponsorship her work and has been presented or featured in SIGGRAPH? ACM / Eurographics Expressive? WIRED Magazine?s NextFest? PEROT Museum of Nature and Science? UCLA Fowler Museum? CAA? Ingenuity Festival Cleveland? Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery? FILE 09 Sao Paulo? IEEE VR? Mobisys? IS&T SPIE? IEEE ICIP? the American Journal of Human Genetics? Genomics? Leonardo? LEA? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences? NPR?s The Connection? NY Times? Genome News Network? AMINIMA and Artweek.

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