Carl Eugene Loeffler – ISEA Symposium Archives

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

In Memoriam 1946-2001

ISEA94

Carl Eugene Loeffler (USA). Project Director of Telecommunications and Virtual Reality, at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. He is also a visiting Senior Scientist, appointed to Center of Technology at Kjeller (UNIK/University of Oslo and Norwegian Telecom Research). Specialist in the design of applications and systems integration for distributed virtual reality; under his direction, the CMU project team has produced a number of networked virtual reality applications for the purposes of education, entertainment and industry. The applications support multiple uses, and feature aspects of tele-existence. His current project is a distributed virtual city, which is conceived as a graphical user interface (GUI) for home based electronic shopping and entertainment. Current technical demonstrations include the International Conference on Artificial reality and Tele-Existence.

FISEA’93

Carl Loeffler, artist/publisher, USA

TISEA 1992

Carl Loeffler Carnegie Mellon University, USA

SISEA 1990

Carl Loeffler [1946-2001] USA, was founder and director of one of the first alternative artist-run organizations in California — La Mamelle/Art Com in San Francisco, established in 1975. As artist and publisher, Loeffler produced books on performance art and correspondence art, and the periodicals Art Contemporary/Art Com Magazine, Videozine, Audiozine and Imagezine. In 1986, he started the Art Com Electronic Network on the Whole Earth Electronic Link (WELL), one of the first online networks for specifically for artists. [Source: monoskop.org]