Migrating Reality Conference Coordinator and Moderation.

3D - impossibility of nothing

Nothing, which cannot be processed, exists. This epistemological constant is a primordial keyhole of the digital universe. As a newest chapter in a digital contract with reality, 3D not only revises the morphology of the “objective representation” but also foments the very method and politics of real. Process or processor based existence is always pre-processed and pre-contemplated therefore pre-conditioned for structure and system. In many cases it is hyper-real or preemptive to real, in some such as virtual reality and 2nd Life it could be seen as preventive. 3D reinforces the existing power structure because as a method it is fundamentally structurist and bound to reductionistic binarity of true, false and nothing else.

Zilvinas Lilas is currently a professor of 3D at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In 1991 he received a Diploma of Artist from the Vilnius Academy of Arts majoring in Painting. In 2004 he completed his Graduate Studies at the Ohio State University and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in 3D animation
and painting.

Throughout his professional career Prof. Lilas served multiple positions ranging from Interactive Interface Designer to Chief Artist and a Technical Director for a number of start-up as well as internationally renowned companies such as Walt Disney Studios, Oddworld Inhabitants, Metrolight
Studios, Artist’s Inc., Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education, Wexner Center for the Arts and etc., and worked on a handful of animated feature films, games, publications and television projects including Treasure Planet, Chicken Little, Munch’s Odyssey.
Siegfried and Roy and others. His research interest include interactive art and design, simulated environments and scenarios, identity and technology and was involved with number of research projects such as Distance Learning project sponsored by the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (USA), Interaccess project supported by the Wexner Centre for the Arts, Art and Ecology project among others.

During last two years Prof. Lilas on a number of occasions was invited as a visiting faculty at the International School of New Media, Lübeck (Germany); Siauliu University, Siauliai (Lithuania); and Weimar University (Germany).

Zilvinas Lilas is a recipient of a Fellowship and Artist in Residency Award from the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff (Canada) 1993, The Fergus-Gilmore Award, 1994, Soros Foundation Travel Grant 1994, Scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1991, among others.

Outside of his immediate academic appointment, Prof. Lilas is actively involved with administrative and curatorial tasks. In 2006-07 he organised a series of international guest speakers and a number of workshops at the KHM, also a symposium “Whale in Baltic” and curated 2 exhibitions.

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