Vibeke Sorensen is a Professor in the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television where she is Chair of the Division of Animation and Digital Arts. Prof. Sorensen is widely known as an innovative artist working with video, film, computer graphics and animation systems. Her work has received many honors and has been shown internationally on television, in galleries, museums, and live performance. In 1989, she received a National Science Foundation grant with Dr. Lynn Teneyck, SDSC/UCSD computational biologist, for research in Interactive Stereoscopic Animation. They created an interactive video animation system, and Sorensen produced "MAYA," a stereoscopic computer-animated work that has been exhibited internationally, including being featured in the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre, where she has had an unprecedented presence for an independent artist since 1981. Sorensen has served as a Visiting Associate in Computer Science at Caltech (1984-89), Visiting Professor at Princeton (1990,91,93), was the founding director of the CalArts Computer Animation Lab, and currently is a Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Events:
Lemma 2, Concert 2
Talk on video-music interaction, Interactive Technologies Presentation

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