A VR lunar voyage like no other

For three weeks surrounding Laurie Anderson’s visit to campus, members of the Cornell community will have the chance to explore Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang’s atmospheric “To the Moon” virtual reality experience at Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation, Room 123, Computing and Communications Center on the Ag Quad.

The VR experience uses images and ideas from literature, science, science-fiction space movies and politics to create a dark new version of the moon. During the 15-minute experience, the viewer is shot out from Earth, walks on the surface of the moon, soars through space debris and summits a lunar mountain. “To the Moon” has been exhibited at the Public Theatre and the Smithsonian Museum.

The experience will run from Sept. 18 through Oct. 6. Space is limited and priority will be given to Cornell students.

Sign up for a 15-minute time slot.

The virtual reality exhibit runs in conjunction with Laurie Anderson's campus visit. That visit also includes the Arts Unplugged event, "Building an Ark: A Conversation with Pioneering Artist Laurie Anderson," at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26. While "Building and Ark" is already sold out, you can still sign up for the waitlist on Eventbrite.

You can also experience Anderson’s work at Cornell Cinema.

• Home of the Brave on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 7 p.m. Introduction by Associate Professor Austin Bunn
• Heart of a Dog on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 7 p.m. Introduction by Cornell Cinema director Molly Ryan

The "To the Moon" exhibit is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, the Milstein Program for Technology & Humanity, the Music Department, the Department of Performing & Media Arts, the Center for Teaching Innovation the Media Studies Program, the Society for the Humanities and the Department of Design Tech.