CEA conceived of the Virtual Zoo project as a way of helping the Oakland Zoo use its website to build a virtual community of zoo lovers. By putting graphics, audio, and video of the animals on the Web together with guides, anyone can go to the Zoo anytime, from anywhere in the world. CEA students worked with zoo experts to create the Virtual Zoo, and met the challenge of exploring new ways of expressing the essence of what a Zoo is, while making it available to a wider audience. This CD-ROM prototype was produced for Region 9 of the Environmental Protection Agency. Motivated by a growing need to inform potential job seekers about employment opportunities with the EPA, the Region 9 Human Resources Management Department worked together with CEA to design the prototype.
Open Studios is the world's largest annual art show.
In cities around the nation, independent artists open their studios to the public on one or more weekends each year. CEA did two projects for R.A.N. First, students and faculty completed a pilot interactive laserdisc training program designed to teach key decision makers about tropical rainforests. By delivering a finished training program to these influential people whose decisions are critical to the future of the rainforest, the Rainforest Action Network hoped to educate them about the consequences of their decisions. The interactive program contains basic information about what a rainforest is, why it's valuable, what the threats to the rainforests' ecology are, and what can be done to help preserve them. The interactive program can be used by business executives, managers, government officials, and others, without a teacher.