Dan Sandin may be Co-founder and Director Emeritus of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and Professor Emeritus of the UIC School of Art & Design, but his retirement is simply a "repriorment" as he spends more time creating interactive art and advanced display technologies. Sandin's past and present accomplishments and his philosophy of art and what motivates him are nicely explained in a human interest story written by a science journalism graduate student from Northwestern University's Medill School.
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Visualization pioneer creates virtual worlds
by Annie Koval
Medill Chicago Reports
MARCH 16, 2011 -- Dan Sandin, co-founder of the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a pioneer in electronic visualization and virtual reality.
Left-brained or right-brained. Dan Sandin leaves such differences in the dust.
He’s both technical and creative. A computer science wiz and an artist. A logical and abstract thinker.
Sandin, 68, is a pioneer in electronic visualization who helped pioneer virtual reality art. Simply put, computer coding is his palette.
He found a place to combine his interests in 1973 when he co-founded with Tom DeFanti the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a graduate research laboratory specializing in advanced visualization, networking technologies and technological art.
