Jimmy Miklavcic wrote an article describing the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing's Visualization Lab Black Box Theater and 3D active viewing system.

On February 25 - March 6, 2011 the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing hosted a telematic research project entitled Duel*Ality, created and performed by CHPC Visualization Specialists Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic. This Original project investigated concepts of relationships and personal duality...

The Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters chose InterPlay: Performing on a High Tech Wire to receive the 2010 "Best Paper Award in the Arts Category." The paper was published in the 2010 Academy Journal.

On-the-Move presents its exploration of virtual mobility in the contemporary performing arts 'Excited Atoms' by Judith Staines.

Beth A. Miklavcic, a member of CHPC's multimedia and visualization team, has created "E-Scape" Canvases that are designed so viewers can escape into a multipoint view of different worlds, as well as, pull back and view the complete composition of the surreal landscape. Using the Maya canvas and paintbrushes, she began to experiment with creating 2D visual images within a 3D program. Using multiple layers of imager she has created numerous visual stimuli throughout the canvas grid. Although many of the compositions she has created are rich with content, some of her works contain a single item, which can appear to be a complex as the multi-layered canvases.

InterPlay is a multifaceted, real-time, collaborative digital performance event that occurs simultaneously at multiple sites throughout the world. Artists and technologists from several institutions synchronously perform and collaborate in real time, utilizing media and technologies of various forms, such as Access Grid, streaming digital cinema and audio, computer animation, remote MIDI control, motion capture, and interactive distributed virtual reality.

Through the investigation of five InterPlay performances, this paper describes the form and discusses its process and structure. It analyzes some of the issues that have been encountered, surmounted and those that require continued examination. It discussed subjects such as distributed collaboration, communications, production elements, real and virtual venues, and the layered development of works within this innovative art form.

This paper was accepted for publication by the Body, Space and Technology Journal at Brunel University, West London.

Presentation - Dartington College of Arts Devon, UK for the Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts Conference, September 10-12, 2007.

Presentation - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana for the Humanities and Technology Conference - Sustainable Transformations: Technology and Its Environments, October 4-6, 2007.

Presentation - Neumont University, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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On March 30 - April 1, 2007 the Center for High Performance Computing will hold a multi-site distributed performance using the Access Grid ^TM Video Conference system. Artists and technologists from seven sites throughout the country will come together simultaneously to perform InterPlay: Nel Temp di Sogno.

Charles Nichols organized and was the lead author for this collaborative paper written for the 2006 International Computer Music Association (ICMC). It focused on the musical contributions for InterPlay: Loose Minds in a Box created and performed in 2005. This InterPlay was organized and hosted by Beth and Jimmy Miklavcic at the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing and Another Language Performing Arts Company.

On August 3 - 4, 2005, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah, in partnership with Another Language Performing Arts Company of Salt Lake City, Utah, presented a national, real-time telematic collaborative performance titled InterPlay: Loose Minds in a Box. This unprecedented event took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, as part of the Access Grid's introduction into the Emerging Technologies program at the recent ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Computer Graphics Conference.