Gene Cooper

Gene Cooper is the president of Four Chambers Studio specializing in development of photographic VR interactive content for National Parks. Projects range from virtual tour photography for online websites to high resolution laser scanning to interactive terrain modeling to custom interactive systems programming to aerial photography to full production of custom interactive CDROMs and DVDs. Cooper's company works with numerous public agencies including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Army Core of Engineers, as well as numerous profit and non-profit organizations including the Grand Canyon Association, Phoenix Arts Commission, Western National Parks Association, Mesa Arts Center, and ACM Siggraph. Cooper currently serves as a board member of the International Virtual Reality Photographers Association. Cooper received his training and degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute in Photography and Video (BFA) and from Arizona State University in Interactive Art (MFA).

Cooper also works as an interactive installation artist who is focused on exploring the relationships existing between the natural systems of the body and ecology as mediated through technology. Cooper's work takes the form of interactive installations and performances which focus on the connections between systems of the body such as breathing, heartbeats, electrical impulses, etc. and natural or environmental systems such as lightning, water dynamics, ecosystemic properties, etc.