Tuesday, 7 January 2014

NIEA - iCinema Lab

NIEA - iCinema Lab
An experimental interdisciplinary laboratory that undertakes research, teaching and exhibition in the fields of immersive environments, physical and virtual interactivity and networked collaboration. The laboratory will be articulated to the research, teaching and exhibition programs at following UNSW Faculties: COFA, Engineering, FASS and Science. It will be networked with the iData Lab at UTS, the 3D Digital Cinema Lab at University of Art and Design, Karlsruhe, and ALIVE Centre at City U Hong Kong. Research undertaken is programmatically focused on preliminary studies for development of competitive grant applications. Teaching will be programmatically focused on interdisciplinary content spanning creative arts and technology. Exhibitions will be programmatically focused on the outcomes of the research and teaching.

Aims
Research, Teaching and Exhibition Program in following areas:
  • Immersive visualisation for imaging and modeling using video and CGI
  • Interactive aesthetics for narrative interaction using physical and virtual agents
  • Networked collaboration for narrative authoring using human and machine participants


Staffing
Director: Prof Jill Bennet, Prof Dennis Del Favero
Program Director: Volker Kuchelmeister
Program Director: Karen Kriss
Program Director: Prof Claude Sammut

Location
ID Gallery College of Fine Arts

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