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About iCinema
The iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, established in 2002, is a joint venture of the College of Fine Arts and Faculty of Engineering at the University of New South Wales. It brings together researchers and postgraduate students in new media, aesthetics, cinematic theory, multimedia design, computer science, cognitive science, software/hardware engineering and mining virtual reality.
The iCinema research program focuses on research into digital interactivity for
benchmark applications across the arts, culture and industry. In particular,
it is focused on the way the digital can be used to imagine new ways of living
in the contemporary world, redefining how we seek recreation and learning, and
the way we work and do business.
The Centre has four principal research domains:
Interactive
Narrative Systems
The exploration of narrative systems that allow the viewer to interact with a wide range of cinematic materials including autonomous narrative agency.
Immersive
Visualisation Systems
The investigation of multi-modal environments that provide settings for the exploration of diverse mixed reality scenarios.
Distributed
Interface Systems
The integration of distributed multi-user virtual environments within local and globally networked systems.
Theories
of Interactive Narrative Systems
The inquiry into digital experience in the context of the contemporary world.
The iCinema Centre has been conferred the world's leading design
award, the Gold IDEA (International
Design Excellence Awards) presented by the Industrial Designers
Society of America. The award is for iCASTS,
iCinema's unique visualisation and interaction systems for
art, education, and safety training. The award also recognises Tiller
Design, who have designed the user interface consoles for
ICASTS
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Eureka Nomination
iCinema has been selected as a 2010 finalist the Australian Museum ARC Eureka Prize
for Excellence in Research by an Interdisciplinary Team category for its AVIE and iDOME innovations. Winners of the premier national science award will be announced at a gala award dinner in Sydney on Tuesday 17 August.
CSE Head of School
A/Prof Maurice Pagnucco, a member of the iCinema Executive, has been appointed the new Head, School of Computer Science and Engineering. He replaces Prof Paul Compton, Co-Director of iCinema, who after 20 years of service to UNSW, including 9 years as Head of School, will retire and assume the title of Emeritus Professor.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship award
Dr Tim Barker has been awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the iCinema Centre. His research focuses on theories of digital aesthetics, interactivity and philosophies of time and process.
Imagining Media@ZKM
Media art projects of Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw, Matt McGinity and Volker Kuchelmeister, have been selected for a large-scale retrospective at the Media Museum of the
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe for the ZKM's 20th anniversary exhibition 10th October 2009 - 31st December 2010
ARC Linkage grant awarded
Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Paul Compton and Jeffrey Shaw have been awarded an ARC Linkage grant of $628,300 with industry funding of $575, 000 to develop the world’s first immersive 360-degree data browser that enables the creative organisation of data into narrative forms. Projector partners include Peter Weibel, Lev Manovich, Satah Kenderdine, Tim Hart, Horace Ip. Industry partners include the Australia Council, Museum Victoria, ZKM Centre for Arts and Media, City University of Hong Kong and University of California San Diego.
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