December 2009
2 PCM conference papers
Volker Kuchelmeister presented 2 papers Immersive Mixed Media Augmented Reality Applications and Technology and Universal capture through stereographic multi-perspective recording
and scene reconstruction at the 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Bangkok Thailand, December 2009.
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November 2009
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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November 2009
Forgetful Sky
Two new DVD installations directed by Dennis Del Favero and scripted by Stephen Sewell, UNSW Literary Fellow, were launched by Elizabeth Macgregor, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art at Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney on October 29th and will be on exhibition until November 21st. The projects were originally shown as part of Art Cologne, Germany, earlier this year.
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October 2009
T_Visionarium OPEN CITY
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. T_Visionarium OPEN CITY, with content documenting a century of urbanization from the VPRO and Netherlands archives will premiere at the Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam on Wednesday 4 November. It will be on show till the 22 November.
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October 2009
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 anniversaryexhibition 10th October 2009 - 31st December 2010
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October 2009
ISMAR paper
Tim Barker, a Visiting Fellow with iCinema will present his paper "Process and (Mixed) Reality: A Process Philosophy for Interaction in Mixed Reality Environments” at the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) in Florida on 20th October 2009.
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September 2009
Appointment to the ARC
Associate Professor Dennis Del Favero, the iCinema Director, has been appointed to the ARC's ERA Humanities and Creative Arts Research Evaluation Committee. He joins a group of 22 other distinguished Australian researchers to assess research across the entire University sector.
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September 2009
New Director for iCinema
Associate Professor Dennis Del Favero has been appointed the new Director of iCinema and the inaugural Visiting Professorial Fellow at ZKM, Germany. Professor Jeffrey Shaw, following his new appointment as Chair Professor and Dean of Creative Media at City University Hong Kong, has stepped down as Director of iCinema but will continue as a Co-Director of iCinema.
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July 2009
IDEA2009 Gold Award
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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July 2009
Australian Museum Eureka Prize Finalist
iCinema
UNSW has been selected as a 2009 Australian
Museum Eureka Prize
finalist 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 18 August.
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July 2009
Seconde Nature
T_Visionarium and La Dispersion du Fils, Bruyre's work realised as part of an
iCinema Fellowship, have also been selected for inclusion in the Seconde Nature
exhibition, Aix-en-Provence, France.
7 July - 1 August
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June 2009
Un Volcan Numerique
The iCinema research project T_Visionarium along with Jean Michele Bruyre's
La Dispersion du Fils, inspired by and developed within iCinema's AVIE, and Double
District, an iCinema collaboration with the innovative dance company KARAS and
UNMAKEABLELOVE have been selected for exhibition at Un Volcan Numerique, Le Havre,
France, curated by Richard Castelli.
17 -27 June 2009
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November 2008
Place-Hampi at the Immigration Museum
iCinema project Place-Hampi by
Sarah Kenderdine, Jeffrey Shaw, John Gollings and Paul Doornbusch will be showing
at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne from 13 November 2008.
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October 2008
Shanghai eArts Festival
T_Visionarium has also been
selected for the Shanghai e-Arts Festival (program eLandscapes) at the
Zendai Museum of Modern Art. The Festival will also feature La Dispersion
du Fils by
iCinema Visiting Fellow Jean Michel Bruyre created for iCinema's AVIE platform
along with Place-Hampi and
Double District.
18/10/08 -10/11/08
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October 2008
Biennial of Seville
T_Visionarium by Neil
Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Matthew McGinity, Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel,
has been selected for the Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville.
It will be showcased alongside some 180 international
artworks addressing the relationship between human society and the environment.
2/10/08 - 11/1/09
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August 2008
iCinema's Associate Professor Ross
Harley awarded ARC Linkage
Grant
An ARC Linkage Grant has been awarded to iCinema Executive
Member, Associate Professor Ross Harley and School of Media
Arts' Mr John Gillies for their project Video Art Online: from
UBU films to the Present.
The project will create, consolidate and link to substantial
materials pertinent to video art in Australia. By way of a dynamic online
video database and online archives, this project will make available
works from the 1960s-90s alongside more of the most recent video
works. Acknowledging and utilising the possibilities of user-generated
and participatory media, video art online aims to link artists,
organisations and collections together by way of open-source and
Creative Commons protocols. This project makes use of innovative ways
of exhibiting, circulating, annotating and supplementing video works
in the age of peer-to-peer networks.
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August 2008
iCinema Chair appointed to ERA
Dennis
Del Favero has been appointed by the Federal Government
as a member of the Excellence
in Research for Australia (ERA) Creative Arts sub-committee to advise on assessing creative
art research in Australia. The ERA is the principal body responsible
for evaluating research excellence undertaken in Australia
universities.
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July 2008
The Un_imaginable publication
by Dennis Del Favero, Ursula Frohne and Peter Weibel, comprising Book/DVD (published
by Hatje Cantz), conference and exhibition will be launched at ZKM
on July 2 and Ivan Dougherty Gallery July 10.
The project investigates how recent events in spheres of life ranging from ecology through to the judicial have redefined our notion of the unimaginable.
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July 2008
Stephen Sewell UNSW Literary Fellow
Celebrated playwright Stephen Sewell has been awarded UNSW Literary Fellow 2008-09
to work with iCinema developing a script for the CentreĠs innovative Scenario project.
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April 2008
Painting in the Era of Digital Reproducibility
Andrew Benjamin
iCinema Digital Media Seminar
Weds 30 April 6pm
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April 2008
Jean Otth
The renowned Anarchive series
curated by Anne-Marie Duguet, has just published Jean Otth … on
the Council of Nicea.
The DVD-ROM presents Jean Otth's video art and work in other media ranging from painting and photography to the computer.
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March 2008
Digital Lynch: Framing the Media's INLAND EMPIRE
Julian Murphet
iCinema Digital Media Seminar
Weds 26 March 6pm
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February 2008
Adelaide Festival
Eclipse by Dennis Del Favero has been selected for exhibition as part of the Adelaide Festival's
Biennial of Australian Art 28 Feb - 4 May 2008
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January 2008
T_Visionarium at Sydney Festival
Interactive Cinema is Here
And it's blurring the boundary between audience and screen that has stood firm since cinema's dawning more than a century ago.
This new form of cinema is being pioneered with technology created by the iCinema Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia.
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January 2008
Jean Otth … on the Council of Nicea
The renowned Anarchive series curated by Anne-Marie Duguet, has just published
Jean Otth … on the Council of Nicea.
The DVD-ROM presents his video art and work in other media from painting and
photography to the computer.
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January 2008
Adelaide Festival
Eclipse by Dennis Del Favero has been selected for exhibition as part of the Adelaide Festival's
Biennial of Australian Art 28 Feb - 4 May 2008
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December 2007
From Spark to Pixel
PLACE-Hampi by Jeffrey Shaw and Sarah Kenderdine currently exhibiting in Vom Funken Zum Pixel (From Spark to Pixel)
Curated by Richard Castelli Martin-Gropius-Bau Gallery, Berlin 28
Oct 2007 - 14 Jan 2008
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November 2007
Digital Media Seminar
After Image, or Invisible Revolution
Digital Media Seminar by Prof Lev Manovich
Weds 21 November 6pm
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October 2007
Digital Media Seminar
The Politics of Wonder
Digital Media Seminar by Prof Sean Cubitt
Weds 24 October 6pm
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August 2007
UNSW & Coal Services sign a multi-million dollar virtual reality training deal
UNSW's commercialisation division, New South Innovations (NSi) has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Coal Services Pty Ltd to supply a suite of virtual-reality theatres developed by the iCinema Centre to support mine safety training.
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August 2007
Inhabiting the Cultural imaginary iCinema VSMM07 Symposium
Focusing on new electronic art research, internationally acclaimed theorists and practitioners demonstrate and discuss recent advances in immersive and narrative exchange between human and place, human and machine agent, human and human.
Speakers: Lev Manovich, Sean Cubitt, Johannes Goebel, Jeffrey Shaw, Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown. 21st September.
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August 2007
World leading researchers appointed
Professor Lev Manovich and Professor Anne-Marie Duguet, two of the leading international researchers in the field of digital media, have been appointed as Visiting Research Professors at the iCinema Centre.
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January 2007
PLACE-Hampi exhibits in Lille3000
Commissioned by Lille3000 and part of an iCinema ARC Linkage Project, PLACE-Hampi premiered in the Lille Opera, October 14th. 2006 and will be on exhibition until January 14, 2007. PLACE-Hampi demonstrates a highly innovative and effective approach to virtual heritage.
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January 2007
Researchers receive UNSW Goldstar Award
Researchers Dr Maurice Pagnucco, Professor Jeffrey Shaw and Dr Malcom Ryan have received a 2007 UNSW Goldstar Award to develop a cognitive programming language for controlling virtual characters in an interactive narrative.
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August 2006
iCinema is awarded
ARC Linkage Project grant
iCinema researchers Shaw, Del Favero, Brown, Compton and Pagnucco along with Drs van Schaik and Jin (University of Sydney); A/Professor H S Seah (NTU, Singapore) Professor Weibel (ZKM), Ms Kenderdine, Mr T Hart (Museum Victoria) and Dr Fritz (University of Pennsylvannia) have been awarded an ARC grant to undertake a virtual heritage project for the UNESCO world heritage site of Hampi, India.
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August 2006
Vice-Chancellor to inaugurate iCinema Scientia Facility
Professor Fred Hilmer, the new Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, is to inaugurate iCinema's Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment (AVIE) within its Scientia Facility on August 21. He will also open iCinema's T_Visionarium II, an interactive immersive virtual environment that allows viewers within AVIE to spatially navigate a televisual database.
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April 2006
T_Visionarium I, at Casa Dell'Archittetura, Rome
T_Visionarium I, an interactive installation by Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw, Neil Brown, Peter Weibel, has been selected for presentation in Artescienza: Spazio Deformato at Casa Dell'Archittetura, Rome, 18 May - 15 June, a major international survey exhibition of interactive and video art. Other artists included in this major survey are Viola, Hill, Abramovich, Oppenheim and Paik (http://www.artescienza.info).
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April 2006
Rethinking the Past
A paper by Ph.D student Tim Barker has been selected for the international conference Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in the Arts at UTS July 28-29, 2006.
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February 2006
Digital Arts Edition
Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Jill Bennett, and Maurice Pagnucco, have been awarded a $25,000 UNSW grant to develop Un_imaginable, the first in the Digital Arts Edition Book/DVD series in collaboration with ZKM, Germany, University of Pittsburgh, and University of Cologne.
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February 2006
V2 Institute-Rotterdam
Afterwards, a new LED Text work by Dennis Del Favero along with Pentimento is to exhibited by the v2-Institute, Rotterdam during March, as part of their Inviting Horror project. The LED is to be screened on the Erasmus Bridge Tower in the city centre.
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February 2006
NewFoundLand
Jeffrey Shaw has been invited to curate a major international survey of new media art entitled NewFoundLand for Luxembourg European Cultural Capital 2007.
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February 2006
ORIBE Prize
Jeffrey Shaw has been awarded the prestigious Japanese ORIBE prize.
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April 2005
Conversations @ the Studio
Work has begun on a new collaborative project, Conversations @ the Studio, which will become part of the Sydney Powerhouse Museum’s planned new decorative arts gallery. It will allow museum visitors to explore the traditional craft of glass blowing, using state-of-the-art interactive cinematic technologies. The installation will be launched at the opening of the Powerhouse Museum’s new permanent gallery, Inspired! Design Across Time, in August of this year.
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April 2005
Deep Sleep
Deep Sleep, the DVD project by Dennis Del Favero, has been selected to feature in the highly prestigious Videonale exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Europe's premier survey show of video art. Deep Sleep was published as the first in the iCinema Digital Monographs Series.
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January 2005
Australian Research Council Awards
Dr Dennis Del Favero has been awarded a Queen Eliabeth II Fellowship, one of Australia's most prestigious research awards.
Del Favero and Professor Jeffrey Shaw have been awarded an Discovery Grant to investigate narrative interchanges between human participants and machine agents.
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December 2004
Conversations
Conversations - an iCinema research project installation, will be operating at the Powerhouse Museum from 13 -19 Dec 2004.
Visitors wear stereoscopic head mounted displays to look into a 3D virtual rendition of a crime scene.
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August 2004
Fantasmi
Exhibition Dennis Del Favero, new media works 1994-2004
8 July - 14 August, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Book launch 28 July, 5:30 pm
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March 2004
T_Visionarium
An extended virtual environment by Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel, was selected for the highly prestigious European Cultural Capital Festival Lille. December 03 - March 04.
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March 2004
ARC Infrastructure Grant
The iCinema Centre and its partners at the University of Melbourne, RMIT and Australian National University have been awarded an ARC Linkage Infrastructure Grant to develop the world's first 360x240 degree panoramic video camera.
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March 2004
AVIE
iCinema has been awarded a Capital Infrastucture Grant from UNSW to establish the Advanced Visualization and Interaction Environment, the world's first 360 degree panoramic stereoscopic projection environment.
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September 2003
ReconFiguring the CAVE
A computer-graphic installation by Jeffrey Shaw (Executive Director of iCinema), Agnes Hegedues and Bernd Lintermann is to be presented at Scientia, UNSW Kensington. ReconFiguring the CAVE is an internationally acclaimed work offering an unprecedented immersive interactive visualization experience.
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September 2003
Pentimento
A four screen interactive video installation by Dennis Del Favero and Andre Bernhardt, is currently on display at ACMI, Melbourne until November 2003. This project uses an intelligent motion tracking system allowing viewers to navigate a narrative database through their physical movement.
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April 2003
Federation Fellowship
Two of this year's prestigious Federation Fellowships for scientific research have been awarded to UNSW researchers: Professor Jeffrey Shaw and Associate Professor Michelle Simmons.
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March 2003
T_Visionarium
Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown (UNSW), Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel (ZKM) have just been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant of $250,000 to undertake the research and development of an new interactive cinema prototype entitled T_Visionarium.
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March 2003
Conversations
Conversations is an ARC funded experimental Distributed Multi-User Virtual Environment composed of four identical, electronically linked units separately positioned at remote locations. Each unit has a computer with large screen, a specially modified bicycle home trainer and a head mounted video display with integrated microphone, headphones and spatial tracking device.
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March 2003
Un_imaginable
Conference and Digital Arts Publication, September 2004
Convened and published by - iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, UNSW, Sydney; the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; International University Bremen, Bremen.
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March 2003
Future Cinema
FUTURE CINEMA, The Cinematic Imaginary after Film is the first major international exhibition of current art practice in the domain of video, film, computer and web based installations that embody and anticipate new cinematic techniques and modes of expression.
The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey Shaw (iCinema) and Peter Weibel (ZKM) and includes works by a number of iCinema researchers.
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