The iCinema Research Centre is focused on the creative development of AI-based visualisation across the Faculties of Arts, Architecture & Design, Engineering, Science and UNSW Canberra, to address pressing and unpredictable scenarios such as wildfires.
iFire is the world’s first artificially intelligent visualisation system that explores the unpredictable nature of wildfires.UNSW Sharepoint iFire: Read more
iCASTS is a virtual reality system that recreates hazardous mine environments to train up to 30 trainees simultaneously, developed in collaboration with Australian mining companies.
iModel investigates an AI spatial aesthetic that facilitates the digital modelling of operatic rehearsal design, developed in collaboration with Opera Australia.
iCinema’s Artist in Resident for 2022, Elwira Skowronska, has been awarded the highly esteemed Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship for emerging artists for work that investigates the sub-visible world of viruses. The programming for the award videos was undertaken by Rafael Formosa.
The first artistic prototype for Dennis Del Favero’s ARC Laureate project iFire was launched on September 1st at Dusseldorf/Cologne Art, one of Germany’s pre-eminent contemporary art events. It explores the violent world of unpredictable wildfires, using an immersive and interactive AI 3D installation.
The iDesign stage design virtual prototyping system has been selected for the 2022 edition of Sydney Design Week by the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. It will be workshopped in demonstration sessions at UNSW’s Kensington Campus in mid-September. Details can be found here.
Dr Baylee Britts has been awarded a highly prestigious Office of National Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship to develop a toolkit and theoretical basis for an AI system that can participate in collaborative assessment of motivation and other key rich-text features for the iFire project.