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.
Penumbra, the AI computer graphic installation aesthetically exploring the dynamics of extreme fires, resulting from Dennis Del Favero’s Laureate, produced in collaboration with Profs Yang Song, Jason Sharples, Alex Ong, Navin Brohier (UNSW), Charles Green (Uni Melbourne) and Khalid Moinuddin (Victoria Uni), has been selected for SIGGRAPH Asia at the Powerhouse in December this year.
Centre researchers Del Favero, Thurow, Song and Sharma, along with Prof. Ursula Frohne (University of Munster) and Prof. Khalid Moinuddin (Victoria University) are presenting a paper at the 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science & Technology, Università Ca’Foscari Venice in September, exploring the re-imagining of the climate emergency using creative AI visualisation.
Four ARC-funded computer graphic projects by Prof. Dennis Del Favero exploring how we interact with extreme climate events have been selected for exhibition at Cavallerizza Museum and ReContemporary Foundation, Turin from September 13 to October 21, 2023. Ranging from the violently autonomous dynamics of wildfires to the oceanic forces faced by climate refugees, they probe the interactive nature of climate aesthetics.