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2008
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 Centre’s 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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2007
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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2006
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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2005
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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2004
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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2003
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.