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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, Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 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.
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News & Highlights |
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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.
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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