Laval Virtual - FUTURE CINEMA : creating new realities

FUTURE CINEMA : creating new realities

VR Mix Room B, 10:00 AM, on March 29

During its infancy the cinema was opulent with technological innovation and creative diversity, but Hollywood has ended up defining its dominant forms of production and narration. This situation is now changing because of the new digital modalities of cinematic production and presentation, and over the last ten years we have been witnessing a creative renaissance providing a whole new range of experiences, from situated micro-movies to immersive interactivity in virtual 3D worlds. Professor Shaw’s presentation will discuss the convergent multiplicity of these new techniques of cinematic representation and intercommunication, with examples of ground-breaking artworks that herald the digitally expanded cinema of tomorrow. Shaw will refer in particular to benchmark artistic and technological achievements at the City University of Hong Kong’s Applied Laboratory for Interactive Visualization and Embodiment (ALiVE), whose program of research reaches beyond the dominant industrial media forms and pushes the creative and critical boundaries of the cinematic imaginary in ways that enrich human experience and are of transforming benefit to society.

The speaker :
Prof. Jeffrey Shaw

Professor Jeffrey Shaw is internationally recognized as a leading figure in new media art since the 1960's. In a prolific oeuvre of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed works he has pioneered and set benchmarks for the creative use of creative media in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization environments, navigable cinematic systems and interactive narrative. Shaw was the founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe (1991-2002), and in 2003 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship to co-found and direct the UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research. Since 2009 Shaw is Chair Professor of Media Art and Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University in Hong Kong, as well as Director of the Applied Laboratory for Interactive Visualization and Embodiment. (ALiVE) and the Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media (ACIM).