T_VISIONARIUM
Extension: June 20th, 2014- July 9th, 2014
T_VISIONARIUM
2008
Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero,Matt McGinity, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel
T_Visionarium offers the means to capture and re-present televisual information, allowing viewers to explore and actively edit a multitude of stories in three dimensions. 24 hours of digital free-to-air Australian television was captured over a period of one week. This footage was segmented and converted into a large database containing over 30,000 video clips. Each clip was then tagged with metadata defining its properties (gender of the actors, the dominant emotions they are expressing, the pace of the scene, specific actions such as standing up, lying down, and telephoning). Dismantling the video data in this way breaks down the original linear narrative into components that then become the building blocks for a new kind of interactive television.
Neil Brown
Neil Brown (AU) is a researcher in the areas of cognitive theory of art, creativity and art education. His research aims at establishing theoretical grounds for a philosophically neutral ontology of the artefact and seeks empirical evidence for the way in which children and adults’ vernacular theory of art conditions their understanding of works and informs their practice.
Dennis Del Favero
Dennis Del Favero (AU) is an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow and artist. His work has been widely exhibited in solo exhibitions in leading museums and galleries. He is Director of the iCinema Research Centre and Deputy-Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts at UNSW, Visiting Professorial Fellow at ZKM, Germany, Visiting Professor at University IUAV of Venice, Italy, Visiting Professor at City University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor at the Academy of Art, Vienna and editor of Digital Arts Edition published by Hatje Cantz, Germany.
Matthew McGinity
Matthew McGinity (AU) is a computer scientist specialising in immersive and interactive real-time systems. His work includes the iCinema projects T_Visionarium and La Dispersion du Fils and the AVIE 360° panoramic virtual reality theatre. He is currently based in Berlin.
Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel (AT) is a renowned artist, curator and theoretician. He is currently the chairman of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. As an artist he became known particularly for his works in the realm of performance, concept art, experimental film and media and computer art.
Jeffrey Shaw
Jeffrey Shaw (b. 1944) has been a leading figure in new media art since the 1960’s. In a prolific body of internationally exhibited and acclaimed works, he has pioneered and set benchmarks for the creative use of digital media in the fields of expanded cinema, virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization and interactive narrative. Shaw was co-founder of the Eventstructure Research Group in Amsterdam (1969-1979), and founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe (1991-2002). In 2003 he co-founded and directed the UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research in Sydney, and in 2009 Shaw was appointed Chair Professor of Media Art and Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University in Hong Kong, where he is also Director of the ACIM and ALiVE research centres. In 2014 Shaw was appointed Visiting Professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London.