Colin Beardon was awarded his PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 1976 and lectured in computer science in the UK, Australia and in New Zealand. In 1990 he became Reader in Computer Graphics in the Faculty of Art & Design at Brighton University and went on to become Professor of Art & Design in Exeter and, simultaneously, in Malmö, Sweden. In 2003 he returned to New Zealand to take up a 2 year Professorship at Waikato University.
He worked on a number of projects involving the introduction and use of computers in the creative arts. The 'Virtual Curator' project introduced a new concept for virtual museums, and was followed by the 'Visual Assistant' which was digital sketching software for visualising theatre.
Colin was the founder of CADE (Computers in Art & Design Education) and organiser of their first conference in 1996. He was editor of the international journal 'Digital Creativity' for 10 years. He published several books, including 'Computer Culture: the information revolution in New Zealand' which was published in 1986.
He retired in 2005 to live on Waiheke Island and has been very busy since, not least because he is chair of the Artworks Community Theatre.
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Professor Dan Fleming has been closely involved for over 30 years in the development of media education worldwide. He gained the first PhD to be awarded by a Scottish university in the then new field of film and media studies, and was active in the Association for Media Education in Scotland. The author of the books Media Teaching (Blackwell) and Powerplay: Toys as Popular Culture (Manchester University Press) and editor of Formations: a 21st Century Media Studies Textbook (Manchester University Press), Dan has held a research fellowship at British Telecom In England (working on their pre-internet video-on-demand trials), has been a visiting lecturer in the Cyberculture unit at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, was a member of the team that set up the first joint British/Japanese MA in International Media Studies, and worked extensively in community video in Scotland and Ireland in the 1980s and early 90s, including the management committee of Derry Media Access in Northern Ireland. Dan retains a strong interest in the role of grassroots media and popular culture in relation to the 'social imagining' of conflict and transformation. He was Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland prior to taking up his current position as Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, where he directs 'Mediarena' , a new research and development facility in creative technologies and participatory cultures. He is writing a book about film-maker Vincent Ward and co-writing a book about the popular media, fandom and the imagining of new technologies (including Transformers toys and Formula One motorsport). Dan also farms alpacas on his block at Rotoorangi in the rural Waikato.
Fiona
Milburn is a producer and director whose work
includes film, television, and stage in New Zealand and internationally. She also has a background in computer
science. It was at Acclaim
Entertainment in New York, and in the world’s first dedicated motion capture
studio, that she integrated her early computer & stage experience with her
production work by creating the narrative sequences and characters for license
driven video games. Fiona has
lived in London, New York and Los Angeles, and is now based in New Zealand. She has her own production company which
specializes in visual effects and technology based content for emerging
platforms. She is also involved in
the development of online SaaS initiatives for the animation, VFX and video
game industries. Fiona is a
founding member of Unguarded Intersection, a collaborative group of moving
image artists, which specializes in exploring new and innovative ways of
presenting the moving image. She
is a Patron of Women in Film & Television (WIFT) New Zealand, and is on the
Honorary Board of Women in Film and Television International (WIFTI).
Ian Wedde is a freelance writer and curator, the author of fiction, poetry, collections of essays and art books. From 1994-2004 he was head of art and visual culture at Te Papa where he initiated a number of commissions and projects involving digital media. From 2003-2007 he was chair of the trust board of the Moving Image Centre, subsequently MIC Toi Rerehiko, during its
strategic transition to functions organised around performance space at Galatos and research and exhibition space on K Road. In 2006 he received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate award, and in 2007 a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland and is currently writer in residence at the Michael King Writers' Centre. His most recent book is Bill Culbert: Making Light Work (AUP NZ/ RGAP UK).
Chair of the Advisory Board
Founder / CEO of RainRaker. Pete is a futurist who has been researching and consulting in innovation, knowledge management, and collaboration since 1999. He has over 25 years experience in production and post production in the screen industry, and has worked in new media, including virtual reality for the last ten years. For over a decade he ran a successful boutique editing house, The Original Cut, that edited high end commercials for many international and top New Zealand companies including Telecom, BNZ, ASB, Lion Breweries, AirNZ, BMW, Audi. Pete is the past President of Film Auckland (www.filmauckland.com), and led a trade mission to China and Korea in 2007. He is currently the Chairman of Film Auckland's Innovation and Digital Content Cluster subcommittee. He has been a futurist for an upcoming TV series and consulted to Auckland Plus, and the Auckland Metro Project's Innovation and Leadership group; Auckland City Council's broadband advisory board; Clemenger BBDO; Education NZ, and Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide.
Pete has a MA (hons) in Political Studies from Auckland University, where he studied the English forerunner to the Internet in 1984, and was one of 6 selected for a post graduate Diploma in Broadcast Communications. He is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate, with a scholarship, at Victoria University's School of Digital Media Design researching innovation and knowledge collaboration in the virtual world, Second Life. He has presented at an international conference of the IEEE in the Knowledge Economy and has been published in the Hand book of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the new nature of business practices, (2008). In 2009 he presented at the 2nd Digital Media Summit in Auckland on Crowd Sourcing and Innovation. His latest venture RainRaker is an innovation and collaboration suite of products and services for the Enterprise.
Uwe Rieger studied Physics and Architecture at the University of
Muenster and the Technical University of Berlin. He taught Architectural
Design as an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Berlin,
the BTU Cottbus and within the Masters program of the University of
Muenster. He is the co-founder of the Berlin based interdisciplinary
group [kunst + technik] e.V. Starting in 2000 he has been running the
office XTH-berlin with two partners. Uwe Rieger has realized a wide
range of projects and has been invited to various international
exhibitions. Currently he is the Deputy Head Architecture at the School
of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.
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