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25 March 2011

NEW ONLINE JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH IN CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES BY EMERGING RESEARCHERS

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Journal: Creative Technologies is a new online, open access, peer-reviewed journal for the publication of research and innovation in creative technologies. It is a development of CoLab’s work in facilitating and promoting interdisciplinary research, development and collaboration between education, creative and commercial industries.

Virtual Reality Suite open for business

AUT University has opened a research centre where businesses interested in virtual reality can collaborate with university researchers on ideas and build the next generation of interactive, multi-sensory computer solutions.

Led by Dr Roy Davies who set up a similar operation at the University of Lund in Sweden, the Virtual Reality Suite is available to students, staff and companies interested in using interactive 3D technology.

Smelly socks tell story of cultural identity

Smelly socks tell story of cultural identity

Has the smell of sunscreen ever convinced you that there is sand between your toes?  If so, you have experienced synthetic synaesthesia, when one sensory experience triggers another “phantom” sensory experience.

Both Canadian artist Diana Burgoyne and New Zealand artist Raewyn Turner are fascinated by this phenomenon; they believe that exploring our sensory associations is another way to understand our cultural identity.

Envisage #1- What Does the Industry Want?

CoLab wishes to thank Mario Wynands (Sidhe Gaming), Jake Lee (Weta Digital), Brent Chambers (Flux Animation Studios) and Pete Rive (Film Auckland), our panel for the first session of the Envisage program, brought to you by CoLab in partnership with Film Auckland.

DOC Lab

Anna Jackson wrote an article on DOC Lab for TAKE, the Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand's magazine. Please see the attached article.

Envisage #2- 3D Entertainment

See the article by ScreenHub NZ on our second Envisgae- 3D Entertainment

Part one: Envisage 2: 3D is … only a start

Part two: Envisage 2: 3D is … not enough

 

Envisage #1- What Does the Industry Want?

Review from ScreenHub NZ on CoLabs first Envisage- What Does the Industry Want?

CoLab: What Does Industry Want?

Holding the Digital Mirror up to Nature
Against Freedom - A Colab Discussion Panel
SWAMP Fire Sale Exhibition Invitation
An exhibition by digital media collective SWAMP

MIC Toi Rerehiko is pleased to present an exhibition by digital media collective SWAMP. This will be the first instance of SWAMP showing in New Zealand and follows the Colab residency of member Matt Kenyon. Kenyon has collaborated with Doug Easterly as SWAMP since 1999.Originally formed in the United States, the collective has exhibited extensively over the past decade, most recently at Exit Art in New York City, ISEA2008 in Singapore and Videotageedia, Hong Kong.

SWAMP activist takes residency at AUT CoLab

It looks like a dimple but the indent in Matt Kenyon's left cheek is actually a hole through which he threads a cable connecting a video camera in his mouth to a barcode scanner. The digital artist then walks the supermarket aisles, mouth wide open, 'consuming' barcodes and sending the data to a Nielsen Homescan scanner.

Artist Talk by Digital Media Collective SWAMP
Motion capture boot camp addressing NZ talent shortage in film

A partnership between AUT University and Deakin University in Australia is set to redress the shortage of local talent trained in motion capture technology.

King Kong and Gollum owe their screen lives to motion capture technology perfected in New Zealand but creators Weta Digital say they typically have to employ motion capture specialists from overseas because of a lack of local training.

Clothing that reacts to light, sound and touch: American expert visits AUT

2 June 2009

Singing shirts, purses with inbuilt touch alarms and cycling jackets that indicate when you turn are a few of the spinoffs of technology that allows fabric to respond to stimuli like light, sound and touch. This week, international electronic textiles expert Dr Leah Buechley will be in Auckland to show how it is done.

Gimmickry or art? You decide

What happens when 21st century digital media meets Shakespearian theatre?

Actor Ross Brannigan and his audience will explore this question at his performance of Holding the Digital Mirror up to Nature at the Auckland Fringe Festival.

In the show Brannigan, who has been a professional actor for 22 years and a digital communications lecturer at AUT University for nine years, explores whether digital techniques can sit with Shakespeare’s work. Are they useful or just gimmickry?

room, CoVolutions: New Cartographies for Transversal Ecologies
C&MS STUDENT AWARD

Team Ahurei from the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at AUT University were placed second in the 2009 Microsoft Imagine Cup for their project fire notification system based on mobile phones. CoLab resourced this initiative by providing SunSPOT sensors. The sensors were remotely deployed around a defined area sending signals to a central software program based on changes in temperature. The program processes the signals and sends an early detection warning to the appropriate agencies via mobile and software channels.