Professor of Media and Entertainment - Director, Centre for Transformative Media Technologies @Swinburne; screen media (vfx, horror, sf), comics (superheroes)
Tasmanian Senator Jacquie Lambie has announced she won't support the government's university funding reform bill, saying it unfairly penalises poor students. bit.ly/3ihProe
Congratulations to the 2020 AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC ARTS FELLOWS ::
Dr Adam Nash and Dr John McCormick (TMT) departed a few weeks ago on the Aurora Australis. Check out some of their amazing adventures - instagram.com/wild.systemfacebook.com/WildSystem
Lots of classic scifi technologies that are reality now, @batndal points out: bluetooth, automatic sliding doors, fingerprint recognition, tablets taking pictures, VR headsets. Star Wars and Star Trek also inspire real astronauts, a close relationship #imaginingtheimpossible
That warm feeling when @Telstra cuts off your landline, mobile, cable and internet and tells you 1) it's because you have to wait till the nbn is installed or 2) they're doing maintenance in area - for 2 weeks!!! FURIOUS. Can't get answers.
Calling all visual artists!
We're commissioning an artwork for our Flinders St Facade. Three shortlisted applications will receive $3k to develop their proposals.
Applications close 21 June 2019. #artist#commissionacmi.net.au/flinders-st-comm…
“Comedy by the rules: writing humour for Astrologaster within tight constraints” a talk by game developer by Dr. Katharine Neil
Thursday 6th June, 2pm-3:30pm, in BA403, Swinburne University. Katharine will be talking about the game “Astrologaster”.
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Things are kicking off at the Centre for Transformative Media Launch at @ACMI with Swinburne’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development) Professor Aleksandar Subic speaking about the interface between human creativity and technology #TMTLaunch@centreTMT
Katrina Sedgwick, CEO of @acmi, announcing the 4 year partnership with @Swinburne and the @centreTMT, including my two new Linkages, "@AgainPlay II" and "Archiving Australian Media Arts". Lots of work ahead! #tmtlaunch
As co-director @batndal explains, the new @centreTMT will examine sociocultural transformations both of and driven by media technologies, harnessing and formalising a large-scale @ACMI partnership #TMTlaunch
CFP deadline for the 2019 POPCAANZ conference is due 31st March (very soon!). Conference happening early July at RMIT in Melbourne. popcaanz.com/wp-content/uplo…