ALiVE - School of Creative Media - City University of Hong Kong

About ALiVE

ALiVE, the Applied Laboratory for Interactive Visualization and Embodiment, is an interdisciplinary research initiative of the City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media. It is an incubator and innovations showcase for new forms of creativity, whose challenge led programs are at the cutting edge of digital media in society.

ALiVE is a 1,000m² laboratory situated at the Hong Kong Science Park exploring new paradigms in immersive visualization, interactive narrative, participatory media and autonomous agency. It benchmarks future cinema, situated gaming and digital humanities for cultural organizations, entertainment, education and industry.

This opening exhibition is a unique occasion to experience nine spectacular immersive installations at ALiVE that are at the frontiers of art and science. It features ground-breaking interactive works by world renowned artists, showing recent research advances made at the UNSW iCinema Research Centre, Sydney, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe and Museum Victoria, Melbourne.

ALiVE PERSONNEL:

Prof Jeffrey Shaw (ALiVE Director)
Chair Professor of Media Art, Dean of the School of Creative Media and Director of the Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media at City University of Hong Kong, Co-director of the UNSW iCinema Research Centre.

Assoc Prof Dr Sarah Kenderdine
(ALiVE Research Director)
Visiting Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong, co-appointed to the Dept. of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics and the School of Creative Media. Special Projects, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Adjunct Professor, School of Communication and Media, RMIT University.

Prof Dr Horace H S Ip
(ALiVE Research Professor)
Chair Professor of Computer Science, Founding Director of the Centre for Innovative Applications of Internet and Multimedia Technologies, Acting Vice President Research at City University of Hong Kong.

Assoc Prof Dr Hector Rodriguez
(ALiVE Research Fellow)
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media.

Dr Oscar Kin Chung Au
(ALiVE Software Engineer)
Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media

Mr Joe Leung
(ALiVE Hardware Engineer)
Sr Technical Officer at City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media

Prof Bernd Lintermann
(ALiVE Visiting Research Professor)
Professor at University of Design Karslruhe, Head of the Institute for Visual Media, ZKM Karlsruhe

Assoc Prof Dr Dennis Del Favero
(ALIVE Visiting Senior Fellow)
Associate Professor, Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at UNSW College of Fine Arts, Director of the UNSW iCinema Research Centre

VISITING RESEARCHERS 2010-11:

Professor William Seaman
(Duke University)

Ulf Langheinrich
(Independent Artist)

Tjebbe van Tijen
(Imaginary Museum Projects)

ALiVE KEY PARTNERS:

City University of Hong Kong, Dept of Computer Science (Prof Dr Horace Ip)

UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, Sydney
(Assoc Prof Dr Dennis Del Favero)

Museum Victoria (Mr. Tim Hart)

ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (Prof Dr Peter Weibel)

ALiVE RESEARCH PARTNERS:

City University of Hong Kong, Dept of Chinese,
Translation and Linguistics; Halliday Centre (Prof Jonathan Webster)

City University of Hong Kong, Dept of English (Prof Kingsley Bolton)

City University of Hong Kong, Dept of Biology and Chemistry (Prof István Tamas Horváth)

RMIT University, School of Media and Communications:
Games and Animation (Dr Stefan Grueter)

University of California, San Diego (Prof Lev Manovich)

University of California, Merced (Prof Maurizio Forte)

University of California, Berkeley, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
(Prof Lewis Lancaster)

EMPAC Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre, Rensselaer Polytechnic University (Prof Johannes Goebel)

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Expanded 3-Digital Cinema Lab, (Mr Ludger Pfanz)

Western Australian Supercomputing Program (WASP) (Assoc Prof Paul Bourke)

Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool (Prof Mike Stubbs)

University of Paris 1, Centre de Recherche en Esthétique du Cinéma
et de l'Audiovisuel (Prof Anne-Marie Duguet)

Virtual Systems and Multimedia Society (VSMM)

ALiVE INDUSTRY PARTNERS:

Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Corporation

EPIDEMIC, France

Immersive Realisation, Australia

Nelissen Decorbouw, Holland

3DVIAVirtools, France

Projectiondesign, Norway

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