The iCinema Research Centre is focused on the creative development of AI-based visualisation across the Faculties of Arts, Architecture & Design, Engineering, Science and UNSW Canberra, to address pressing and unpredictable scenarios such as wildfires.
iFire is the world’s first artificially intelligent visualisation system that explores the unpredictable nature of wildfires.UNSW Sharepoint iFire: Read more
iCASTS is a virtual reality system that recreates hazardous mine environments to train up to 30 trainees simultaneously, developed in collaboration with Australian mining companies.
iModel investigates an AI spatial aesthetic that facilitates the digital modelling of operatic rehearsal design, developed in collaboration with Opera Australia.
The iDesign stage design virtual prototyping system has been selected for the 2022 edition of Sydney Design Week by the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. It will be workshopped in demonstration sessions at UNSW’s Kensington Campus in mid-September. Details can be found here.
The iFire intelligent immersive installation titled Penumbra has been selected for exhibition in the prestigious Dusseldorf/Cologne Art Fair to be held in September 2022. The project will test preliminary 3D and AI interaction features that explore the experience of unpredictable wildfires.
Dr Baylee Britts has been awarded a highly prestigious Office of National Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship to develop a toolkit and theoretical basis for an AI system that can participate in collaborative assessment of motivation and other key rich-text features for the iFire project.
Artistic Director of Opera Australia, Lyndon Terracini, has been appointed an Adjunct Professor at UNSW’s Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture in recognition of his achievements and expertise. He is a Partner Investigator on iCinema’s ARC iModel project that explores a virtual prototyping system for operatic rehearsal design.