Future Projections

Future Projections at Griffith University is a research lab dedicated to activating the field of Creative Digital Media through the use of experimental indoor and outdoor projection equipment, acquired through a 2022 Griffith University Research Infrastructure Investment Scheme grant.

^{Image credit (top): Beeyali by Lyndon Davis, Leah Barclay and Tricia King}

PROJECTS

White Box Gallery Projector Soft Launch

The soft launch of the permanent installation of four projections and surround-sound system to be used for CARI members to experiment with new applications of this technology, including the sharing of still images, moving image and sound.

Featuring John Ferguson (QCAD), Peter Thiedeke (QCAD), Louise Harvey (GFS), Andrew Brown (QCAD), Chris Stover (QCGU), Leila Honari (GFS), Kathryn Seaton (HDR QCAD), and Vanessa Tomlinson (CARI)

Future Projections Sonic & Visual Performance

Featuring a performance of Alethic by Tim Gruchy, the Future Projections Sonic and Visual Performance presented new and developing sonic and visual works that fused traditional and experimental forms of media with musical performance.

Featuring Tim Gruchy, Lyndon Davis (USC), Leah Barclay (USC), Tricia King (USC), Peter Thiedeke (QCAD), Andrew Brown (QCAD), John Ferguson (QCGU), Louise Harvey (GFS), and Frankie Dyson Reilly (HDR QCGU)

^{Photography by Phobe Ye and Andy Willis}

Project Play: Art and Music in the White Box

An interdisciplinary collaboration between HDR creatives from QCGU, GFS and QCAD, with live musical improvisation responding to HDR-made film, art, and photography projected on the walls of the White Box Gallery.

Featuring Frankie Dyson Reilly (HDR QCGU), Flora Wong (HDR QCGU), Yoel Hill (HDR GFS), Elizabeth Myers (HDR QCGU), Alexandra Gorton (HDR QCGU), Annique Goldenberg (HDR QCAD), Merete Megarrity (HDR QCAD), Caroline Manins (HDR QCGU), Will Smith (HDR QCGU), Kathryn Blumke (HDR QCAD)

RESEARCH TEAM

Professor Andrew Brown

Professor Andrew R. Brown (QCAD) is an educator, researcher, musician and author. His academic expertise is in technologies that support creativity and learning, computational music and art, and the philosophy of technology. Andrew’s creative activities focus on real-time audio-visual works using generative digital techniques, in particular his musical practice is live-coding performance. He is the author of many academic articles and books including Making Music with Computers: Creative Programming in Python, published by CRC Press.

Peter Thiedeke

Peter Thiedeke (QCAD) is an interdisciplinary still and moving image-maker working at the intersection of art, design and commerce. Peter uses speculative design methods to investigate the visual futures for Smart City urban informatics, media architecture, and digital placemaking in the age of the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Peter has worked, exhibited and published in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, The Gold Coast, Tokyo and Buenos Aires and has received international recognition and awards from the D&AD (Design and Art Direction, Worldwide), the AOP (Association of Photographers, UK), Nikon Press Awards (UK) and the AMI (Australian Marketing Institute).

Dr Louise Harvey

Dr Louise Harvey (GFS) is a 3D artist and filmmaker who has been combining her interests in animation production, research and teaching since 2001. Her doctoral thesis - an examination of 3D animation production techniques and principles - formed part of a major ARC-funded study on the topic. Her current research focus is on motion capture, virtual production, and abstract 3D animation for Virtual Reality platforms. Outcomes from Louise's research have been articulated via conference presentations and papers, numerous digital art works and animated films. Louise's work background is in 3D layout/previsualisation for animation production, and Visual Effects coordinator roles in feature film. She convenes Griffith Film School's Honours Program and its CGI, Post Production and VFX courses and manages its motion capture facilities.

Dr John Ferguson

Dr John Ferguson is a post-digital/electronic musician and sound/multimedia artist based in Brisbane Australia as Head of Creative Music Technology and Senior Lecturer at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (QCGU). John builds and performs electronic instruments and post-digital systems that foreground tactile interaction. His work investigates the performance-practice of electronic music and explores various exhibition and performance spaces, using the term “post-digital” to articulate his approach, which is less about being in control of a situation and more about ways to find lifelike resonances with which to interact; the relationship between imagination, expectation, and material is foreground.

Professor Vanessa Tomlinson

Professor Vanessa Tomlinson (CARI) is an artist dedicated to exploring how sound shapes our lives. With a long history in experimental music, Vanessa uses this body of knowledge to consider how we listen through site-specific explorations of space and place, and our potential to explore new ideas through sound. Trained as a percussionist, Vanessa relies on this sonic investigation of objects to build compositions, create contexts for improvisation, and collaborate across art-forms and disciplines. She has toured the world for 25 years, premiering over 100 works by significant national and international composers, presenting work at major international festivals, and collaborating with improvisers, dancers, artists and more.

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Country on which we live and work. We recognise their continuing connection to place and culture, and pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.