Tuesday, 17th April
School of Computer Science & Statistics Symposium on Creative Technologies
2.00pm-7.00pm
- Venue: The Paccar Theatre, Science Gallery
Trinity College Dublin has an international reputation for research, education and knowledge transfer activities in the technologies that underpin the creative and entertainment industries, such as film, video games, visualisation and design, digital arts and networks and telecommunications. Such collaboration between engineers, scientists and artists is an important strategy in the leading research centres around the world.
The three core areas are:
- Visual Computing: including computer graphics and animation
- Digital Media Processing: including digital film restoration, motion estimation, video processing and audio-visual algorithms
- Digital Arts: including creative art practice and new technologies to re-imagine film and video, music and sound production, and theatre, dance, live art and installation in a digital environment.
The Creative Technologies Symposium will showcase the best of all three areas across Trinity College Dublin and partner institutions in Dublin, along with exciting talks from industry practitioners. The event will conclude with a networking reception.
2.00pm – 2.15pm: Introduction and Welcome
2.15pm – 3.00pm: Bernd Bickel – Disney Research, Zurich – “Human Faces - From Reality to Reality”
Bernd Bickel will talk about recent research efforts at Disney Research in acquiring and modeling deformable materials, with a special focus on human faces. Furthermore, a data-driven process for designing and fabricating materials with desired deformation behavior using 3D printers will be presented, demonstrating Disney’s efforts to close the loop between the virtual and real world.
3.00pm-4:30pm: A showcase of Creative Technologies across Trinity College Dublin
Visual Computing – Graphics, Animation and Visualization.
Recent research results from the GV2 group and collaborators
Digital Media – Media signal processing for 3D audio & video; an introduction to challenges, solutions and applications.
Advances in digital signal processing for audio and video that will enable personal immersion in virtual environments, from the Sigmedia Research Group
Digital Arts – exploring the emergent fields of creative art practice.
Digital arts panel with Researchers and Students from the Art Technology Research Laboratory
4.30pm – 5.00pm: Jason Tammemägi – Monster Animation – “The Changing Creative World: a view from the land of preschool TV”
Is it possible to get too deep into systems, processes, technology? What happens when those systems change or just are no longer needed? From the happy, playful, whimsical world of animated children's television, Jason Tammemägi explores our relationship with technology, taking a look at the processes involved in making a kid's show and pulling apart what is really important to the audience.
In cooperation with the Centre for Creative Technologies and the Science Gallery
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5.00pm – John Joly Memorial Lecture 2012
Dr Alexander Densmore,Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience and Department of Geography, Durham University .
‘When the Shaking stops: the short-term & long-term effects of large earthquakes.’
- Venue: MacNeill Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building