Keynotes

OLIVER GRAU

samuel.hanselmann@fhnw.ch (Super User) — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:12:03 +0200

27 OCTOBER 2011

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 1

WILL WE EVER BECOME USED TO IMMERSION? ART HISTORY AND IMAGE SCIENCE

09:00 – 09:50
MONTREAL

Oliver Grau was appointed in 2005 the first Chair Professor of Image Science in the German speaking countries at the Danube University Krems. www.donau-uni.ac.at/db

The aim of this contribution is to create an understanding that the present image revolution using indeed new technologies has also developed a large number of so far unknown visual expressions that cannot be conceived without our image history.

MARK BOLAS

samuel.hanselmann@fhnw.ch (Super User) — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:09:39 +0200

28 OCTOBER 2011

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 2

SURFACE/SPACE

09:00 – 09:50
MONTREAL

Mark Bolas is the Associate Director for Mixed Reality R&D at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, a research scientist, an artist, and a designer exploring perception, agency, and intelligence.

Mixed and augmented reality is crossing the chasm from research to widespread adoption. This requires us to think beyond registered planes of pixels in space, and confront the unregistered mess of users, culture, and application.

ADRIAN DAVID CHEOK

samuel.hanselmann@fhnw.ch (Super User) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:43:40 +0200

29 OCTOBER 2011

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 3

MULTI MODAL SENSORY HUMAN COMMUNICATION IN THE INTERNET SOCIETY

09:00 – 09:50
MONTREAL

Adrian David Cheok is Director of the Mixed Reality Lab and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore.

This talk outlines new facilities within human media spaces supporting embodied interaction between humans, animals, and computation both socially and physically, with the aim of novel interactive communication and entertainment.