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2017 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES POSTGRAD PROGRAMMES
ENROLMENTS OPEN
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Enrolments are now open for postgraduate study in our PhD and Master of Creative Technologies programmes. We would love to talk to you about the possibilities of joining us to work on future orientated interdisciplinary research projects.
We are particularity interested in:
- Immersive data visualisation - exploring new ways of using cutting edge hardware and software to create single- and multi-user visualisation scenarios with new and intuitive interaction methods. Led by Stefan Marks.
- Creative Technologies and Civics - exploring how creative technologies and digital media can promote civic engagement and community wellbeing. Led by Anna Jackson.
Have a look at our staff profiles and research projects for other research areas you might like to discuss. We will soon be announcing our 2017 PhD and MCT scholarships, some will focus in these two areas, others will be more open. If you are thinking about postgraduate study in 2017 please contact the staff mentioned above or make a general inquiry to us at pgcolab@aut.ac.nz
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October 5, 2016 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | AUT City Campus
Every month we host the Auckland Game developers Meetup. To RSVP and for full details about each individual event visit the Meetup group.
The Meetup is a large and diverse group of game developers, programmers, artists, musicians, animators and game enthusiasts that meet to discuss game design and collaborate on computer game projects. Members include students, hobbyists and professional game developers.
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October 12, 2016 | 5:00pm - 9:00pm | Auckland CBD
Enjoy LATE NIGHT ART in the Heart of the City. As part of Artweek, galleries will be open late, there will be guided walking and cycling tours and live art events. Our top picks are: Worlds Apart by ScribbleAKL, ASYLUM at Silo Park and Emerging Pixels #6 at Digital Art Live.
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September 26 - October 7, 2016
Westfield Malls - WestCity, Manukau, St Luke's, Albany, Riccarton
Come and meet The Green Fairy in Virtual Reality at selected Westfield Auckland malls & Christchurch during the October school holidays!
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October 15, 2016 | 8:00am - 7:00pm | Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland
NetHui brings everybody and anybody that wants to talk about the Internet together. For the South Auckland leg of the event series a ‘state of the nation’-style opening panel will see a mixture of local and national perspectives on how South Auckland is using the Internet. The panellists will explore relevant research, local contexts and issues and opportunities for local communities.
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October 17, 2016 | 9:00am - 4:30pm
Tech For Non Tech by Enspiral Dev Academy provides workshops for professionals who work with technologists. If you deal with software and technical teams this programme is for you.You'll walk away more confident in your ability to understand terminology, processes and the way tech teams and tech businesses work. Colab staff, Anna Jackson had this to say about the programme.
We have a special discount to offer. Use the following promo codes on the ticketing website:
- 15% off for professionals AUTFRIEND
- 30% off for students AUTSTUDENT
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BACHELOR OF CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AWARDS & SHOWCASE
November 11, 2016 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Save the date for our amazing showcase of Creative Technologies projects by our undergraduate students.
Cutting across the traditional boundaries between creative arts, design, digital media, computing, engineering and entrepreneurship, our programme brings all these together in one innovative, project-based learning environment. Join us to see and experience a diverse range of works that experiment with technological tools and collaborative strategies to tackle challenges that are beyond the capability of conventional ideas.
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November 18 - 20, 2016
Massey University, Albany Campus
Startup Weekend is a 54 hour event where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and entrepreneurs come together to share ideas, form teams, and solve real problems that matter.
This year there will be two streams of Startup Weekend Auckland: Education and Social Enterprise, all happening in one room.
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November 7 - 25, 2016 | Online
The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) is an online, open access event that invites thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses, makers and learners to explore the question “The economy is changing - what do I need to know, experience and do?”.
Alongside the 2016 main themes – System Reset, Regenerative Cities and The Future of Work – broader themes encompassed are; Design Innovation, Systems Thinking, Sharing Economy, Internet of Things, Regenerative Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, New Business Models, Materials and Energy and 21st Century Science.
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FAREWELL GREGORY AND GOLIATH
A heartfelt goodbye to our 2016 Ataata artists in residence, Grégory Chatonsky and Goliath Dyèvre. It was amazing to hear the final presentation where they showed their research investigateing and imagine new design and art forms of augmented reality to explore the boundaries between our digital and material worlds.
You can follow their work at their website www.augment.institute. Make sure you keep an eye out for exciting developments of where their work goes next.
The call for the 2017 Ataata residency will open in October. Please share with any French organisations or creative practitioners in your networks.
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The Antipodes delegation with local hosts at Maungawhau (Mt Eden) on their Auckland tour.
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ANTIPODES AUCKLAND 2016 - SUMMARY
A huge thank you to all the partners, participants and attendees of Antipodes Auckland. Colab played host to the fantastic delegation of French creative professionals in Auckland. A series of presentations, panel discussions, tours and meetings over three days engaged stakeholders of our creative city to explore critical, collaborative and creative responses to the uncertainty and acceleration of social and cultural change in France and New Zealand.
Together we discussed long-term partnerships and collaborative research, industry and community projects. We look forward to building upon the connections made and working towards further initiatives in 2017 to enable collaborations between artists, scientists, creative technologists, academics, researchers, and businesses from France and New Zealand.
Have a look at photos from the Antipodes Auckland Symposium and check out the #Antipodes16 hashtag on twitter.
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October 6 - November 25, 2016
Digital Art Live, Level 2, Aotea Centre
Kauhanga by Lachie Philipson and Harmony Repia intimately reconnects viewers with their whakapapa and acknowledges the importance of making connections and transferring knowledge between past and present generations. The work tells stories of Māori wāhine during the First World War.
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Check out our new video about our Master of Creative Technologies programme and find out more about the broad range of options open to MCT students at AUT. It features two of our fantastic students, Amy Tielu and Alejandro Davila who demonstrate the advanced understanding of the role and potential of creative technologies the programme provides.
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Idealog, September 2, 2016
New Zealand is poised to become one of the world leaders in VR and AR development, thanks to the opening of the AR/VR Garage – an augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) development facility in Auckland’s Eden Terrace.
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The Spinoff, September 5, 2016
At the bottom of a hill beneath TV3 in Eden Terrace lies a brand new, hi-tech facility bringing together dudes, nerds and the hopes of a city and government’s innovation plan. Tim Murphy was at the opening of Grid/Akl – Uptown.
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We are thrilled for our Bachelor of Creative Technologies student team who were not only shortlisted for the World of Wearable Art (WOW) as first time entrants but were awarded runners up in the WOW Factor Award, which is chosen by WOW founder Dame Suzie Moncrieff as the most innovative garment with the 'wow' factor. Congratulations to BCT students Lara Galea, Sophie McIntrye and Ingrid Worrall, to our 'Digital Skins' paper lecturers and TDL PhD students and tutors Miranda Smitheram and Donna Cleveland. The Textile and Design Laboratory supported this project with digital printing.
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MCT STUDENT NAMED IN NZ INNOVATORS AWARDS
Master of Creative Technologies student Alejandro Davila has been nominated as a finalist in the Young New Zealand Innovator category in the New Zealand Innovation Awards! Alejandro is nominated for his VR Studio Conical which was formed as part of his Masters research at Colab. Today is the last day to Vote in the NZ Innovators People's Choice Award. Make sure you cast your vote here.
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Well done and best of luck to our three Bachelor of Creative Technologies student teams who have made it into the top 9 candidates of the AUTEL Innovation Challenge!
The AUTEL Innovation Challenge is an initiative giving AUT entrepreneurs the chance to pitch their proposals and secure funds to bring their innovation to life. Submissions are required to be at proof-of-concept or prototype stage.
The Creative Technologies students entries are:
- Charged - Electric Skateboard by Zac Goodsir
- Full Room - Holographic display solution by Harry O'Connor
- TZA - Bringing the social back to social media by Erfan alavi
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Scholarships are available for PhD and Master of Creative Technologies students to design, develop, and test a fully immersive data visualisation, e.g. for Earthquake data or for NeuCube, in conjunction with other institutes (e.g. KEDRI) and/or industry.
Sentience Lab provides the hardware and a VR software framework which is developed to a level that enables advanced research and teaching. The project will build on this framework, strengthen it, and extend its capabilities. For more information visit here.
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ATEED AR/VR GARAGE LAUNCH
On Friday the 2nd of September, Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) officially opened the AR/VR Garage in Mt Eden, comprising two buildings at Auckland Council’s GridAKL/Uptown innovation hub. The Garage will nurture collaboration between industry, major corporates including multi-nationals, tertiary and research institutions, and local and central government agencies that are all connected to key international players.
Among companies such as Datacom, RealityVirtual, Staples, and Proxi Cinematic VR, AUT was represented prominently by Alejandro Davila and this Green Fairy project, John Piper with a showreel of Digital Design students, and Stefan Marks with a live demo of the Sentience Lab earthquake visualisation. The event was opened by Major Len Brown and Hon Steven Joyce, and was attended by a crowd of around 150 industrial and academic VR enthusiasts.
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Ben Kenobi introduces Gregor Lux for his presentation at the Pigsty Symposium.
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VISITING RESEARCHER: PROF. DR. GREGOR LUX
We are pleased to have Prof. Dr. Gregor Lux with us at Colab from September to November as visiting researcher.
Gregor has an impressive background in computer science, his research interests include 3D computer graphics, virtual environments, e-learning, game development, and gamification. His project, which he is pursuing together with Dr. Stefan Marks (his former Master student), will investigate the use of gamification in computer graphics education. Gregor gave a talk at the Pigsty symposium shortly after his arrival on this topic. Stefan and Gregor are also working on global collaborative VR scenarios and visualisation tasks that will be run from their geographically opposite laboratories.
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Visiting researcher, Rebeca Torres Castanedo works as an independent designer in Mexico. She has a background in Industrial and Sustainable Design and Human Rights. Rebeca is particularly interested in the bottom-up approach within the process of design and its potential ability to drive positive changes leading towards the generation of more sustainable and equitable communities.
For the last seven years, she has been working closely with different grassroots movements, using design for social innovation as a means to face local challenges for the development of indigenous communities, women and immigrants in Mexico. Rebeca is collaborating with Colab's Ricardo Sosa for three months. Their research aims to build new ways of engaging young citizens in creative conversations about the future possibilities of the city, supported by the use of a humanoid robot to collectively explore alternative patterns of participation.
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Frances Joseph participated as a judge on the New Zealand Innovators Awards evaluation panel. Frances believes that while we live in a time of rapid change, there are many things we need to think and do differently. Innovation should bring positive change and new ways to address increasingly urgent environmental, social and economic problems. "It was exciting to see the quality of New Zealand innovative initiatives across a wide diversity of sectors"
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For the past month Sharon Mazer has been devoted to serving as ‘academic ballast’ for the Ka Haka - Empowering Performance: Māori and Indigenous Performance Studies Symposium. Participants included academics from AUT, Auckland, Massey and Waikato Universities, from Te Wananga O Aotearoa and Te Whare Wananga O Awanuiarangi, from Unitec, San Francisco State University and Regent’s University London. Performing artists included: Mika, Rosanna Raymond (aka Sistar S’Pacific), Moana Manipoto and Hinewehi Mohi, and Hawaiiki TU. Key to her role was developing participants’ paper proposals acting and as guest editor for a special issue of Te Kaharoa in which a dozen of the papers were published in advance of our meeting. For many, this was a first opportunity to present papers on Maori and Indigenous performance. The event was live-streamed and featured on Maori Television.
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