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Electronic media art takes shape at Caulfield15 June 2005 Computer science and art and design will combine when Monash's Centre for Electronic Media Art (CEMA) opens a branch at the Caulfield campus later this year.
The Caulfield branch, to be housed in the Art and Design faculty building, will be the second arm of CEMA. The first was opened in the Faculty of Information Technology's School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Clayton in 1999. Information Technology dean Professor Ron Weber and Art and Design dean Professor John Redmond announced the Caulfield initiative last week. The Caulfield branch is part of a long-term plan to establish CEMA as an internationally recognised centre for theory and research in generative electronic art. It will operate as one entity across the two faculties and will be managed by academic staff from both faculties. Research students and staff will have access to IT facilities at Clayton such as an experimental production laboratory with facilities to produce electronic media artworks in the areas of computer music, interactive multimedia, computer animation and interactive sound. This will complement the Department of Multimedia and Digital Arts' purpose-built digital media studios at Caulfield, which have facilities for producing digital imaging, web design, interactive media, animation, virtual spaces and digital video. Professor Weber said researchers from the IT and Art and Design faculties would bring together new and complementary perspectives on technology and art. "Over the last decade, IT has had a dramatic impact on the way creative ideas are realised, produced and delivered," Professor Weber said. "The Caulfield centre will lead to the development of new cross-disciplinary research and education programs that utilise cutting-edge IT research driven by advanced creative goals." Professor Redmond said society's rapid uptake of technology had opened up exciting new possibilities for artists, designers and IT professionals to collaborate. "This new initiative will offer research opportunities that will allow our academic staff to devise and explore next-generation applications in creative domains," he said. CEMA is the principal sponsor of 'Third Iteration', the third international conference on generative systems in the electronic arts, which will be held in Melbourne from 30 November to 2 December. For information, visit the conference website at www.csse.monash.edu.au/~iterate/TI/index.html.
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