Shapeshifters â Beyond Reality
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Shapeshifters â Beyond Reality
20 MAY Shapeshifters – Beyond Reality Are technologies that extend, bend or amaze our senses reframing our relationships, the way we communicate and how we live? When Wednesday 20 May 6.00pm drinks and canapés for 6.30pm start, concludes 8.15pm For most of us, our experience with artificial intelligence and virtual and augmented environments comes from entertainment or sits in the realm of science fiction. Yet globally experts are already creating the next generation of these technologies that will have a profound impact on how we experience and understand the world. Where The Great Hall Level 5, UTS Tower Building, Broadway, Ultimo Will these technologies ultimately bring us closer together, or drive us further apart? How can they be used in more practical and important ways – for discovery or design or to attain a better quality of life? What new ‘literacies’ will we need as our digital and physical lives increasingly merge? Transport UTS is only ten minutes’ walk from Central Station, Eddy Avenue and Railway Square bus stops. Parking is available for those with a disability or special need to drive: Peter Johnson Building, Basement Car Park, 702-730 Harris St. Ultimo. RSVP 19 May 2015 Register attendance with Robert Button Email: [email protected] Tel: 02 9514 1734 --------------------------------------------UTSPEAKS: is a free public lecture series presented by UTS experts discussing a range of important issues confronting contemporary Australia UTS CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00099F This free Shapeshifters lecture explores how technology that is transforming our perception can reveal the secrets locked inside complex research data, offer new solutions for the care of the elderly and help us design cities that could draw communities closer together, not further apart. Moderator – Monique Potts, Deputy Director, UTS Innovation and Creative Intelligence Unit For more than 20 years Monique Potts has managed projects in digital media and innovation. At the ABC she drove digital innovation across the organisation and oversaw development of the ABC’s award-winning digital education portal ABC Splash. She has a long history of research and development across the media, cultural, education and start-up sectors working to create innovative products and services. Ben Simons, Lead Developer, UTS Data Arena Ben Simons joined UTS in 2013 to develop a virtual reality theatre that will enable researchers to interact with data they produce in a full-surround 3D-stereo computer graphics format. He has worked on 15 feature films including Happy Feet Two Repo Men, Fast & Furious, Max Payne, Death Race, and Resident Evil: Extinction, and is an AACTA accredited visual FX supervisor. At the CSIRO Ben co-invented & patented the Safe-T-Cam real-time traffic camera system for NSW RTA and in 1997 he built the world's fastest computer cluster at Mech Eng University of Sydney, winning the IEEE Gordon Bell prize. Professor Hung Nguyen AM, Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Innovation); Director, Centre for Health Technologies Hung Nguyen has been involved with research in the areas of biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, neurosciences and advanced control for more than 25 years. He has developed several biomedical devices and systems for diabetes, disability, cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia; the Australian Computer Society; and the British Computer Society. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2002 and was a Finalist for NSW Australian of the Year Award 2012. Michelle Tabet, Independent Strategy Director Michelle Tabet is an independent strategy director who advises the makers of the built environment on the structural shifts and trends that impact the future of our cities. With a background in urban planning and strategy, Michelle is interested in the intersection between digital technology and urban living. She has been following and documenting the ways in which our expectations and behaviours as city dwellers are changing. Michelle previously led the urban informatics team in the Australasian region for global engineering consultancy Arup.