Requiem.net.au :: ACID Launch and Student Seminar



Tuesday, 12/10/04
Official ACID Launch
Author and poster
Penny and some ACID posters

Grand Stage
Some of the attendees
Andrew Brown introduces Dynamic Content



Wednesday, 13/10/04
Student Conference
The day gets under way
Michael Docherty introduces the day's events

Jeff Axup (UQ) presents "How Can We Connect?"
Mia Thornton (QUT) presents "Virtually Yours". Congratulations to Mia for winning best poster
Mia 2

Some Aboriginal art works
Unruly crowd
Marcus Foth (QUT-CIRAC) presents "People, Place, Technology"

Marcus 2
Fiona Redhead (UQ) presents "Residential Communities and Place"
In the industry, we call them "cigarette burns"

Clint Heyer (UQ) presents "Wearables Schmerables"
Clint 2
Greg Turner (UTS) presents "A supportive software environment for interactive art"

Greg 2
Stop! Coffee Time
The Dynamic Content posters

Visiting guests Greg Turner (UTS) and Yoko Akama (RMIT)
Miriam gets some Caffeine
Jared Donovan (UQ) presents "Gestural Interfaces for the Real World"

Jared 2
Michael loads my presentation
Steven R. Livingstone (UQ-QUT) presents "Can Computers Detect and Manipulate Emotions in Music?"

Question Time
QT wraps up
Stef Gard (QUT) presents "Virtual Dreamtime!"

Stef 2
Back row
Left box

Eryn Grant (QUT) presents "Sociology and Interaction Design"
Eryn 2
Markus Rittenbruch (UQ) presents "Exploring Contextual Awareness in ACID"

The fabulous catering from Beatles (?) cafe at QUT
Denizen digest
The courteous catering stuff

The crowd moves outside to escape the chill
Enlightened discussion's begin
Greg and Yoko chat about the smoky Brisbane air

Miriam, Jeff and Mia chat about how much they love "Hooray for Everything"
Penny Sweetser (UQ) presents "Research Emergent Game play with Active Environments"
Penny 2

Penny and her Cellular Automaton animations, very cool stuff
Yoko Akama (RMIT) presents "Designing for People"
Yoko 2

Yoko 3
Keiran Bartlett (UQ) presents "Community Interaction, Collaboration and Mediation Using Web and Interface Technology"
Keiran 2

Mike Leggett (UTS) presents "PathScape"
Mike 2
Mike's screen saver

Mike's digital story telling
Penny Drennan (UQ) presents "Designing Engaging Non-Player Characters in Games"
Penny 2

Great Screen shot
Michael congratulates us for being the most exceptional group of presentations ever
Brad Haseman introduces CIRAC

  1. Community and Places
  2. People, Place, Technology
  3. Residential Communities and Place
  4. Community Interaction, Collaboration and Mediation using Web and Interface Technology
  1. Wearables Shmearables!
  2. How Can We Connect?
  1. Connected Communities
  2. Virtual Genesis

  1. The Unofficial Fiction of Griffin Baker
  2. An Enquiry into the artistic power of queer male arts practitioners or wrestling with the queer goat of desire and identity
  3. Out of the Shadows
  4. Editing the World
Semiotic Vehicles for new international documentaries
Annie Fergusson poses with her project. An interesting project that examines some material relating to my own Ph.D.

Interactive Lounge
  1. Gestural Interfaces for the Real World
  2. Production Players
Location Based Games

  1. Peripheral Young People, Identity and New Media Technologies
  2. Vernacular Creativity and Digital Culture
  1. Aggressive Flesh
  2. Male Consumer Beauty Culture




(I didn't get a photo of every CIRAC poster, sorry)