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Swinburne Centres
Centre for Animationllnteractive
Multimedia (AIM)
National Centre for New Media Arts &
Technologies (NCNMAT)
Director
John Bird, 81 9 8590
Administrative Officer
Robyn Blake, 819 81 17
Lecturer in Charge
David Atkinson, 819 8963
LecturerlResearch
Jeremy Parker, 8 19 8963
Facsimile 819 8562
The two Centres have complimentary and overlapping roles
and are staffed by: industry training, research and
development, consultancy.
The National Centre was established in 1992 as a three year
research and development project co-funded by the Victorian
Education Foundation and Industry to provide a focus for
research, development and professional production training
in the 'new media' industries.
The Centre aims
The Centre aims to encourage the creative and innovative
use of the motion picture medium and to foster producer,
writer, director talent; to provide a "show-case" site for new
talent, technologies, production methodologies and
programs, with special emphasis upon the promotion of an
interactive multi-media literate motion picture culture; to
provide a resource, consultancy and advisory service to
industry and education; to host and conduct short courses.
seminars and professional training workshops and develop
accredited training programs and standards for industry; to
engage and enable collaborative research and development
and joint-venture projects with industry and government; to
provide production resources and teaching expertise to
compliment the full-time postgraduate studies program and
to foster Masters and Doctoral studies: to facilitate the
creation, production, publication, exhibition and distribution
of works which exemplify an artistic and innovative use of
the medium; to aid the development of an indigenous
Australian industrv and workforce that is internationally
competitive in respect of technology, skills and
standards.
Postgraduate studies
The Centre was established in 1992 and offers an accredited
one year full-time Graduate Diploma in Animation and
Interactive Multimedia. These specialist studies are a
postgraduate evolution of Swinburne's renowned Film and
Television School (1 966-91) and is staffed by foundation
members of this school.
The objective of the course is to foster the development of
artistic and creative talent through practical production. The
course aims to train key creative talent: producers, writers
and directors fluent in a range of motion-picture and
interactive media types.
The course extends the artistic heritage and tradition of the
motion picture arts into digital media and the new media
and interactive multimedia domains (e.g. laser video disc,
CD-ROM, CD-I, CD-FMV). The course aims to familiarise the
students to the potentialities of digital media, interactivity,
publishing, broadcasting and telecommunications.
Students are expected to demonstrate their competency as
the initiator of program concepts in the role of
writertdirector and producer to a substantive body of
published works for examination and exhibition.
The postgraduate diploma course is also intended to lay the
foundation for persons wishing to undertake further
advanced study at MA and PhD level.
Centre for Applied Colloid and
BioColloid Science
Head
Professor D.E. Mainwaring
Department of Applied Chemistry, 819 8576
The Centre was established in 1980 for the development of
applied research and contract research in applied colloid
science. It provides an opportunity through research
sponsorship and other collaboration for companies or
drganisatidns to make use of sophisticated equipment and
aoolied research skills for the investioation of problems
iiihin this field. The base area of expertise i"'colloid science
has been broadened to include some biochemistry. Major
areas of applied research now include integrated projects
combining diverse skills such as wastewater treatment
(utilising adsorbing colloid flotation) for the removal of toxic
heavy metals, anions and organics to biological techniques
of cellular degradation for the complete treatment of toxic
organics. Combined with more traditional areas of colloid
science such as coal pelletisation and surface structure, these
and other multidiscipline projects provide an avenue for the
teaching of colloid science at an advanced (postgraduate)
level and has resulted in the training of a large number of
postgraduate students.
The Centre also promotes the teaching of colloid science at
all levels - undergraduate and postgraduate, course-work
and research only degrees. It also ads as a contact point for
visiting members of staff from other academic institutions,
companies or government authorities, both local and
overseas. Visitors often give lectures and discuss research
activities which proves advantageous to the quality of
teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate
(particularly course-work postgraduate) levels as an integral
part of their training.
Some of the work undertaken inevitably involws the
development of equipment or processes which may be
patented, covered under secrecy agreement or be available
for publication in the international literature.
Centre for Applied
Neurosciences
Director
Professor R.B. Silberstein
Department of Physics, 819 8273
The Centre for Applied Neurosciences was established in
1985.
Its primary purpose is to facilitate research into the
relationship between human behavioural states and
measured brain activity. The Centre also undertakes contract
research in areas consistent with its primary purpose. The
Centre has extensive collaborative research links with
Australian and international research centres.