| Name | Research Interests |
| Prof Alfred M Bruckstein | Variational Methods in Image Analysis and Synthesis,
Multi A(ge)nt Robotics and Applied Geometry |
| Prof Anand Krishna Asundi | Prof. Asundi's primary research interests are in the field of photomechanics with specific applications in the fields of micro and nano mechanics, biomechanics, chemical sensing, non-destructive testing and smart structures. |
| Prof (Adj) Arunachalam Mahizhnan | - |
| Asst Prof Astrid C Kensinger | Graphic Design history, typography, mapping, live art as communication and participation art. Currently working on three funded research and design projects using GPS, video and site-specific research in South East Asia and Europe. |
| Assoc Prof Augustine Pang | Crisis management and communication
Image management and repair
Media management
Public relations
Journalism |
| Prof Ben Alvin Shedd | Prof Ben's research concerns creating effective science and technology media about very large and very small phenomena seen on displays from handheld size to multi-story high screens. He received a 1989 summer long Residential Creativity Fellowship from the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center, Northwood University where he began his EXPLODING THE FRAME research comparing small screen and giant screen imagery and creating a new filmic language for effective giant screen production. This research began for producing IMAX giant screen films and continues today with ever larger high-resolution digital screens and full dome immersive presentations where the edges of the screen frame are outside our field of vision. |
| Mr Benjamin Alexander Slater | Screenwriting Craft and Practice
Narratives & Storytelling
Interactive Narratives
Film Histories
Criticism
Creative Writing |
| Assoc Prof Benjamin Seide | Interdisciplinary collaboration of art and technology
Visual Effects as a aesthetic and narrative device in film
Development of new animation and visual effects relevant techniques
Animation and Visual Effects specific project management systems
Immersive media experiences such as 360 degree films, Virtual Reality (VR) and stereoscopic film
My current research interests in the field of animation, visual effects and interactive are particularly in these three areas:
1) The role of visual effects as an aesthetic and narrative device in film-making
2) The exploration of immersive technologies such as stereoscopy, dome projections and virtual reality applications
3) The development of software tools to support the production process of visual effects at universities and small to medium size (SME) studios
These specific interests have evolved organically from my previous research projects and my animation practice as visual effects artist and supervisor.
Through my experience in the visual effects industry, I have identified a lack of tools supporting the production process of complex visual effects at universities and small to medium size studio teams. The aim of my research is to develop solutions to fill this gap in form of software tools, which could potentially be used by other universities in the field of art and media. |
| Assoc Prof Biju Dhanapalan | Biju Dhanapalan has research interests in the following areas:
Digital animation and visual effects practice led research covers areas of feature films, commercials and TV serials; the interdisciplinary collaboration of art and technology in new media and interactive exhibits; 3D immersive technology in air traffic control systems; Motion analysis of classical dance forms; intuitive pedagogical tools for math learning. Multi-surface projections, Interactive Stereoscopy and Alternate Education. Inquiry into the play of 'song and and dance' in Indian cinema and its role in the narrative arc of films |
| Prof C.J. Wee Wan-ling | • Globalisation and contemporary cultural production in East and Southeast Asia
• Curation and the idea of 'Asia'
• Literature, theatre and contemporary visual art in Singapore
• Colonialism and nationalism in English and Anglophone literatures and cultures
• Cultural and Postcolonial theory
• Modernity and modernism in Euro-America and East Asia |
| Assoc Prof Cai Yiyu | His interest in Interactive & Digital Media (IDM) mainly includes Tactile/Haptic VR System Design, GPU-accelerated Digital Media Processing, Serious Games and Simulation, and Computer-aided Design.
He has been doing research in the intersection of IDM, and Bio & Medical Sciences covering from Computer-assisted Surgery to Volumetric Cellular Image Processing to Phase I/II Drug Clinical Trial Design to Protein Docking. In MedTech field, he pioneered the research and development on Cardiovascular and Intracardiac Interventional Simulation for pre-treatment planning and training application.
He is also active in industry-oriented research working closely with Engineering and Education sectors. |
| Dr Chalit Kongsuwan | There are three main research topics that I am interested in.
1. Ascetic design inspired by the everyday objects of Buddhist Thai monks who practice in remote areas.
This research will explore how eloquent objects are designed and made without the use of high technology and natural deterioration. The research and design outcomes would illustrate and promote sustainable methods of utilising locally available materials, simple tools and hands-on skills for utilitarian purpose and austere aesthetics. This primitive approach may have a power to resurrect self-sufficiency, self-fulfillment and selflessness which are rare to find from today designers.
2. Fluid design influenced by riparian cultures.
This research will aim to investigate the fluid connection and contradiction between Western and Eastern designs which are influenced by riverine culture. The outcome of this research would suggest new ways of conveying nostalgic, dynamic and floating qualities through functional objects and residential space. References would be drawn from ceremonial barges, boats and riparian architectures. The principle of Feng-Shui (wind and water) may be referred to.
3. Improvisational design drawn by the improvisational performance of arts and crafts
This research will examine the simultaneity between design (creative action) and making (physical action). This can be compared to traditional Indian music (Tabla & Sitar) and contemporary Jazz which are performed by heart. The result of this research would stimulate and liberate those white-collar designers who are currently dictated by a contrived format of design methodologies, Computer – Aided Design (CAD) and digital technologies such as 3D printers and CNC machines (Computer Numerical Control). Relative references would include the improvisation of throwing clay pots and turning wooden bowls. |
| Assoc Prof Chen Chun-Hsien | Assoc Prof Chen Chun-Hsien's areas of expertise are Industrial/Product Design, Knowledge Engineering, and Decision Support Systems. His current research work focuses on collaborative/human-centric/consumer-oriented product design and development, knowledge management, decision support systems and artificial intelligence in product/engineering design. |
| Mr Chua Chong Jin | Creative works (eg biographies, poetry, literary journalism, book and movie reviews)
Commissioned works (eg coffee table books for clients to mark special events or anniversaries)
In-depth features on issues in developing countries in Asia as well as profiles on movers & shakers in fields like politics, business, academia, IT, sports, entertainment and the arts.
Communication strategies - eg the communication styles of leading personalities in different fields
The increasing importance of communication skills in the new economy and its implications (eg the type of teachers needed; the nature of communications training in formal education etc)
Changing media landscape and its implications
Language patterns in speaking and writing |
| Prof Daniel Thalmann | Professor Daniel Thalmann's current research interests include real-time virtual humans in virtual reality, immersive virtual environments, social robots, gesture recognition, crowd simulation, and multimodal interaction. He is also interested in applications in Cultural Heritage and Virtual Rehabilitation. |
| Assoc Prof Danne Ojeda Hernandez | Her current research is devoted to the disciplinary redefinitions of Graphic Design and its implications in contemporary visual culture. It analyses antithetical aspects within the evolution of graphic design, like its communicative and allegoric nature, autonomy and social commitment, and expressivity and new media standards. The theoretical basis of this research includes binary concepts like natural/artificial, original/copy, public/private, and physical/virtual. The research is methodologically structured upon close readings of a variety of visual objects from the perspective of graphic design. These objects are discusses in connection with different sorts of conceptual platforms, like manifestos, (un)realized projects, curatorial proposals and critical reviews among others sources within today's dominant orientations in graphic design.
Moreover, her areas of interest can be summarized as follow: Issues in Visual Communication/Contemporary Design, Design Theory, Design and Science and Art and Design relations. Her areas of specializations regarding professional practice are mainly editorial and exhibition design.
At NTU, Prof. Ojeda is engaged (or has been engaged) with the following projects:
TIER1 [2013] D-SIGN-LAB. Research Experiments on Art, Design and Science with a focus on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Analysis.
TIER0 [2010] Asian-Pacific Mega-exhibitions: A Critical Perspective
RCC [2009] For the Sake of a Second Life: Approaches to Sustainable Design
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Selection of Danne Ojeda’s works:
http://www.d-file.com
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| Asst Prof Davide Benvenuti | Character Animation 3D and 2D
Animation tools development and new interface
Real time rendering and animation
Game engine development and improvement
Motion capture techniques and applications
Non realistic rendering and animation |
| Asst Prof Divya Victor | Transnational and Contemporary Poetry
Trauma Studies
Life Writing
Creative Writing |
| Prof Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen | Digital cinema and multimedia art
Visual music and experimental animation
Stereoscopic digital photography/film/video
Interactive art and architectural installation
- new display technologies
- new materials
- embedded systems
- physical and ubiquitous computing
- ambient media and health esthetics
- wireless and mobile media
Low cost and sustainable computing/media
Traditional material cultures and digital media; global visual culture; alternative social networks.
Creativity; art and science; art and technology; transdisciplinarity.
Author of articles and chapters on digital art and new media. |
| Asst Prof Elke E. Reinhuber | In her current artistic research, Elke Reinhuber investigates on the correlation between decisions and emotions and explores different strategies of visualisation and presentation. Her PhD thesis suggests 'Counterfactualism' as a new category for fine arts and humanity, dealing with the retrospective analysis of turning points in life.
- Counterfactual Thinking
- Immersive Environments
- Augmented Reality
- Imaging Technologies |
| Mr Eugene Lim | My research interests are in the areas of journalism, criminology and social media. I am interested to know how the proliferation of internet affects the crime rates and how does it also affects human criminal behaviours. I have been adopting investigative reporting and ambush reporting to get my answers, and I believe in-depth research can be done on these areas as well. |
| Prof Fritz Frenkler | Entrepreneurship
User Experience
Universal Design
Design Research
Interdisciplinary Development Processes
Co-Design
Building Automation
Electric Mobility
2007 Intuitive operation units as interface between man and building, research partners: Institute of Industrial Engineering, Prof. Ekkehard Frieling, Universität Kassel; Chair of Clima Design,
Prof. Gerhard Hausladen, TUM; Siemens Building Technologies GmbH & Co. oHG
2008 Universal Design in global demographic change, research partners: universal design e.V, Robert Bosch Stiftung
2008 Future Office, research partner: Mauser Einrichtungssystemen GmbH & Co. KG
2008 Electroactive Polymeres, applications for electroactive polymeres, project with students, research partner: Bayer MaterialScience
2009 Roadster - in 365 days to a prototype car, project with students, project partner: Roding Automobile GmbH
2009 Visions for Aircraft Cabins / Innovative Aircraft Seating, project partners: Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V., Lufthansa AG, Swiss International, Recaro Aircraft Seating, müller/romca
2009 Edison Reloaded, Lights, project partner: Zweibrüder Optoelectronics GmbH
2009 automobile interior concepts 2022, project with students, project partner: BMW Group
2010 - 16 TUMCREATE – Phase 1, Interdisciplinary Development of Vehicle Concepts, project partner: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, www.eva-taxi.sg, funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation
2010 vorradler, electric bicycle, project with students, project partner: Electrolyte GmbH
2011 car@TUM, research project User-Experience, research partner: BMW Group
2011 MUTE - TUM Electric Mobility, electric car, research partners: 22 Chairs at TUM, www.mute-automobile.de
2011 - 14 EXIST IV – Phase 1, TUM, The Entrepreneurial University, 40 supported Start-Ups
2012 Creative Dialogue of Generations, generation-friendly products, project partners: universal design GmbH, sponsored by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology
2012 Home Heroes, project partners: Institute of Product Development (TUM) and Robert Bosch Hausgeräte GmbH
2012 Conference Design & Science, sponsored by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology
2012 - 15 Visio.M, electric car, www.visiom-automobile.de, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2013 ON/OFF Board, project partners: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), BMW Group
2014 Phase 0, interdisciplinary discourses in phase 0, research partner: BMW Group
2014 - 15 interdisciplinary research project for inventory rebuilding: " The room - The bathroom " Universal Design to 4 square meters, research partners: Feddersen Architekten, IF UNIVERSAL DESIGN & SERVICE GmbH, Villeroy & Boch, Kermi, Jung, Küffner, Pressalit Care, Hansa, The Care Takers
2014 - 16 AHC Automated Heating Control, project partners: ETH Zürich, ZAHW, GreenTEG Ag, IMI Hydronic Engineering Deutschland GmbH, funded by Climate-KIC
2014 - 16 EXIST IV – Phase 2, TUM, The Entrepreneurial University, 20 supported Start-Ups
2015 - 18 aCar mobility, www.acar.tum.de, funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation
2016 - 19 Bavarian cooperation on transport efficiency - Truck 2030, funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation
2015 - 17 Biofakte, the language of biofacts: semantics and materiality highly technologically sophisticated plants, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2015 - 17 Zukunft Bau, modular system for industrialized social housing construction, funded by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)
2016 Quo Vadis Design, German Design and Dieter Rams, Symposium at Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
2016 - 21 TUMCREATE – Phase 2, Design for Autonomous Mobility, project partner: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, www.tum-create.edu.sg, funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation |
| Asst Prof Galina Mihaleva | As for professional practice,she has been designing Couture Collections and accessories under the label
''GALINA COUTURE''.(www.galinacouture.com)
Her resent intrests and explorations are in the area of Fashionable Technology,which refers to the intersection of
design, fashion, science, and technology.
Kinetic Dress, Scottsdale, Arizona 2011-Present
● Original costumes made in collaboration with dance and technology specialist Jessica Rajko
● Workshop, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association convention in 2012
Telematic Dress, Tempe, Arizona 2008-Present
● Costume that enables dancers to perform together when they are in different locations
● Collaboration with Nottingham-Trent University (United Kingdom) and Arizona State University
Motionᵉ, Tempe, Arizona 2004-2005
● Costumes with embedded sensors that affected the light and sound of a dance concert
Sensory Chameleon Bodysuit, Tempe, Arizona 2004
● Smart Second Skin clothing designs with the Biodesign Institute's Center for Applied Nanobioscience at Arizona State University and the Sensory Design & Technology of Cambridge, England
● Presentation at Wired Magazine's NextFest in San Francisco, California in 2004
Paper Interiors: a dance exploration or real and virtual dimension, Tempe, Arizona 2002
● Costumes for a 3D multimedia-based dance performance by choreographer Jennifer Tsukayama
● Performance at the American College Dance Festival at Arizona State University |
| Asst Prof Han Sam | (1) The dynamic of religion and digital technology in contemporary American Christianity
(2) Digital-diasporic religious practices in Asia
(3) Death and mourning in the digital age
(4) The religious discourse of technology as sinful
(5) General social and cultural theory (e.g., affect theory, post-structuralism, post-modernism, psychoanalysis, network theory)
(6) Parochialism in popular representations of “genius” in media depictions of US ethnic minorities |
| Assoc Prof Hans Peter Bacher | BOOK PUBLISHING
Designed Brushes For Photoshop, Born Digital Publ., Tokyo, 2006
Dream Worlds ( Japanese/English/Mandarin ), Born Digital Publ., Tokyo, 2007 and Focal Press Oxford, 2008.
planned release for end 2013 - Vision, designing for film
planned release for 2014 - Animation lost treasures
research
NPR non photorealistic rendering
FILM analysis |
| Assoc Prof Hans-Martin Rall | Research profile Asst/Prof. Hans-Martin Rall
Asst/Prof. Rall's research interests are mainly in the areas of digital animation development and interdisciplinary research in art and technology.
He is a renowned director of independent animated short films, with 8 major film-funding grants awarded to him by German and European institutions.
Since 1997 Hannes Rall has built a strong reputation for adapting literature successfully
in his animated short films:
“The Raven“ (1999) and ”The Erl-King“(2003) , adapted from the famous poems by E.A. Poe and J.W. von Goethe respectively, have been screened in over 120 film festivals
world wide and won multiple awards.
His work was shown in group-and solo-shows in galleries in 20 countries worldwide since 2004.
-Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
-National Museum Singapore
-State Gallery of the Arts Stuttgart, Germany
-Bangkok International Film Festival
-Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut
-Egyptian Opera House, Metrogalerie, Kairo
-Cinematheque. Tel Aviv
-Goethe-Institut Damaskus
-Goethe-Institut Ramallah
-Seika Art Academy, Kyoto
-Osaka European Film Festival
-Auckland University of Technology, NZ
-Pataka Museum Wellington, NZ
-Muzium dan Galeri Seni Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
"Tradigital Mythmaking":
-Goethe-Institut Singapore/Singapore International Film-Festival
-Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur/Univesrsiti Teknologi Mara Kuala Lumpur
Asst/Prof. Rall was awarded a 86 000,- SD tier 1 research grant by NTU in 2006.
“Tradigital Mythmaking-Singaporean-Animation for the 21st Century” :
In this project Prof. Rall explores the development of genuinely Southeast Asian animation styles, which are not derived from Western or Japanese concepts.
His book “Tradigital Mythmaking” was published in Singapore in 2009.
In 2010 he was awarded a second tier 1 research grant in the amount of SD 150 000,- to
continue and expand his research in “Tradigital Mythmaking-The Next level”:
In close cooperation with the Co-PI Prof. Seah Hock Soon from the School of Computer Engineering,
Asst/Prof. Rall is exploring the development of digital tools for the adaptation of Asian
mythological stories in local art styles.
External research funding
2007 Film production funding by the Film Funding Board of Baden Württemberg (MFG Filmförderung) for the film “The Cold Heart”
2004 Script-development funding by the MFG Baden-Württemberg for the animated shortfilm „THE COLD HEART“.
2003 Reference-filmfunding for the film ”The Erl-King“ by the FFA Berlin.
2000 Production-funding for „The Erl-King“ MFG Baden-Württemberg
2000 Production-funding for “The Erl-King”by the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film.
2000 Reference-funding for “The Raven”by FFA, Berlin
1997 Production-funding for the short film “The Raven”by the MFG Baden-Württemberg
1994 Script-development funding for animated series „Dicki“ by MEDIA-program
Research areas:
-Exploring Asian culture and history to develop unique and original animation styles, which are not derived from Western concepts.
(Current research project: “Tradigital Mythmaking”)
-Development and application of new digital technology to visualize Asian art styles in animation (Current research project: “The Living Line” Co-PI: Prof. Seah Hock Soon SCE,
10 000,-SD mini seed grant by Institute for Media Innovation NTU)
-The adaptation of literature for animation
(Current research project: “The Cold Heart”, 25 minute animated short film
adapted from the novel by Wilhelm Hauff, 90 000,- Euro film-funding grant
by MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg).
-Marketing animated short films in the 21st century (URECA research project)
-History of German animation
-History of Southeast Asian Animation |
| Asst Prof Ho Hau Yan Andy | Primary Area of Focus:
Community Health Psychology, Qualitative Psychology, Participatory Action Research.
Research Interest:
Psychosocial Gerontology, End-of-Life and Palliative Care, Formal and Informal Caregiving, Expressive Arts and Holistic Therapy, Compassion and Mindfulness Training, Medical Humanities, Community Empowerment. |
| Assoc Prof I Lo-fen | Chinese Poetry and Visual Art
Chinese Literary Works on Paintings
Su Shi Studies
Interchange of East-Asian Culture and Literature in Classical Chinese
Asian Visual Culture and Esthetics |
| Assoc Prof Ina Conradi Chavez | Area of research:
-Public Art
-Fine Art
-Procedural Interactive Installation
-Computer Generated Animation
-Digital experimental animation
- Stereoscopic 3D
- Interactive Media
-360 Immersive Media Displays
The research delves into an exploration of trandisciplinary visual art media, researching and integrating emotive and subjective abstract image making in digital, traditional and non-traditional forms. Drawing on the ideas of the merging of digital painting, avant-garde film-making and sound cultures, current work aims to craft immersive, interactive and 3D animated installation using digital image, seeking innovative convergence of art and technology to transform spaces into novel experiences.
11.2011-10.2017 MOE AcRF Tier 1 “Immersive Animated Canvas: Merging New Media Art and Technology for Immersive Cinema and Visualization Experiences", PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof), Co-Pi Ben Alvin Shedd, (Professor) NTU ADM
1.3.2011-28.02.2014 MOE AcRF Tier 1 RG 55/10 (M52090031) "3D Stereo Animated Pictorial Space: Towards New Aesthetics in Contemporary Painting" PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof), Co-Pi Dr Xiao Wei Sun, EEE (Assoc Prof) NTU
15.8.2011--31.12.2013 IMI Seed Grant, (M4080760.B40) "Unframed", PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof), Co-Pi Mark Chavez (Asst Prof) NTU ADM
01.01.2008-28.2.2010 MOE (AcRF) Tier 1 RG105/10 (M52090000) “Digital Imaging in Singapore", PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof) NTU ADM
02/2009-02/2011 MOE (AcRF) Tier 1 “Exploring kinetoaudiovisual parameter mapping strategies for virtual instrument performance and interactive installation,” PI Per Magnus Lindborg, Co-PI Ina Conradi Chavez (Asst Prof), NTU ADM (5% Involvement)
01.10.2010-30.11.2011 IMI Seed Grant, (M4080629.B40) "Stereo Pictorial Spaces", PI Ina Conradi (Asst Prof) Co-Pi Dr Xiao Wei Sun, EEE (Assoc Prof), NTU ADM
01.12.2010-31. 05.2012 IMI Seed Grant: “EEG-based Immersion and 3D Interaction: E-learning, Art, and Medical Application”, PI Olga Sourina Co-PI Ina Conradi (10%) NTU ADM |
| Prof Isaac V Kerlow | Animation Theory and Research, Computer-Aided Printmaking, Computer Animation, Digital Art, Digital Interfaces, History of Computer Animation, Interdisciplinary Studies, New Media Theory and Practice, Popular Art, Storytelling, Visual Arts, Typography, Visualization, Visual Literacy |
| Mr Jeffrey Hong Yan Jack | Transportation Vehicle Design
Wearable Technology
Interaction Design - interactive objects, environments, and experiences.
Form exploration using Generative Modeling techniques.
3D Laser scanning and reverse engineering.
Human perception, spatial cognition, and interaction within Virtual Environments.
Simulation and presentation of real-life phenomena through the use of computer graphics software. |
| Asst Prof Jesse John Thompson | Sculpture
Drawing
Painting
Anatomy
The link between work ethics and aesthetics |
| Miss Joan Marie Kelly | Joan Marie Kelly is an Urban Ecologist, she investigates the ecosystem of the city initiating artistic connections with migrant and marginalized communities. The aim is to empower the community with the experience of creation. Kelly reinvigorates concepts of figure painting and drawing in collaborations with ethnographic methodologies. She focuses her participatory workshops on communities of lower caste women and children in India. The women and children tell their stories through drawings, knitted pieces, photographs, and audio documentaries.
Kelly applies her participatory art workshops to interdisciplinary collaborations with several researchers and communities. Collaborating changes the intension and outcome of the participatory workshops opening up whole new fields. Creativity and rudimental tools of drawing applied in different contexts with scholarly researchers has the ability to transform the intension and meaning of the scholarly work through visual language.
The interdisciplinary work is with these different fields and scholars:
1) Sustaining oral languages with three linguist working in different focus areas in Asia, by creating the first illustrated children’s books with the oral language communities.
2)Drawing as a tool for engineers to develop and record ideas.
3) The use of multi-media arts as a means to provoke communication and awareness of cultural heritage within host communities prior to tourism development. The collaboration involves Yuthasak Chatkaewnapanon from University of Chiang Mai, a Thai Tourism sociologist, and Prof. Ross Adrian Williams, a sound artist.
All of these particular sectors of society influence Kelly’s personal artwork which is inspired by urban life of South East Asia. |
| Asst Prof Julien Cayla | The research question I am currently focusing on is: Why and how do service interactions vary across cultural contexts? I am especially interested in understanding what “good service” means to the organisations that do service work, and how these ideas about service are put into practice in interactions with customers. I study service in service interactions in different industry contexts and cultures. |
| Assoc Prof Kamaludeen Bin Mohamed Nasir | Sociology of Religion; Cultural Sociology; Social Theory; Deviance and Social Control; Globalization; Sociology of Youth. |
| Assoc Prof Karl Friedrich Sebastian Grobler | Sebastian’s research interests include directing and acting; pictorial science and philosophy of the image; the cinematic imagery of individual perception and the unconscious; history in films - trauma/nostalgia, cultural memory and national identity; child actors and the representations of childhood; Digital narratives and the future of moving images.
CURRENT PROJECTS
"The year of the child" – An ensemble film, a drama/comedy about a group of female best friends who discover that they all want to have a child as soon as possible. The project development has been supported by German Federal Government Representative for Culture and Media (BKM).
"On the run" – A children’s film, a drama about the special friendship of a 9 year girl who has trouble with the separation of her parents and a 10 year old boy who is an unaccompanied Syrian refugee. The script development has been funded by German Federal Film Board (FFA).
"The contested subjects of child actor, child character and the representations of “childhood” in film. A comparative study in Asia, Europe and North America." Start-Up Grant (SUG) awarded by Nanyang Technological University (NTU). |
| Asst Prof Kathrin Albers | Puppet Animation
Hand/Marionette/Shadowpuppet Play
Experimental Animation / Stereoscopic Animation
Character- and Productiondesign
Prototyping
Experimental and Animated Documentary
Music and Animation
Games |
| Asst Prof Kevin Andrew Riordan | Modernism
Theater and Performance
Theory
Comparative and World Literatures
Cinema |
| Asst Prof Kristy H.A. Kang | Dr. Kang's research interests include urban studies, histories and theories of digital media arts, database cinema, animation, spatial and mobile narrative, and media and ethnic studies in the U.S. and Asia. |
| Dr Kym Campbell | Mobile media and communication
Media communication and performance
Visualising data from a cinematic perspective |
| Assoc Prof Laura Miotto | My research interests span the areas of:
• theories, methods and design processes used in exhibitions design and spatial narratives in the context of museums and public places
• understanding Exhibition Design historically and in relation to the new socioeconomic realities of Singapore and other modern Asian societies |
| Asst Prof Lee Hyun Jung | Performance and Theatre Studies, Literature, East Asian Cultural Studies, Popular Culture |
| Asst Prof Lee Sang Joon | My current manuscript project, tentatively titled 'The Asian Film Festival and the Emergence of Transnational Cinema Network in Cold War Asia' is a book-length study on the cultural history of the Asian Film Festival. This will trace the early history of the festival and explore the ways in which cold war politics, ideology, international relations, and nationalism have shaped this regional film festival, led by the Japanese film industry, in postwar Asia, and to what extent the festival had influenced the regional film industries and cultures during its first two decades, from 1953 to 1972.
As part of my future research plans, I also plan to write a critical investigation of the Korean cinema renaissance in the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium. Instead of analyzing industrial structures or scrutinizing single/multiple texts, this project, tentatively titled 'Celluloid Korea: Cinema at the End of the Century,' will examine the particular phenomenon from the perspectives that consider manifold factors; cine-club movements, the emergence of film schools, translations and interpretations of critical theories, film journals, multiplexes, and the intellectuals’ turn to the cultural industries throughout the 1990s. I will particularly address to what extent politics, new economic conditions, social changes, and nationalism have shaped Korean screen cultures and industry throughout the past two decades.
In tandem with the above project, I am writing critical essays on contemporary practices of transnational media connections between Korea, Japan, and China, Korean popular culture and social media, and a new method of writing transnational film history that is especially important for regions linked by both cultural correspondences and political systems. |
| Assoc Prof Lee Yong Tsui | His research interests lie mainly in computer related areas, such as computer graphics, geometric modeling, computer-aided design and manufacturing, and related applications. More specifically, he current focus is in computer-aided conceptual design, looking at the problem of converting design sketches into 3D models, which can then be ?beautified? to become CAD models. He is also studying the simulation of vehicle collisions, as an impartial assistant to judicial litigation on road accident cases. |
| Assoc Prof Leong Kah Fai | His principal areas of research interests are in rapid prototyping and its applications in biomedical applications, including tissue engineering, product design and development science and design education. |
| Assoc Prof Louis-Philippe Demers | To investigate Design, Digital Media and Media Arts from the interactive and embodied media perspectives.
To investigate Artistic, Aesthetic and Technological impact of digital media on humans under the following paradigm: As digital media, pervasive and ubiquitous computing are increasingly being part of our every day life, the researches focus on the human - the role of the body - at various levels
of the digital domain experience. Beyond the sole paradigm of Human Computer Interfaces (HCI), these researches will analyze and implement projects across the spectrum of Art & Design while correlating those to the spectrum of being close to the body -objects-, to a broader sphere -space- and finally to a
global container -culture-.
Keywords:
Social and Emotive Robotics, Entertainment Robotic, Robotic Toys, Hybrid Media, Interactive Media, Interaction Design, User Experience, Intelligent Objects, Wearable, Physical Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Kinetic Architecture, Public Space, Public Art, Tangible Media, Haptic Devices, Multi-Touch, Surface Computing, Multi-User Environments, Theatre, Stage Design, Lighting Design, Live Performance Technologies, Augmented and Mixed Realities. |
| Mr Lucas M F V Jodogne | Besides being an award winning Cinematographer Lucas also developed his Art as a Photographer. Since his first solo exhibition in 1984 he has shown his work all over the world in galleries and museums. His work has been acquired by important collections including the National Art museum and the Singapore Art museum in Singapore. Several publications are on his name, notably “Bodiless dragon”, 1994: Pandora, the subject focuses on the urban landscape of Singapore.
He sees himself not as a mere photographer but as an artist with a camera. He uses a picturesque presentation of his works, which refers to nineteenth century and even earlier painting to empower the concept behind it. His work consists of observing the social and industrial transformations within the landscape. |
| Asst Prof Marijke Van Kets | Research on Cinematography
A study on the perception of cinematic technique and its influence on film language.
The research focuses on the use of cinematic technique by the director of photography when shooting a feature film. Is this juggling with technical properties: lenses, lights, speed, shutter, f-stop and so on, effective? Can cinematography influence how audiences perceive movies?
I argue that the application of cinematic technique adds additional layers of meaning, nuance and emotional context to shots and scenes along with their objective content. The study also suggests that the use of cinematographic differentials like composition, three-dimensional field and lens language, contributes to the film language. |
| Vg Assoc Prof Meridel Rubenstein | MERIDEL RUBENSTEIN began her professional career in the late 1970's, evolving from photographer of single photographic images to multi-media artist of large-scale installations. From the beginning her artmaking has argued for an awareness of how we are connected to place. Her works are known for their unusual combinations of mediums, materials and ideas. From 1989-93, she collaborated with performance and video artist Ellen Zweig on the traveling exhibition CRITICAL MASS, which took as its subject the intersecting of the scientific and native american worlds during the making of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos. Following on its heels she was commissioned to make the glass/video/photographic installation Oppenheimer?s Chair for the for the first Site Santa International Biennial. In more recent work, like Joan?s Arc/Vietnam, she uses Vietnam and the American war as a mirror for different ideas in the east and west about nature/ body /place / forgiveness. Large luminous digital prints on handcoated paper combine with video projections and objects in wood and sandblasted glass. Rubenstein has exhibited widely including the 1st SITE Santa Fe International Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and The List Center for the Visual Arts at MIT in Cambridge as well as in numerous gallery and Museum traveling exhibitions. In October 2004, BELONGING: Los Alamos to Vietnam/Photoworks and Installations , was published by St. Ann?s Press. This major monograph of twenty years of her work, includes texts by reknown art writers Lucy Lippard, and Rebecca Solnit. In May 2007, her recent work was featured in photograph magazine in New York City.
Meridel Rubenstein was educated at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and did special graduate studies at M.I.T. with eminent photographer, Minor White. She received an M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1974 and 1977, where she studied with noted art and photography historian and museum directors Beaumont Newhall and Van Deren Coke. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, as well as recently from the Pollock Krasner. As an active arts educator for over 25 years, Rubenstein has created photography programs at the College of Santa Fe and the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico and directed the Photography MFA Program at San Francisco State University in California. She was the Harnish Visiting Artist at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts before coming to NTU in 2006. She is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technoloigcal University in Singapore. |
| Assoc Prof Michael John Kirk Walsh | My research falls under the umbrella term 'Conflict and Culture' and can be subdivided into three main categories:
1. British (and imperial) cultural production in the first two decades of the 20th century (especially in relation to the Great War)
2. Heritage in Conflict and Post-conflict Zones: Famagusta, Cyprus.
3. Twentieth century music biography (with an emphasis on protest and pacificism) |
| Asst Prof Michael Thaddeus Tan Koon Boon | Areas of research Interest:
- Arts & Design for Health and wellbeing
- Creative Ageing
- Cultural engagement for Health and Well-being (eg Museums, Health and Wellbeing)
- Socially-Engaged Art
- Arts-based Social/ Health Research / Visual Methods
Asst Prof Tan's research interest explores art and design practices in relation to health & Well-being, care, aging, and human flourishing. Informed by assemblage theory, he explores the role of creative practice in shaping culture of care in various care settings and the wider context of medical humanities, health communication and equality.
He is active in mapping arts and health practice locally and internationally, examining the roles and contributions of artists and designers operating in health and caring context or who are involved in socially engaged creative practices. He is also interested to explore methods to prepare artist and designer to undertake such endeavors and ways through which embodied processes can facilitate mindfulness in interpersonal interaction particularly in health and care context. As a practitioner in arts and health, he has designed and conducted art programs for the patients, staff and caregivers, in organization such as the Parkinson's Disease Society Singapore (PDSS), Singapore General Hospital, National University Hospital,Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He has previously partnered The Agency for Integrated Care in an exploratory study to examine the impact of art engagement on general wellbeing of residents at the participating nursing home.
His most recent art and health project is with the Alzheimer's Disease Association (ADA) where he developed a Art and Dementia project titled 'Let's have tea at the Museum'
Project In the News:
- The Tulip Story - Participatory Arts For Parkinson Patient and Caregiver
https://www.ttsh.com.sg/page.aspx?id=8251
Grants Awarded:
2014
- National Arts Council, Singapore, Let’s have tea at the Musuem – an art and dementia project, Principal Investigator in partnership with Alzheimer’s Disease Association (ADA), Singapore for Arts and Dementia Project.
- Research and Development Grant, The National Arts Council, Singapore, Art Engagement, Aging and Wellbeing in Nursing Home, Principal Investigator.
2012
- Agency For Integrated Care, Singapore, Arts in Healthcare Programme at Sree Narayana Mission Home,
- National Youth Council Pitch to Shine Grant, Singapore, Project Dreamcatcher 2012, Collaborator and artist mentor for Project DreamCatchers National University Hospital.
2011
- Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (MOE ACRF) TIER 1, Singapore, Art and Design In Healthcare: A Pilot study on the significances and role of art and design to improve the quality of life of patients in Parkinson’s Disease, Principal Investigator.
2008
- Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (MOE ACRF) TIER 1, Singapore, Shoes and social fabrics: Exploring the journeys and life-worlds of a pair of flip-flops, Principal Investigator. Collaborator Dr Caroline Knowles, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2007
- Small Research Grant, The British Academy, UK, Shoes and social fabrics: exploring the journeys and life-worlds of a pair of flip-flops, Collaborator, visual artist in an interdisciplinary research project with Dr Caroline Knowles Professor (Sociology), Goldsmiths College, University of London. |
| Asst Prof Michelle Lim | Contemporary Art
History of Exhibitions
Contemporary Curating
Sustainability and Communities in Urban Ecologies
Art History (East Asia) |
| Prof Nadia Magnenat Thalmann | Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann’s interests are mainly on Virtual humans, both on the creative and the algorithmic side. One recent interest is to model the physiological Virtual Human, including specific individual modelling of organs.
Among recent topics of interests :
- Interactive Autonomous Virtual Humans and Social Robots
- Modelling personalities, emotions, memory processes and relationship models
- Physics-based modelling of deformations of soft tissue
- Segmentation methods for MRI data
- 3D Fabrication |
| Asst Prof Nanci Takeyama | Three main research interests:
-Symbolic meaning of traditional forms in Asia
-Preservation of Asian traditional arts and crafts, heritage management
-Design for social innovation, design thinking, participatory design
Areas of professional expertise:
-Corporate Identity
-Package Design
-Typography, applied typography
-Editorial Design
-Information architecture
-Environmental Design
Important research key words:
-Meaning of symbols in Asian traditions (crafts, rituals, myths)
-Mandala
-Cosmology |
| Ms Ng Ee Ching | Candice's research interests include digital material culture, tangible interaction design, critical design, design pedagogy and design studies. |
| Asst Prof Ng Woon Lam | His research interests include areas in Art Education, Scientific study of art materials, Oriental Art History and Culture, South East Asia Art, Classical Painting language in Contemporary Art and Digital Animation, Digital Painting, Design, Illustration and Fine Art.
Potential researchers, Phd / MA students may contact him directly to discuss possible research collaborations or supervision.
Looking for suitable MA students to work on Fine Art related research, focusing on colors and design |
| Assoc Prof Oh Soon-Hwa | Associate Professor Oh's research interest focuses on the artist and dealer relationship. Based on her observation and experience as an emerging artist in NYC, she developed a study that explored the cultural, social, and psychological roles of the networks of relationships among artists and art world professionals. By employing a qualitative research method of case study she documents and analyzes the experiences and practices of emerging artists in NYC and in Paris, and their significant art dealers, curators, and collectors. The study identifies various roles of networks of relationships and examines in which ways their relationships contribute to the development of their creative works. She is the author of the book "From art school to art world" (2009).
Her more recent research focus lies on the interaction between Art & science, Photography & Technology. Teaching and researching on digital photography has incited her to explore and expand the boundaries of the photographic medium by collaborating with scientists in various projects in development.
In her photographic practice, her interest lies in documentary projects that deal with issues of identity, gender, and human condition. For instance, her “Girls from Mekong Delta” essay is a semi-documentary project that explores the identity and environment of young Vietnamese women from a small island nicknamed “Taiwanese Island” who intend or are pushed to marry foreigners in their quest to have a better life and to support their own family. This project was Finalist (2009) and Semi-Finalist (2007) for the prestigious Lange-Tyler Prize at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.
Aesthetics
Creativity
Sociology of Arts
Studio Practice
Documentary projects
Photography Theory and Criticism |
| Dr Owen Noel Newton Fernando | Human-Computer Interaction
Natural Interfaces and Interactions
Multimodal Interfaces & Interactive Systems
Mobile Augmented Reality |
| Asst Prof Peer Mohideen Sathikh | Peer Sathikh has research interest in three areas of design :
User Interface and Experience Design
Transportation and Urban Mobility
Cultural and ethnographic influence on Product Design
Industrial Design Pedagogy
His move from design consultancy to an academic position at the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM)is to enable him to focus his energy to research in those areas, besides teaching. |
| Asst Prof PerMagnus Lindborg | Grants, ongoing (as PI):
2012- Academic Research Fund Tier1. $50,000 SGD. Expressivity Online: Designing Participatory Telematic Performance.
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2012-14 Ministry of Culture, Norway. 125,000 NOK (~31,000 SGD) Music composition commission for Arctic Sinfonietta.
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(as co-PI):
2016-17 Arts Council of New Zealand: Asia/New Zealand Co-Commissioning Fund. 91,457 NZD. AXIS, Anatomy of Space (multimedia performance and installation). Belton D*, Lindborg PM, et al.
2012-16. MDA-NRF-IDMPO. $465,000 SGD. Game Design for Entertainment (MAGIC). Chavez*, M.; Lindborg, PM.; Feinstein, K.
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Completed grants (as PI):
2015 CLASS grant, NTU. $12,000 SGD. Si15 Soundislands Festival (incl. 2nd International Symposium on Sound & Interactivity)
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2013 CLASS gran, NTU. $10,150 SGD. Si13 International Symposium on Sound & Interactivity.
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2009-11 Academic Research Fund Tier1. $50,000 SGD. Kinetoaudiovisual Parameter Mapping in Virtual Instrument Performance and Interactive Installation.
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2010-11 Seed Grant “Art & Technology” Institute for Media Innovation, NTU. $20,000 SGD. Walking Bach Slowly: Designing a 3D Interactive Sound Installation.
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2009-11 Academic Research Fund Tier1. $50,000 SGD. Kinetoaudiovisual Parameter Mapping in Virtual Instrument Performance and Interactive Installation.
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2009 CLASS grant WKW School of Communication, NTU. $3,000 SGD. Film music for Nosferatu.
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2008 ADM Startup Grant School of Art, Design and Media / Digital Creative Centre, NTU. $8,760 SGD. Metal.Blown, multimedia performance.
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(as co-PI)
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2013 NAC Presentation and Promotion Grant. $10,000 SGD. When We Collide, interactive sound installation. Koh*, J.B.T.; Lindborg, PM.
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2012-13 IDM Microfunding MDA. $50,000 SGD. Asian Pop Music Generator – Mobile Phone Application. Skoric*, M., Lindborg, PM. & Yong, R.Z.
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2010 NAC Arts Creation Fund. $50,000SGD. On the String, multimedia performance. Koh*,J.B.T.; Lindborg, PM; Khiew, HC.
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2009 HASS CLASS grant. $10,000 SGD. Singapore Voices, an interactive sound installation with images. Ng, B.C., Lindborg, PM., Stulemeyer, R.
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(as Collaborator):
2013-14 SUTD-NTU Project GREaT. $346,500 SGD. Combining Music Therapeutic Knowledge and the Science of Recovery in Game Design for Stroke Rehabilitation. Liu*, S.; Kok*, S.; Lindborg, PM.; Chen, A.; Chew, E., Khong, A.
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MA
Liew Kongmeng: Music perceptiion, emotion, music psychology, sensory dissonance
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FYP-URECA and URECA (undergrad. research experience on campus)
Qiu Hai (2013-14). “Interactivity with Leap Motion”.
Zong JingJing (2013-14). “Perception of Film Emotion”.
Koh Chong Wu (2011-12). “A Musical Film”. Co-supervised with Lucas Jodogne,
Low, Ser En (2010-11). “Designing a Virtual Instrument for Performance”.
Koh, Chong Wu (2009-10). “Unheard Sights: Sonic Art Composition Project”. Proc. of URECA@NTU 2009-10.
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FYP (final year project)
Soh, Sandra (2015-16). "TouchéGreen: interactive surround sound installation with a green plant"
Wong, Jinpei (2015-16). "Audiovisual drawings"
Ho SWHE, Chan YXG, See KLK (2014-15). “Have you been drinking?" [game]
Kwan, Shixian Nicholas Alexis (2013-14). “Perception of sound: investigating subjective and acoustic qualities of loudspeakers”.
Tan, Sihua Alice (2013-14). “Soundwalks: 3D sound with focus on binaural audio”.
Lim, Miracle Jia Yi (2012-13). “Perception of sound: investigating subjective and acoustic qualities of earphones and headphones”.
Aw, Si Ying Maureen & Lim, Chung Sion Michael (2012-13). “SmartDJ, a system for automatic audio effects and track transitions based on feature extraction”. |
| Mr Peter Chen Chia Mien | Research Areas & Expertise:
Architecture as Image: Urban Memory, Landmarks & Heritage, Industrial Infrastructure & Urban Systems
Urban Objects: Public Art, Urban Furniture & Installations, Object Stories
Design Thinking: Origins, Development and Foundations of the Creative Process
The main research focus stems from the examination of the relationships between space, schema, image and memory. Frameworks are structured from a desire to capture and reveal the irregularities between lived experience and the schema or intention that created it. It is through the assumption that something always gets lost in the transformative process that we begin to witness the real relationship between abstract representation and the rational construct, and how through translation, interpretation and manifestation, it invariably deviates. |
| Assoc Prof Randall Martin Packer | Catalysts of Multimedia
Catalysts of Multimedia is a historical investigation of the artists, engineers, philosophers and their visions that have catalyzed and shaped the media-saturated environment we live in today. Weaving the various branches of art, science, technology, philosophy, and sociology – as well as the multiplicity of media, inventions, forms, and artistic genres – the histories are unearthed for their rich interplay of aspirations, research, and artistic/technological accomplishment.
Composing with Media
In contemporary multimedia art, musical and visual composition have blurred with the advent of new digital technologies, such that sound and visual media can easily be transposed, controlled and integrated through their reduction to data. Sound can be visualized, and images can be heard, either can be the control source of the other. Where does this sensibility derive from? This research underscores the fundamental changes in aesthetic thinking resulting from the integration of the arts: music, visual art, dance, architecture, literature, and theater. For not only has a new medium been born, but a new artist as well, one who practices a form of artistic activity that is here referred to as composing With media.
Art of the Networked Practice
This research explores the resulting impact of emerging peer-to-peer forms. Within the arts and sciences, we are seeing an explosion of Do it Yourself (DIY ), or Do it With Others (DIWO) manifestations in various cultural, scientific, and educational arenas. Socially-designed DIY events such as Hackathons and Maker Faires are emblematic of the surging interest in collective forms of creativity in large part catalyzed by the Internet and the World Wide Web. A growing number of artists who refer to their medium as “net art” or “art of the social practice” are engaged in forms of relational art that emphasize collaboration, collective narrative, and audience participation.
The Artist as Mediator
Historically, the term “avant-garde” carries the implication of the artist as social warrior, fighting and defending ideological and philosophical terrain. The artist’s exploration of inner meaning through aesthetic investigation has potency when externalized in the outer world through the expression of art, with the potential of transforming the social sphere. Ideologies are symbolic forms through which social action can take place, leading to proposals or models (sometimes in the form of manifestos) that call for change. The work of the artist thus becomes a critical lens on the changing landscape of cultural and political conditions in an increasingly technological and globalized world.
The Post Reality
With the rapid-fire ingestion of media, overtaking our experience of the physical world, we are clearly losing the distinction between that which is real and that which is not, between the real and imaginary, between the physical and the virtual. The digital natives coming of age in a hyper-connected, mediated society have no other concept of reality: they are the indigenous inhabitants of the post reality.
The Third Space
The third space fundamentally represents the fusion of the physical (first space) and the virtual (second space) into a third space that can be inhabited by remote users simultaneously or asynchronously. This research explores the creative potential of the third space for artistic creation, performance, education, collaboration, and play. Despite the pervasiveness of broadband technology and the free tools available for real-time connectivity (ie. Skype, Facetime, etc.), we have barely tapped the potential for the exploration of live, networked experience. This exploration of the creative dimensions of the third space ha |
| Asst Prof Ross Adrian Williams | Implementation of audio stimuli to improve effectiveness of Robotic Motor Training to enhance Motor Control in Hemiplegia.
A collaboration with Dr Dylan Edwards, the Director of the Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and Human Motor Control Laboratory at the Burke Research Institute/ Cornell Medical School in New York. We are investigating the use of sound/music stimuli to improve the outcomes of stroke patients undergoing robotic motor training.
Aesthetics of sound design for fiction narrative, experimental and documentary film. Primarily practise based with a focus on multichannel implementation for desired aesthetic outcomes.
Spatialized sonification of Volcano infrasound: A collaboration (Tier 1) with Asst Prof. Benoit Tainse at the Asian School of the Environment (NTU)
Soundscapes as Cultural Heritage: Particularly urban soundscapes and assessing their potential cultural heritage value. |
| Asst Prof Scott Michael Anthony | Before joining NTU as an Assistant Professor in Public History I had been developing the Public History programmes at the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Historical Research, London. As a writer and researcher I have worked with organisations such as the Science Museum, the British Film Institute and British Airways to develop a variety of successful events, exhibitions and media campaigns. The ambition has been (and remains) to bring the work of enthusiasts, researchers and practitioners together and apply it in creative, productive and unpredictable ways.
My historical research deals with the inter-relationships between art, politics and technology. My book Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain (MUP, 2012) examined how the emergence of so-called second industrial revolution technologies (agri-science, aviation and telecommunications) provided the bureaucratic, imaginative and demographic bedrock for the development of an Empire-wide ‘public relations movement’, a movement which pioneered innovative new media practices alongside theories about the social and industrial role of information between the First World War and mid-twentieth century. I am currently working on a book about the ways in which knowledge has been visualised since the turn of the twentieth century. |
| Assoc Prof Stephen Teo Kian Teck | Associate Professor Stephen Teo's current research work focuses on several aspects of theoretical interest in film. Firstly, contributing to the discourse on Asian Cinema as an alternative paradigm to Hollywood as the global form, and thus to evolve a concept of Asian Cinema as a viable cinematic and media theory supporting pedagogical and creative modules. Asian cinema and the concept of national cinema are inter-related forces but it is the latter that tends to subsume the former in theoretical discourse. Teo's research work seeks a concentrated, rigorous approach to defining Asian cinema as a specialized norm of aesthetics and thematic field that can be broadly applied to Asian films produced by diverse national film industries in Asia. How do Asian cinemas transcend national interests and become an Asian Cinema as a unitary and unifying element? With Asian film industries modelling themselves on Hollywood,how can an Asian cinema stand up as an alternative model to Hollywood? A second area of Teo's reasearch interest revolves around the nature of film in relation to cultural theory and other fields of cultural interest, including literature, history and popular arts. The literary and visual contrast inherent in cinema is a striking anomaly that calls for more theoretical investigation. Teo's work has concerned itself with how historical literary works are transposed into the cinema and how historical prototypes are transfigured as cinematic personalities but retaining essential qualities. A third area of Teo's work lies in genre and auteur studies. Teo is interested in standard Hollywood genres such as the Western, the action-adventure film, the thriller, the epic, the musical, and he seeks to explore their inter-textual connections with Asian genres such as the martial arts film, the gangster action film, the melodrama, horror, and historical epic. How do auteurs transform genre? A fourth area of research interest lies in the study of emerging Asian "New Waves" in traditionally ignored film industries such as those in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines. Can these Southeast Asian cinemas make a lasting impact on the discourse of Asian cinema? |
| Asst Prof Sujatha Arundathi Meegama | Keywords: Patronage, Artisans, Influence, Appropriation, Connected Histories, Material Culture, East Meets West, Ethnography.
Sujatha is broadly interested in cross-cultural visual dialogues and tracing the various negotiations that are part of these complex encounters between the East and the West as well as within Asia. Apart from her methodological interests in patrons, artisans, influence, appropriation, and connected histories, she is also interested in ethnographic approaches to understanding the material culture of Asia. Currently, she is conducting new research on roadside shrines to the Hindu god Ganesha in the war-torn northern regions of Sri Lanka for a second book project on seeing the divine in contemporary Sri Lankan religious culture.
Research Grant:
Summer 09 History of Art Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley.
2006-2007 Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship to conduct fieldwork in Sri Lanka.
Summer 05 Graduate Division Summer Grant, University of California, Berkeley.
Summer 05 History of Art Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley.
Summer 04 History of Art Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley.
Summer 03 History of Art Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley.
Current Projects:
*Ruins and Gifts: Art and Politics During the Portuguese Encounter in Sri Lanka.
*Praying on the A9: Patrons and Artisans of Roadside Shrines to Ganesha in Northern Sri Lanka.
Publications:
Sujatha Arundathi Meegama. “South Indian or Sri Lankan? The Hindu Temples in Polonnaruva, Sri Lanka.” Artibus
Asiae Vol. 70.1 (2010): 25-45. |
| Assoc Prof Sulfikar Amir | Science and Technology Studies (STS); Technological Politics; Globalization; Nationalism; Development; Southeast Asia; Risk and Crisis; Nuclear Power; Design Studies, Resilience Studies. |
| Mr Sven Pfrommer | Sven Pfrommer’s areas of research interests include: advertising communication, art and advertising, visual communication and technology, photography in advertising, brand communication, |
| Asst Prof Ting Chun Chun | Social and artistic activism
Chinese Literature and Cinema
Asian Urbanisms
Literary and Cultural Theory
Sinophone Literature |
| Prof Ute Meta Bauer | Contemporary art, film, video, and sound, with a focus on transdisciplinary formats. |
| Assoc Prof Vladimir Todorovic | Todorovic's areas of expertise include: experimental and documentary film, and generative art
selected creative projects:
2015. Karst, feature
2014. Fluid Boundaries, feature
directed by: Daniel Rudi Haryanto, Jeonghyun Mun, Vladimir Todorovic
2013.
Disappearing Landscape, feature film
2011.
Five Stages of the Myth, with Syntfarm
Formations, generative film, with Syntfarm
2010.
Silica-Esc, generative movie
2009.
The Snail on the Slope, generative movie,
NilDegree, computer game,
Groundpulse, mobile seismometer, with Syntfarm,
Synt-hazards, rapid prototypes – objects, public art commission, with Syntfarm,
“Gardenhost” urban intervention project - with Fabrizio Galli, Ing Ing and Yang Ying,
2008.
Syntboutique, installation, with Syntfarm,
Ad-Hoc, performance, with Syntfarm,
2007.
KA, performance, with Syntfarm and BTC, performance with Syntfarm,
Prague Soil, with Syntfarm,
Metazoa Ludens - augmented reality games for pets, with Mixed Reality Lab Singapore,
2006.
Transcoded Nature – mixed reality game, with Raster,
Cycloglyphs - GPS based media exploration of Belgrade, with Raster, |
| Assoc Prof Wang I-Hsuan Cindy | Currently working on two funded research:
-Use various principles and elements of graphic design, and combining with modern printing techniques to enhance visual communications.
The research revolves around the utilization of illusions and modern printing technologies to create new, innovative and unique illustration of visual presentation.
-Focus on type forms that combines elements of Asia and Western typography is innovative from as Asian perspective and meaningful as bridge between East and West. This fusion typography is gathering tremendous interest across the globe and her work in this area establishes her as a pioneer in this exciting new area of design research. |
| Asst Prof Wong Chen-Hsi | Chen-Hsi is interested in local and international content, big or small, as long as it tells a compelling story. |
| Ms Yam Min Yee Angeline | Angeline’s research interest explores various topics on the social landscape of Singapore and that of Asia. Using design as a platform for inquiry, her work examines concepts of social and cultural hybridity and it’s impact on the collective and personal identity. She is also active in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and is especially interested in issues arising from Confucian heritage classrooms and developments of culturally appropriate pedagogy frameworks.
Other interests includes: spatial narratives, branding issues, experimental and vernacular typography
Creative projects:
2015 - Five Floor Plans
Spatial narratives of Singapore public housing across five decades
An augmented reality community exhibition
www.5floorplans.com
https://vimeo.com/145044457
2009 - Typographical Confluence
Experimental typography of cross cultural characters.
Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels, Belgium |
| Assoc Prof Yeo Puay Hwa Jesvin | Theoretical and practical influences on creative concept development in the design-visual communication process
Interdisciplinary Creativity; Art & Design in everyday life; Design Trends and Forecasts; Designers as Entrepreneurs
Typography Design; Experimental Typography; Pangram; Book Design; Isotype
Sustainable Design; Inclusive Packaging Design; Innovative Packaging Design; Corporate Identity and Branding System;
Knowledge Visualization
Visual Research – Material Culture; Asian Cultural Identity
Digital Media; Radio-frequency identification; Wireless
Heritage Studies; Cultural Studies
Singapore Studies: Learning more about the culture, the history, and the people. |
| Asst Prof Yin Ker | Yin Ker works on narratives of art beyond the Euramerican canon, in particular, images classified as "Buddhist art" and artistic productions from South and Southeast Asia. To further her understanding of art, the artist and the history of art in these areas as variable constructs, she is currently examining the historiography of art in modern times, as well as ancient notions of material culture labelled as "art" today. She is keen to rethink art beyond the dichotomies of the pre-modern versus the modern, the sciences versus the fine arts, and spiritual experience versus scientific thinking, for example. |
| Dr Yoon Kyeongwon | Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics - DA/CA/CDA
Language Education - SLA, Teacher Education, Heritage learners, Writing (composition)
SLP - Language Development and Disorder/Speech Therapy in Multi-cultural/lingual Society
Language use in North Korean media
Korean Pop Culture - focused on Film |
| Dr Zeliha Gul Inanc | Contemporary Religious Art and Architecture
Intercultural Education for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Cultural Heritage Education
Refugee Studies- Higher Education Access for the Refugee Youth |
