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| peter@petermorse.com.au | http://www.petermorse.com.au |
ABOUT: Peter Morse has a diverse background in semiotics, fine arts, artistic practice, music and computing. Currently Coordinator of Media and New Media at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia, Peter has worked variously as a computer animator, database designer and programmer, website designer, multimedia programmer, new-media exhibition curator and so forth. Since the early 1980's he has created computer-controlled audio-visual works combining musical/operatic performance and computer-aided visualisation. His current interests revolve around visualisation for (semi) immersive virtual environments and exploring modes of user interaction towards scientific datasets deployed in artistic contexts. To this end he is currently working upon stereoscopic CG materials composed from scientific (eg. GIS) datasets of the Antarctic, in consort with early twentieth-century stereoscopic photography from various Australian Antarctic expeditions, that can be deployed in a variety of contexts (eg. visualisation centres, museums, planetaria, galleries, on-line). He has an on-going intellectual interest in the relationship between the sciences and arts and the role of semiotic approaches as a methodology for reconciling these diverse disciplines.
Peter Morse initially studied Physics at Murdoch University, Western Australia, before switching to practical studies in Fine Arts. He has a B.A. in Fine Arts (Curtin University, W.A.), a first-class Honours degree in Communication Studies (Murdoch) and a Ph.D. in visual semiotics (Murdoch). In 1994 he moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he taught Art History and Cultural Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and curated several new-media exhibitions. He has travelled widely and spent the years between 1996-1999 principally working as a free-lance computer artist in Berlin, Germany, and worked on several projects supported by funding from the Australian Film Commission and the Australia Council. In mid-1999 he returned to Australia to work at the Victorian College of the Arts as a lecturer in New Media, and assumed his current position in 2001. He established the New Media/Digital Media curricula at the School of Creative Arts, supervises a range of Masters and Ph.D. Postgraduate students and was instrumental in setting up the University of Melbourne Computer Visualisation Facility. He has exhibited work both in Australia and Europe and is currently Vice-Chair of the Victorian Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, Melbourne, Australia.
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