Arts-Based Research and Future Creative Expression
In this talk, Dr. Andreas Kratky, Associate Professor and Dean of Research at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, will present his work in arts-based research and a selection of interdisciplinary research projects he is involved in.
He will outline some of the future challenges that creative expression and education in the arts are facing and discuss possible approaches and ideas to address them.
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In this talk, Dr. Andreas Kratky, Associate Professor and Dean of Research at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, will present his work in arts-based research and a selection of interdisciplinary research projects he is involved in.
He will outline some of the future challenges that creative expression and education in the arts are facing and discuss possible approaches and ideas to address them.
Andreas Kratky is a media artist and associate professor in the Interactive Media and Games Division and the Media Arts and Practice Division of the School for Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California. He also is the Associate Dean of Research for the School of Cinematic Arts. Kratky's work focuses on new forms of cinema and the poetics of the database. It spans the arts, human computer interaction and digital humanities; it comprises several award-winning media art projects like That's Kyogen, Bleeding Through, the algorithmic cinema system Soft Cinema, and the interactive costume projection in the opera The Jew of Malta. Kratky's work has been shown internationally in Europe, USA, Japan, and Korea in institutions like the ICA in London, ICC in Tokyo, HDKW in Berlin, ZKM, Centre George Pompidou in Paris, and REDCAT in Los Angeles. For his work on the modeling software "Xfrog" Kratky and the Xfrog-Team were nominated for the Science and Technology Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences.