MISSION AND RESEARCH PROGRAM

The National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) is Australia's leading institute for experimental collaboration in art, science and emerging technologies. Through arts-led thinking we generate new insights into globally important issues resulting in real-world outcomes.

NIEA encompasses a range of transdisciplinary labs and creative research programs. These are united by a focus on the practical and conceptual value of aesthetic inquiry. Our research offers the sciences and humanities new perspectives on human interaction and experience. Through innovative experimental methodologies we investigate the corporeal and social dimensions of interaction in relation to a range of technologies, environments and wider settings.

At any one time, NIEA labs and programs work on a number of major cross cutting themes. In 2014 we launched the theme of Medical Visualisation, Health and Wellbeing.

STRENGTHS

NIEA's research strengths are:

• Media Arts, including
  - Interactivity
  - Immersive environments
  - Visualisation
  - Robotics
  - Aesthetics, visual culture and exhibition making

PRIORITY AREAS OF APPLICATION

• Environment, ecology and sustainability
• Health and memory
• Indigenous culture
• Social practice
• Museums and public culture

Institute Director
Professor Jill Bennett (NIEA Founding Director)

Deputy Directors
Professor Sarah Kenderdine (Director, iGLAM Lab)
Dr John McGhee (Director, 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab)
Professor Dennis Del Favero (Director, iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research UNSW)

Board Chair
Mr John Masters (Director, Intersect)
Board Members
Professor Ross Harley (Dean, UNSW Art & Design)
Professor Jill Bennett (Director, NIEA)
Professor Sarah Kenderdine (Director, iGLAM Lab)
Dr John McGhee (Director, 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab)
Professor Dennis Del Favero (Director, iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research UNSW)
Dr John Yu, AC 
Professor Terry Smith (UNSW Art & Design, University of Pittsburgh)
Denis Mamo (Creative Ringmaster, White Space Concepts)