3DXLab

3DXLab Director

John's academic research work explores arts-led and design-led modes of visualising complex scientific and biomedical data. John's research investigates the application of creative practice, technical innovation and immersive platforms to new data visualisation challenges. Areas of research include 3D virtual world design, 3D computer animation, VFX, 3D biomedical visualisation & Animation and reflective practice.

Senior Software Engineer

Conan is an ex-game programmer and educator with over 20 years’ experience developing and teaching real-time software engineering for computer graphics, simulation, and interaction, across various hardware platforms and modalities.

Senior Software Engineer

Rob is a computer engineer with extensive experience in immersive display systems, computer graphics and embedded systems. He has designed and created applications for VR, XR and immersive display rooms, as well as installing and maintaining these systems in galleries and museums around the world.

Post-doc Research Fellow

Having an extensive research background in biomedical science at the University of Melbourne and a longstanding interest in the visual arts, Andrew works as a postdoctoral research fellow and lead pre-rendered content developer at 3DXLab. Andrew specialises in developing creative solutions to complex visualisations in addition to carrying out roles in the lab’s interactive VR content development. 

Facility Systems Officer

Peter has been working in IT support, networking, and systems administration for over 25 years. He has worked for a variety of government departments, education institutions and VFX studios.

Immersive UX Researcher

Dr Rebecca Green is a Visual Communication researcher and an experienced graphic designer, comic artist and illustrator.  Her research has demonstrated that different aesthetic styles can dramatically change the way viewers receive visual messages.

Affiliated staff

Andrew is a senior lecturer in immersive design at UNSW. He has a background in art history and museums and his work focuses on applications of real-time immersive and reconstructive technologies to cultural heritage visualisation.

Affiliated staff

Grant Stevens, Deputy Head of School (Art) at UNSW Art & Design, is an artist and academic with expertise in contemporary art practice and theory. His teaching, research and practice focus on the relationships between photography, moving image, and digital media.

Affiliated staff

Luc Betbeder-Matibet is a nationally recognised subject matter expert in eResearch, Research Data Management practice and shared computational infrastructure services for researchers. He has held director-level roles for 15 years in higher-ed ICT and eResearch. Luc is the Director Research Technology Services at UNSW, a shared services function that he established which is responsible for Research Computing and Research Data. He is Vice-President of AeRo(Australia's eResearch Organisation and eResearch Australasian peak Annual Conference), an Adjunct in UNSW Faculty of Medicine Centre for Big Data and has been a Visiting Scientist with the Visual Analytics Team in CSIRO Data61. Recently Luc has been working with colleagues to regularly count how much Research Data there is in Australia.

Affiliated staff

Teresa’s research focuses on information processing and narrative sensemaking in immersive environments. Her research takes a neuroscientific and phenomenological approach which starts with the user’s perception and sensemaking and leads back into narrative composition and story. 

PhD Candidate

Benjamin’s work examines the tacit ‘know-how’ knowledge of expert Virtual Reality environment designers and builders. He uses close examination of his own practice making VR worlds in conjunction with interviews with other virtual environment experts to reveal insights about the blend of explicit and tacit knowledge that underpins the expertise of VR environment designers.

PhD Candidate

Sarah’s work explores digital tactility and the relationship between physical and digital making processes, exploring how the nature of the medium impacts the forms of the creations. Using techniques such as 3d printing, hand-extruding, digital scanning and immersive VR, her work explores where these processes catch or break down, revealing the underlying structures.

PhD Candidate

Jane is doing a practice-based PhD to explore ways of embodying sensory experiences of the more-than-human world using a speculative design approach assisted by MR. 

PhD Candidate

SJ is a Nehiyaw and Eastern European multidisciplinary artist and Board-certified medical illustrator. Her PhD work looks at implementing generative art techniques in molecular animation while combining Indigenous ways of knowing and western scientific practice. 

PhD Candidate

Melody Owen is an ecologically minded conceptual multi-disciplinary artist and writer from Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. Represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, she holds an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts, and an MA in Environmental Arts and Humanities. Her practice includes collage, curation, video, installation, and virtual worlds. Her current research is focused on exploring the philosophical field of zoosemiotics through virtual installations of 3D representations of bird song sound waveforms in social, creative, virtual worlds.

She has exhibited at the Portland Art Museum, Nine Gallery, PDX Gallery, the Art Gym, Reed College, and other locations and festivals in Portland, the United States, and internationally. She designed a 30-foot chandelier, modeled after the sound waveforms of endangered birdsong for the Nines Hotel in downtown Portland. She has participated in artist residencies in Paris, Quebec, Iceland, Switzerland, California, and her home state of Oregon.