Creative Technologies Research Lab
The Creative Technologies Research Lab (CTRL) investigates how technology transforms our creative practices and cultures, and how technology is itself a subject, medium and domain of creativity.
The lab brings together artists, designers and critical theorists, with strengths in interactive media arts, creative AI, wearables, performance, sound, and speculative design. Our work aims to understand and support creative practitioners working with new technologies; to use technology to support the expression and understanding of critical issues through art; and to champion the value of human and more-than-human creative cultures, highlighting the risks and opportunities of technology to those ecologies.
The Creative Technologies Research Lab (CTRL) at ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø School of Art & Design researches and teaches emerging media technologies and their application in creative work. Its co-directors are Dr Ollie Bown and Dr Patricia Flanagan.Ìý
The lab’s research areas include:
- Adapting to AI in the Creative Industries
- Advanced Technologies for Media Multiplicities
- Biofeedback
- Data Visualisation
- Immersive Environments
- Media Architecture and Media Facades
- More than Human Design
- Music and Performance Technology
- Spatial Audio
- The Potential for Creative Agency in Machines
- Wearable Technology.
Courses for students in creative technologies
ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø School of Art & Design has 6 courses in creative technologies open to undergraduate and postgraduate students:
The Creative Technologies Research Lab offers Work-Integrated Learning placements through:
Location & contact
Creative Technologies Research Lab
Room GG14A, G Block,ÌýÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø Art & Design (Paddington Campus)
Cnr Greens Rd & Albion Ave
Paddington NSW 2021
Email:Ìýctrl@unsw.edu.au
Acknowledgement of Country
ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
