List of conference and invited presentations:
EVA London 2021 – 31th Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Conference
“Performance Capture for Virtual Heritage: Virtual re-enactment for the lost film Pontianak ” | Peer reviewed paper presentation | British Computer Society, UK, 2021
ISCMA 2021 – International Symposium on Computational Media Art
“Exploring B-Movie Themes in Virtual Reality: The Woman Who Fell to Earth and Met the Pontianak” and “Flux Garden – a Poetic Memory of a Lost Garden in VR” | Peer reviewed paper presentation | School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, HK, 2021
13th ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference
“Garden of Changes – VR Experience as Meditative Divination Device” | Peer reviewed paper presentation | Hong Kong, HK, 2020
EVA London 2020 – 30th Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Conference
“An Evaluation of Different Strategies to Represent Performance in a Tropical Garden for Immersive Environments” | Peer reviewed paper presentation | British Computer Society, UK, 2020
Keep the Distance – International Online Conference on InTangible Cultural Heritage as Immersive Experience
“Virtual Cinematic Heritage for the Lost Singaporean Film Pontianak (1957)” | Invited presentation | Singapore 2020
HCII 2020 – 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
“Virtual Cinematic Heritage for the Lost Singaporean Film Pontianak” | Peer reviewed conference | Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2020
AMPS Architecture-Media-Politics-Society Conference Canterbury 2020
“The Garden of Changes – an approach to embrace the forking path structure of the former Yunnan Garden in Virtual Reality” | Peer reviewed conference | Canterbury, UK, June 2020
PNC 2019, Pacific Neighbourhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings
“The Garden of Changes” | Invited presentation, Singapore, 2019
ISEA 2019 – 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Peer reviewed paper presentation: „The Gone Garden VR Experience – An Impressionistic Representation as Virtual Heritage Reconstruction“ | Gwangju, South Korea, 2019
ITFS SAS 2019 – 26th Festival of Animated Film
International symposium in conjunction with Society of Animation Studies (SAS)
Peer reviewed paper presentation: “Insufficient Data as Artistic Impression. Exemplified by the Gone Garden VR Experience” | Stuttgart, Germany, 2019
RMIT International University Vietnam
Invited artist talk: “Visual Effects – From Student to Hollywood Films” | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2019
2nd Immersive Augmented and Virtual Reality World Conference
Invited conference speaker: “ARVR in Heritage Preservation: How ARVR technology is helping to preserve the past” | Singapore, 2019
ISCMA 2019 – International Symposium on Computational Media Art
Peer reviewed paper presentation: “The 360° video Secret Detours as case study to convey experiences through immersive media and the method of presentation” | School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, HK, 2019
IM-ARCH ASIA – Immersive Architecture Asia: Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality for Architecture and Culture
Invited conference speaker: “Yunnan Garden 360 VR and AR” | Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore, 2019
HdM Vega Camp – The Future of Media
Invited conference speaker: “Gone Garden: Artistic Impressions and Imperfect Realism in Virtual Reality” | Stuttgart University, Germany, 2018
7th ZKM BEYOND Festival – VR, Artificial Intelligence and Post-Capitalism
Invited conference speaker: “Be The Centre Of The Universe – Strategies and Concepts to Experience Immersive Media” | ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany, 2018
EVA London 2018 – Electronic Visualization and the Arts
Peer reviewed paper presentation: “The Scale of Immersion: Different audio-visual experiences exemplified by the 360° video Secret Detours” | British Computer Society, London, UK, 2018
4th Global Summit and Expo on Multimedia & Artificial Intelligence
Peer reviewed paper presentation: “Layers of Meaning: Exploring Artistic Impressions and Imperfect Realism in Virtual Reality” | Rome, Italy, 2018
ITFS SAS 2018 – 25th Festival of Animated Film
International symposium in conjunction with Society of Animation Studies (SAS)
Peer reviewed paper presentation: “Layers of Meaning: Exploring artistic impressions and photorealistic representations in Virtual Reality” | Stuttgart, Germany, 2018
VSMM 2016 – 22nd Int. Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia
Invited conference speaker: “The Impact of Self-Publishing on Film Heritage” | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2016
3rd International Multimedia Conference Manila
Invited conference speaker: “Visual Effects – From Student to Hollywood Films” | Manila, Philippines, 2016
ITFS SAS 2016 – 24th Festival of Animated Film
International symposium in conjunction with Society of Animation Studies (SAS)
Keynote speaker: “The Influence of Visual Effects on Storytelling Structure” | Stuttgart, Germany, 2016
Albert Laurence School of Communication Arts
Invited artist talk: “The Art and Science of Visual Effects” | Assumption University Bangkok, Thailand, 2015
Nanyang Polytechnic
Invited artist talk: “The Imaginary Visual Effects of Hugo” | Singapore, 2015
CCA Centre for Contemporary Art “Pecha Kutcha”
Invited artist talk, Singapore, 2015
The Art of 3D Stereo Media
Invited conference speaker: “The Stereoscopic Visual Effects of Hugo” | NTU, Singapore, 2015
ITFS SAS 2015 – 23rd Festival of Animated Film
International symposium in conjunction with Society of Animation Studies (SAS)
Keynote speaker: “The Role of Colour in Visual Effects” | Stuttgart, Germany, 2015
Image Unit Postproduction Facilities
Invited artist talk: “Visual Effects: The Processes and Strategies” | Shanghai, China, 2014
ADM Research Lecture Series
Invited artist talk: “Visual Effects: The Processes and Strategies” | NTU, Singapore, 2014
Graphika Manila, 2nd Conference on Creativity
Invited conference speaker: “The Imaginary Visual Effects of Hugo” | Philippines, 2013
5th ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
Invited conference speaker: “The Imaginary Visual Effects of Hugo” | Singapore, 2012
UME Cinema Shanghai
Invited artist talk: “Hugo: Academy Award Winning Visual Effects” | Shanghai, China, 2012
IFC Cinema Hongkong
Invited artist talk: “Hugo: Academy Award Winning Visual Effects” | Hongkong, 2012
PXM Workshop Beijing
Invited artist talk: “Processes and Strategies of creating The Gustloff” | Beijing, China, 2011
World Expo 2010 Shanghai
Invited artist talk: “Creating the Visual Effects for General Motors World Expo pavilion” | Shanghai, China, 2010
UME Cinema Shanghai
Invited artist talk: “The Visual Effects Pre-Production of Roland Emmerich’s 2012” | Shanghai, China, 2010
FMX 09 – 15th Conference on Animation, Effects and Digital Media
Invited conference speaker: “The Processes and Strategies of Creating Visual Effects for The Volcano“ | Stuttgart, Germany, 2009
Berlinale Elektrofilm Event Screening
Invited artist talk: “Processes and Strategies of creating The Gustloff” | Berlin, Germany, 2009
Artneuland Gallery Berlin
Invited artist talk: “Going to Jerusalem” | Berlin, Germany, 2006
Fraunhofer Institute – St. Augustin
Invited research presentation: “COMIQS, Virtuguide 360 ̊ video” | St Augustin, Germany, 2001
FMX 01 – 7th Conference on Animation, Effects and Digital Media
Invited research presentation: “COMIQS, Virtuguide 360 ̊ video” | Stuttgart, Germany, 2001