Animation from COFA student Jessica McGregor. Winner of best 3D CGI animation at the 2012 COFA Annual Awards.

Imagine being able to see your illness? Travelling through your own body to see the problem area. Dr John McGhee from UNSW Art and Design is helping stroke patients at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital come to terms with their diagnosis using 3D techniques normally employed in the games industry. Doctors say it makes a huge difference not having to explain conventional scan images which are usually difficult for the patient to grasp.

Professor Richard Goodwin and Russel Lowe CRYSIS IN PARASITE PARADISE: The work of Realtime Porosity Studio, 2013.

An interactive installation on display at COFA, UNSW through ISEA's "Running the City" exhibition, shows how cities of the future may be planned using a combination of traditional models and fun gaming technology.

For more information please visit:
www.isea2013.org
www.cofa.unsw.edu.au

Children with respiratory problems until now have been faced with dragging around a large and unwieldy oxygen tank. But a new award-winning innovation by an Australian design student will change all that. Roam is a lightweight oxygen cylinder that was developed for a design project at UNSW Australia. It has since won two international design awards and received seed funding to get it into production.

Ten finalists from UNSW's Media Portfolio course compete in a battle of pitches to industry professionals. Who will be king of the corporate jungle?

Professor Richard Goodwin and Russel Lowe CRYSIS IN PARASITE PARADISE: The work of Realtime Porosity Studio, 2013.

An interactive installation on display at COFA, UNSW through ISEA's "Running the City" exhibition, shows how cities of the future may be planned using a combination of traditional models and fun gaming technology.

On display at COFA for ISEA 2013 until 20 July, 2013.

For more information please visit:
www.isea2013.org
www.cofa.unsw.edu.au

World renowned photographer and UNSW visiting fellow William Yang speaks about the making of his first film, which is premiering at the Sydney Film Festival.

The film, directed by Martin Fox, is one of seven existing performances that Yang has re-performed and digitised during his fellowship at UNSW. It captures Sydney's emerging artistic, literary, and queer scene through Yang's candid photography from the 70s and 80s coupled with his honest and humorous narration.

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Sydney Film Festival, in partnership with ABC TV Arts, presents William Yang: My Generation at 7pm on Saturday 8 June at Dendy Opera Quays cinemas; followed by William Yang: In Conversation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, hosted by Vivid LIVE. The film will also be broadcast at 10:25pm on Sunday 16 June on ABC1’s Sunday Arts Up Late.

Animation from COFA student Luke Cavalan. Winner of Animal Logic Encouragement Award at the 2012 COFA Annual Awards.

Animation from COFA Master of Digital Media students  Nguyen Bui, Zhen Cai, Jingwen Liu, and Regine Clarke.

Winner COFA Annual 2012 Best 3D CGI Modelling - Modeller = Michelle Bau.
Honorary mention for Regine Clark for music and sound design
Prize: 3Hr one to one training with David Zwierzchaczewski.

Animation from COFA student James Tran. Winner of best animation at the 2012 COFA Annual Awards.