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Dr Peter Morse has over 20 years experience in sophisticated visualisation techniques
He has in-depth technical skills and production experience in diverse fields such as video, photographic and film production, audio design and music, 3D visualisation, computer programming and online content development and delivery – and has taught thousands of students. He has a wide-ranging creative practice and has exhibited digital media works around Australia and internationally in the USA, Germany, Britain, France, Finland and Holland. He is noted for working with equal facility in the sciences and the arts, taking a transdisciplinary approach to reconciling diverse disciplines.
Peter lectured for many years at the University of Melbourne and Victorian College of the Arts in the field of Digital Media Production and subsequently at the University of Western Australia in Communication Studies. He has researched and taught in many institutions in Australia as well as overseas in Finland, Germany and Hong Kong, with a successful track record of national and international competitive grants, conference presentations, publications and keynote speeches. In 2007 he was appointed as an Australian Research Council Expert Assessor of International Standing (INTREADER). He has undergraduate degrees in Fine Arts, Communication Studies (1st Class) and a Ph.D. in semiotics. He was the Founding Vice Chair of the Melbourne Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, Chair for the Electronic Theatre Program for Graphite 2003, 2004, 2005 and in 2007 Program Chair for Graphite2007 – the 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia.
Since 1999 he has worked on Antarctic-related materials, digitally restoring many of Frank Hurley’s stereoscopic glass-plate photographs taken during the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition (held by the Mawson Collection), and produced stereoscopic presentations of the work. Principal amongst these is the 22 minute 3D movie “Home of the Blizzard,” on permanent show at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery since 2006 – it has been seen by over half a million visitors – and has also been screened internationally. In 2005-6 he was the recipient of an Australian Antarctic Division Antarctic Arts Fellowship, which enabled him to spend nearly 3 months aboard the 10,000 ton Russian Icebreaker M.V. Vasiliy Golovnin shooting stereoscopic content at Australia’s three main Antarctic Bases, producing major works shown at the Perth International Arts Festival 2007, John Curtin Gallery and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
In 2006-7 he worked for the Australian Antarctic Division as a computer visualisation consultant for the Mawson’s Huts Foundation 2006-7 conservation expedition to Mawson’s Huts, Cape Denison, Antarctica, producing 360º immersive stereoscopic panoramic content for systems such as the AVIE (iCinema, UNSW) (2008), Full Dome Digital Planetarium (Horizon – The Planetarium)(2008), and an interactive realtime archaeological/conservation environment using the Unity game platform.
In 2009-10 he is shooting a feature in Antarctica, using self-designed ultra-high-definition motion-controlled stereoscopic HDR fulldome time-lapse and panoramic systems.
Dr Peter Morse

Dr Peter Morse

Dr Peter Morse has over 20 years experience in sophisticated visualisation techniques and content creation.

He has in-depth technical skills and production experience in diverse fields such as 3D data visualisation, volumetric rendering, stereoscopic immersive virtual and augmented reality systems and computer programming – as well as video, photographic and film production, audio design and music . He has a wide-ranging creative practice and has exhibited digital media works around Australia and internationally in the USA, Germany, Britain, France, Finland and Holland. He is noted for working with equal facility in the sciences and the arts, taking a transdisciplinary approach to reconciling diverse disciplines.

Peter lectured for many years at the University of Melbourne and Victorian College of the Arts in the field of Digital Media Production and subsequently at the University of Western Australia in Communication Studies. He has an on-going research relationship with the Western Australian Supercomputer Program and the University of Melbourne HPC facility. He has researched and taught in many institutions in Australia as well as overseas in Finland, Germany and Hong Kong, with a successful track record of national and international competitive grants, conference presentations, publications and keynote speeches. In 2007 he was appointed as an Australian Research Council Expert Assessor of International Standing (INTREADER). He has undergraduate degrees in Fine Arts, Communication Studies (1st Class) and a Ph.D. in semiotics. He was the Founding Vice Chair of the Melbourne Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, Chair for the Electronic Theatre Program for Graphite 2003, 2004, 2005 and in 2007 Program Chair for Graphite 2007 – the 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia.

Since 1999 he has worked on Antarctic-related materials, digitally restoring many of Frank Hurley’s stereoscopic glass-plate photographs taken during the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition (held by the Mawson Collection), and produced stereoscopic presentations of the work. Principal amongst these is the 22 minute 3D movie “Home of the Blizzard,” on permanent show at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery since 2006 – it has been seen by over half a million visitors – and has also been screened internationally. In 2005-6 he was the recipient of an Australian Antarctic Division Antarctic Arts Fellowship, which enabled him to spend nearly 3 months aboard the 10,000 ton Russian Icebreaker M.V. Vasiliy Golovnin shooting stereoscopic content at Australia’s three main Antarctic Bases, producing major works shown at the Perth International Arts Festival 2007, John Curtin Gallery and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

In 2006 he undertook site documentation and digital asset creation for the ASKAP (SKA) and MWA radio-astronomy observatories, with staff from WASP and Astronomy & Astrophysics, UWA.

In 2006-7 he worked for the Australian Antarctic Division as a computer visualisation consultant for the Mawson’s Huts Foundation 2006-7 conservation expedition to Mawson’s Huts, Cape Denison, Antarctica, producing 360º immersive stereoscopic panoramic content for systems such as the AVIE (iCinema, UNSW) (2008), Full Dome Digital Planetarium (Horizon – The Planetarium)(2008), and an interactive realtime archaeological/conservation environment using the Unity game platform.

In 2008 he worked with the Census of Antarctic Marine Life , Arctic Ocean Diversity program (Census of Marine Life) and the Australian Antarctic Division on a variety of science education and data visualisation projects.

In 2009 he was the recipient of an Australia Council Synapse grant (via ANAT), working with WASP and the AAD on fulldome immersive data visualisations of oceanographic datasets. He was an invited lecturer for a public lecture series hosted by the University of Tasmania : ‘Antarctica – the Cultural Challenge,’ – the two other speakers were Sir Guy Green and Professor Tom Griffiths (ANU).

In 2009-10 he is shooting a feature in Antarctica, using self-designed ultra-high-definition motion-controlled stereoscopic HDR fulldome time-lapse and panoramic systems.