About Peter Morse - detail

Teaching, University of Melbourne 2005

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.

Filming, Fang Peak, Antarctica 2006.

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 (2008, in progress.)