Director / Theme Leader: Creative Arts 4.0
John McCormick is a technology-based artist and researcher. He is Professor in Interactive Media at Swinburne teaching in the areas of Previsualization and Extended Reality. His areas of interest include human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence, augmented, virtual and mixed realities, human movement and artificial neural networks. He has collaborated on works worldwide, including at peak festivals ISEA, ZERO1SJ, SIGGRAPH, Melbourne Festival, Venice Biennale, Siggraph Asia, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) London, Ars Electronica and Art Science Museum Singapore. John was an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow in 2019-2020 travelling on the last voyage of the ice breaker RSV Aurora Australis to Antarctica and he continues to develop public outcomes that explore the Antarctic experience.