Kim Vincs is a leading researcher in the creative arts, with eight Australian Research Council grants, 55+ industry partnerships, and 40+ arts/science collaborations across motion capture, game development, robotics, haptics, app design, 3D stereoscopy, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, cognitive psychology, biomechanics, mathematics, architecture and exercise science. Vincs’s industry partnerships include national and international companies such as Autodesk, Motion Analysis, Act3animation, Iloura, Alt.vfx, Arts Access Victoria, Victorian Opera and Australian Dance Theatre.
She has commercial motion capture credits including the Cannes Silver Lion winning Nocturnal Migration. Kim integrates scientific, technological and artistic methodologies to deliver innovative research to digital and performing arts industries, companies and communities. Her work spans creative technology for performance, digital scenography, VR, AR and robotics applications for motion capture technology. She has been a choreographer for 20 years, and has created 21 digital technology artworks, including works for the Melbourne Festival and White Night Melbourne. Works include The Crack Up, which premiered at the Merlyn Theatre, Coopers Malthouse, in October 2014; Multiverse, with Garry Stewart and Australian Dance Theatre and 3D digital scenography for the Victorian Opera’s production of The Flying Dutchman, 2015 and Four Saints in Three Acts, 2016. Her works have been shortlisted for Greenroom, Australian Dance and AEAF awards. The Flying Dutchman was a finalist in Unity’s 2015 Unite.
Professsor Vincs joined the Department of Film and Animation at Swinburne in 2017, where she co-established the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies with Professor Angela Ndalianis in 2018, and was co-Director until 2022. She is now a Senior Principal Research Fellow within the Centre. Before joining Swinburne, Kim founded Deakin University’s Deakin Motion.Lab, Melbourne’s first research and commercial motion capture studio, in 2006. She directed the centre for ten years until her move to Swinburne University in 2017.
Professor Vincs is also an award-winning educator with expertise in collaborative, interdisciplinary curriculum design linking art, technology, science and humanities. She has two Carrick National Teaching Awards; a National Teaching Award, Arts and Humanities and Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.