Chris Bowman is a designer, writer, director and teacher who works with film, and covergent media display systems. Chris has directed award winning films “Caged” 1983 (Uberhausen Film Festival) and “Passages” 1985 (J Walter Thompson Award). In addition Chris has an international profile as a production designer with over thirty film and television productions to his credit.
Since 1992, Chris has taught in the Visual Communication Program in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is an active member of the Creativity and Cognition Studios and co director of the Centre for Digital Design at UTS. Chris has coordinated various multi-disciiplinary, cross-institutional and industry based research projects that explore visualisation and interaction in virtual environment systems for museum and public spaces. In addition, he is currently researching how dramatic narrative systems can be mediated through immersive modes of interaction for networked 3D and 2D display envrionments.
Chris has experience designing interactive audio visual environments for screen media. His current research explores the relation between practice based design methods and approaches and theoretical modelling for the construction of interactive narrative structures. These structures are intended to advance the responsive and immersive capability of interactive audiovisual display environments. Chris has been the recipient of funding from the Australian Film Commission and the Australia Council for the Arts and is currently participating in a range of collaborative research projects with the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design Pty Ltd (ACID).
