Domenico Mazza

A suite of digital experiences to assist the visitors, staff and hirers of the Geelong Arts Centre's new campus. The work has been developed as part of a collaboration between the Geelong Arts Centre and Deakin University's MInD Lab, MotionLab and HIVE Lab. For more information see https://gac.mindlab.cloud/ and https://mindlab.cloud/a-spatially-intelligent-arts-centre/

GDOM https://gdom.mindlab.cloud is a portable museum designed in the thick of pandemic lockdowns to allow users to explore the cultural heritage of significant sites across Geelong, remotely and on-site. GDOM expands on the Matterport platform by allowing quick navigation of large outdoor 3D/360° scans with a digital catalogue and minimap. Released for Geelong Design Week 2021 via live stream.

Computational Costume is a speculative design imagined for a probable future where augmented reality helps form an esemplastic physical/virtual world based on wearable virtual identities. The work presents an antidote to today's computing which requires our attention to be fixed to screens. It was made as part of a practice-based PhD at SensiLab, see https://sensilab.monash.edu/research/computational-costume/

In 2014: as a research assistant at the Immersive Analytics Lab (IALab) to improve the usability of Accordion a data visualisation application for examining and identifying spending trends across business units and locations within a large organisation.

In 2014–15: as a summer intern at Arup Melbourne to design and build a suite of data visualisations for building information modelling, project management and sensor data.

2014–15: Design and development of the website for Negative Press (2014) http://negativepress.com.au which has been archived by the National Gallery of Australia in PANDORA (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia) http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-160724. Other clients included Groovin the Moo music festival (2014) and Brook Andrew (2015).

2014: visual identity, collateral and wayfinding system for Monash Art, Design & Architecture (MADA) Open Day 2014 and MADA Now (graduate show) 2014. The wayfinding system was made up of 100+ signs within and outside the faculty buildings. The collaborative project was documented as a short film, see https://vimeo.com/105825388.

2013 & 2014: learning the ropes at a real design studio as a student intern with Andrew Ashton at Work Art Life studios and a range of clients, predominately the arts event Nite Art.

Kocaturk, T., Mazza, D., McKinnon, M. and Kaljevic, S. (2022). GDOM: An Immersive Experience of Intangible Heritage through Spatial Storytelling. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, Special Issue on Advanced Visual Interfaces and Interactions in Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1145/3498329.

PDF download: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3498329

Mazza, D., Kocaturk, T. and Kaljevic, S. (2022). Geelong Digital Outdoor Museum (GDOM) – Photogrammetry as the Surface for a Portable Museum, In Proceedings of 27th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, with the theme “Post-Carbon”, Sydney, Australia.

PDF download: https://caadria2022.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/74-1.pdf

Mazza, D. Bridging the Virtual and Physical: from Screens to Costume. (Monash University, 2019). https://doi.org/10.26180/5d5a214fdf8aa.

Read this exegesis online at https://do.meni.co/phd.

Mazza, D. Exhibition of Bridging the Virtual and Physical: from Screens to Costume. (Monash University, 2019). https://doi.org/10.26180/5d4c3457a6875.

The exhibition can be experienced online at https://do.meni.co/phd/exhibition.

First shown at the Design Translations exhibition 3–6 Dec 2018, MADA Gallery, Melbourne. See more at https://do.meni.co/phd/exhibition/#_computational-_costume-v2-video.

First shown at the FameLab 2018 Victoria semi-final, 28 March 2018, Melbourne Museum, as part of a live performance. See more at https://do.meni.co/phd/exhibition/#_computational-_costume-v1.

First shown at No Vacancy Gallery QV in Melbourne, Australia as part of the Melbourne FashionTech collective's showcase during White Night 2018. More info at https://sensilab.monash.edu/news-events/sensilab-white-night/.

Shown in conjunction with the publication at CHI 2017 in Denver:
Mazza, D. Reducing Cognitive Load and Supporting Memory in Visual Design for HCI. the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts 142–147 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3048430.

Mazza, D. Reducing Cognitive Load and Supporting Memory in Visual Design for HCI. the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts 142–147 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3048430. PDF download.

Information at https://mindlab.cloud/2022/03/18/a-spatially-intelligent-arts-centre/

By Melina Bunting, published September 1 2021, the article is available at https://disruptr.deakin.edu.au/innovation/intelligent-design-giving-physical-and-virtual-worlds-the-human-touch/