Jenna Ng
About
Jenna Ng is Head of School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the editor of Understanding Machinima: essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds (Bloomsbury, 2013) and the author of The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Projection Mapping: Where Screen Boundaries Lie (Amsterdam University Press, 2021). She publishes mainly on digital and visual culture, but also has research interests in interactive storytelling, the philosophy of technology, the posthuman, computational culture, and the digital humanities.
Areas of Focus
History of VFX, VFX and Philosophy of the Image, VFX and Performance, Digital culture and VFX
Relevant Publications
New Virtuality: A Creative Website on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal (2023)
The New Virtuality: A Video Essay on the Disappearing Differences Between Real and Unreal (2022)
An Alternative Rationalization of Creative AI by De-Familiarizing Creativity: Towards an Intelligibility of Its Own Terms (2021)
The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie (2021)
She Crawls Out of the TV, or, On the Gendered Screen (2019)
"You have all the weapons you need" – Sucker Punch and the Multiform Gaze (2014)
Surface, Display, Life: Re-thinking the Screen from Projection to Video Mapping (2014)
Seeing Movement: On Performance Capture Imagery and James Cameron’s Avatar (2012)
A Point of Light: Epiphanic Cinephilia in Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon (2009)
Virtual Cinematography and the Digital Real: (Dis)placing the Moving Image Between Reality and Simulacra (2007)
