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Chris Bowman is an artist, writer, director and teacher who works with film, and convergent media display systems. He graduated with a first class BA honours degree in Film and Animation from Liverpool College of Art (1980) and completed his MA in Film and Television at the Royal College of Art (1984). 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 The Dynamic Design Research Group at UTS. Chris has co-ordinated various multi-disciplinary, 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 (stereoscopic) and 2D display environments. Chris has been the recipient of funding from the Australian Film Commission and the Australia Council for the Arts.