Professor Yang Jiang - Inaugural Lecture

Professor Yang Jiang gives her inaugural lecture at Middleton Hall on Wednesday 4 November, from 17:00 to 18:30. It's a free event, though you'll need to book your place in advance.

Jiang is a Professor of Immersive Design in the School of Arts and Humanities, within the Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Hull. She leads and co-leads multi-million pound cross-disciplinary research portfolios, and is the principal investigator for Augmented Fashion: Immersive Interactions for Sustainable Heritage in Fashion and Textile, a £1.3 million project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and UKRI. Her research and teaching centre on 3D visualisations, immersive technologies, computer gaming, and computer-generated 3D character animations, as well as real-time motion capture.

During the lecture, she draws on Augmented Fashion and the European project IDEAL (Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship and Academic Learning for Creative Industries). Her work involves collaborating with artists and the creative media industries to create animation characters, reconstruct events from video to enrich computer animations, and develop 3D visualisations for GIS within the Human-Computer Interaction area. It's a good chance to hear how those different threads — fashion heritage, gaming, and motion capture — come together in one person's work.

It runs from 17:00 to 18:30 at Middleton Hall, the University of Hull's main lecture theatre. Entry is free, but you'll need to book your place beforehand.