Lukasz Mirocha
A new media and creative software theoretician/practitioner working with immersive and real-time 3D media
I am currently working as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. I am examining real-time media design techniques for Virtual Production / filmmaking and ML / AI training and research. I hold a PhD from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, where I explored the affordances of general-purpose game engines and 3D content creation software for designing new types of real-time, CGI-based content and 3D/VR environments for art, entertainment and commercial purposes.
I have been engaged in new media/digital technology research and practice for almost a decade. I have published on new media, digital aesthetics and digital design and exhibited artworks internationally. Before my postgraduate studies, I worked as a government-funded researcher, technology journalist, strategic foresight researcher and consultant.
- contact[at]lukaszmirocha.com
- Academia.edu
EDUCATION
Postgraduate
2017 - 2021
PhD in Creative Media
City University of Hong Kong
The thesis investigates the affordances of emerging software ecologies (e.g. game engines, content creation software) for designing new types of real-time, CGI-based content and 3D environments for art, entertainment and commercial purposes. The study is based on industry experimental content and authored new media artworks.
Fully funded by Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR) under the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS).
2011-2013
MA in Liberal Arts
University of Warsaw
Major in: Works of Art in Culture at the College of Inter-area Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences / Collegium Arts Liberales
Undergraduate
2008 - 2011
BA in Philosophy
University of Silesia
Interdepartmental Individual Studies in the Humanities (University of Silesia and University of Warsaw joint program)
EMployment
academia
2021- present
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (RGC) / Research and Practice Fellow in Augmented Visualization
Academy of Visual Arts / Visualization Research Centre
Hong Kong Baptist University
Principal Investigator
“Have 3D Environments and the Physical World Converged? An Examination of Emerging Real- time Media Design Techniques for Virtual Production / Filmmaking and Machine Learning / AI”
Fully funded by Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR) under the Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (PDFS)
2020-2021
Research Assistant
School of Creative Media
City University of Hong Kong
2015
Principal Investigator
University of Warsaw
“Internet of Things at the Crossroads: Smart Home and Smart Cities Implementation Models”
Institutional Starting Grant
Digital Economy Lab (DELab) University of Warsaw
2012-2016
Principal Investigator
University of Warsaw
“Images in the era of digital imaging technology. Analysis of the relationship between the analog and digital images”
Government-funded Research Grant (“Diamond Grant” program)
Faculty of “Artes Liberales” University of Warsaw
2012-2016
Lecturer / Assistant Lecturer
University of Warsaw
Digital Media and Technologies: Culture, Society, Humanities, (30h), Collegium “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, PL.
Archaeology of The Image II: Visuality from the Ancient Greece to Digital Aesthetics, (30h), (Responsible for 1 out of 2 modules of the course: The Digital Aesthetics Module), Collegium “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, PL.
Archaeology of The Image: Visuality from the Ancient Greece to Digital Aesthetics (60h), (Responsible for 1 out of 3 modules of the course: The Digital Aesthetics Module), Collegium “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, PL.
Other
2016-2017
Researcher / Writer
Medialab Katowice, Katowice, PL
2015-2016
Associate Reporter
Polish Press Agency (PAP), Technology News Department, Warsaw
internships
2017
Researcher
Virtual Internship – Global Scanning Network, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, Copenhagen
2012
Researcher
4CF, a strategic foresight consultancy firm, Central-Europe Subnode of the Millennium Project, Warsaw, PL
ARTISTIC PRACTICE
NEW MEDIA ART
2022
The Torchbearer's Cave (1.0)
Interactive audiovisual installation
2019 - 2021
The Synthetic Cameraman Series: (Cinematic) Synthetic Cameraman and Synthetic Cameraman: VR
A series of two teal-time 3D simulations designed in Unity 3D as part of the PhD study – a procedural real-time animation and a VR experience.
2019
2018
2017
Interactive installation
Co-authors: Eugenia Kim and Stefan Palitov
VISH was featured in the collective exhibition organised by Nanjing University and City University of Hong Kong in Nanjing and Hong Kong.
ARTIST TALKS
2024 Invited Speaker, Real-Time Worlds: Game engines, virtual spaces & world-building in contemporary art, Visualization Research Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK,
2022 Speaker, DACA 2022 – Data Art for Climate Action, City University of Hong Kong, HK.
2021 Invited Speaker, 18 June 2021, System Dreams / International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, HK.
2020 Guest Speaker, 23 June 2020, Creative Tech Now: WebVR Trends, Sydney, Australia [Google Meet].
2019 Lukasz Mirocha On “Glimpse of Future Past”, 5 January 2019, Open Systems, Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art, Singing Waves Gallery, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, HK.