Dr Gregory Ferris
Lecturer, Creative Practices Group
Ass. Dip, BA (Nepean CAE), GradDipArt (CAI), MFA (Hons) (UNSW), MA (UNSW), PhD (UNSW), PhD (UNSW)
Email: Gregory.Ferris@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 2521
Fax: +61 2 9514 4344
Room: CB03.04.20 (map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123,
Broadway NSW 2007,
Australia
Biography
Greg Ferris works across a variety of media environments, including interactive CD-ROM, the Internet, DVD, Installation and Film and Video.
He's produced, directed, and edited video-clips for the likes of MGF and Pauline Pantsdown and has created animations and digital effects for countless music videos, short films, commercials, and mini-features.
'To Pussytown and Back', his DVD for rock band MGF was nominated for Australian Music DVD of the year in 2004.
For his PHD research he worked on the installation projects 'Eavesdrop' and 'Conversations' both of which were world firsts in the areas of panoramic, interactive, multi-linear narrative filmmaking.
He's curated festivals of both film and art for the Art Gallery of NSW, The Biennial of Sydney and FilmWest.
He's exhibited both locally and Internationally, including the Berlin Videofest and the Sydney Film Festival, and has worked in the industry ever since his first experimental animated films screened on the ABC in the mid eighties.
Research
Research interests
Creative writing
Film and video production
Media and communication studies
New media
