Adam Hinshaw is a software developer and systems designer for creative industries including advertising, events, fine arts, online, museum, academic research, film and television. Since graduating in 1997 from the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Time Based Arts program), Adam has piloted a career filled with high-quality, impactful and robust interactive digital experiences, bringing the perspective of visual arts training to the world of software development.
His current focus is on large-scale interactive installation and projects in the fields of computer vision, projection mapping, multi-device interoperability and hardware accelerated graphics. Adam distinguishes himself by refining the software libraries and open source frameworks he uses in projects, with continuous improvement his ever-present goal.
A regular contributor to the Ars Electronica and International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) festivals, Adamʼs projects have included: Floating Territories, ISEA, Finland 2004; Untitled Media, ISEA, California 2006; and Seeker, Ars Electronica, Austria 2007.
Adamʼs long running and fruitful partnership with interaction designer Elisa Lee lead to the duoʼs launch of GPSCreate a GPS visualisation enterprise that fuses technology and creative expression with GPS satellite tracking. Adam and Elisa ran the GPSquisse public GPS drawing event at the Sydney Esquisse Design Festival in 2007 and have created several interactive installations in public aquariums such as the Shark Tracking display at Sydney Aquarium and the Reef Research multi-touch display at the ReefHQ Aquarium in Townsville.
GPSCreate recently completed a commissioned suite of permanent interactive installations in Sydneyʼs Royal Naval House (DataWall and Outside In) that display the buildingʼs real-time activity with highly- engaging data visualisations.
In 2009 Adam developed an ingenious multi-user interactive table system that was deployed nationally during the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year events. This system was re-purposed for the Optus Business Awards in Melbourne in 2011.
Adam has amassed a large body of work as a programmer and collaborator with media artists Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski. This includes Seeker, winner of the Award of Distinction in Interactive Art at Prix Ars Electronica in 2007 and sms_origins, a real-time, public driven SMS large screen project that was shown at Melbourneʼs Federation Square.
Adam has worked as researcher and developer for several university tied initiatives. These include: iWall, an interactive digital community notice board in partnership with the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design; Transcapes, an exploration of three-dimensional free form visualisation of GPS tracking data in partnership with the Centre for Digital Design, University of Technology, Sydney; and Woman and Snowman a robotically controlled screen synchronisation system in partnership with the Centre for Social Robotics at Sydney University.
Since 2006 he has collaborated closely with artist and academic Brad Miller in developing the Interactive Media Platform (IMP), an interactive media platform for the presentation and exploration of large collections of audiovisual media. Compromising several components and discreet architectures linked seamlessly between numerous devices and technologies, the IMP is a large-scale dramatic experience. The IMP has met with success across numerous incarnations. These include the artworks augment_me (Artspace, Sydney 2009) and data_shadow, (Underbelly Arts Festival, Sydney 2011) as well its application as a real-time collaboration tool and community builder in Rare Earth (Bridge 8, Shanghai 2011). The system was used in 2012 in mediated_moments as the lead experience of the SmartCities/GeoCites exhibition at the Chinese Museum of Digital Art (CMoDA) in Beijing.
Last year, Adam developed plasma_flow with Brad Miller, a unique large-scale experiential installation for the Vivid Lights Festival in Sydney. The installation received an enthusiastic public response leading to its curation by CMoDA for its 2012 SmartCities/GeoCites show, which saw the projectʼs development status elevated to v1.5 with further improvements and the integration of GPS location data from the colossal Chinese social media service Weibo.

- Writers:
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fishel
brad miller
- Date written:
- 2013
- Last updated:
- 2014
