Michela Ledwidge
Michela Ledwidge
Mod Director
Michela Ledwidge is a director and Internet pioneer who has been breaking and building technology for creative projects for over 3 decades. She is co-founder of Sydney indie studio, Mod, which specialises in realtime and virtual production. She created the first website in NSW in 1993 and has since been both creative and technical lead on numerous productions and collaborations. Michela founded her first studio, Mod Films in the UK, with an invention award for “remixable film” and then moved her practice to Sydney in 2007.
Recent work includes her VR documentary A Clever Label, graph productivity app Grapho used for internet forensics by APNIC, lots of performance capture using both mocap and volumetric video, and her game voice acting debut - playing Esther in the critically acclaimed Wayward Strand. She is Real-Time Live! Chair for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 conference which will be held in Sydney this December.
She is a previous SXSW finalist for her project, ACO Virtual (SXSW 2014 Interactive - Music prize).
Recent work includes her VR documentary A Clever Label, graph productivity app Grapho used for internet forensics by APNIC, lots of performance capture using both mocap and volumetric video, and her game voice acting debut - playing Esther in the critically acclaimed Wayward Strand. She is Real-Time Live! Chair for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 conference which will be held in Sydney this December.
She is a previous SXSW finalist for her project, ACO Virtual (SXSW 2014 Interactive - Music prize).
Related Sessions
Through the Eyes of Our Ancestors
SAT, OCT 21, 12:00 PM
Conference
We share a cultural heritage collaboration between First Nations Elders from Australia’s remote far north, Australia’s national film school, AFTRS and Sydney studio, Mod. The project supports screen and audio content creation for future-facing storytelling. Nicholas Thompson-Wymarra (Elder and Story Keeper), Romaine Moreton (Director, First Nations & Outreach, AFTRS) and Michela Ledwidge (Co-founder, Mod) present outcomes from their landmark pilot to establish and test performance capture protocols for recording cultural heritage stories as holographic material.
