Each year, students nominate and vote for the Lecturer they want to give the Last Lecture of the academic year on the last day of classes.

In its 4th year, 2009 sees Paul Kirwan (Video Convenor in the Photography and Media Arts Department) selected from a field of 76 nominated Lecturers deliver a not-to-be-missed address.

An alumni of the former ANU Centre for New Media Arts, Paul Kirwan has spent the past ten years working at the highest levels of the visual effects industry, helping make such films as Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He has worked with such directors as Peter Jackson, James Cameron and Australian legends George Miller and Peter Weir. After stints at Animal Logic, Weta Digital and Industrial Light + Magic, he has recently helped complete Michael Bay's Transformers as Compositing Supervisor at Digital Domain in Venice, California.

Originally from Canberra, Paul completed his Bachelors degree in Computer Science at the ANU before obtaining a Master of Arts in Electronic Arts from CNMA (then known as the Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology). He has recently returned to Canberra to lecture in Digital Video at the Photography and Media Arts Department at the Australian National University.

Come be enthralled on Thursday 29 October at The Hall, University House, followed by refreshments in The Common Room.

No reserved seating or bookings available - come early as seats are limited - doors open at 5.00pm, event starts at 5.30pm