Experimenta Utopia Now
INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MEDIA ART
MELBOURNE PREMIERE
12 FEBRUARY – 14 MARCH 2010
THE ARTS CENTRE, BLACKBOX
Showcasing more than 30 innovative and interactive works from countries including Australia, Japan, Austria, India, Germany, Canada, France, Taiwan and the UK, Experimenta Utopia Now critiques the scope for happiness on earth as we know it, pokes fun at social and physical boundaries and questions the human race’s ability to preserve itself.
Online Art Works
You Were In My Dream is an online interactive artwork that invites you to leap and cavort with some crazy characters in a bizarre ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ animation. Turn on your webcam for some seriously hysterical identity theft!
The Nauru Elegies: a Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture
By Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) and Annie K. Kwon.
This project looks at the combination of unique qualities that make
a remote place like the island of Nauru a core member of the 21st century global economy: It explores an island in a state of environmental collapse.
10am – 5pm, 19 February – 6 March
Blindside Gallery, Nicholas Building, Melbourne
Opening night 18 February @ 6:00pm
SONIC VIBRATIONS - WORKSHOP
Presented by international media artist Niklas Roy (Germany).
Blend everyday objects with the power of basic tech to create and take home a fully functioning sonic manipulator. Plug straight into your new baby amp (provided by Experimenta) and produce some hot new tunes.
10am – 5pm, 13 February
Signal, Flinders Walk, Northbank, Melbourne
AS SEEN BY EXPERIMENTA – FILM PROGRAM
A standout selection of the classic, the contemporary and the cult – As Seen by Experimenta is bound to turn a few stomachs and convert a couple of carnivores. From Capra to cannibalism, explore cinema’s greatest attempts to highlight the inevitable failures in humanity’s quest to manufacture utopia. Shown over three hot summer nights – don’t miss these iconic films on the big screen!
14 February – 16 February
ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square
Momoyo Torimitsu Miyata Jiro, Performance
Watch as life-size robotic businessman Miyata Jiro crawls his way commando-style through the CBD battlefield like so many before him. Tended to by his lovely nurse artist Momoyo Torimitsu performances are not to be missed!
12 February, from 6:30pm -
beginning at The Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, 25 Collins St, Melbourne
13 February, the Arts Centre Precinct –
keep checking experimenta.org for times!
15 February, Collins Street –
keep checking experimenta.org for times!
