Experimenta is celebrating 25 years!
The staff and Board are excited to look back on the contribution Experimenta has made to Melbourne and Australian media art and it has been an incredible journey.
Since our beginnings as an experimental film distributor in Melbourne, Experimenta has grown with artists, filmmakers and media artists and we are proud to have sourced and exhibited some of the very best of Australian and international media and contemporary art, touring and promoting all over the country and overseas.
We are honoured to have commissioned many artists including, Lycette Bros. Van Sowerwine and Isobel Knowles, Lynette Wallworth, Shaun Gladwell, Daniel Crooks, Priscilla Bracks and Gavin Sade and Jesse Stevens and Dean Petersen, offering practical and financial assistance and support specifically designed to meet their needs. This has built a solid foundation for many future careers.
In addition to our fantastic commissioning process, Experimenta has provided media artists with exposure to a large and very diverse audience through each Biennial and touring program. Happy Birthday Experimenta!
Online Art Works
For I will fly to you, is an online artwork that melds text, animated visuals and sound to create a multi-layered and interactive experience. The viewer is taken on a journey in which they come face-to-face with a peacock, a hummingbird and an owl; each bird both embodying and subverting the certain myths and folklore that surround them.
SELECTIVELY REVEALED AN Experimenta/Asialink partnership exhibition
Experimenta are pleased to partner with Asialink to present Selectively Revealed, an exhibition of 14 Australian media artworks curated and presented as part of Asialink’s 2011/2012 visual arts touring program. Selectively Revealed investigates the blurry line between public and private in artistic practice. Employing a variety of screen and contemporary video-making techniques, each artist in the exhibition Selectively Revealed chooses precisely what - or what not - to reveal about those around them and themselves. Selectively Revealed will tour to a number of venues across Asia from October 2011 to mid 2012.
Selectivley Revealed is currently showing at the Digiark Space at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Taiwan until 13 May 2012.
More information on Selectively Revealed
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Experimenta Announces 5th International Biennial of Media Art - EXperimenta speak to me
Experimenta is thrilled to announce our 5th International Biennial of Media Art set to launch in Melbourne at RMIT Gallery September 14 to November 17, 2012. Experimenta Speak to Me is an invitation to consider what it means, at this time, to be together. Our ability to communicate with each other anywhere, all of the time - ultimate interconnectivity - has been with us for some time. We have seen previously impermeable boundaries become redundant to an extent where relationships can now exist in a parallel universe, a second life. As this capacity for connectedness is integrated more and more into our lives, it affects many of our significant, daily actions and the way we engage with places around us. In a rapidly changing technological field, how do we now consider these new relationships to the world, technology and each other? What does this connectedness offer us?
EXPERIMENTA COMMISSIONS FOR UPCOMING MEDIA ART BIENNIAL
Experimenta is pleased to announce the commissions for its 5th International Biennial of Media Art that will launch in Melbourne September 2012. Congratulations to Christopher Fulham (ACT), Jess MacNeil (NSW), Katie Turnbull (VIC) and Wade Marynowsky (NSW) on their selection.
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