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Experimenta
Where Creativity and Technology Meet.

Experimenta drives the development of Australian contemporary media arts. For almost twenty years Experimenta has fostered innovation in Australian film and media arts by providing a creative and interdisciplinary context to bring together artists and audiences in new cultural environments. In a society powerfully driven by the vehicles of technological change and an information economy, Experimenta’s relevance to the national creative community has become increasingly significant. The intersection of creativity and technology where the organisation operates has become the face of the 21st century, bringing hybrid vigour to both creative and commercial practice.

Experimenta supports and exhibits the work of artists experimenting with digital media, film, video, installation, performance and sound art through a variety of projects. Recent projects include: Invisible by Night, an interactive projection work commissioned by Experimenta for a public space in the Melbourne CBD; House of Tomorrow the 2003 biennial Interactive Media Exhibition in Melbourne; House of Tomorrow national tour 2004/05 to nine venues across Australia and regional Victoria; and internationally, Experimenta presented work at Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) Singapore and Media City Seoul International Biennale, Korea. ExperimentaLAB Warrnambool, was the first in a series of regional arts development projects that will see collaborative partnerships developed between media artists, local communities and industries in regional Australia.

In addition to exhibition events, Experimenta facilitates the production of new media projects through it’s New Visions Commissions program. This initiative allows artists to collaborate with industry partners, creating innovative opportunities for developing and resourcing the production of new work, and aims to find meaningful frameworks for collaboration between business and the arts sector in the new media arena.

As part of its ongoing commitment to the development of the media arts sector, Experimenta provides a vehicle for discourse and critical examination via forums, discussions, a fortnightly email bulletin and MESH, a yearly publication of critical writing.

Experimenta reflects, celebrates and stimulates the dynamic convergence of multiple media across technologies and in various spaces of engagement, challenging and extending the aesthetic, formal and conceptual potential for experimental art forms.