Experimenta Social #26:
Playable Art
This month we handover the controls to the audience and venture into the world of play and gamification in art making. Through an experientially-driven exploration of play-based techniques, these artists are choosing complex and interactive methods to allow for unique audience experiences in their artworks. By blurring the barrier between analogue and digital realms, they are able to create new worlds where provocation and poetry co-exist.
Experimenta Social is presented in partnership with ACMI X, and supported by Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO.
About the Speakers
Hugh Davies
Hugh Davies
Hugh Davies is a maker, curator and researcher of games and play. His practice explores histories of media devices and cultures of games in the Asia Pacific Region. Awarded a PhD in Art, Design and Architecture from Monash University in 2014, Hugh’s studies in game cultures have been supported with fellowships from Tokyo Art and Space, M+ Museum of Visual Culture and the Hong Kong Design Trust. Davies is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia.
Website: http://hughdavies.net
Curated exhibition: http://longitude-exhibition.net
Blog: https://screeningasia.wordpress.com
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are leading Australian audio conceptual artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about sound in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. Their practice intertwines local, national and international relationships.
They have an award winning long term collaborative practice. In 2017 their practice was awarded the prestigious national Australia Council Award for Emerging and Experimental Artforms. Their work has been presented and commissioned widely internationally including Theater Der Welt, Germany: Brighton Festival UK: Sonica Festival Glasgow: Asian Arts Theater, Gwangju: Incheon Art Platform, Seoul: Sydney Festival Australia: Melbourne Festival Australia: AsiaTopa, Melbourne: Perth Festival Australia: MONA FOMA Australia: Kennedy Center, Washington USA, ANTI Festival Finland amongst many others.
Their current areas of interest are existential risk, artificial intelligence in public space, and long form socially engaged public art interventions.
http://madeleineandtim.net/