WED 20 NOVEMBER 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #32 speakerS: Chris Henschke Lichen Kelp ACMI X Studio, Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event. Booking essential. Book Here. For the final Experimenta Social of the year, we hear from two artists using the power of chemical compounds [...]
Experimenta Life Forms - - COMMISSION ARTIST Artist: PluginHUMAN - Betty Sargeant and Justin Dwyer (VIC) Artwork: PULSE PULSE places audiences in the centre of a digital experience that’s controlled by the life force of trees. Through this project we aim to forge deep connections between people and our natural environment, raising questions around [...]
Experimenta Life Forms - - COMMISSION ARTIST Artist: Thomas Marcusson (NSW) Artwork: DJ MOSS Machines increasingly aid the music scene, selecting music based on algorithms. But despite the emergence of musical AI, the brain controlling the dance floor is still favoured to be that of a human. Dancers prefer to direct their praise to [...]
Experimenta Life Forms - - COMMISSION ARTIST Artist: Dominic Redfern (VIC) Artwork: first forms The multi-screen video installation first forms centres on cyanobacteria, the single-celled algae that created the conditions for complex life to arise on earth 800 million years ago. first forms is a development from several installations Redfern has made around urban waterways, looking [...]
Experimenta Life Forms - - COMMISSION ARTIST Artist: Brad Darkson (SA) Artwork: science finds – industry applies – man conforms Assuming that one has the capability to engineer artificial intelligence (AI) beyond current technological confines to create a sentient machine, one needs to question the moral implications of this human endeavour. Why should humans [...]
Experimenta Life Forms - - COMMISSION ARTIST Artist: Helen Pynor (NSW) Artwork: Bone Ballet / Materialia / Afterlife We are currently witnessing a rapid expansion in the use of prosthetic implants in many branches of medicine, and a consequent boundary collapse between animate-inanimate. Pynor’s recent experience of hip replacement surgery prompted her work Bone [...]
WED 16 october 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #31 within earshot speakerS: Tamara Saulwick Nat Grant ACMI X Studio, Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne (Entry via pedestrian bridge behind Arts Centre Melbourne) 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event. Booking essential. Book Here. How is technology facilitating new forms of audience engagement [...]
Interview with Cake industries Cake Industries’ 'The Hybrid Society', which premiered at Robotronica in August 2019, consists of roaming performative sculptures embodying social media influencers that startle and intrigue audiences. Experimenta spoke to Jesse Stevens and Dean Petersen about their collaboration, the bleak impacts of social media, and the style and [...]
WED 18 SEPTEMBER 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #30 Challenging the Code speakerS: Roslyn Helper Dr Tom Penney ACMI X Studio, Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event. Booking essential. Book Here. Technology dictates the way we engage, behave and act in the world. Social posts, predictive [...]
WED 21 AUGUST 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #29 Encoding Empathy speakerS: Georgie Pinn Robert Walton ACMI X Studio, Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event. Booking essential. Guest Curator & Host: Erin Milne Book Here. This month’s artists are encouraging audiences to step into someone [...]
