THURS 16 AUGUST 2018 NIDAnights: Performance and Technology speakers: Nikki Lam Matthew Adey 6:00PM - 9:00PM NIDA MELBOURNE @ SUITE 4, 152 STURT STREET, SOUTHBANK Free Event In collaboration with NIDA, this Experimenta Social looks at how artists are using technology in performance. Join us as we present Nikki Lam and Matthew Adey (House of Vnholy), [...]
WED 20 JUNE 2018 speakers: Jodee Mundy Rawcus – Artistic Director Kate Sulan with ensemble members Prue Stevenson, Nilgun Guven and Paul Mately. 6:00PM DOORS / 6:30PM START ACMI X Free Event ACCESS: This event will have Auslan interpretation. This month’s Experimenta Social #17 speakers are challenging the narrative. Creating performances based on the investigation [...]
FRI 3 AUGUST 2018 speakers: QUEERTECH.IO SUSANNAH WILLIAMS WARREN ARMSTRONG 6:00PM - 9:00PM TESTING GROUNDS @ 1 City Road, Southbank Free Event, click here to book. Experimenta Social is a monthly program of artist talks, tech demos and networking for people who work and play in art, digital media, technology and design. The event combines some of [...]
WED 18 JULY 2018 speakers: Anton Hasell Jiann Hughes 6:00PM DOORS / 6:30PM START Free Event, click here to book. The collaboration between the arts and sciences has the potential to create new knowledge, ideas and processes beneficial to both fields. Artists and scientists approach creativity, exploration and research in different ways and from different [...]
15 years ago, Experimenta’s first biennial envisioned the house of the future. One of Experimenta’s most ambitious early exhibitions, and the first in the organisation’s series of biennials and triennials, took place in 2003 at the defunct BlackBox gallery situatedbelow the Arts Centre, Victoria. Titled Experimenta House of Tomorrow, this collection of 30 new [...]
Modern Image Makers Australia (MIMA) was established in Melbourne 1986 by experimental film and video makers, and quickly became a crucial platform for screen cultures in Australia. It also became instrumental in the development of media art from an underground cultural phenomenon in the 1980s to exhibiting in major galleries, festivals and events. The original [...]
WED 16 MAY 2018 PRESENT THE FUTURE 6:00PM DOORS / 6:30PM START acmi x Free Event We live in a time of political fatigue, environmental crisis and spiritual abandonment. Often it is easier to tune out than to engage with the unknowns of our present, let alone our future. A new generation of experimental [...]
Virtualities was one of Australian earliest exhibitions at the nexus of art, science and technology. Exhibited in 1995 at Scienceworks in Melbourne, it featured some of Australia’s most significant artists including Patricia Piccinini, Peter Hennessey & Ian Haig. The exhibition explored the increasing potential held within the 'virtual worlds' of the computer to stimulate imagination [...]
WED 21 MARCH 2018 TECHNO REALISM & THE WONDERS OF THE UNNATURAL FORM Matthew gardiner & trinh vu Curated by Emile Zile Join us for the first Experimenta Social of 2018 as we deconstruct and reconstruct the natural form through the use of new technologies. Exploring the ways in which digital tools [...]
By Gemma Lumley, 2012 Preamble The following essay and time line are the result of my internship at Experimenta Media Arts which formed part of my Executive Master of Arts at the University of Melbourne. The internship lasted 12 weeks, beginning in March 2012. As I currently work for Experimenta as Administration and Program [...]
