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 [...]
WED 17 JULY 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #28 meditative states speakerS: EFTERPI SOROPOS KATE GECK ACMI X Studio, Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event. Booking essential. Book Here. This month we invite audiences to stimulate their senses through meditative installation design and experience. What effects [...]
DAVID HAINES Kirlian photography is a technique for creating contact prints by electrically charging, ionizing the air around an object, pioneered by Russian electrical engineer Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina in the early -twentieth century. The artist has rebuilt a Kirlian camera after much hard-won research and modified it from being an analog [...]
WED 19 June 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #27 Fleshy, Fractal & Phantom Bodies speaker: STELARC WITH GUEST HOST: EMMA MCRAE ACMI X Studio, Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event. Booking essential. STELARC - FULL PRESENATION (YOUTUBE). Q&A WITH EMMA MCRAE (YOUTUBE) Book Here. Experimenta Social [...]
WED 15 MAY 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #26 Playable art speakers: Hugh Davies Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey ACMI X Studio, Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event Click here to book. This month we handover the controls to the audience and venture into the world of play [...]
WED 17 april 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #25 machine lead speakers: Jon McCormack Alisa Andrasek ACMI X Studio Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event Click here to book. Computers have long been regarded as the antithesis to human creativity – logical and analytical, formulaic and practical – [...]
WED 20 MARCH 2019 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #24 Human to digital speakers: PR. DR. JILL SCOTT Dr. Betty Sargeant ACMI X Studio Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event Click here to book. The first Experimenta Social for 2019 invites audiences to consider their physical connection to technology. [...]
SPECTRA: The Art and Consequence of Collaboration Curated by Experimenta Produced by Australian Network for Art and Technology 16 July –6 September 2019 UTS Gallery, Level 4, 702 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007 LEAH BARCLAY, DAVID HAINES, LEAH HEISS, CHRIS HENSCHKE, JOYCE HINTERDING, HELEN PYNOR, ERICA SECCOMBE AND MARTIN WALCH. Click here to view [...]
