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. Book Here. Experimenta Social presents Australia’s most innovative performance artist, Stelarc. Exploring the intersection [...]
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 [...]
HELEN PYNOR Fallen (11-17), 2017 Fallen forms part of an extended exploration into the ambiguity of life’s beginnings and endings in the context of chickens raised for human food consumption. The embryos depicted in this series are contained within the tenuous safety of their amniotic sacs, or fall unfettered through space, entangling in the [...]
The Art and Consequence of Collaboration Curated by Experimenta Produced by Australian Network for Art and Technology 4–26 October 2018 South Australian School of Art Gallery (SASA), University of South Australia ROBERT ANDREW, KEITH ARMSTRONG, LEAH BARCLAY, DAVID HAINES, LEAH HEISS, CHRIS HENSCHKE, JOYCE HINTERDING, BADEN PAILTHORPE, HELEN PYNOR, ERICA SECCOMBE AND MARTIN [...]
WED 21 November 2018 EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #23 Beyond the Gallery speakers: Cake Industries - Jesse Stevens & Dean Petersen Centre for Dramaturgy and Curation - Mark Pritchard ACMI X Studio Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Melbourne 6:00PM - 8:30pm / Free Event THIS IS A PAST EVENT. Click here for future program. Stepping outside [...]
WED 17 OCTOBER 2018 WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES speakers: LEAH HEISS THEA BAUMANN CEO Metaverse Makeovers, with live demo by Lia Tabrah. 6:00PM ACMI X Studio Level 4, 2 Kavanagh Street Southbank, Melbourne Free Event As the integration of technology increases within our everyday life, artists & designers are finding new ways to harness its impact on our [...]
