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The ATOM Study Guide is a PDF resource designed to complement a visit to the Experimenta Life Forms: International Triennial of Media Art exhibition.

Lizzie O’Shea is founder and chair of not-for-profit agency Digital Rights Watch, and was a speaker at our recent TWIFSY Lunchbox Talks, at the T&G Building as part of Now or Never. We caught up with Lizzie before the talks to get her take on the challenges presented by new technology, from an ethical and […]

Take a look at the themes and ideas behind the incredible installation TWIFSY (The world is fine, save yourself), including thoughts from artist Peter Thiedeke and digital rights lawyer Lizzie O’Shea. In recent years our world has become dominated by almost daily headlines on breakthrough developments in AI and the rapid advance of big tech. […]

For the second interview of our series Future Rewind, we caught up with Christy Dena – a writer, designer and director of cross-disciplinary and interactive projects in both the digital realm and the everyday. Her video game installation Magister Ludi was featured as part of Experimenta Recharge, 2014 -2016. The power of play is undeniable. […]

Michele Barker and Anna Munster are media artists whose work pull featured in Experimenta Make Sense. In this first interview of our new series Future Rewind, we caught up with Anna and Michele to revisit the past, take a look at the present and seek some advice from the future If collaboration is an art […]

Read full article here Published by Beat, 17 August 2023 By Luke Carlino How does 1.2km of free cutting-edge art and technology, food trucks and an on-site Moon Dog craft brewery sound? Now or Never is simply swarming the city with futuristic art in the best possible way this August, much of it entirely free! […]

Read full article here Review by Celina Lei 18th August 2023 Crowd-pleasers set the tone at Melbourne’s inaugural Now or Never festival. The Now or Never Art Trail, one of the hallmark events at Melbourne’s new Now or Never festival, launched last night (17 August) along Dockland’s Victoria Harbour Promenade. Art and technology intertwine in […]

This special podcast series talks to the artists behind the Now or Never Art Trail. Hosted by Will Tait, these conversations with the seven exhibiting artists provides a fascinating glimpse into their work, their processes and ultimately their ideas around the creative possibilities of a new tomorrow. Episode 1: Michaela Gleave Experimenta · Now or […]

Earlier this month Experimenta launched Experimenta Life Forms at the New England Regional Art Museum. We’re so excited to share this show with audiences in north east NSW’s New England High Country on Anaiwan land. We recently chatted with Rachael Parsons, the Art Museum Director at NERAM. Q: Thanks for having us at NERAM again […]

Do you have a concept for an artwork but are not sure of how to develop the idea further? Or perhaps you’re simply intrigued by the creative process that brings an artwork or site-specific installation to fruition.   The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre are offering a unique opportunity to learn about the artistic process, from […]

Last week we opened Experimenta Life Forms on Boandik land at The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre. We’re very excited to share the exhibition with audiences along South Australia’s Limestone Coast, so we sat down and had a chat with Diana Warnes, manager of the Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre. Q: Thanks for having us […]

This winter Experimenta are heading to Dubbo to launch our 8th touring show Experimenta Life Forms at Western Plains Cultural Centre. We’re very excited to share this show with audiences and we chat with Gallery Curator Kent Buchanan. Q: Thanks for having us again Kent! What about the Experimenta Life Forms exhibition do you think […]

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Experimenta.  We are looking for a Program Manager who will design and deliver our artistic program (triennials and special projects) in line with the artistic vision set by the Artistic Committee and Board.  This role will develop, advise on and deliver experimental art programs driven by technology.   Including […]

Read the full article here. Review by Melissa Pesa28 November 2014  According to Artistic Director Jonathan Parsons, these artists, “by listening, watching, thinking and making, they recharge knowledge and meaning systems, reinvigorating these systems or radically transforming them.” Inspired by and entangled with the past these artists question how technology and cultural contexts create new […]

Read the full article here. Review by Ben ByrneMarch 2015 Experimenta Recharge scans the world of media art today, characterising it as increasingly transnational and post-digital in nature. Examining the role of the digital as a pervasive mediator of global culture, the show demonstrates the now commonplace blurring and traversing of boundaries between analogue and digital, […]

Read the full Age article here. Review by Anna MadeleineWednesday 26 November 2014 Experimenta’s biennial model provides a snapshot of media art practice from Australian and international artists every two years. “With this particular biennal, the title is Recharge,” says Parsons, “and we were very interested in looking at the way artists were using technologies to […]

Bringing us closer to the complex ecologies around us, the Tweed Regional Gallery hosted a drawing activity inspired by the Experimenta Life Forms artwork, You Me Things. Using local plants as reference, participants were provided with instructions to see the shapes, colours and patterns of organic materials and how they can influence unique character designs. […]

Read the full Age article here. Review by Andrew StephensNovember 21, 2014 — 11.45pm Korisnky’s work is not the only one edging into extraordinary territory in Experimenta: Recharge. Parsons has selected work from a wide scope of disciplines – photography, installation, electronic sculpture, interactive and immersive media, robotics, bio art, live art, sound art, 3D printing, […]

Check out the stories created by young participants at Tweed Regional Gallery. Inspired by Experimenta Life Forms artwork ‘Little Sunfish’ by Michael Candy, the audience is asked to imagine a not so distant future where robots can think for themselves and have their own adventures. This workshop was led by children’s and teen author Tristan Bancks, during which […]

Experimenta Artistic Director and Co-Curator Jonathan Parsons recently spoke to Art Guide magazine about Experimenta Make Sense. As Parsons explains, “Obrist coined this phrase ‘the extreme present’ to describe the phenomenon of the pace of change, largely driven by technology, in which people are struggling to keep up with the present, let alone think about […]

The University of Melbourne’s Dr Daryl Holland has written an insight into the science behind Scale free Network’s A Hierarchy of Eddies, exploring the ways it sparks our imagination. “Now, a team of scientists, engineers and artists have come together to produce an art-science experiment, called A Hierarchy of Eddies, which aims to show audiences […]

In the past, artworks and artefacts were confined to museums and the pages of books. With many museums digitising their collection works are now readily available to view by anyone with an Internet connection and digital device. Art or Not, an A.I. powered app created by SensiLab (a research lab based at Monash University), takes advantage […]

Can AI make you more creative? In a workshop supported by Experimenta Media Arts, researchers from SensiLab at Monash University explored how the latest advancements in AI could be used to inspire and enhance artistic skills with students visiting Latrobe Regional Gallery (VIC). As part of the workshop the students were challenged to designed an […]

Part of a larger investigation into pattern formation, Drawing on Complexity (The Experimenta Series) presents a series of experiments that will compare what patterns (social or aesthetic) will emerge when different groups of people make a drawing together within a similar set of parameters. Exhibiting as part of Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art, documentation […]

The Language of Listening is a hybrid audio-reading experience produced to compliment the installation SonoLexic, presented as part of Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art. In a series of one-on-one interviews, Experimenta artist Gail Priest will collect responses from gallery visitors about both the concepts in her artwork and broader experiences of listening in a […]

Written & Facilitated by Helen Pynor Hosted by Tweed Regional Gallery (NSW) Tooth Fairies for Adults: Rituals for our Tissues was an Experimenta workshop that explored the fate of our tissues once they leave our bodies. For this workshop we were able to meet at Tweed Regional Gallery (NSW), a very different experience after previous workshops […]

Over these summer holidays, Experimenta is heading to Murwillumbah (NSW) to launch our 8th touring show Experimenta Life Forms at Tweed Regional Gallery. This will be our second time presenting with the gallery. We’re very excited to share this show with audiences along the North Coast, on Bundjalung land (NSW) and we chat with Gallery […]

Award presented by Experimenta for Melbourne Fringe Festival 2021 Experimenta Judge’s Feedback: Jessica’s performance drew us immediately to the screen and into her softly spoken world of AMSR. A beautifully intimate experience that critiqued our captivation with Youtube creators, harnessed the potential of the platform and successfully played with the audience sitting alone watching at […]

Written By Helen Pynor Tooth Fairies for Adults: Rituals for our Tissues was an Experimenta workshop I facilitated that explored the fate of our tissues once they leave our bodies, and how to create more respectful fates for these tissues. It took us into the new terrain of running a workshop online, in response to the […]

We’re excited to continue to partner with Melbourne Fringe Festival to present the Artist Development Award for ‘Art Unbound’. This award celebrates the achievement of emerging artists who are experimenting with presentation models, challenging audience expectation and innovating with technology. In 2020 the Art Unbound Award was given to performance artist Marcus McKenzie for ‘The […]

Experimenta heads back to Newcastle to launch our 9th touring show Experimenta Life Forms at The Lock-Up. This will be our third time presenting with the gallery! We’re very excited to bring this new touring exhibition to audiences in the Hunter Valley on Mulubinba land (NSW) and chat with Artistic Director Courtney Novak. Q: Thanks […]

Oron Catts and Ionat Zur’s interest is life, more specifically the shifting relations and perceptions of life in the light of new knowledge and its applications. Their artistic studio is a scientific lab, where they work with living biological materials that are either naturally occurring or designed in the lab. Their collaborative practice often sees […]

The ATOM Study Guide is a PDF resource designed to complement a visit to the Experimenta Life Forms: International Triennial of Media Art exhibition.

Michele Barker and Anna Munster have collaborated for over twenty years focusing on experimental cinema and responsive media environments as a way of exploring perception, embodiment and movement. More recently they have expanded their palette of production techniques to include under-water cameras, hydrophones and drones as their practice has become more concerned with capturing the […]

Check out the amazing new life forms created by Taroona Cubs and Scout members (8 – 14 years old), who responded to the ‘At Home Activity – You Me Things’, hosted online by Experimenta Life Forms artists Uyen Nguyen, Max Piantoni and Matthew Riley. Based on the plants they found in their local environment near the gallery, they drew […]

Read this Artlink review by Eliza Burke, from the presentation of Experimenta Life Forms at Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart.

In our first Experimenta Social talks event for 2021 we hear from two artists based in Tasmania to celebrate the launch of the Experimenta Life Forms exhibition in Hobart. Svenja Kratz’s trans-disciplinary practice is concerned with exploring the implications of biotechnology research. She is making a significant contribution to the field of Bioart through her […]

Hobart locals connected with their surroundings through this in-person guided tour and drawing activity session, check out the photos here!

How do we make sense of an object that has been stripped of its context by being placed in a museum collection? Judy Watson’s video ‘the keepers’ documents and reflects on her experience of researching the extensive Indigenous Australian collections held in the British Museum. This vast collection of artifacts is housed far from the […]

m0wson&MOwson’s work ‘feeler’ is a breathtaking installation of dismembered octopus tentacles exploring motherhood and reproductive manipulation and control of non-human life forms. Here, lynn mowson shares her and Bruce Mowson’s careful process of constructing the work and its relationship to octopuses.  “Each limb is hand cast, a laborious process of gradually layering 7-8 coats of latex […]

The recent death of Frank Lovece, a Melbourne based artist, has left us all deeply stunned and profoundly saddened. Such states of loss and shock can give rise, often in involuntary ways, to a range of unexpected and vivid memories, connections and reflections.  In this tribute to Frank we have attempted to harness and consolidate […]

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 Coordinator, […]

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 and […]

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 […]

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 works took a playful look at […]

‘Experimenta Make Sense’ is back on the road, presenting from 12 December 2020 – 14 February 2021 at Benalla Art Gallery. We spoke to their gallery director Eric Nash about the exhibition and what else to see in Benalla. Why did you decide to program Experimenta Make Sense at Benalla Art Gallery? On taking on the role at Benalla Art Gallery […]

In this interview Dominic Redfern discusses his fascination with cyanobacteria – ancient bacteria responsible for life on this planet. He deliberates on working within a post-documentary framework, shooting at the edge of the human eye’s perception, and creating a cosmology through music. Experimenta: The work you’re making for Experimenta Life Forms focuses on ancient biological […]

Central to Australian experimental artist duo Cake Industries’ practice are works that reflect and challenge our relationship with technology. In this episode of ‘Experimenta Studio Session’, Jesse Stevens & Dean Petersen discuss their process for discovering new creative tools to push the boundaries of sculpture and electronics. In 2019 Experimenta commissioned Cake Industries’ roaming artwork, […]

The first interview for this video series invites Australian artist Matthew Sleeth to reflect on time spent recently in the studio, influencing him to think more broadly about his history working with image as motion. He also discusses his collaborative process working with diverse technologies and how this approach has allowed him the creative flexibility […]

In order to get to know our commissioned artists for Experimenta Life Forms a little better we are publishing a series of interviews about their works. This week we spoke to Betty Sargeant from PluginHUMAN who discusses her research into trees and their ecosystems that she has undertaken in the Amazon, Panama, Taiwan, India and […]

In order to get to know our commissioned artists for Experimenta Life Forms a little better we are publishing a series of interviews about their works. First up are Uyen Nguyen, Max Piantoni and Matthew Riley who’s work ‘You, Me, Things’ will push their ‘Yomeci’ series into new territory. Experimenta:  What inspired you to create the […]

In this interview we spoke to Helen Pynor about her multifaceted work ‘Habitation’, which challenges the animate-inanimate boundary in the body. Helen discusses her personal experience of surgery, the artists and academics whose ideas inform this ambitious artwork, the alchemical process of turning bone into china, and her upcoming residency with SymbioticA. Experimenta: What led […]

Conceptually, South Australian artist Brad Darkson’s work is informed by strong ties to both his Narungga First Nations and Anglo Australian heritage. In this interview Brad shares his concerns about the desire for sentience in Artificial Intelligence, his conversations with Uncle Moogy and Allan Sumner, and working with Flinders University to realise the technical aspects […]

In order to get to know our commissioned artists for Experimenta Life Forms a little better we are publishing a series of interviews about their works. This week we spoke to Thomas Marcusson who discusses A.I’s affect on the music scene and proposing moss as an active DJ. Experimenta: What inspired the concept behind DJ […]

The ATOM Study Guide is a PDF resource designed to complement a visit to the Experimenta Life Forms: International Triennial of Media Art exhibition.