Past Commissions

Living Well by artist Jarra Karalinar Steel, is a dynamic large-scale text-based animation expressed through the artist’s visual language of symbols and design, influenced by her Boonwurrung heritage and culture.

Holon is an experimental, interactive audio-visual artwork that explores ideas in emergent collective intelligence, sustainability, and artificial life.

Of sky and sea reveals the role of language as a critical marker of the interconnected impacts facilitated by maritime exploration and trade.

This multi-media installation questions humanity’s obsessive pursuit of technology. By contrasting physical and digital components it explores differing notions of time, cultural knowledge transfer, and the innate spirit or life force of and within things.

This work is a playable, sound-responsive installation that invites audiences to ‘feed’ a fantastical virtual world with their non-verbal sounds. Different sounds bring various digital entities into existence creating an evolving ecosystem.

This multi-screen installation explores cyanobacteria, the single-celled life form that created the conditions for complex life. Continuing Redfern’s investigation of the relationship between human and non-human histories ‘first forms’ highlights the history of all multi-celled life forms.

This work comprises of a light sculpture whose shifting light and sound scape is driven by environmental data collected from significant trees across the world. The work ruminates on the sentience of trees, asking audiences to contemplate their relationship with the landscape.

Habitation explores how animate-inanimate boundaries are collapsing due to the widespread use of medical prosthetics, and was prompted by hip replacement surgery Pynor recently undertook.

Being neither algorithm nor person, this installation brings an alternative type of living entity to the DJ role – living, breathing moss. This strange performance prompts us to reflect on the agency of plant life, their societal networks and systems of communication.

Always connected, yet somewhat separated from the world around them, these performing robotic sculptures use dark humour and absurdity to reflect and highlight the growing obsession with online personas and the technology that draws our attention from dawn to dusk.

A Drone Opera viscerally explores the rapidly developing technology of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), colloquially known as drones, and their social and cultural impact.

A Galaxy of Suns is a spectacular 32-part choir performance that ‘sings’ the stars as they rise and set over 360˚ of the horizon. Tracking the Earth’s motions through space, the work documents in real-time the audience’s precise position in relation to the stars, sonifying stellar data in a unique celebration of the majesty and beauty of the cosmos.

Leisa Shelton is a performance artist, maker and curator whose practice foregrounds collaboration and advocacy for new Australian transdisciplinary work. Her practice concentrates on the development of new frames for the presentation of performance. Shelton is also dedicated to delivering greater environmental sustainability within the arts and performance sectors.

Dean Petersen and Jesse Stevens have worked under the collaborative pseudonym of Cake Industries since 2006. Their practice uses electro-mechanics and robotics to create anthropomorphic and autonomous objects that embrace retro-futurism.

Christy Dena is a writer, designer and director who has worked on pervasive, digital and card games, theatre performances, and films. Dena was granted Australia’s first Digital Writing Residency at The Cube, QUT to create the large installation “Robot University”. Her web audio adventure “AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS” won the WA Premier’s Book Award for Digital Narrative and the Australian Writers’ Guild award for Interactive Media, and was Official Selection at the 2014 Media Arts Show for the Electronic Literature Organization. Dena’s works explore our relationship with technology, death, and our past.

In the final days of analog TV transmission in Australia, Tele Visions created a temporary TV Station broadcasting 24hrs a day from the 28th of November to the 3rd of December 2013.

Join us in Tele Visions Afterlude as we present the best moments of the broadcast that marked the passing of TV and re-imagined what might have been.

Svenja Kratz is an interdisciplinary artist who utilises traditional and experimental bio-art practices to explore the impact of new technologies and science on concepts of the self, other and the body. From 2007 to 2012, Kratz worked with the Tissue Repair and Regeneration (TRR) Group at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

Korinsky are a sound collective of three brothers whose work concentrates on the emotional and physical effect that directional sound has upon listeners. Using custom-developed software called ‘Vertical Sound Lab’, Korinsky conflate sound with visual material to produce rich, multi-layered auditory and visual illusions, often in unique architectural locations.

Abel Korinsky is Experimenta’s artist-in-residence as part of the EMARE AUS CDN Move On Exchange (European Media Artists in Residence Exchange with Australia and Canada). This program is supported by the Culture 2013 Program of the European Commission and the Goethe Institut. Hosted by RMIT School of Art International Artist in Residency Program.