Recent Commissions

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.