Our showcase Art, Access and Technology will feature at ACMI’s FACT 2026 Symposium, 11-12 February, where the future of arts, culture and technology are debated and shaped. Join Experimenta to explore how new technologies offer multi-sensory modes of experiencing screen based works.

Beyond audio and visual, we have sensation. In this showcase, learn about Haptic Sensory Vests, try one on, and feel a sensory score.

This project expands the experience of Ina Conradi and Mark Chavez’s single-channel 3D animation film and audio composition, Moirai: Thread of Life, part of the Experimenta Emergence national touring exhibition. We have developed a sensory score using haptic sensory vests to offer a multi-sensory audience experience of this animation film which includes audio composition from Tate Chavez.

This research and development phase has expanded thinking on the development and presentation of audio-visual screen works, and allows for new ways to present and engage with media art in exhibition and event contexts for broad audiences of all abilities.

Experimenta, Australia’s longest running media arts organisation, has received Creative Australia funding to explore how new technologies can be used to enhance access, both within the creative process and for audiences of all abilities, specific to media arts and screen based contemporary art.

This event is part of ACMI’s FACT Symposium, and presented in partnership with ACMI and The Newmarket Collective.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.