Talks

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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. 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]