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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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]