Experimenta Utopia Now
INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MEDIA ART
MELBOURNE PREMIERE
12 FEBRUARY – 14 MARCH 2010
THE ARTS CENTRE, BLACKBOX
Showcasing more than 30 innovative and interactive works from countries including Australia, Japan, Austria, India, Germany, Canada, France, Taiwan and the UK, Experimenta Utopia Now critiques the scope for happiness on earth as we know it, pokes fun at social and physical boundaries and questions the human race’s ability to preserve itself.
Online Art Works
You Were In My Dream is an online interactive artwork that invites you to leap and cavort with some crazy characters in a bizarre ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ animation. Turn on your webcam for some seriously hysterical identity theft!
Experimenta Artist Lab (repeat workshop due to popular demand!!)
Presented by Australian media artists Jesse Stevens and Tim Humphrey
Experimenta Artist Lab is a space for innovation, experimentation, creative collaboration and learning new skills. The ‘workshop’ style lab is designed to give artists, designers and other creative types the tools and skills they need to move their existing practice into the interactive realm by introducing them to the basic technology needed to produce physically interactive artworks.
10am - 5pm, Sunday 14 March
Meet at the Arts Centre, BlackBox
Age group: 18+ (no experience with microcontrollers/sensors needed)
Cost: $85 (lunch and workshop materials provided) BYO Laptop
Bookings essential: call 03 9650 9977 or email experimenta@experimenta.org
heard: an experimenta commision
by Rhys Turner and melissa ramos
Check out another one of Experimenta's fabulous commisions that took place at Brood Box in Melbourne from 12 to 16 February 2010.
