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STUDY GUIDES

Education Study Guides have been developed by the Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) for the Experimenta Playground, Experimenta House of Tomorrow and Experimenta Vanishing Point exhibitions. They contain full-colour images, brief descriptions of the works and artist biographies. You can download each guide for free, or contact Experimenta to request a copy to be emailed to you.

Suitable for both Primary and Secondary students the Guides provide activities before, during and after the gallery visit that extend the learners' appreciation of the themes of the exhibitions and the processes used by the artists to create the works.

At tertiary level the material is relevant to courses within Fine Arts, Music, Social Sciences, Cinema, Multimedia, Design and Architecture.

Experimenta Playground

The Experimenta Playground Study Guide provides a unique opportunity for teachers of students in upper primary and secondary school and for tertiary groups to obtain a deeper understanding of the major exhibition that premiered in Melbourne in 2007 and is currently touring nationally. The guide draws upon the Arts, media and technology to engage and connect young people; improving skills and outcomes including attitude to learning, literacy, communication, thinking, problem-solving and creativity.

The guide has relevance to the arts, English as well as the interdisciplinary learning curriculum areas of thinking processes, communication, information and communications technology, design, creativity and technology.

Experimenta Playground is curated by Liz Hughes and Emma McRae.

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Experimenta Vanishing Point

Curated by Liz Hughes and Emma McRae and based on the theme of illusions, the artworks in the Experimenta Vanishing Point exhibition invite the visitor to find the extraordinary in the banal and experience everyday reality transformed into moments of fantastic wonder.

The artworks have relevance in the school curricula through multiple disciplines including; the Arts, Mathematics, Science, Technology, English and SoSE (Studies of Society and Environment) as it places an emphasis on optical illusion, perception, perspectives, feelings and responses.

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Experimenta House of Tomorrow

Curated by Shiralee Saul, Helen Stuckey and Liz Hughes, the artworks and films in this exhibition are imaginative fantasies about what the home of the future might be like.

Will we be living with interactive furniture, digital pets and virtual plants? The exhibition has finished touring Australia but the Study Guide will be of interest to students across the curriculum including the Arts, Mathematics, Science, Technology, English and SoSE (Studies of Society and Environment).

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