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🚀 LAUNCHING DNA Library. ANAT welcomes this abs

🚀 LAUNCHING DNA Library. ANAT welcomes this absorbing, NEWLY commissioned platform, circulating knowledge and questioning via artist-led research. Originally conceived during the inaugural 2021 ANAT DNA Lab, by facilitator Lucie Loy who has been working with designer Isabella Sanasi and the lab participants over the past 14 months to realise the project.

DNA Library is a digital repository, archiving a varied collection of sources relating to the governance and use of DNA material. This website is an evolving, collective bibliography, as well as a tool that can be used by other artists, academics, scientists and researchers working in the field of DNA research.

ANAT sincerely thanks the participants and supporters for their valuable and generous contribution to the project.

ANAT DNA Lab participants and supporters (2021): Dr Helen Pynor (also ANAT SAHMRI resident artist, 2020/21); Dr Jimmy Breen (also ANAT SAHMRI researcher, 2020/21); Dr Carolyn Johnston (also ANAT SAHMRI research support, 2020/21); Dr Anton Hasell; Alison Kennedy; Dr David Williams; Dr Andrea Rassell; Guy Ben-Ary; Nathan Thompson, Dr Svenja J Kratz; Lucie Loy (Facilitator); Isabella Sanasi (Designer); Assoc Prof Bastien Llamas (Adelaide University); Prof Alex Brown (Adelaide University); Dr Ray Tobler (Adelaide University)

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HEAR stories from the planet's deepest south. To c

HEAR stories from the planet's deepest south. To celebrate the launch of the Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World published in partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), we've been talking to Radio Adelaide's Dr Christina Hagger.

Featuring ANAT's CEO Melissa DeLaney and ANAT alumni, artists Janet Laurence and Dr Philip Samartzis discussing their research and work with the AAD’s Arts Fellowship program.

This latest Griffith edition is published in partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) and focuses on the icy continent, with submissions from artists, researchers, writers and scientists with direct experience working in Antarctica.

LISTEN to a recording of the conversation using the LINK IN OUR BIO.

The Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship has been running since 1984 and is supported by the Australian Antarctic Division with additional support provided by ANAT since 2017.

Image: Philip Samartzis, field work at Casey. Photo courtesy of the artist.

@travellinglifeAdl @janetlaurence @philip.samartzis @melissaldelaney @dominikmerschgallery @griffithreview @radioadelaide #PhilipSamartzis @ausantarctic #antarctica #australianantarcticfellowship #aad #artandscience #Antarctica #Humanist #AustralianWriters #AustralianWriting

Earlier this year @___m_e_e_p conducted an indepen

Earlier this year @___m_e_e_p conducted an independent evaluation of multispecies engagement at ANAT SPECTRA 2022, at @scigallerymel

At the invitation of the Incinerator Art Award for Social Change, MEEP sent it's 2022 archive via polytemporal transfer to @incinerator_gallery MEEP Archive – records from 2022, will be on limited display – in this time horizon only – until 30 October!

VOTING for the people's choice award is now open 💛 in the Incinerator Art Award exhibition.

Hear, view, and feel archival records, artefacts, and findings from MEEP's visit to ANAT SPECTRA 2022, where they conducted a multispecies engagement evaluation with over 900 species, forces and agencies beyond the human.

@alltomorrowsfutures @luna_mrozik_gawler @ #ANATSPECTRA2022 #sciencegallerymelbourne #MEEP #MultispeciesEngagementEvalutionProgram @scigallerymel @unimelb @not_yet_its_difficult @AusCouncilArts @ArtsSouthAus @ttwd.next #ANATspectra2022 #DavidPledger #multiplicity #HybridEvents #AusCouncilArts #ArtSci#ArtTech #ArtScienceTechnology

ARTIST TALK :: Join ANAT alumni Keith Armstrong, D

ARTIST TALK :: Join ANAT alumni Keith Armstrong, Daniele Constance with Donna Davis and Delissa Walker to discuss the underlying concepts and experimental nature of the Carbon_Dating project; exploring collaborations, process and native grasses.

@northsite_contemporaryarts Cairns
23 September 3-4 PM
Details: shorturl.at/AMSTX

Image: Untitled [grass study 002], donna davis, 2022, digital media. Image courtesy of the artist.

@embodiedmedia @ANATalumni @delissawalkerartist @danieleconstance

ANAT alumni Nathan Thompson and Guy Ben-Ary presen

ANAT alumni Nathan Thompson and Guy Ben-Ary presented last week at the 2022 Ars Electronica Festival. Linz once again hosted the festival, titled 'Welcome to Planet B – A different life is possible! But How?'

Extending their 2020 ANAT Ideate Residency, developing the concept of In-Vitro Intelligence driven Surrogate Performer, Nathan and Guy acted as mentors for the Festival University program.
With 200 students from over 70 countries, the duo presented to and guided the students conceptual projects.

Nathan and Guy also presented alongside their international colleagues Hideaki Ogawa (JP/AT), Kasia Chmielinski (US), Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP), Akane Kikuchi (JP), Martina Mara (AT), Sarah Newman (US), & Yoko Shimizu (JP) in the 'Humanity of the Future' panel discussion and 'Revivification Workshop'

Image: Ars Electronica, LightSense / Uwe Rieger (DE/NZ), Yinan Liu (NZ), Tharindu Kaluarachchi (LK), Amit Barde (IN), photo: FlFlorian Voggeneder

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TOMORROW just after 1pm Adelaide time, HEAR AAD’

TOMORROW just after 1pm Adelaide time, HEAR AAD’s Arts Fellows Janet Laurence and Philip Samartzis discuss their time at the South Pole with ANAT CEO Melissa DeLaney and Radio Adelaide's Dr Christina Hagger. The conversation celebrates the launch of the Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World published in partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).

"Antarctica offers windows into many different worlds. The macro of its function as an active thermostat for the planet – the white of its ice reflecting heat and the dark blue of its ocean absorbing heat and carbon dioxide." Real Cool World" Editor Ashley Hay

VISIT radioadelaide.org.au 1pm Adelaide time 15 September

The AAD Arts Fellowship has been running since 1984 and is supported by the Australian Antarctic Division with additional support provided by ANAT since 2017.

Images: 1. 2022 AAD’s Arts Fellow Janet Laurence arrives. 2 & 3. AAD’s Arts Fellow Philip Samartzis' field trip into the white abyss. Photographs by Dan Wilkins in 2016 at Jack’s Hut. 4 & 5. Janet laced blocks of Antarctic ice with blue pigment. As the ice chunks melted, the blue bled into new shapes on the white paper. Images courtesy the artist.

@travellinglifeAdl @janetlaurence @philip.samartzis @melissaldelaney @dominikmerschgallery @griffithreview @radioadelaide #PhilipSamartzis @ausantarctic #antarctica #australianantarcticfellowship #aad #artandscience #Antarctica #Humanist #AustralianWriters #AustralianWriting

How does being an artist, and specifically, a soun

How does being an artist, and specifically, a sound artist affect the way you move through the world?

Q&A with ANAT alumnus Philip Samartzis... from Time To Waste, online journal centred around ecology and sustainability.

Do you still find yourself inspired sensorarily from other sources? Is vision, feeling, or smell important in other ways, or do they impact the sounds that you capture?

I guess I engage with the world through my ears more than any other sense. I find the world an intoxicating place in which I inadvertently tune in to the resonances, textures and signifiers that mark each space that I encounter or inhabit. My ears never rest as my attention is always drawn to the sounds that occupy my environment - from the most subtle to the most explicit. I perceive the world as a real-time composition unfolding in complex ways over time and space.

READ the feature https://bit.ly/3L6JH0D

Philip is a sound artist, researcher and curator with a specific interest in the social and environmental conditions informing remote wilderness regions and their communities. His art practice is based on deep fieldwork where he deploys complex sound recording technology to capture natural, anthropogenic and geophysical forces.

The Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship has been running since 1984 and is supported by the Australian Antarctic Division with additional support provided by ANAT since 2017.

Image: Philip Samartzis, ‘Sea Ice’, 2021. Photo courtesy of the artist.

@philip.samartzis #PhilipSamartzis @3dverbier #bogongCentreForSoundCulture @ausantarctic #antarctica #australianantarcticfellowship #aad #artandscience @timetowastejournal @brookehyrons @pho_tho_

@stephehutchison SCREEN DANCE experiential play wi

@stephehutchison SCREEN DANCE experiential play with objects, mocap & choreographic tasking - dancers in relation to screen, objects & each other - emergent first experiment

Cobotic Improvisations continue with 2022 ANAT Synapse resident Dr Steph Hutchison and Jonathan Roberts at the Advanced Robotics and Manufacturing Hub and Australian Cobotics Centre.

READ Steph’s BLOG using the LINK IN OUR BIO

Steph is an artist-researcher, choreographer, performer, and teaching-artist. Steph has a rich dance practice as a solo choreographer/performer and collaborator within dance and technology contexts.

ANAT Synapse is made possible through the generous support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

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Steph and Jonathan are researching how humans can predict the movement of robots, using dance improvisation and choreographic methodologies.

READ Steph’s BLOG using the LINK IN OUR BIO

ANAT Alumni Feature :: Virginia Barratt (V) is a t

ANAT Alumni Feature :: Virginia Barratt (V) is a trans-media artist, researcher, writer and performer living in Adelaide, Australia. Their doctoral research revolves around themes of panic, affect and deterritorialisation; explored through performance, experimental poetics and queered affective vocalities.

V has been involved with ANAT for over three decades. In 1989, they participated in ANAT’s National Summer School program, and in 1992 they were part of the TISEA Coordinating Committee. From 1989-1991, V was ANAT’s Executive Officer (EO). Most recently, they joined the 2020 ANAT Ideate residency with Jessie Boylan and Linda Dement, as the collective BoneDirt.

READ the full feature via OUR BIO

Currently, V is working with their BoneDirt collaborators on the next iteration of Rupture — an installation with performance interventions — for Performance Space’s Liveworks at Carriageworks. The project explores how symptoms of environmental and human ‘disorder’ can be seen as an appropriate response to personal traumas and global disasters.

The ANAT Alumni is a network of hundreds of artists, scientists and technologists. A lifelong community of remarkable, diverse and engaged professionals.

Images 1: HER EYES WERE AS BLACK AS COAL, In Her Interior (V Barratt and Francesca da Rimini), 2 channel video and installation, 2018, video still, 3D animation by V Barratt (REFRESH, Hunter Gallery, New York) 2. RUPTURE, BoneDirt immersive installation and performance (V Barratt, Jesse Boylan, Linda Demet), Big Anxiety Festival 2019, Esme Timbery CPL, UNSW. Performance photograph Cynthis Sciberras.

@_becomingyoga_ #anatalumni #ArtScienceTechnology #experimental

We say adieu and a massive thank you to Dr Erica S

We say adieu and a massive thank you to Dr Erica Seccombe, who has contributed greatly during her tenure as an esteemed ANAT Board member.

Erica's creative interdisciplinary research practice is synonymous with ANAT. Her 3D movie 'BIG PINK', 2019 and stereoscopic projection 'Out of Season', 2016, are the stars of ANAT's landing page.

A judicious steward of the organisation, Erica's insight, passion and dedication has been invaluable to ANAT. A committed advocate, she was elected to the ANAT Board of Directors in 2018. Erica was a 2010 recipient of the ANAT Synapse Residency, and continued her support of ANAT as a Selection Committee Panel Member for the Synapse residency for several years.

ANAT Chair, Michael Nelson notes, "It is with considerable regret that I have to announce the departure of Dr Erica Seccombe from the Board of ANAT.

As a leading academic and a highly regarded practising artist, Erica has over her time on the Board made ANAT a profoundly better place.

In addition to her role on the Board, she played an instrumental role on the HR and Development subcommittees where she shared her experience, empathy and enthusiasm to great effect.

On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Erica for everything she has helped ANAT to achieve and, on a personal note, to say that, although I hope Erica will continue to be a part of ANAT’s constellation of contributors, she will be very much missed."

Erica’s interdisciplinary arts practice spans traditional lens-based imaging, print media and drawing, to experimental digital platforms using frontier scientific visualisation software. Winner of the 2018 Waterhouse Natural Science Art prize, Erica was awarded the Capital Arts Patrons Fellowship in 2017. She is currently a senior lecturer at the ANU School of Art & Design.

@ejseccombe @ANATallumni @GoodBye @anuartdesign

What kind of imaginary friends do you have? What d

What kind of imaginary friends do you have? What do you think of a future where you can perceive sounds as sceneries, and vice versa? To beautify the world, what savageries do we have to eradicate? What price do we have to pay?

In ANAT's Emerging Writer Series #3, Aushaf Widisto revisits SPECTRAvision episode 3. Titled 36 Ideas to While Away the Winter the online symposium was divided into three segments: Bodies, Listening, and Ethics.

Aushaf has picked one idea from each segment and added another three ideas of his own: Paracosm, Synesthesia, and Javanese Philosophy.

READ the feature using the LINK IN OUR BIO

ANAT Arts Administrator Aushaf Widisto is an emerging writer and researcher from Indonesia. His writing has been featured in multiple publications across the web, both under his real name and pen name Oswald Kyrre.

Image: Xanthe Dobbie, 'Cloud Copy' Install View (2021), 'Don't Be Evil' Exhibition at UQ Art Museum, Photo by Louis Lim.

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REGRAM :: @anna_madeleine Finding interesting imag

REGRAM :: @anna_madeleine Finding interesting images in the gaps and glitches in layers of sky maps. ▪️⚫️◼️ #skymap #gaps #glitch #sky #data #map #astronomy #skyviewer #skymapper #synapseresidency #art #research

ANAT Synapse resident Dr Anna Madeleine Raupach is thinking about how ‘glitch’ artifacts appear in astronomy images, both in image processing, and as satellites.

These images navigate around the different layers of Sky Viewer to capture signal and noise, and track substance and absence in both the sky that is being depicted and the process of mapping it.

READ Anna Madeleine’s BLOG using the LINK IN OUR BIO

Anna Madeleine Raupach is a multidisciplinary artist based on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land, Canberra, who explores expressive interpretations of scientific concepts. Her current practice focuses on alternative forms of temporality related to climate change.

ANAT’s prestigious flagship program has supported creative research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists, since it was established in 2004.

ANAT Synapse is made possible through the generous support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. @copyrightagency_

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It’s been such a pleasure working alongside some

It’s been such a pleasure working alongside someone with such courage, gusto, determination, smarts and humour. Congratulations to Dearna Newchurch, ANAT's First Nations Program Producer on her new role at creative technology company Sandpit. We're sad to see D go, but excited for her by this new producing position.

"I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at ANAT and working alongside this incredible team!" says Dearna. "From my first day it was evident that ANAT was genuinely committed towards elevating First Nations storytellers and knowledge through its programs and I'm so proud of the outcomes we have been able to achieve over the past few years."

During her time with ANAT Dearna was the SPECTRAvision Producer, working on an expanded online program including online exhibition and First Nations film program. She also produced iterations of ANAT NEW LIGHT in 2021 and 2022 featuring a suite of incredible First Nations artists and storytellers, in a partnership with Illuminate Adelaide and the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Sandpit design and create memorable experiences – from signature architectural forms to projection-mapped megafauna in ancient caves and talking lamps in concert halls.

With a decade of experience, Dearna is a seasoned arts and events Producer who has worked across several cultural organisations in Adelaide including ANAT, Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Festival Centre and MOD. at UniSA. Hailing from the Kaurna and Narungga nations in South Australia, Dearna is passionate about creating opportunities and platforms which celebrate the intersection of art, culture and innovation.

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What will our cities look like when sea levels ris

What will our cities look like when sea levels rise amid the permanent consequences of climate change? ANAT alumnus Ian Gibbin's video 'floodtide' was selected to be shown at the Gallery for Sustainable Art in Berlin in 2021.

Ian is a poet, video artist and electronic musician working across diverse forms. Much of what he does is underpinned by concepts and language derived from his long career in science, particularly in zoology, functional anatomy and neuroscience.

Today, Ian is working on a new video about small native plants that have recovered control of their environment after the ravages of human exploitation. It is a complex production using multiple layers of compositing and video animation, building on the techniques he’s used successfully before.

The ANAT Alumni is a network of hundreds of artists, scientists and technologists. A lifelong community of remarkable, diverse and engaged professionals.

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SWARM opened last night at @scigallerymel and feat

SWARM opened last night at @scigallerymel and features new work by @stelarcstelarc with Anthropomorphic Machine. Open from 13 August-3 December, 2022 SWARM 'is a space that uncovers the very essence of human behaviour and questions what drives us to be social.'
#artScienceTechnology #CreativePractice #CreativeSpaces

Our Marketing & Communications Manager, Carollyn K

Our Marketing & Communications Manager, Carollyn Kavanagh was delighted and honoured to be invited to be Curatorial Lead for the SALA Festival’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition. SALA is the world’s largest open access visual arts festival and holds a precious place in the hearts of South Australians.

SILVER at the Queens Theatre, Adelaide | 19-31 August

FEATURED ARTISTS Roy Ananda, Kirsten Coelho, Margaret Dodd, Tsering Hannaford, Sue Kneebone, Juanella McKenzie, Ian North, Christopher Orchard, Tom Phillips, Sonya Rankine, Darren Siwes, James Tylor, Angela Valamanesh, Sera Waters, Laura Wills

CURATORIAL CIRCLE: Nici Cumpston OAM, Artistic Director, Tarnanthi, AGSA, Paul Greenaway OA, Director, GAGPROJECTS, Margo & Sam Hill-Smith, Directors Hill-Smith Art Advisory, Brian Parkes, CEO at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design and Sandy Verschoor, Lord Mayor of Adelaide.

Carollyn is a communications strategist, designer and independent curator practicing on Kaurna Country. She completed a Bachelor of Design at the University of South Australia and a Masters in Curatorial and Museum Studies at Adelaide University.

Image: Darren Siwes, Silver Girl, 2008 from the series OZ OMNIUM REX ET REGINA. Photographic print on Kodak Endura Metallic paper. 90 x 120cm, edition of 10. Courtesy of GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide

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