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Office: L7, 144 North Terrace
Adelaide, SA 5000
PO Box 8029, Station Arcade
Adelaide, SA 5000
Postal: PO Box 8029
Station Arcade
Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: 61 (0) 8 8231 9037
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EXHIBITION :: ANAT Alumnus Dr Chris Henschke’s upcoming exhibition ‘Synthesism’, in-situ at the CSIRO Australian Manufacturing and Materials Precinct in Clayton, 27-29 November.
Exhibition launch: 27 November at 3pm
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Projects from Chris’s 2018 ANAT CSIRO Synapse residency with the Metal Organics Framework group will be shown in a laboratory installation.
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MORE at: https://www.anat.org.au/exhibitions/synthesism/
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For OH&S reasons attendees must register to gain access to the site.
Email: doctorhenschke@gmail.com
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Image: Chris Henschke, ‘Synthesism’. Image courtesy the artist.
@chris.henschke @csirogram #anatalumni

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A BIG thank you to our SALON moderator Ariel Bogle and speakers Prof Mari Velonaki, Dr Belinda Dunstan, Justin Harvey and Dr Wade Marynowsky for the fascinating insight and conversation for our inaugural Salon ‘Emotionally Engaging the Machine’. We'd also like to acknowledge staff at the iconic venue, Customs House and the wonderful support provided by the City of Sydney.
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And for those who missed out - stay tuned for the podcast of the event on our website soon!
Photos: @zanwimberley
@arielbogle #marivelonaki @jusharvey #wademarynowsky #belindadunstan @cityofsydney #anat-salon

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TOMORROW...LAST CHANCE TO BOOK ANAT SALON :: Sydney :: Emotionally Engaging the Machine.
7 November : Customs House, Sydney
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ANAT SALON Sydney brings together leading artists to explore and discuss human interactions with robots and machines. ABC's technology reporter, Ariel Bogle will speak with Professor Mari Velonaki Director of UNSW’s Creative Robotics Lab, together with artists Dr Belinda Dunstan, Justin Harvey and Dr Wade Marynowsky.
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FREE EVENT : BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL – book here
https://events.humanitix.com.au/anat-salon-sydney-emotionally-engage-the-machine
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Wade Marynowsky, 'The Hosts: A Masquerade Of Improvising Automatons', 2009,
Mediations Biennale, The 2nd International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Poznan, Poland, 2010. Courtesy of the artist

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EXHIBITION :: ANAT Synapse on Country resident Dr Sarah Jane Moore’s ‘I know where the oysters lie’ launches, Saturday 9 November, 5 – 6.30pm. With an Acknowledgement Of Country from Blak Douglas and a performance by Sarah Jane.
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Accelerator Gallery, Culture at Work, 6-8 Scott Street, Pyrmont, SYDNEY, 9 – 16 November
Artist’s Talk: 2pm, Saturday 16 November, followed by afternoon tea
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HEAR SARAH JANE’S RECORDING at: http://www.anat.org.au/exhibitions/oysters/
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Image: Dr Sarah Jane Moore recording I know where the oysters lie. Photograph Anton Rehrl - Corvid Photography
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@sjmoore1970 #anatalumni @blakdouglas

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ANNOUNCEMENT :: Philosophers have wrestled with defining life for thousands of years. 'Experimenta Life Forms reveals' how contemporary artists are approaching this perennial question, at a time when technological change and new research findings are making definitions of ‘life’ increasingly difficult to pin down.
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Experimenta Life Forms Commissioned Artists Announcement
Featuring: Brad Darkson (SA); Thomas Marcusson (NSW); PluginHUMAN (Dr Betty Sargeant and Justin Dwyer) (VIC); Helen Pynor (NSW); and Dominic Redfern (VIC)
Curators: Jonathan Parsons and Lubi Thomas.
Associate Curator: Jessica Clark.
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RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
10 September – 14 November 2020
Touring nationally until 2023.
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MORE at: http://www.anat.org.au/exhibitions/experimenta-life-forms/
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Brad Darkson, 'Palm Valley' (still), 2015

@experimenta_ @symbiotica.lab

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Sydney peeps - seats are filling fast! Register by 28 October to secure your spot.
ANAT SALON :: Sydney :: Emotionally Engaging the Machine.
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In ‘Robot Opera’, artist-technician Dr Wade Marynowsky's eight custom-built automatons sing, play their own accompaniment (an electronic score composed by Julian Knowles) and provide their own LED lighting. .
Wade is one of three leading artists examining human interactions with robots & machines next month, at ANAT’s new series of gatherings talking art + tech. .
ANAT SALON :: Sydney :: Emotionally Engaging the Machine
7 November : Customs House, Sydney .
Join the ABC’s technology reporter, Ariel Bogle in conversation with Professor Mari Velonaki Director of UNSW’s Creative Robotics Lab, together with artists Dr Belinda Dunstan, Justin Harvey and Dr Wade Marynowsky. .
FREE EVENT : BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL – bookhere https://events.humanitix.com.au/anat-salon-sydney-emotionally-engage-the-machine.
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Image: Wade Marynowsky, ‘Robot Opera’, 2016, National Kaohsiung Centrefor the Arts, Taiwan 2016. Photograph Kito.

#anat-salon @cityofsydney #marivelonaki @jusharvey #wademarynowsky

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Sydney peeps - seats are filling fast! Register by 28 October to secure your spot.
ANAT SALON :: Sydney :: Emotionally Engaging the Machine
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Are emotional interactions with machines notional, unintentional reactions driven by anthropomorphism? What senses (if any) do AI’s use to emotionally engage with humans?
Dr Belinda Dunstan’s research interest in social robot morphology, technology ethics, and responsive environments, mean she is perfectly poised to speculate on these big questions.
Belinda is one of three leading artists examining human interactions with robots & machines next month, at ANAT’s new series of gatherings talking art + tech.
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ANAT SALON :: Sydney :: Emotionally Engaging the Machine
7 November : Customs House, Sydney
Join the ABC’s technology reporter, Ariel Bogle in conversation with Professor Mari Velonaki Mari Director of UNSW’s Creative Robotics Lab, together with artists Dr Belinda Dunstan, Justin Harvey and Dr Wade Marynowsky.
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FREE EVENT : BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL – book here
https://events.humanitix.com.au/anat-salon-sydney-emotionally-engage-the-machine
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ANAT SALON is a national series of free gatherings, where you will hear the best creative minds discussing the inspiring and fascinating things being done across the arts + technology and how these inform and transform our future.
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Image: Belinda Dunstan, ‘Future Forms’ (2019) exhibition detail.

#marivelonaki @jusharvey #wademarynowsky #anat-salon @cityofsydney

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CONGRATULATIONS digital artists, Dr Adam Nash and Dr John McCormick, who have been awarded the 2019/20 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship. Together, they are known as Wild System and develop mixed reality art works and installation.
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Since 2017, ANAT has partnered with the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) on its Arts Fellowship program. Through the program artists and writers are able to spend time at one of the AAD research stations, Casey, Davis or Mawson, or to join the AAD research vessel as it voyages to and from Antarctica.
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As Australia’s icebreaker sails south next year, the sights, sounds and movement of the ship on the Southern Ocean will be captured and packaged into an immersive experience all can share. “We hope to capture the experience of being on the Aurora Australis and create an immersive, affecting work,” Dr Nash said. “It is a lifelong dream to travel to Antarctica. We want to create a work that honours the spirit of those who have explored the world's last great wilderness area,” Dr McCormick said.
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The pair will travel to Antarctica on the RSV Aurora Australis in January next year to re-create a virtual representation of the ship and those who sail on it. They will use cutting-edge technologies, such as drones, portable motion capture system, ambisonic recordings, LiDAR scanning and still, 360 and video cameras, to map the physical aspects of the voyage. These recordings will be joined together into playable artworks for immersive experiences at galleries and festivals, and via mobile, gaming and virtual reality technology.
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The project is supported by RMIT University School of Design and Swinburne University Centre for Transformative Media Technologies. .
Image: New Antarctic Arts Fellows, Dr Adam Nash and Dr John McCormick, in the studio.
@ausantarctic @rmituniversity @swinburne

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ANAT SALON :: Sydney :: Will humans be able to emotionally engage with machines in the future?
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Diamandini is 155cm high, eternally youthful and despite her tiny waist, weighs 120 kilos. Made of a homogeneous porcelain-like material, Diamandini was created by artist and interface designer Prof Mari Velonaki, working with a team of roboticists, electronics designers and programmers.
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Mari is one of four leading artists examining human interactions with machines next month, in the first of our NEW national series of free art + tech gatherings.
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ANAT SALON :: Emotionally Engaging the Machine
7 November : Customs House, Sydney
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Join the ABC’s technology reporter, Ariel Bogle in conversation with Professor Mari Velonaki Director
of UNSW's Creative Robotics Lab, together with artists Dr Belinda Dunstan, Justin Harvey and Dr Wade Marynowsky.
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FREE EVENT : BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL : Filling fast
– book here
https://events.humanitix.com.au/anat-salon-sydney-emotionally-engage-the-machine
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Image: Mari Velonaki with Paro and Diamandini at the National Facility for Human-Robot Interaction.
#marivelonaki @jusharvey #wademarynowsky #anat-salon @cityofsydney

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ANAT SALON :: Sydney :: Emotionally Engaging the Machine
As the boundaries between people and machines begin to blur, what does this mean for the way we relate with machines? The first of our NEW national series of free art + tech gatherings will speculate on how humans emotionally engage with robots and machines, and vice versa.
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Join the ABC’s technology reporter, Ariel Bogle in conversation with Professor Mari Velonaki, Director of UNSW’s Creative Robotics Lab, together with artists Dr Belinda Dunstan, Justin Harvey and Dr Wade Marynowsky. .
7 November : Customs House, Sydney
FREE EVENT : BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL – book here
https://events.humanitix.com.au/anat-salon-sydney-emotionally-engage-the-machine .
ANAT SALON is a national series of free gatherings, where you will hear the best creative minds discussing the inspiring and fascinating things being done across the arts + technology and how these inform and transform our future.
Image: Justin Harvey, ‘One and A Half’, 2011, GLI.TC/H 20111, Chicago & Amsterdam.
#marivelonaki @jusharvey #wademarynowsky #anat-salon @cityofsydney

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Dr Leah Barclay's interdisciplinary collaboration 'River Listening', is taking over the world, one river at a time! Initially developed through an ANAT Synapse residency in 2014, the project's latest iteration 'River Listening from Source to Sea' is launching Saturday at Floating Land 2019.
Featuring sound walks and kayak tours exploring the river in new ways, every tour will be a different experience onsite. Listeners can also engage online with live streams from the Noosa Everglades and sound maps on the new River Listening website launching next week.
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The tours have limited capacity and will likely book out quickly, visit the Floating Land website for more info: https://www.floatingland.org.au/
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Image: Leah Barclay 'Aurality'. Image courtesy the artist.
The project is supported by @auscouncilarts and was initially developed through a Synapse Residency from @anat_australia
#RiverListening @leahbarclay @floating_land #anatsynapseallumni

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‘modelling "pleasure and pain" in the dish'...
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“During this Synapse project I have focused on the sensory responses of neurons and the generic process, known as Synaptic Transmission, that allows sensory stimuli to pass around our body. Specific progenitor cells in the form of 3D in vitro cultured cellular organisms known as 'organoids', enable the Dottorri lab researchers gain insight into the enormously complex sensory systems within the human body and the way that sensory stimuli are received and travel to and from the brain. Using human stem cells in the form of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) the researchers replicate the sensory neurons that enable us to sense temperature, pressure, position, touch and pain - on the IHMRi website A/Prof. Mirella Dottorri describes this as: 'modelling "pleasure and pain" in the dish'. With this evocative metaphor in mind, I am now working to create an interactive artwork that explores the ways our senses respond to the the environment". Trish Adams
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ANAT Synapse resident, artist Trish Adams is working with scientists Mirella Dottori (Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong) and Bryony Nayagam (Bionics Institute, University of Melbourne) on an open-ended investigation into human sensory systems and stem cell regeneration.
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Trish has just heard her artwork will feature at Ars Electronica 3Fest in Wollongong in May 2020, a wonderful platform to showcase this Synapse project. Congratulations Trish!! You can read Trish's blog at http://adams2019.blog.anat.org.au/
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Image: Network of sensory neurons (green) generated from human pluripotent stem cells. (Image taken by Amy Hulme, Mirella Dottori, IHMRI, University of Wollongong)

#anatallumni @unimelb @uow

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20 three & four year olds attended the raising of an oyster reef at the UNSW Quad yesterday for the ANAT on Country residency with artist Dr Sarah Jane Moore, Dr Laura Parker and Prof Alistair Poore.
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ANAT Director Vicki Sowry attended: “it was incredibly messy and we were covered in mud by the end of it! It was great to see the enthusiasm of the children whilst getting an understanding of the importance of oysters in maintaining city marine eco-systems. Oysters filter pollutants - if oysters are dying, then this has a huge impact on the marine environment.”
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Images: Child ‘raising an oyster reef’; Laura Parker; Vicki Sowry and Sarah Jane Moore. Photos by Anon Rehrl of Corvid Photography
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@sjmoore1970 #ANAToncountry@unsw #anatallumni#anatsynapseallumni

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"Microscopy represents a reflective space for me, but now I use it, consciously, within my practice, sometimes alone, sometimes with my collaborators. Something about the time set aside – 2 blissful hours on an in demand machine – about the cool desiccated air that flows, about the sometimes darkness, opens a portal to a different view, a different type of lensing on your sample, your object of study." ANAT Synapse resident Andrea Rassell

Andrea is working with scientist Vipul Bansal, from the NanoBioSensing Facility, RMIT University, to explore how filmmaking can be used to interrogate the social, cultural and ethical implications of nanoscale biosensing technologies.
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In this imagery the artist is working with the FEI Verios 460L SEM as a cinematographic tool, leveraging the inbuilt capabilities of the instrument to create movement and merging scientific imaging and video post-production workflows.
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Read Andrea’s ANAT Synapse Residency blog at
http://rassell2019.blog.anat.org.au/2019/09/
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Image: Organic semiconductors imaged via Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Photograph Zakir Hussein.

#andrearassell #anatallumni #anatsynapseallumni @rmituniversity

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Raising the oyster reef;
bare feet, shells and artistic practices.
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When art meets science the oysters sing...
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ANAT Synapse on Country resident Dr Sarah Jane Moore is leading the co-building of an oyster reef in the UNSW Quad this week. From September 23 to 27, Sarah Jane and members from the community are incorporating straw bales, Shoalhaven river mud, 3000 oyster shells and 500kgs clay to create ‘The Baludarri Bed Making Project’ .
“Through the reef,” Sarah Jane says, “we can affirm the essential role the humble oyster plays in the health of our Sea Country and the well-being of our communities. Time on Country and nature-based play and encounter are essential aspects of our well-being. Each oyster shell, like each human, is unique and in this work each person’s contribution is valued and equal.”
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Image: Raising the oyster reef; bare feet, shells and artistic practices. Image courtesy the artist.

@sjmoore1970 #ANAToncountry @unsw #anatallumni #anatsynapseallumni