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REGISTER NOW :: Micro Talk 26 November Join ANAT B REGISTER NOW :: Micro Talk 26 November
Join ANAT Board Chair and Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, Melita Grant, for the second Micro Talk of 2026. 

An ONLINE conversation around this years’ ANAT Synapse residency Turbulent Trajectories, featuring:

Elissa Goodrich, artist
Prof. Richard Manasseh, researcher

Composer/sound artist/percussionist Elissa Goodrich’s abiding interest is in collaboration. Her compositions sit between contemporary classical and jazz improvisation. Her works play in festivals across the globe.

Prof. Richard Manaseh is a mechanical engineer with a PhD in fluid dynamics. He investigates fluid waves and their interactions, including sound, atmospheric and water waves. His research is applied in oceanography, atmospheric physics, and the space, minerals, biomedical, water, food and defence industries.

Melita Grant is Research Director at the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, specialising in inclusive water management and exploring artistic connections with Pacific water programs through her PhD on decolonising methodologies.

Booking via 🔗 in our BIO

Image clockwise from top: Elissa Goodrich, photograph Lea Kivivali. Melira Grant and Richard Manaseh.

@statesofplay_melbourne @swinburne @leetsie #TurbulentTrajectories #ANATsynapse #ANATalumni #SoundArtResidency #ArtAndScience #ArtScienceCollaboration #BubbleClouds #OceanBubbles #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #Interdisciplinary #CreativeResearch #FutureThinking @creative.australia @createsa_ #createSA #CreativeAustralia
From the ANAT ARCHIVE :: “In the cultural imaginat From the ANAT ARCHIVE :: “In the cultural imagination ‘the companion’ is an entity who sits at the nexus of the erotic and the domestic- they promise sex but do not necessarily fulfil that promise, they augment the tedium of the domestic and they nurture and allow us to nurture without the exhausting emotional and psychological bonds that come with a fully realised human bond.

The identity of the companion takes one of its cues from the the euphemisms used to describe partnership in queer relationships and heterosexual couples to describe their affairs-companion, beard, lavender dating, fag hag.” 
Excerpt from “THE COMPANION”, Willoh Weiland, 2020

Back in 2020, artist, writer, curator and ANAT Ideate resident Willoh spoke with Radio Adelaide’s Festival City producer, Dr Naomi Hunter, about 'My Thing', a body of research exploring how art and technology might transform our experience of intimacy by reimagining the role of the digital companion.

LISTEN to the interview & READ “THE COMPANION”  via 🔗 in BIO

Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, ANAT’s Ideate program provided space for artists to connect and exchange ideas at a time of isolation.

Images: 1. Willoh S Weiland, LICK LICK BLINK (production still), 2019. Participatory multi-media installation, ice-cream, 10 minutes. Image courtesy and © the artist. Photograph Daniel Boud. 2. Willoh Weiland, Siri self-realised. Imagery Rebecca MacCauley.

#ANATIdeate2020 @willohweiland @theglasshunter @radioadelaide #speculative #performance #MyThing #siri #AppleCare #companion #ANATalumni @creative.australia @createsa_ #CreativeAustralia #createSA #research #experimentation #collaboration
We've wrapped up the final online meetings for the We've wrapped up the final online meetings for the 2026 ANAT Locale Mentorships this week.

Congratulations again to Hen Vaughan, Isobel Waters and Shenshen Zheng, our 2026 recipients. Selected from a strong field of applicants, each is at the beginning of an exciting emerging interdisciplinary practice.

Through a series of one-on-one online mentorships, ANAT Locale connected South Australian emerging and early-career artists with established practitioners from ANAT's national alumni network. It's been great to see these conversations take shape, with artists having the opportunity to exchange ideas, ask questions and draw on the experience and knowledge of their mentors.

A BIG thank you to our 2026 mentors: Catherine Truman, Erica Seccombe, Eugenie Lee, Guy Ben-Ary, Helen Pynor, Ian Gibbins, Jiann Hughes, Keith Armstrong, Linda Dement, Michele Saint-Yves, Nathan Thompson, Niki Sperou and Sarah Jane Moore.

We look forward to working more with Hen, Isobel and Shenshen and their developing practices.

@flaneuxe @shenshen.z @isobel.waters.art @catherinetruman @ejseccombe @eugenie_lee_artist @guybenary @helenpynor @iangibbins52 @jiannh @embodiedmedia @linda_dement @paprika68 @nathan_john_thompson @niki_sperou @sjmoore1970 @creative.australia @createsa_ #CreativeAustralia #createSA #ANATalumni @melissaldelaney @jenn_brazier @carollynkavanagh
THOUGHT BUBBLE :: Art in the age of algorithmic pr THOUGHT BUBBLE :: Art in the age of algorithmic production

ANAT is delighted to be supporting Thought Bubble, a 3-day symposium exploring art, technology and AI, taking place across 3 creative spaces in Tarntanya (Adelaide), 19–21 November.

Bringing together 20+ artists, researchers, academics and writers from around Australia, the program features panel discussions, artist talks, presentations and workshops, with AV performances and artwork presentations closing each day. The symposium coincides with the South Australian Government’s Royal Commission into AI.

DAY 2 :: ANAT CEO Melissa Delaney joins Prof. Angie Abdilla and other speakers (to be announced) for AI Policy and Art, a panel discussion exploring the implications of AI’s ongoing development and implementation.

Organised by Watchdog Studio, led by Dave Court, with input from collaborators and contributors, the project is supported by Creative Australia, ANAT, City of Adelaide, Future Juice, ACE, AICSA, Guildhouse and Smoking Fish Studio.

Tickets via 🔗 in our BIO

Image: Dave Court photo by Morgan Sette.

@washdog.studio @futurejuice.xyz @ace.gallery.adelaide @dave.court @frazthewizard @guildhouse_au @cityofadelaide @creative.australia @createsa_ @melissaldelaney @angie_abdilla @smokingfishstudio #ThoughtBubble #ArtAndAI #ArtAndTechnology
From the ANAT ARCHIVE :: Researcher, artist, write From the ANAT ARCHIVE :: Researcher, artist, writer and performer Virginia Barratt discusses collaboration, deep listening and BoneDirt’s exploration of geological time and more-than-human worlds. 

The recorded interview was produced as part of ANAT’s 2020 Ideate program, with Radio Adelaide’s Festival City Producer, Dr Naomi Hunter, 

Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, ANAT’s 2020 Ideate program provided space for artists to connect and exchange ideas at a time of isolation. 

Excavating BoneDirt, a collaboration between Virginia Barratt, Jessie Boylan and Linda Dement, who have worked together since 2018 with other knowledge holders across geotrauma, embodiment and affect. 

Virginia’s suggestion of stepping sideways out of anthropocentric time isn't just about leaving human time behind. 

It's about trying to experience the world differently. To listen to geological processes, recognise more-than-human forms of life and consider our place within a much larger living system.

Through immersive transmedia visual and sonic installations, BoneDirt explores the connections between human bodies and the more-than-human world.

LISTEN to the interview via 🔗 in BIO

Images: 1. Rupture, Virginia Barratt (pictured) Jessie Boylan, and Linda Dement, Big Anxiety Festival, Esme Timbery CPL, UNSW, Sydney, 2019. Photograph Cynthia Scibberas. 2. Rupture, from left Linda Dement, Virginia Barratt and Jessie Boylan, Bendigo Art Gallery 2018. 3. BoneDirt, shards, 2019. Image courtesy the artists.

#ANATIdeate2020 @jesse_buoy @_becomingyoga_  @linda_dement @syntacticalchaos @theglasshunter @radioadelaide #BoneDirt #dirt #geological #geostrata #speculative #geotrauma #performance #MoreThanHuman #ANATalumni @creative.australia @createsa_ #CreativeAustralia #createSA #research #experimentation #collaboration
Pulse: A love song to a bleeding ocean as part of Pulse: A love song to a bleeding ocean as part of Hope Punk Climate Festival, from 2026 ANAT Synapse resident Elissa Goodrich.

"Bringing  research and compositional ideas from Elissa's Turbulent Trajectories Synapse residency with Richard Manasseh  into the performance space with Pulse: A love song to a bleeding ocean  with colleague Susan Bamford Caleo.

The premise for Pulse, and the existing approach Susan and I share in creating new performance art works, allowed me to experiment with both extended instruments' techniques and with my growing collection of ANAT Synapse residency-based research, field and lab recordings to create a detailed, immersive, sonic world evoking the ocean's depths, its currents and its seabed."

Elissa Goodrich, Love alone / It is calculated that, with Susan Bamford Caleo (voice)Elissa Goodrich: percussion, prepared piano, sound-art, composition, text edits, sound designRichard Manasseh: synthetic bubble sounds, resampled here by Elissa Goodrich
Verbatim Text from the UN World Ocean Day paper, 8 June, 2026.
Original text and text edits: Susan Bamford Caleo.First performed for, Pulse: A love song to a bleeding ocean - a performance and sound work by Elissa Goodrich and Susan Bamford Caleo, 2026
Pulse in performance: Stills by Darren Gill, Lighting and projections by Gina Gascoigne, Costume and set by Susan Bamford Caleo.

@statesofplay_melbourne @iisma.swinburne #TurbulentTrajectories #ANATsynapse #ANATalumni #SoundArtResidency #ArtAndScience #ArtScienceCollaboration #BubbleClouds #OceanBubbles #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #Interdisciplinary #CreativeResearch #FutureThinking @creative.australia @createsa_ #createSA #CreativeAustralia
HYBRID EVENT :: Experimentalism - A Continuum from HYBRID EVENT :: Experimentalism - A Continuum from the Studio to the Laboratory

5 November, 6-7PM, ONLINE &
IN person at Experiment 29, Coburg, VIC

Dr Chris Henschke & Dr Michael Batten discuss shared practices developed during their collaborative experiments at the CSIRO. A LASER Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous moderated by Dr Andrea Rassell.

There is a continuum of similarities and differences across experimentation, iteration, prototyping and imagination across the disciplines of art and science, and making discoveries through failure sit naturally within artistic practice, scientific research, and engineering. Dr Chris Henschke & Dr Michael Batten found this during their collaborative experiments at the CSIRO during Chris’s 2018 ANAT Synapse residency.

Bookings:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/experimentalism-a-continuum-from-the-studio-to-the-laboratory-tickets-1999199273845

Image: Chris Henschke, Synthesism, ANAT Synapse CSIRO residency, 2018.

@chris.henschke @experiment.29  @hellosynaesthesia @leonardoisast @csirogram #ANATSynapse #ArtAndScience  #QuantumExpressions #collaboration #quantum #artScience #ANAT_alumni #ParticlePhysics @createsa_ #createSA #CreativeAustralia @creative.australia
"Darkness in 589" invites audiences to feel what d "Darkness in 589" invites audiences to feel what darkness reveals and what we stand to lose when our bodies, environments, stories and skies no longer share the dark. 

ANAT CEO Melissa Delaney is at the Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima (MAP mima), to experience the 360-degree projection artwork "Darkness in 589". 

🔍 Watch this space 2027 CALL OUT details coming soon

The inaugural 2026 ANAT + MAP mima Residency & Commission, from collaborative research trio Gamilaraay astrophysicist Peter Swanton, Iranian multidisciplinary artist Prita Tina Yeganeh, and Mardigan and Anglo-Celtic artist Georgia Hayward.

After collaborating online over the last year, it’s also a chance to finally meet David Rastas, MAP mima’s curator in person.

During a residency at Siding Spring Observatory in Warrumbungle Dark Sky Park—a meeting place of the Wayilwan, Gamilaraay and Wiradjuri peoples—the collaborators immersed themselves in natural darkness. Through an experimental research process, they gathered circadian biometric data alongside records of their emotional responses, documenting the night as both a bodily and a felt experience. 

Pattern, symbolism and sound translate these experiences, mapping a continuous twelve-hour nocturnal period into an eight-minute moving-image work. Field recordings from the park are woven into a score structured around the collaborators’ sleep–wake cycles circadian data. As each new data-point appears, a corresponding sound and symbol marks its passage, giving visual form to the bodily and ecological rhythms recorded through the night.

"Darkness in 589" until 29 November, 
Multi-Arts Pavilion Lake Macquarie

Images: "Darkness in 589", Peter Swanton, Prita Tina Yeganeh, Georgia Hayward, installation images courtesy ANAT.

@georgia_hayward_ @pritatinayeganeh @lakemacarts #PeterSwanton #CreativePractice #MAPmima #LakeMacquarie #DarkSkies #LightPollution #ArtistResidency #collaboration #ArtScienceTechnology #CreativeResearch #EnvironmentalArt #ANAT #SidingSpringObservatory @creative.australia @createsa_ @melissaldelaney @davidrastas
"As the first person in my family to attend univer "As the first person in my family to attend university, I also understand how transformative education can be."

Rewa Wright, our October Q&A Digest guest reflects on her practice as a computational arts, real time animation, and emerging technologies researcher.

"I’m passionate about reducing financial and structural barriers to participation in higher education and take enormous pride in supporting talented students from low socioeconomic backgrounds to realise their creative potential. For me, mentoring the next generation is just as important as producing new research.  I hope my contribution lies not only in developing new ideas, but in helping build inclusive creative communities where others can thrive. 

My perspective has also been profoundly shaped by my background as a Māori woman from Aotearoa New Zealand. Māori worldviews emphasise relationships, reciprocity, and responsibilities between people, place, and the more-than-human world. These perspectives have encouraged me to move beyond predominantly Eurocentric understandings of technology and towards questions of interspecies justice, Indigenous rights, ecological responsibility, and gender equity. These are not separate concerns within my work, they are interconnected ways of thinking about what responsible technological futures might look like."

READ the full feature using  LINK in BIO

Images: Rewa Wright, photograph Uncalculated Studio/Simon Howden. Image courtesy of Uncalculated studio.

@ashes_inferno @un_calculated #digitalart #biomimicry#createSA #CreativeAustralia #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #inclusivity #ArtScience @creative.australia @createsa_
ANAT Synapse residencies span an extraordinary ran ANAT Synapse residencies span an extraordinary range of disciplines, approaches and ideas. Last year Synapse resident James Nguyen and his collaborator Dr John Gould from the University Of Newcastle explored the biological, social, and evolutionary impact of frog communities that have become geographically separated and isolated. 

The Diasporic Amphibians residency resulted in a suite of nine short videos, transforming James’s research and field documentation into a distinctive body of cinematic storytelling. 

EXPLORE ANAT's YouTube Synapse Playlist via 🔗 in our BIO

James Nguyen was born in Bảo Lộc, Việt Nam. He is currently based in Murrumbeena, his work engages with reMatriation, decolonial thinking and language-brokering. 

Dr. John Gould is a conservation and animal behaviour scientist at the University of Newcastle. 

Video: James Nguyen :: LISTENING 5 (Kooragang Island/Daracon Gate 28/11/2025)

@jamesnguyens #JamesGould @uni_newcastle #FBideas @yandellw @southeastwateraustralia @melissaldelaney #SouthEastWater #ANATBespoke #recultivate #ANAT #ArtScience #Synapse #Bespoke #CreativeInnovation #ANATPrograms2025 #ArtAndTechnology @creative.australia @createsa_
SAVE THE DATE :: 26 November Join ANAT Board Chair SAVE THE DATE :: 26 November
Join ANAT Board Chair and Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, Melita Grant, for the second Micro Talk of 2026. 

An ONLINE conversation around this years’ ANAT Synapse residency Turbulent Trajectories, featuring:

Elissa Goodrich, artist
Prof. Richard Manasseh, researcher

Composer/sound artist/percussionist Elissa Goodrich’s abiding interest is in collaboration. Her compositions sit between contemporary classical and jazz improvisation. Her works play in festivals across the globe.

Prof. Richard Manaseh is a mechanical engineer with a PhD in fluid dynamics. He investigates fluid waves and their interactions, including sound, atmospheric and water waves. His research is applied in oceanography, atmospheric physics, and the space, minerals, biomedical, water, food and defence industries.

Melita Grant is Research Director at the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, specialising in inclusive water management and exploring artistic connections with Pacific water programs through her PhD on decolonising methodologies.

Booking details coming soon

Image clockwise from top: Elissa Goodrich, photograph Lea Kivivali. Melira Grant and Richard Manaseh.

@statesofplay_melbourne @iisma.swinburne @leetsie #TurbulentTrajectories #ANATsynapse #ANATalumni #SoundArtResidency #ArtAndScience #ArtScienceCollaboration #BubbleClouds #OceanBubbles #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #Interdisciplinary #CreativeResearch #FutureThinking @creative.australia @createsa_ #createSA #CreativeAustralia
What’s next for Rewa Wright, our Q&A October guest What’s next for Rewa Wright, our Q&A October guest, is pretty extraordinary.

Selected from more than 800 projects, with just 50 artists globally selected for the 2027 Prague Quadrennial. Between Species: Spectral Signals brings living plant signals into relation with cancer, using PET-CT, MRI and laparoscopic imagery from Rewa’s own leiomyosarcoma diagnosis.

Plant electrical activity, medical imaging, sound and responsive visual systems come together to create a performance environment shaped by vegetal signals, the body and other forms of life.

The work aligns with the Prague Quadrennial performance theme 'Tricky Ghosts' by proposing haunting as an ecological condition: a field of living signals, delayed responses, distributed agencies, and unresolved presences that persist at the edge of perception.

READ the full feature using  LINK in BIO

As a computational arts, real time animation, and emerging technologies researcher, Rewa's career is driven by a commitment to exploring the intersection of bleeding edge technologies, creative practice, and critical thinking. 

Image: UnCalculated Studio 2026, Quik With It x ANAT datamosh

@ashes_inferno @un_calculated #digitalart #biomimicry#createSA #CreativeAustralia #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #inclusivity #ArtScience @creative.australia @createsa_
It's WORLD SPACE WEEK and we're celebrating artist It's WORLD SPACE WEEK and we're celebrating artist and alumnus Dr Anna Madeleine Raupach. In this video of combined constellations, Anna brings together astronomy sky simulations, Starlink coverage and satellite maps to explore the invisible forces shaping our skies.

"This combination of sources also layers the celestial labels with the repetition of Starlink ID numbers. The straight dotted lines show gateway connections between satellites, connecting them in constellation-like shapes. The hexagonal shapes indicate internet coverage in the focus area of Canberra/NSW, but in the way I’ve put the video together they become transparent over land, so the outline of the coast, and Tasmania is visible. 

Together it feels like a merging of natural and artificial skies and their combined constellations."

Anna's 2022 ANAT Synapse residency was hosted by the ANU Research School of Astrophysics and Astronomy (RSAA) at Mount Stromlo Observatory, Anna’s project combined creative practice with methods of observational astronomy to investigate the growing impacts and potential mitigation strategies of human-caused space pollution.

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.

Image: Anna Madeleine Raupach, Combined Constellations. Astronomy sky simulation from Canberra, Stellarium and Starlink coverage tracker, https://starlink.sx and Starlink satellite map, https://satellitemap.space

@MtStromlo @anna_madeleine @DrBradTucker #theaustraliannationaluniversity @ouranu #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2022 #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund #AusCouncilArts #ArtScienceTechnology #ArtistResidencies #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #inclusivity #astronomy #satellites #megaconstellations #spacepollution #radiofrequencies
TODAY in Austria, the latest iteration of Chris He TODAY in Austria, the latest iteration of Chris Henschke's  CERN Synapse Fellowship experiment, Beyond the Quantum Horizon.

No other artist has engaged so thoroughly with the scientific work at CERN as Chris Henschke. In numerous projects he has repeatedly found new ways to make the complex and often elusive research content perceptible to the senses. Central to this was the work of the four particle detectors measuring the collisions in the Large Hadron Collider. The new audiovisual work Beyond the Quantum Horizon, for which Chris Henschke found inspiration during the SciArt Dialogue Week 2026, marks a turning point. The question of how a particle collision is possible in the first place led the artist to explore quantum fields.

This project was supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body. In cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll, art@CMS/ORIGIN, CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research (with the experiments ATLAS – A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS, ALICE – A Large Ion Collider Experiment, CMS – Compact Muon Solenoid, LHCb – Large Hadron Collider beauty, and IdeaSquare – Innovation Space at CERN), University of Graz (Department of Arts and Musicology and interdisciplinary core research area “Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics” at the Faculty of Humanities), University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Institute 11 Stage Design), HEPHY – Institute for High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna), Florida State University, The University of Alabama, RMIT University.

Image: Chris Henchke, “Beyond the Quantum Horizon” (2026)

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Artist and ANAT alumnus Eugenie Lee is a CripQueer Artist and ANAT alumnus Eugenie Lee is a CripQueer autistic Korean Australian experimental artist whose work draws on lived experience to explore complex and often stigmatised aspects of identity and wellbeing. 

In this video, Eugenie discusses ANAT Bespoke :: AJUMMA [Ah-Joom-Mah] WELLBEING CLINIC, an Arts and Disability Initiative-supported project that reimagines menopause and Korean ajumma identity through art, science and cross-cultural collaboration. 

Eugenie reflects on how the funding helped bring together her large diverse team of collaborators and supported the early research and development of an ambitious, multi-stage creative work.

Read Eugenie’s creative research journal via 🔗 in BIO

Video: Arts and Disability Initiative meet the artist – Eugenie Lee. Produced by Creative Australia, 2026.

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FINAL CALL for applications to the 2027 ANAT Synap FINAL CALL for applications to the 2027 ANAT Synapse residency program. ANAT welcomes submissions from Australian artists who work in any genre with conceptual aims that intersect and deeply engage with science and/or technology.

The program brings artists and researchers together in partnerships that generate new knowledge, ideas and processes beneficial beyond both fields. A distinguishing feature of the residencies is their creative research focus, with applicants supported in collaborative experimentation rather than anticipating or producing specific outcomes.

READ more details via 🔗 in our BIO

KEY DATES:
Deadline :: 3 pm (ACDT), Wednesday 14 October 2026
Notification :: Late November 2026
Residency :: Between February – October 2027

The featured imagery offers a glimpse into the research of our 2026 ANAT Synapse resident, composer Elissa Goodrich, who, in collaboration with Professor Richard Manasseh and the fluid dynamics team at Swinburne University of Technology, is investigating how bubbles can tell stories of turbulence, transformation and connection. Revealing how bubbles formed by breaking waves play a major role in absorbing some of humanity's CO₂ emissions.

Image: 2026 ANAT Synapse resident Elissa Goodrich, ‘Underwater image original anon under cc’, visual editing by Elissa Goodrich and Michael Carmody from ‘Waves and Bubbles’ by Elissa Goodrich 2025.:

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ANAT and our project partners acknowledge and pay respects to the First Nations of the land known as Australia.

We recognise all Traditional Owners and their continued cultural, spiritual and technological practices.

We also acknowledge and pay respects to all First Nations peoples beyond Australian shores. As the very first storytellers, First Nations peoples hold invaluable knowledge and perspectives that are vital in the research, interrogation and development of traditional and emerging technologies, across both our physical and digital realms.

Together we are gathering across many unceded lands that have been forcibly colonised.

ANAT works on Kaurna yarta.