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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
Email: [email protected]

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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: 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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@stephehutchison has 🚀 LAUNCHED her 2022 ANAT S

@stephehutchison has 🚀 LAUNCHED her 2022 ANAT Synapse residency and BLOG!

Cobotic Improvisations is underway at ARM Hub with Jonathan Roberts & Das at the Advanced Robotics and Manufacturing Hub and Australian Cobotics Centre. Steph says they're currently working on games to play together - like box throwing. Still working out the motions.

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

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.

READ Steph’s BLOG using the LINK IN OUR BIO

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.

Image: Cobotic-Improvisations ABB ARM Hub courtesy Steph Hutchison.

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#copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund @copyrightagency_ @AusCouncilArts #AusCouncilArts #ArtScienceTechnology #ArtistResidencies #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #inclusivity #astronomy #satellites #megaconstellations

In celebration of National Science Week, ANAT alum

In celebration of National Science Week, ANAT alumnus Dr. Sarah Jane Moore and Dr. Steven Durbach (CSIRO) are presenting 'Art walking into science'.

Sarah Jane (Trowunna/lutruwita), is a Tasmanian creative artist and qualitative researcher-educator who uses storytelling, performance, singing and poetry in her work.

Dr Steven Durbach (aka Sid the Scientist) was a scientist in the field of molecular genetics, and is now an artist and lets that experience inform how he works as an artist.

18 August, 6-7.30PM, Ryde Library,
National Science Week 13-21

Register https://bit.ly/3p7UOfj

Image : Dr. Sarah Jane Moore, courtesy the artist. Installation view courtesy Dr. Steven Durbac.

@sjmoore1970 @nationalscienceweek @ANATalumni @csirogram @stevendurbach

CLOSING SOON! NEW LIGHT 2022 finishes Sunday 31 Ju

CLOSING SOON! NEW LIGHT 2022 finishes Sunday 31 July.
Experience this suite of incredible First Nations artists and storytellers. We extend our tremendous thanks to Amala Groom, Daen Sansbury-Smith & Jaydenlee Tong for sharing their stories with us.

Presented by Illuminate Adelaide & ANAT, NEW LIGHT screens every day and night across July at the Adelaide Festival Centre media screens as part Illuminate Adelaide’s City Lights program.

New Light 2022 showcases experimental and diverse moving image works by First Nations artists.

📷 Jenn Brazier

Images 1-3 AMALA GROOM’S work Myths & Legends: Brittania. 4-6 DAEN SANSBURY-SMITH’S Adja Country ARt JAYDENLEE TONG’S Tarndanyangga Dreaming.

@amalagroom @adjaduraart
@illuminateadelaide @adelaidefescent

In the studio with ANAT alumnus and Board Member B

In the studio with ANAT alumnus and Board Member Brad Darkson 👏👏👏
For his latest collaboration, with @guildhouse_au “Voice of the Artist” public art commission, Brad has worked with Kaurna elder Aunty Lynette Crocker to develop a placemaking piece that draws the architecture of the Lion Arts Precinct, and the wider cultural precinct, back to the Country it’s built on.

Brad and and his marine biologist wife Chloe's pilot seaweed cultivation project... Moonrise Seaweed Co had a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year.

READ the studio feature https://bit.ly/3vgznMD

Brad is an artist working across various media including carving, sound, sculpture, multimedia installation, and painting. Conceptually Brad's work is often informed by his First Nations and Anglo Australian heritage. Brad's mob on his Dad's side is the Chester family, with lineages to Narungga and many other Nations in South Australia from Ngarrindjeri to Far West Coast. On his Mum's side he's from the Colley and Ball convict and settler migrant families, both arriving in 1839 aboard the Duchess of Northumberland.

Photograph Aubrey Jonson.

@indaily @ANATalumni #BradDarkson @moonriseseaweed #seaweed #SeaweedFarming #phycology #kelp #MoonriseSeaweedCo #GreatSouthernrRef #FirstNationsBusiness #ShopBlak #FleurieuPeninsula #ClimateSolutions #RegenerativeAquaculture

@anna_madeleine has 🚀 LAUNCHED her ANAT Synapse

@anna_madeleine has 🚀 LAUNCHED her ANAT Synapse residency and BLOG! @mtstromloobservatory Anna is spending time looking at lots of alarming data about the proliferation of mega constellations of satellites unleashed into orbit with not much forward thinking.

So many thorny issues to survey in this project combining creative practice with methods of observational astronomy to investigate the growing impacts and potential mitigation strategies of human-caused space pollution.

Anna 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.

READ Anna’s BLOG using the LINK IN OUR BIO

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.

Images:
1. Opensource Starlink tracker
3. From Traiblazer open repo of images affected by satellites

@anna_madeleine @MtStromlo @DrBradTucker #theaustraliannationaluniversity @ouranu #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2022 #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund @copyrightagency_ @AusCouncilArts #AusCouncilArts #ArtScienceTechnology #ArtistResidencies #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #inclusivity #astronomy #satellites #megaconstellations #spacepollution #radiofrequencies #synapseresidency #multidisciplinary #research

When the line between man and machines finally blu

When the line between man and machines finally blurs, what will our world become?

Our inaugural ANAT Emerging Writer Series continues with emerging writer Aushaf Widisto's second feature, examining SPECTRAvision Ep. 2: Machines Like Us, Cells Like Us.

In the special edition program, Artificially Intelligent Art, this question is explored from the perspective of a machine artist. Driven by her curiosity, our machine artist interviewed an eclectic lineup of human artists whose work lies at the intersection of man and machine, examining the relationship between them and envisaging a world where they live in harmony and synergy

READ the feature using the LINK IN OUR BIO

WATCH Artificially intelligent Art using the LINK IN OUR BIO

Featured artists: Nathan Thompson, Guy Ben-Ary, Helen Pynor, Betty Sargeant, Reggie Ba-Pe, Andy Simionato and Karen Ann Donnachie.
Director: David Pledger. Producer: Dearna Newchurch. Video Editor: Lewis Isaacs

@auswds #EmergingWriter @AusCouncilArts @ArtsSouthAus

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: 1. Still from Artificially Intelligent Art. Andy Simionato and Karen Ann Donnachie. 2. The Great Library of Alexandria by O. Von Corven (Source: Wikimedia Commons).

Meet Amala Groom. Amala is one of the 2022 New Lig

Meet Amala Groom.
Amala is one of the 2022 New Light artists.
Presented by Illuminate Adelaide & ANAT, Amala’s artwork Myths & Legends: Britannia (abridged) is currently screening every day and night across July at the Adelaide Festival Centre media screens as part Illuminate Adelaide’s City Lights program.

Myths & Legends: Brittania (abridged) is a single channel moving image work that iterates Groom’s Popular Sovereignty poster from her series Myths & Legends (2022) into a piece of site specific performance art positioning the poster alongside the artist in front of Buckingham Palace.

New Light 2022 showcases experimental and diverse moving image works by First Nations artists.

📷 Penelope Benton

@amalagroom
@illuminateadelaide @adelaidefescent

Team ANAT enjoyed an extraordinary artist talk las

Team ANAT enjoyed an extraordinary artist talk last night🔥by ANAT alumni Dr Andrea Rassell in conversation with Dr Deirdre Feeney, presented by @illuminateadelaide at
@thehawkecentre

Thank you Andrea for sharing your practice and the creation of 'The Society of NanoBioSensing', the compelling story of your interdisciplinary research path in science art!

👏 Deirdre for your astute questions and considered observations. So good to see two ANAT Synapse residents on the same stage!

Andrea's epic virtual microscope where visitors can experience medical nanotechnology features in Illuminate's City Lights
6-11pm nightly until the end of the month
Explore the digital map - https://bit.ly/3Ph0WO8

Andrea was a ANAT Synapse resident in 2019, when she worked with Professor Vipul Bansal, at the Nanobiosensing Facility, RMIT University.

Use the LINK IN BIO to read Andrea's feature

In her 2020 ANAT Synapse residency Deirdre built on her previous work at the ANU Research School of Physics with physicist, Dr Geoff Campbell.

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

@illuminateadelaide @hellosynaesthesia #andrearassell #anatalumni @deirdre_feeney @rmituniversity #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund @auscouncilarts #auscouncilarts #anthropocene #ArtScienceTechnology #experimental #research

@elenaknox.official curated and featured in ‘Can

@elenaknox.official curated and featured in ‘Can you fuck it?’ – The Fembot Phenomenon last week in the heart of Tokyo, alongside artists Lin Xin, Alison de Fren and Mika Kan. The exhibition title references one of the prevailing online comments made each time a newly developed female-appearing robot is introduced in the mainstream media. "Fine, nice work there, but can you fuck it?," ask the anonymous legions on the internet.

Elena's work 'Pathetic Fallacy' featured in ANAT SPECTRA 2022.

Elena's work ‘Figure Study’ (exhibited in "Can you fuck it?") focuses primarily on the Japan-designed Otonaroid, a female-appearing android model that is meant for reception and simple conversation purposes. The artworks concern how we render restrictions more comfortable by giving social systems a human face.

Image: 'Figure Study'2020, photograph, pigment on rag, 55 x 74cm. Robot Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories.

#ANATspectra2022 #FemBot #TechnoSexual #ArtScience #canyoufuckit #それヤルんの

TOMORROW :: ANAT alumni Dr Andrea Rassell in-conve

TOMORROW :: ANAT alumni Dr Andrea Rassell in-conversation with Dr Deirdre Feeney, part of Illuminate Adelaide. The session will focus on the creation of Andrea's The Society of NanBioSensing, an epic virtual microscope where visitors can experience medical nanotechnology, also featuring in Illuminate's City Lights - series of immersive installations, artworks and large-scale activations throughout Adelaide's cbd.

Andrea is a filmmaker, media artist and interdisciplinary researcher in science art. With her scrutiny of nanoart (artforms that engage with nanoscience and nanotechnology), Andrea creates experimental films and moving image installations that explore scale, technological mediation, and the multisensory perception of the sub-molecular realm.

Use the LINK IN BIO to read Andrea's feature

In conversation event https://bit.ly/39duvQa
View the program - https://bit.ly/3aJUaBq
Explore the digital map - https://bit.ly/3Ph0WO8

City Lights: 6-11pm nightly until the end of the month

Image: Ben Padman, still from Trafficking | Transmission | Translation, 2022. Image courtesy Andrea Rassell.

@illuminateadelaide @hellosynaesthesia #andrearassell #anatalumni @deirdre_feeney @rmituniversity #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund @auscouncilarts #auscouncilarts #anthropocene #ArtScienceTechnology #experimental #research

Meet Daen Sansbury-Smith. Daen is one of the 2022

Meet Daen Sansbury-Smith.
Daen is one of the 2022 New Light artists.
Presented by Illuminate Adelaide & ANAT, Daen’s artwork Adja Country ARt is currently screening every day and night across July at the Adelaide Festival Centre media screens as part Illuminate Adelaide's City Lights program.

Adja Country ARt is an artistic exploration through Narungga country by following the four Totems. The artwork has been created to allow viewers the ability to travel and to develop or maintain a connection to the country when sometimes for many reasons we cannot. Immerse yourself in this short clip and witness how easily these totems navigate the complex relationships between each other as well as the environment.

New Light 2022 showcases experimental and diverse moving image works by First Nations artists. For more details USE THE LINK IN OUR BIO

@adjaduraart
@illuminateadelaide @adelaidefescent

10 years ago this month ANAT alumnus Dr Chris Hens

10 years ago this month ANAT alumnus Dr Chris Henschke, held the Colliding Ideas symposium at @rmituniversity Storey Hall. Co-hosted by ANAT the symposium addressed the social and creative parameters of the physical sciences, taking inspiration from the 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics, also in Melbourne, where they announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson @cern.

Event speakers included Chris, Ralph J. Steinhagen, Accelerator Physicist, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Paul Thomas, Mary Rosengren, Jon McCormack, Sam Leach, Antoanetta Ivanova, Malte Wagenfeld and Vicki Sowry.

Chris Henschke is an artist who works with digital and analogue media, sound and light, nanochemistry and high-energy physics. ANAT has worked with Chris in several projects over the last 12 years.

Use the LINK IN BIO to read more and WATCH

#Collidingideas #HiggsBoson #HiggsBosonDay #Ichep2012 #Anatalumni @rmituniversity @jonmc99 @samleach_00 @wagenfeldmalte

Creative research project 'Beeyali' continues to g

Creative research project 'Beeyali' continues to garner accolades. Presented last week at EVA London, on show in 'Djagan Yaman', Lyndon Davis’ first solo exhibition in the USC Art Gallery as well as (this) feature article in The Conversation. We're so proud of supporting the speculative impulse and cross-disciplinary, collaborative nature of this extraordinary project. 🔥🔥🔥

READ the article using the LINK IN OUR BIO

Commissioned as a large-scale projection work for our NEW LIGHT 2021 program, conceived by Lyndon Davis, a Kabi Kabi man and artist working in collaboration with sound artist Leah Barclay and photographer Tricia King.

Beeyali was created as a way to encourage communities to listen, connect with place and share knowledge through new technology. Lyndon, Leah and Tricia experimented with cymatics, an interdisciplinary field studying the visual interpretation of sound. The meeting of Indigenous knowledges, science, creative practice and new technology is core to their ongoing collaboration.

NEW LIGHT 2022 is currently screening everyday and night in July at the Adelaide Festival Centre media screens. A must see program for all ages.

Presented by Illuminate Adelaide & ANAT, and in association with Adelaide Festival Centre’s Moving Image program, NEW LIGHT celebrates experimental and diverse moving image works by First Nations artists.

Images: 1. Beeyali, New Light 2021. 2. Lyndon Davis during Beeyali field work with cockatoos, photograph Tricia King 3. Beeyali cymatic experiments with ochre inside a speaker playing the calls of a black cockatoo.

#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #lyndondavis #NewLight @illuminateadelaide @adelaidefescent #innovation #art #technology #light #MovingImage #FirstNationsAustralia @leahbarclay @triciakingphoto @usc.australia @AusCouncilArts @ArtsSouthAus #ANATalumni @theconversationau

CONGRATULATIONS to ANAT alumnus Elizabeth Willing,

CONGRATULATIONS to ANAT alumnus Elizabeth Willing, who has received the inaugural $30,000 Judy Wheeler Commission to produce a site-specific work for PICA in 2023.

Liz will develop a large-scale textile work that delves into the Perth locale’s olfactory and sensory offerings, such as the nearby Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River), botanic gardens, and wine region. From these explorations she will create an inventory of symbols that form their own performative, multisensory lexicon.

In 2019 Liz was our inaugural ANAT AWRI resident, where she explored the synesthetic harmony between the flavour of wines and the visual aesthetics of still and moving image. Liz, in collaboration with the staff at The Australian Wine Research Institute, transformed the sensory data of local South Australian wines into a ‘material language’ that can be used in the studio process.

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

Image Elizabeth Willing, image courtesy Museum Of Brisbane. Photograph David Kelly.

@elizabethwilling #australianwineresearchinstitute #anatalumni @pica_perth @tolarno

Meet Jaydenlee Tong. Jaydenlee is one of the 2022

Meet Jaydenlee Tong.
Jaydenlee is one of the 2022 New Light artists.
Presented by Illuminate-Adelaide & ANAT, Jaydenlee’s artwork Tarndanyangga Dreaming is currently screening every day and night across July at the Adelaide Festival Centre media screens as part Illuminate Adelaide’s City Lights program.

Speaking to his artwork and participating in New Light, Jaydenlee says “New Light has given me a chance to learn more about my own culture, the stories and beliefs. This is important because Aboriginal culture needs to be preserved and taught and I am pleased that my work will be shown and easily accessible to the public in a format that is visually aesthetic, borrowing from historic Aboriginal Art with my own spin on it. This story that I have chosen to represent about Tarndanyangga Dreaming (Red Kangaroo Totem) is very important to my family and the Kaurna group as it shows the journey in the Adelaide region. I hope that this can help educate people in the public about Kaurna culture and perhaps intrigue them to do some research of their own”.

New Light 2022 showcases experimental and diverse moving image works by First Nations artists. For more details USE THE LINK IN OUR BIO

@illuminateadelaide @adelaidefescent
#innovation #art #technology #light #MovingImage