Ⓥ 3.2 Art Science
Tracks
Track 2
Monday, June 24, 2024 |
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Plaza P6 |
Overview
This session will be livestreamed from Brisbane for virtual delegates
Speaker
Ms Melissa DeLaney
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Network for Art and Technology
P: An introduction to ANAT
3:30 PM - 3:40 PMAbstract
Over the past 35 years ANAT has cultivated opportunities for artists to create experimental work in and with science and technology.
Through residencies including ANAT Synapse now celebrating its 20th year, festivals, workshops and other professional activities supported by robust national and international networks ANAT plays a unique and critical role in Australia’s artistic and cultural ecosystem and contributes significantly to the nation’s reputation for creativity, diversity and innovation.
We acknowledge that humanity and our planet Earth is amid a transformative era, facing some of the greatest ecological, social, cultural, economical and technical challenges in human history. We are the confluence of three interconnected and interrelated ecosystems; arts, science and technology, that are critical in shaping this right of passage and unique opportunities to shape the futures.
ANAT has a long tradition of cultivating artistic excellence by bringing together artists with science and technology to create experimental artwork, but making new ideas visible is not enough.
Our vision is for artists to contribute to cultivating the conditions for ecological, cultural, social and economic flourishing for all living beings, through the making and sharing of some of Australia’s most important stories. Building on our existing programs, capability, and our core value of reciprocity, over the next five years ANAT will identify and develop our role in cultural diplomacy internationally, importantly across the Indo Pacific and Southeast Asian regions.
We recognise that we need to amplify the unheard and vulnerable (human and beyond human), transcend traditional practices to communicate stories effectively and cultivate relationships that enable us to endure.
Through residencies including ANAT Synapse now celebrating its 20th year, festivals, workshops and other professional activities supported by robust national and international networks ANAT plays a unique and critical role in Australia’s artistic and cultural ecosystem and contributes significantly to the nation’s reputation for creativity, diversity and innovation.
We acknowledge that humanity and our planet Earth is amid a transformative era, facing some of the greatest ecological, social, cultural, economical and technical challenges in human history. We are the confluence of three interconnected and interrelated ecosystems; arts, science and technology, that are critical in shaping this right of passage and unique opportunities to shape the futures.
ANAT has a long tradition of cultivating artistic excellence by bringing together artists with science and technology to create experimental artwork, but making new ideas visible is not enough.
Our vision is for artists to contribute to cultivating the conditions for ecological, cultural, social and economic flourishing for all living beings, through the making and sharing of some of Australia’s most important stories. Building on our existing programs, capability, and our core value of reciprocity, over the next five years ANAT will identify and develop our role in cultural diplomacy internationally, importantly across the Indo Pacific and Southeast Asian regions.
We recognise that we need to amplify the unheard and vulnerable (human and beyond human), transcend traditional practices to communicate stories effectively and cultivate relationships that enable us to endure.
Biography
Melissa's work dwells in the intersections of education and government, wellness, creative industries, technology and science, recreation, and arts and cultural development in work she sees as social sculpture.
A vital focus of the work and practice is interdisciplinary partnerships and collaboration.
With high levels of cultural fluency and cultural diplomacy expertise, when leading organisations Melissa continues building an international network, mostly interested in participatory forms - this includes residencies, programs and events, strategy, and facilitating spaces for others to connect and be creative, active and social.
In 2024 Melissa was made an Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT School of Art (2024-2027).
Melissa was a Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop Fellowship recipient as part of the Asialink Leaders Program, 2021/22 and is a current peer assessor for Creative Australia (2021-2024).
Melissa is also certified in mindfulness meditation teaching, Yin Yoga teacher training, is a trained raw food chef and holds a graduate degree in Wellness (Health Science) through RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia), fields she brings into a holistic approach to work and leadership and fostering healthy organisations.
Dr Toby Gifford
Academic
University of the Sunshine Coast
Co-presenter
Biography
Dr Toby Gifford is a designer, creative coder, and interdisciplinary media arts practitioner, with a particular interest in virtual/augmented reality and immersive installation. He has worked across industry and academia at the intersection of art and technology, with extensive professional experience in software programming and systems design. His research spans a broad range of areas including: application of artificial intelligence to the creative industries; environmental sensing for ecosystem health monitoring; and modelling and data visualisation to aid design.
Dr Leah Barclay
Discipline Lead of Design
University of the Sunshine Coast
FP: Listening to Rivers: Engaging Communities in Freshwater Conservation Through Real-time Audio and Locative Media
3:40 PM - 4:05 PMAbstract
River Listening is an interdisciplinary project established in 2014 that presents an innovative approach to freshwater conservation. This paper reflects on a decade of research with particular focus on the creative outcomes that have leveraged real-time audio and locative media for public engagement and ecological awareness. This interdisciplinary project works at the intersection of art and science and has deployed hydrophones in global river system making the artistic and scientific possibilities of listening to rivers accessible to global audiences through real-time audio streaming and interactive sound walks. River Listening embodies the concept of Everywhen by interweaving the past, present, and future narratives of freshwater ecosystems through sound. This approach not only amplifies the project's scientific contributions but also extends its reach and impact on public engagement. The project stands as a testament to the transformative potential of art, science, and technology in facilitating an empathetic connection and care for rivers at a time when it is increasingly important to listen.
Biography
Dr Leah Barclay is a sound artist, designer and researcher who works at the intersection of art, science and technology. Leah's research and creative work over the last decade has investigated innovative approaches to recording and disseminating the soundscapes of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to inform conservation, scientific research and public engagement.
Leah has been the recipient of numerous awards and her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim internationally by organisations including the Smithsonian Museum, UNESCO, Ear to the Earth, Streaming Museum, Al Gore’s Climate Reality and the IUCN. Leah leads several research projects including Biosphere Soundscapes and River Listening that focus on advancing the field of ecoacoustics. The design of these interdisciplinary projects are responsive to the needs of collaborating communities and involve the development of new technologies including remote sensing devices for the rainforest canopy and hydrophone recording arrays in aquatic ecosystems.
Dr Chris Henschke
RMIT University
FP: Strange Entanglements: An Art-Science Installation Exploring the Spooky World of Quantum Entanglement
4:05 PM - 4:30 PMAbstract
“Entanglements” is an interactive apparatus that explores the fundamental phenomenon of quantum entanglement and how it can frame and activate relationships with the universe. Through a novel interface that combines sight, sound and touch, actual quantum entanglement phenomena are created and expressed through unique sonic signatures. The term “en- tanglement” is widely used, but what actually is it? In this paper, we describe the phenomenon and the artwork, and how it challenges fundamental assumptions about space, time and our relationships with the subatomic and cosmic realms.
Biography
Chris Henschke works across digital and analogue media, utilizing and interrogating the technologies and techniques of experimental science. His practice involves cross-disciplinary collaboration and research, and he teached media art at RMIT University. He has undertaken various residencies and collaborations including the National Gallery of Australia, 2004; Asialink, 2007; the Australian Synchrotron, 2007 and 2010; ANAT SYNAPSE at the CSIRO 2018-2019; and CERN, 2013-2018 through the art@CMS collaboration program.Recent exhibitions include: ‘How Everything Began’ a group show at the Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2016, opened by Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Peter Higgs; ‘Song of the Phenomena’ and ‘Demon Core’, at DARK MOFO 2019, Hobart; and ‘Synthesism’, an in-situ installation presentation of his CSIRO nanomaterial experiments, 2019. His most recent book is "Mudstone", part of the "Lost Rocks" series available through A Published Event.
Dr Toby Gifford
Academic
University of the Sunshine Coast
Co-presenter
Biography
Dr Toby Gifford is a designer, creative coder, and interdisciplinary media arts practitioner, with a particular interest in virtual/augmented reality and immersive installation. He has worked across industry and academia at the intersection of art and technology, with extensive professional experience in software programming and systems design. His research spans a broad range of areas including: application of artificial intelligence to the creative industries; environmental sensing for ecosystem health monitoring; and modelling and data visualisation to aid design.
Dr Sarah Neville
University of South Australia
ANAT Alumni included in creative work program
4:30 PM - 5:30 PMAbstract
Join host, ANAT CEO Melissa DeLaney as she leads this session with presenters who are all Australian artists working at the intersections of art, science and technology.
Each of the artists are ANAT Alumni and part of its community of practice. Their vital and important work spotlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and reciprocity, shared ethos of practices and contribution to the field of research, creative practice and inquiry into their roles as humans engaging with diverse methodologies and fields of inquiry.
Each of the artists are ANAT Alumni and part of its community of practice. Their vital and important work spotlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and reciprocity, shared ethos of practices and contribution to the field of research, creative practice and inquiry into their roles as humans engaging with diverse methodologies and fields of inquiry.
Biography
Sarah Neville is an Independent Artist and Adjunct Research Fellow at UniSA Creative/ IVE. She was awarded an Arts SA Established Artist Fellowship in 2021 to create virtual reality dance work. Sarah was awarded a dual award PhD from both Deakin University and Coventry University in dance digitization in 2022. Recent work has been shown at ANAT’s SPECTRA, Siggraph Van-couver, 7th Motion and Computing Conference, MOD and The Illuminate Festival.
Stephanie Hutchinson
QUT
Panelist
Biography
Dr Steph Hutchison is an artist-researcher, choreographer and performer. Her work has explored limits of the body in endurance-based dance works, dialogues with technology and systems, and since 2015 robotics. In 2022, Steph received an ANAT Synapse Residency to collaborate with Prof Jonathan Roberts on Cobotic Improvisations. They investigated how humans might predict the movement of their robot collaborators using choreographic and improvisation practice. Their residency was co-hosted by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub and the Australian Cobotics Centre. Steph is currently the Study Area Coordinator for Dance at Queensland University of Technology and Associate Investigator of the Australian Cobotics Centre.
Dr Svenja Kratz
Senior Lecturer In Interdisciplinary Creative Practice
University of Tasmania
Panelist
Biography
Svenja Kratz is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. She holds a PhD in Biotechnology and Contemporary Art from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) with expertise in cell and tissue culture and interdisciplinary arts practice. Since 2008, she has worked with researchers across music, design, architecture, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, molecular biology and biomanufacturing to produce collaborative and solo works that explore the complexity of living systems and highlight the philosophical and ethical implications of engineered life. She is a 2021 ANAT Synapse art-science recipient and her creative works have been exhibited at local, national and international venues including the Sydney Powerhouse Museum (2013), Contemporary Art Tasmania (2016), The Science Gallery London (2019) and World Science Festival Brisbane (2024). Svenja is currently based in lutrawita Tasmania where she works as a senior lecturer in interdisciplinary creative practice at the University of Tasmania.
Dr Leah Barclay
Discipline Lead of Design
University of the Sunshine Coast
Panelist
Biography
Dr Leah Barclay is a sound artist, designer and researcher who works at the intersection of art, science and technology. Leah's research and creative work over the last decade has investigated innovative approaches to recording and disseminating the soundscapes of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to inform conservation, scientific research and public engagement.
Leah has been the recipient of numerous awards and her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim internationally by organisations including the Smithsonian Museum, UNESCO, Ear to the Earth, Streaming Museum, Al Gore’s Climate Reality and the IUCN. Leah leads several research projects including Biosphere Soundscapes and River Listening that focus on advancing the field of ecoacoustics. The design of these interdisciplinary projects are responsive to the needs of collaborating communities and involve the development of new technologies including remote sensing devices for the rainforest canopy and hydrophone recording arrays in aquatic ecosystems.
Dr Chris Henschke
RMIT University
Panelist
Biography
Chris Henschke works across digital and analogue media, utilizing and interrogating the technologies and techniques of experimental science. His practice involves cross-disciplinary collaboration and research, and he teached media art at RMIT University. He has undertaken various residencies and collaborations including the National Gallery of Australia, 2004; Asialink, 2007; the Australian Synchrotron, 2007 and 2010; ANAT SYNAPSE at the CSIRO 2018-2019; and CERN, 2013-2018 through the art@CMS collaboration program.Recent exhibitions include: ‘How Everything Began’ a group show at the Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2016, opened by Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Peter Higgs; ‘Song of the Phenomena’ and ‘Demon Core’, at DARK MOFO 2019, Hobart; and ‘Synthesism’, an in-situ installation presentation of his CSIRO nanomaterial experiments, 2019. His most recent book is "Mudstone", part of the "Lost Rocks" series available through A Published Event.
Session chair
Melissa DeLaney
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Network for Art and Technology
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