Artist Talks
Exhibition tour sessions
Meet with our exhibiting artists and curators within the space of their exhibitions. Our intimate art talks offer visitors the opportunity to learn about the works directly from the artists who made them.
Meet the curator
Lubi Thomas
Saturday 14 June
3 – 3.45pm
FREE
Experimenta Emergence intertwines the work of contemporary artists who critically examine our changing world to reveal ways humanity might confront and adapt to emerging challenges now and in the near future. This tour is hosted by the exhibition curator, providing a unique guided insight into the exhibition, delving into the artists’ works, practice, and the exhibition’s themes.
Bookings essential.
Saturday 14 June 3pm
Meet the artists
Leah Barclay, Daniel McKewan and Kate Geck
Sunday 15 June
10 – 11am
FREE
As part of an ongoing investigation, Experimenta will host an in-conversation event inviting commissioned and featured artists to share their approaches to emergent and interdisciplinary forms within their respective art practices.
RSVP appreciated for catering purposes
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Leah Barclay
Dr Leah Barclay is an Australian sound artist, designer, and researcher working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Her research and creative work investigate new approaches to ecoacoustics, exploring the soundscapes of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to inform conservation, scientific research, and public engagement. She is a specialist in underwater sound with over 15 years’ experience recording marine and freshwater ecosystems across the planet.
Daniel McKewan
Daniel McKewen is a visual artist and educator, who lives in Meanjin (Brisbane) on the unceeded lands of the Turrbal and Jagera people. Daniel’s practice investigates the intersections of art, screen culture, economics, and politics. Working across a range of media, his work explores how these institutions, systems, and structures of power inform our individual and collective imaginations.
Kate Geck
Kate Geck is a digital artist working with textiles, animation, machine learning, augmented reality, and the internet. Her practice tends to the connections between humans and technology, exploring ways to materialise the digital. Invoking the language of the Internet, her aesthetic critiques a hyper-mediated age, creating sites of respite and resistance that think through alternative agendas for networked technologies.
Sunday 15 June 10am
film screening and Meet the artist
Liam Young
Thursday 3 July
5 – 6pm
FREE
Liam Young’s visionary films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental questions facing us today. Join us for a special screening of his work Planet City followed by a talk focussing on Liam’s practice of worldbuilding and designing speculative futures.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Liam Young is an Australian designer, director and BAFTA nominated producer who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. Described by the BBC as ‘the man designing our futures’, his visionary films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental questions facing us today.
Bookings essential.
Thursday 3 July 5pm
Meet the artists
Katrin Hochschuh, and Adam Donovan
Sunday 20 July
10 – 11am
FREE
Hear international artists Adam Donovan and Katrin Hochschuh demonstrate Plasticity of Mirrors, a new commission which is being presented for the first time as part of Experimenta Emergence. This talk will focus on their practice of creating sophisticated mechanisms to explore robotic behaviours, algorithms and interactivity.
RSVP appreciated for catering purposes
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Katrin Hochschuh
Katrin Hochschuh is a media artist with an architectural background in digital design and robotic fabrication. Her artwork connects the digital and the physical realm, exploring robotic behaviours, algorithms and interactivity, always focusing on the human, their perception and social implications of technology. Writing custom software allows her to connect deeply with technology.
Adam Donovan
Adam Donovan is a hybrid media artist working in science, art and technology. His artwork incorporates nonlinear acoustics, robotic sculpture, game engines and camera tracking. He explores the intangible aspects of physics to amplify their effects creating new mediums and experiences. Designing custom hardware and electronics, his creativity has no bounds in creating new robotic companions.
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Main image: Install view, The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower, 2019. Photo: Your Life Photography