Ryan Warden, Production Director on #avowed (Obsidian Entertainment) [FULL TALK] ACMI – Australias museum of screen culture 2026-09-28 | Ryan Warden, Production Director on #avowed (Obsidian Entertainment) [FULL TALK]
Goddess Nights (July) – Music, Performances, Exhibition, Food, Bar, Shop ACMI 2023-07-06 | Celebrate and experience the collective power of Goddess after dark.Explore the Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion exhibition after hours with a dynamic, diverse and shapeshifting program of femme-focused live music and performance honouring the women who continuously challenge social narratives, exude fearless creativity, artistry and expertise within their craft.Set amongst a transformed Ground Floor Lightwell Foyer, Goddess Nights will keep you up late and in good company with a tailored food menu from Hero, beverage offerings from Campari and Handpicked Wines, and extended retail hours.Thu 27 July linuep KALYANI, KOMANG, KHYA, MOTHAFUNK, HOLLY DURANTLighting & visuals designed by 3D motion artist Mikaela Stafford, and makeup on the performing artists from Avantgarde MUA Moochi.Learn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/goddess/nights/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Focus on Greta Gerwig (Thu 6 – Sun 23 Jul 2023) – Film season trailer ACMI 2023-06-26 | From mumblecore to barbiecore, we track the unique career path of one of the queen bees of post-millennial American indie cinema.Over the past 15 years, cinema screens have been lit up with the luminous onscreen presence of Greta Gerwig, a stalwart of post-millennial American independent cinema. She has brought her idiosyncratic charm to films by some of the most notable names in American indies – Whit Stillman, Noah Baumbach, Mike Mills, Todd Solondz – but while society often mislabels female actors as muses, Gerwig is no muse, she is a career-long creator.Greta Gerwig began her acting career knee-deep in the mumblecore scene appearing in films like LOL (2006) and Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007). The films that emerged out of the mumblecore talent pool were mostly improvised, with naturalistic performances and a mostly collaborative creative approach. So collaborative was Nights and Weekends (2008) that actors Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg shared writing and directing credits on the film. In 2017, when Greta Gerwig pivoted to directing with the Academy Award-nominated Lady Bird (2017), it was actually a pivot back.As 2023 promises to be the Year-of-the-Barbie, we take a look back at the actor-writer-producer-director's unique career, from mumblecore beginnings, through to years as a top-billed indie darling, and to a directing powerhouse at the helm of major motion pictures with creativity and charisma to burn.Curated by Reece Goodwin; Curator, Film & TV, with additional film notes by guest writer Spiro Economopoulos.Learn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/greta-gerwig-in-cinemas/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Mikaela Stafford on BLOOMING | Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion ACMI 2023-06-13 | Find out more about the spectacular #artwork that has spilled out over the #ACMI stairwell.This work was commissioned for the ACMI exhibition Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion.Learn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/goddess/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Two Girls from Amoonguna trailer | Exhibition Tue 9 May – Sun 20 Aug 2023 ACMI 2023-06-01 | Two artists recount their intertwining journeys of friendship and resilience in the Central Desert through the medium of animation.Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist Sally M Nangala Mulda and Arrernte and Western Arrarnta artist Marlene Rubuntja have developed their practice to be completely recognisable and representative of the place in which they live, Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Working from Tangentyere Artists and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists (art centres), these senior women have established themselves as two of Australia’s leading visual artists.The third Artbank + ACMI Commission, Two Girls From Amoonguna, encompasses video, soft sculpture and paintings, with the centerpiece the animated work titled Arrkutja Tharra, Kungka Kutjara, Two Girls.Arrkutja Tharra, Kungka Kutjara, Two Girls delves into the reality of First Peoples’ experiences in Central Australia by chronicling the artists’ successes and struggles. The work centres Sally and Marlene’s voices, as well as the voices of their younger family members, who can be heard in the animation. It was made in collaboration with Ludo Studio, the Emmy-award winning production company behind Bluey, Robbie Hood and The Strange Chores, along with script writer Courtney Collins, Left of Elephant Sound and Tangentyere Artists producer Ellanor Webb.Figures from Marlene’s soft sculptures and Sally’s acrylic on linen paintings star in the animation, embedded on top of Marlene’s ink on paper works of the Central Australian landscape. Bringing together both artists’ practice, Sally’s iconic cursive painted lettering produce the subtitles.Having grown up at the Amoonguna Settlement outside of Mparntwe/Alice Springs in the early 1960s, the two friends wouldn’t reconnect until much later in life, after both of them had seen their fair amount of hardships; now having achieved so much, they are immensely proud of one another.Two Girls from Amoonguna is an exhibition about two of Australia’s leading artists and their journey to get there.– Curated by Jenna Rain Warwick (Luritja)Learn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/two-girls/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Euphoria (Julian Rosefeldt) trailer | RISING 2023 2–18 June ACMI 2023-05-29 | A surround-sound world hooked to the pulse of jazz, the conscience of a children’s choir and big ideas that test capitalism’s mantra of endless, euphoric consumption.Julian Rosefeldt, the master artist-filmmaker who gave us a chameleonic Cate Blanchett with Manifesto, transforms Melbourne Town Hall into an arena swallowed by screens. A life-sized choir encircles you at ground level while jazz drummers duel from above. Acclaimed actors like Giancarlo Esposito and Virginia Newcomb narrate a surreal epic – delivering musings from some of history’s most influential economists, writers and thinkers from Snoop Dogg, Warren Buffett and Ayn Rand to Angela Davis and Mark Fisher. Homeless men discuss economics and executives do acrobatics in a bank lobby. Cate’s back too. This time she’s a tiger stalking the supermarket aisles.It’s a vision that pummels capitalism with the excess it asks for, then waits for the dust to settle.Wander in and feel the rumble.Learn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/rising-2023/euphoria/Making Euphoria: In conversation with Julian Rosefeldt, Gideon Obarzanek and Ruby Joneshttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/rising-2023/making-euphoria/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Auslan Tour introduction to Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion exhibition at ACMI ACMI 2023-05-29 | Led by experienced Auslan guides, this tour of our Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibition is designed for visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing.Learn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/goddess/auslan-tour/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Goddess Nights (May) – Music, Performances, Exhibition, Food, Bar, Shop ACMI 2023-05-17 | Celebrate and experience the collective power of Goddess after dark.Explore the Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion exhibition after hours with a dynamic, diverse and shapeshifting program of femme-focused live music and performance honouring the women who continuously challenge social narratives, exude fearless creativity, artistry and expertise within their craft.Set amongst a transformed Ground Floor Lightwell Foyer, Goddess Nights will keep you up late and in good company with a tailored food menu from Hero, beverage offerings from Campari and Handpicked Wines, and extended retail hours.Thu 25 May artist lineup: DJ JNETT, CD, POOKIE, AYEBATONYELighting & visuals designed by 3D motion artist Mikaela Stafford, and makeup on the performing artists from Avantgarde MUA Moochi.Learn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/goddess/nights/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Jane Campion: Her Way | Thu 15 Jun – Sun 2 Jul 2023 ACMI 2023-05-14 | Celebrate the lyrical, genre-defying, feminist films that define the New Zealand filmmaker’s trailblazing career.A cursory glance at most biographies of Jane Campion will reveal a focus on the same landmark awards – she was the first woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes for The Piano, and the only two-time female Oscar nominee (including one win) for Best Director. While monumental, these awards only hint at the originality, and stylistic and tonal diversity that characterises her extensive body of work.Campion’s chief trademark as an auteur is her range. From the abrasive comedy of Sweetie and Holy Smoke to the lyrical melodrama of An Angel at My Table and Bright Star, to the genre-defying In the Cut and The Power of the Dog, her films are marked with an unabashed feminism and the recurrence of strong-willed female characters, but she is an equally keen observer of masculinity in all its guises.Campion is always a few steps ahead of the zeitgeist, with a profoundly interconnected body of work; it’s a thrill to screen this diverse range of films that nonetheless tell one extraordinary ‘girl’s own story’.Presented by ACMI in association with the Sydney Film Festival & NFSALearn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/jane-campion-her-way-in-cinemas/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Making Two Girls from Amoonguna ACMI 2023-05-12 | Two artists recount their intertwining journeys of friendship and resilience in the Central Desert through the medium of animation.Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist Sally M Nangala Mulda and Arrernte and Western Arrarnta artist Marlene Rubuntja have developed their practice to be completely recognisable and representative of the place in which they live, Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Working from Tangentyere Artists and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists (art centres), these senior women have established themselves as two of Australia’s leading visual artists.The third Artbank + ACMI Commission, Two Girls From Amoonguna, encompasses video, soft sculpture and paintings, with the centerpiece the animated work titled Arrkutja Tharra, Kungka Kutjara, Two Girls.Arrkutja Tharra, Kungka Kutjara, Two Girls delves into the reality of First Peoples’ experiences in Central Australia by chronicling the artists’ successes and struggles. The work centres Sally and Marlene’s voices, as well as the voices of their younger family members, who can be heard in the animation. It was made in collaboration with Ludo Studio, the Emmy-award winning production company behind Bluey, Robbie Hood and The Strange Chores, along with script writer Courtney Collins, Left of Elephant Sound and Tangentyere Artists producer Ellanor Webb.Figures from Marlene’s soft sculptures and Sally’s acrylic on linen paintings star in the animation, embedded on top of Marlene’s ink on paper works of the Central Australian landscape. Bringing together both artists’ practice, Sally’s iconic cursive painted lettering produce the subtitles.Having grown up at the Amoonguna Settlement outside of Mparntwe/Alice Springs in the early 1960s, the two friends wouldn’t reconnect until much later in life, after both of them had seen their fair amount of hardships; now having achieved so much, they are immensely proud of one another.Two Girls from Amoonguna is an exhibition about two of Australia’s leading artists and their journey to get there.– Curated by Jenna Rain Warwick (Luritja)Commission partnerArtbankSally M Nangala Mulda and Marlene Rubuntja are the recipients of the 2022 ACMI + Artbank Commission.The ACMI + Artbank Commission is a three-year commissioning program established in partnership with Artbank that enables Australian artists and filmmakers to create new works that are conceived at the intersection of art and cinema.Learn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/two-girls/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion exhibition at ACMII – now open! ACMI 2023-05-09 | Trailblazers. Binary-busters. Agitators and instigators. On and off screen.Through iconic stories, characters and moments from over 120 years of moving image history, Goddess celebrates the women and gender-transcending superstars who shaped their own roles, took creative control and fought a system that tried to exploit them.From the swagger of Mae West and glamour of Anna May Wong to the powerful punch of Pam Grier, this ACMI-curated exhibition salutes the groundbreaking achievements and impact of the screen’s leading gender revolutionists. Too often reduced to the status of bombshell, starlet and screen siren, these goddesses remain far more than stereotypes.Featuring never-before-seen costumes, original sketches, interactive experiences and cinematic treasures, including iconic outfits worn by Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Geena Davis and Margot Robbie, Goddess honours the artists who challenged narratives, defied expectations and transcended tropes.Whether it’s Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Michelle Yeoh or Zendaya, today’s goddesses unapologetically occupy spaces and roles that shatter glass ceilings, project solidarity and reframe society through essential stories, singular voices and complex characters. They’ve fought convention and an industry built to confine them with collective power and fearless creativity to embody their own heroes and forge their own paths.Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion is curated by Bethan Johnson, ACMILearn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/goddess/____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Being on Seen on Screen: Whats Next? ACMI 2023-05-01 | This one-day conference is presented in partnership with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, one of the world leaders in research and advocacy for representation of women on screens. Actors, activists, writers, directors, academics and creators will pull the curtain back on some of the most pressing issues facing our culture and screen industries including body image, ageing and diversity with a special focus on Australian created content.Learn more about the conferencehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/goddess/being-seen-screen-conference/____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Being Seen on Screen: Bodies on Screen ACMI 2023-04-28 | _____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Being Seen on Screen: Ageing on Screen ACMI 2023-04-28 | This one-day conference is presented in partnership with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, one of the world leaders in research and advocacy for representation of women on screens. Actors, activists, writers, directors, academics and creators will pull the curtain back on some of the most pressing issues facing our culture and screen industries including body image, ageing and diversity with a special focus on Australian created content.Learn more about the conferencehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/goddess/being-seen-screen-conference/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Being Seen on Screen: Seeing Ourselves on Screen ACMI 2023-04-28 | This one-day conference is presented in partnership with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, one of the world leaders in research and advocacy for representation of women on screens. Actors, activists, writers, directors, academics and creators will pull the curtain back on some of the most pressing issues facing our culture and screen industries including body image, ageing and diversity with a special focus on Australian created content.Learn more about the conferencehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/goddess/being-seen-screen-conference/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Being Seen on Screen: Setting the Scene ACMI 2023-04-26 | This one-day conference is presented in partnership with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, one of the world leaders in research and advocacy for representation of women on screens. Actors, activists, writers, directors, academics and creators will pull the curtain back on some of the most pressing issues facing our culture and screen industries including body image, ageing and diversity with a special focus on Australian created content.Learn more about the conferencehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/goddess/being-seen-screen-conference/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Indigenous Futurisms: Linking the past and future with technology ACMI 2023-04-20 | Explore the ways #technology can be used to share Indigenous #storytelling and imagine possible futures.Join host Nartarsha Bamblett and panelists Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Ben Armstrong and Hayley Percy for a discussion exploring the intersection between technology, #indigenous knowledge and digital #decolonising, and how these intersections can shape the future of tech industries and society._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Barry Pearl (Doody from GREASE) is coming to Melbourne! | Cinemaniacs & ACMI Mon 19 Jun ACMI 2023-04-06 | A fun-filled event featuring one of pop-culture's favourite rock'n'roll greasers! "Grease is the word!"Join actor, director, producer Barry Pearl live in conversation where he will discuss his incredible career in film, on stage and on TV; and, of course, starring in one of the most successful movies ever, Paramount Pictures’ iconic hit musical, Grease (1978) where he played T-Bird Doody!Barry Pearl has appeared in many TV shows such as C.P.O. Sharkey, Barney Miller, Hill Street Blues, 90210 and more; plus appearing in cult favourites such as The Munster's Revenge, Making of a Male Model and Avenging Angel plus appearing in 2016's Grease: Live. About CinemaniacsCinemaniacs is a volunteer-run community of cinephiles who run fortnightly screenings of retrospective films and talks across all genres at ACMI.https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/cinemaniacs/Learn morehttps://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/cinemaniacs/barry-pearl/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Process Change: Adapting & Adopting New Models | Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium 2023 ACMI 2023-03-09 | Building on the two preceding talks, this session explores how arts organisations are seizing new technological opportunities and how they are changing their operational models to co-create and collaborate with others. Paula Bray (Head of Digital Engagement & Insight, Australian National Maritime Museum) draws on her work running creative R&D labs within museums and libraries; Back to Back Theatre's Executive Producer & Co-CEO Tim Stitz has helped create and lead multi-award winning cross-disciplinary theatre and screen productions, and Junior Major's Director Claire Evans brings decades of experience in creative production with media and technologies to the discussion.https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/future-of-arts-culture-technology-symposium/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Strategic Change: Future Art & Creative Ecosystems | FACT23 Symposium ACMI 2023-03-09 | Victoria Ivanova from Serpentine Galleries' R&D Labs will talk about her three years of work researching and writing the trilogy of Future Art Ecosystems reports. These reports cross artform and practice boundaries and are aimed at creating a common language for artists, technologists, and institutions so that they can find ways to work together.Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium:https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/future-of-arts-culture-technology-symposium/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Current Technological Capabilities in Arts & Culture & the Australian State of Play | FACT23 ACMI 2023-03-09 | ACMI’s CEO Digital Mentoring Program, run over 2021-2022, reveals a picture of digital andtechnological capability and opportunity across the arts and cultural sector emerging from thepandemic. Researcher Dr Indigo Holcombe-James will discuss the findings from her multiyear research into the program, conducted through the ARC Centre of Excellence forAutomated Decision-Making and Society based out of RMIT, and their extensive interviewswith the participants throughout. She will be joined by program founder and ACMI’s Directorand CEO, Seb Chan for a conversation about where the sector now finds itself. HolcombeJames’ report will be publicly launched online during the session._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Current Digital Literacies & Capabilities in Arts & Culture | FACT23 Symposium ACMI 2023-03-09 | The development of digital literacies and confidence in the cultural sector has been the focus of the UK’s Culture24 for almost two decades. Culture24’s CEO Jane Finnis joins us to talk through what Australia might learn from the work done with cultural institutions in the UK, across Europe with Europeana, as well as in Canada and the US.Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium, 2023https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/future-of-arts-culture-technology-symposium/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
A Changing World: Computational Creativity | FACT23 Symposium ACMI 2023-03-09 | This panel explores the work of artists and creators using new technologies and methods in their works, exploring new forms of computational creativity, and how the form, process, and nature of all creative practices is rapidly changing. Multi-disciplinary artists Liam Young, Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain join ACMI’s executive director of programming Keri Elmsly in aconversation.Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium, 2023https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/future-of-arts-culture-technology-symposium/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Process Change: New Audience, New Needs | FACT23 Symposium ACMI 2023-03-09 | The pandemic opened up access to new audiences for arts and culture and has forever changed how and when our publics choose to engage with various artforms. This panel will explore how organisations are responding and new forms of research that needs to be undertaken to understand the lives of our communities. Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth joins ACMI’s Head of Experience, Product and Digital, Lucie Paterson, and Fiona Tuomy, Artistic Director of The Other Film Festival & Manager, Digital Innovation, Arts Access Victoria to discuss paths forward in design, research and inclusive practice._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Financing the Future | FACT23 Symposium ACMI 2023-03-09 | How might our sectors fund the type of R&D, strategic innovation, and investment in infrastructure that we need to produce and present creative work that is so reliant upon digital technologies and technology platforms? The Australia Council's Director of Industry Initiatives, Adam McGowan, Serpentine R&D Labs' Victoria Ivanova, and Paul Callaghan, Head of Games & Interactive at VicScreen join a discussion about what we might learn from adjacent fields and approaches._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Process Change: Transitioning to Strategy | FACT23 Symposium ACMI 2023-03-09 | Finding time and space for digital and technology strategic initiatives is challenging especially for small-medium organisations. QAGOMA’s Manager of Digital Transformation Morgan Strong, AMaGA’s National Director Katie Russell, and artist, future strategist & Director at All Tomorrow's Futures, Ana Tiquia discuss how their organisations and experiences might assist others in navigating this practical reality._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
A Changing World: Archival Machine Politics | FACT23 Symposium ACMI 2023-03-09 | Digitisation has opened up archives and archival practices to new scrutiny at the same timeas machine learning and artificial intelligence has created new means for navigating andrepurposing their contents. Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha and Wiradjuri artist JoelSherwood Spring, both working with archival absences, representation and the materiality ofdigital technologies join a conversation with artist and researcher Dr Sarah Barns._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
A Changing World: Technologies and Performance | FACT23 Symposium ACMI 2023-03-09 | This panel discussion explores how technology has been transforming the performing arts from venues, festivals, how and where audiences watch, and the productions themselves. Hear from Stuart Buchanan, Head of Digital at the Sydney Opera House, Anne Dunn, Executive Director Sydney Theatre Company, Jamie Lewis CEO/Executive Director, Next Wave Festival, and Kath Mainland Chief Executive of Adelaide Festival._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
A Changing World: Future cities, civic & technological infrastructure & creative practices | FACT 23 ACMI 2023-03-09 | Professor Jean Burgess (QUT), Professor Dan Hill (University of Melbourne), KatrinaSedgwick (Director & CEO at Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation) and Professor AndreaSiodmok (RMIT) join a wide-ranging discussion about how new creative practices areemerging, utilising new technologies and civic infrastructure across cities in the Indo-Pacificregion. In this decade, as climate effects grow and the models of State, private and venturecapital investment in technologies shift, how might arts and culture be affected?_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Process Change: Transforming Practice | FACT23 Symposium ACMI 2023-03-09 | Networked technologies and digital practices continue to reshape organisational processes. In this session Dr Keir Winesmith (Chief Digital Officer NFSA), Dr Bobby Cerini (Deputy Director and General Manager of Science and Learning, Questacon), Penny Whitehead (Deputy Director, Development and Commercial Operations at Geelong Gallery) and Sejul Malde (Strategic Research Development Manager, Australian National University) discuss how their institutions are changing, how new practices are being implemented, and the new ways of collaborating that are required._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Chokepoint Capitalism: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin in conversation with Esther Anatolitis @ACMI ACMI 2023-02-26 | As creative labour has been reclassified and flattened as 'content' and technology platforms have further controlled the flow of revenue in the creative industries, artists, creators, cultural institutions, policy makers and philanthropists have been playing catch up.In this spicy in-person conversation, led by arts advocate Esther Anatolitis, Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin will take you on a journey through this 21st century creative landscape which has now been designed to separate creative labourers from the value they create at every possible point.Rebecca GiblinProfessor Rebecca Giblin is an ARC Future Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where she works at the intersection of law and culture. She is Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) and leads the ARC-funded Author’s Interest (authorsinterest.org) and eLending projects, as well as Untapped: the Australian Literary Heritage Project. Her new book Chokepoint Capitalism (with Cory Doctorow, 2022) explores how we can recapture creative labour markets from Big Tech and Big Content to get artists paid. She tweets via @rgibli.Cory DoctorowCory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin) nonfiction about creative labor markets and monopoly. His latest novel is Attack Surface, a standalone adult sequel to Little Brother. He is also the author of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, nonfiction about conspiracies and monopolies; and of Radicalized and Walkaway, science fiction for adults, a YA graphic novel called In Real Life; and young adult novels like Homeland, Pirate Cinema and Little Brother. His first picture book was Poesy the Monster Slayer (Aug 2020). In 2023/4, Tor Books will publish two more science fiction novels for adults: Red Team Blues and The Lost Cause; and Verso will publish The Internet Con, a nonfiction book about monopoly and radical interoperability. He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.Learn more about 'Chokepoint Capitalism':https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/chokepoint-capitalism-9781761380075#:~:text=In%20Chokepoint%20Capitalism%2C%20scholar%20Rebecca,should%20rightfully%20go%20to%20others.Learn more about the Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium, 2023:https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/future-of-arts-culture-technology-symposium/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Horror at ACMI: Focus on the Dead ACMI 2023-02-23 | Braaains! The zombie hordes stagger onto the screen in March.We unpick the personal and the political through the zombie film and beyond across half a century of cinema.With highlights including the newly-restored DAWN OF THE DEAD 3D and TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016), our spine-tingling horror season will bring the ACMI Cinemas alive with the undead.Thu 16 Mar – Sun 2 Apr. This one’s a no-brainer!https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/focus-dead-in-cinemas/ACMI is your autumn destination for exciting exhibitions, film, workshops and talks. See what's on: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
The legacy of Essie Coffey, told by her daughter Sharon Ruby Dykes | How I See It: Blak Art and Film ACMI 2023-02-17 | Essie Coffey OAM was a community worker, activist and filmmaker. Born Essiena Goodgabah in Goodooga, New South Wales, she was a member of the Muruwari people of north-western NSW and southern Queensland. She lived in Brewarrina, also known as Dodge City, where she raised 18 children with her husband Albert ‘Doc’ Coffey and was affectionately known by the title Bush Queen of Brewarrina. She was co-founder of the Western Aboriginal Legal Service and was an inaugural member of the National Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. She was the first Aboriginal woman to direct a documentary, with the award-winning MY SURVIVAL AS AN ABORIGINAL in 1978, followed by MY LIFE AS I LIVE IT, in 1993. After refusing an MBE on the grounds that she was not a member of the British Empire, she was awarded an Order of Australia medal in 1985 for services to the Aboriginal community.We spoke to Coffey's eldest daughter, Sharon Ruby Dykes, about her mother's strength, resilience and legacy.Essie Coffey's film, MY SURVIVAL AS AN ABORIGINAL, is showing at ACMI as part of the major exhibition, HOW I SEE IT: BLAK ART AND FILM (16 Dec 2022 – 19 Feb 2023)https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/how-i-see-it-blak-art-film/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Peter Waples-Crowe on Ngaya (I Am) | How I See It: Blak Art and Film ACMI 2023-02-08 | Peter Waples-Crowe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of an Indigenous queer identity, spirituality and Australia’s ongoing colonisation. Influenced by his adoption and a later reconnection with his Ngarigo heritage, Peter’s art comments on the world as a contested site for his multiple identities. Referencing many disparate ideas and themes, his work is auto-ethnographic by nature, and largely based on personal experiences._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Steven Rhall on Avert | How I See It: Blak Art and Film ACMI 2023-02-08 | Steven Rhall is a post-conceptual artist operating from a First Nation, white-passing, queer, cis male positionality, geographically located on neighbouring Woiwurrung and Wathaurung lands. Rhall’s cultural background consists of Taungurung and colonial heritages – a state endemic to living in a colonised society – but goes by Taungurung when asked. His alter-ego Blak Metal is less defined and uses they/them pronouns.Rhall’s art practice finds expression in ideas of institutional critique, interrogating modes of representation, classification and hierarchy both within and external to the art world(s). He works across various forms and interventions, including installation, performance, process led methodologies, curatorial projects, sculpture and art within the public realm. Many of his projects propose, explore and critique the exchange of economic and cultural capital found in the matrix of relations and intersections of First Nation art production, presentation and encounter._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Jarra Karalinar Steel on More Than Just a Game | How I See It: Blak Art and Film ACMI 2023-02-08 | Jarra Karalinar Steel is a multidisciplinary artist known for her Melbourne Art Tram and for curating the 2022 Rising art trams, powerful poster art, large-scale public installations, augmented reality, digital art, emu egg engravings, and commemorative signage. She is of Boon Wurrung, Wemba Wemba, Trawlwoolway, English and Scottish descent, and is based in Melbourne’s south on Boonwurrung country.Steel’s work explores her identity, memories, pop culture, folklore from her cultural history, and lived experiences growing up in Melbourne and living on country in culture with knowledge passed down through her family. She is a passionate advocate and consultant for self-representation of Victorian First Peoples art and culture and making sure it is kept alive and thriving._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Jazz Money on Rodeo Baby! | How I See It: Blak Art and Film ACMI 2023-01-03 | Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose practice centres around story and narrative, producing works that encompass installation, digital, film and print. Her award-winning poetry is widely published, and her artistic works are showcased locally and internationally. Jazz’s new commission Rodeo Baby! (2022) is a large- scale visual essay negotiating the collection of Indigenous bodies represented within film and sound archives. Images taken from rodeo footage and the legacy of Blakfellas on horseback are printed on silk and installed in the gallery.____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Amrita Hepi on Scripture for a smoke screen: Episode 1 – dolphin house | How I See It exhibition ACMI 2023-01-03 | Amrita Hepi is an award-winning Bundjulung and Ngapuhi artist working with dance and choreography through video, performance, installation and objects. Her work has taken various forms, but always begins with the body and the point of memory and resistance. Amrita’s new work SCRIPTURE FOR A SMOKE SCREEN: EPISODE 1 – DOLPHIN HOUSE (2022) is a two-channel video work investigating intelligence, desire and language. This work, co-commissioned by ACMI and SAMSTAG, University of South Australia, raises questions around scientific research, Indigenous knowledges and hierarchies, as well as the connection between human and non-human forms.Amrita Hepi's work is showing at ACMI as part of the major exhibition, HOW I SEE IT: BLAK ART AND FILM (16 Dec 2022 – 19 Feb 2023)https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/how-i-see-it-blak-art-film/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Joel Sherwood Spring on DIGGERMODE | How I See It: Blak Art and Film ACMI 2023-01-03 | Joel Sherwood Spring is a Wiradjuri anti-disciplinary artist who works collaboratively on projects that sit outside established notions of contemporary art and architecture. He is focused on examining the contested narratives ofAustralia’s urban cultural and Indigenous history in the face of ongoing colonisation. Joel’s new commission, DIGGERMODE (2022), is a two-channel video and object-based installation addressing themes of memory and extraction. Joel unpacks complex histories of Indigenous engagement with museums, collection practices and the future of archives – both digital and physical – by experimenting with new technologies.Joel Sherwood Spring's work is showing at ACMI as part of the major exhibition, HOW I SEE IT: BLAK ART AND FILM (16 Dec 2022 – 19 Feb 2023)https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/how-i-see-it-blak-art-film/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
How I See It: Blak Art and Film | ACMIs major summer exhibition ACMI 2022-12-16 | New visions from eight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives.Spanning moving image, installation, documentary, photography and video games, How I See It amplifies the artists and filmmakers’ perspectives on representation, the gaze, colonial archives and knowledge systems. These eight creators consider how First Peoples have been historically represented on our screens as they also imagine alternate realities and futures. The exhibition showcases works that use diverse materials and ideas to disrupt and reimagine, as well as expand the artists’ practice, supporting experimentation with new technologies and mediums.How I See It, curated by Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung), will unveil five new commissions by Amrita Hepi (Bundjulung and Ngāpuhi), Jazz Money (Wiradjuri), Joel Sherwood Spring (Wiradjuri), Jarra Karalinar Steel (Boon Wurrung, Wemba Wemba and Trawlwoolway) and Peter Waples-Crowe (Ngarigo), alongside works by Essie Coffey OAM (Murawari), Destiny Deacon (KuKu and Erub/Mer) and Steven Rhall (Taungurung). Exhibition runs 16 Dec 2022 – 19 Feb 2023Visit the exhibition: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/how-i-see-it-blak-art-film/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Summer on screen at ACMI ACMI 2022-11-21 | From softly dappled picnics to steamy sun-baked moments, cool off in our cinemas as we celebrate the hottest season of the year.Explore what’s sizzling on screen this summer: http://acmi.net.au/whats-on/filmsACMI is your destination this summer for exciting exhibitions, film, workshops and talks. See what's on: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
The making of Epiphytes | Tully Arnot and Monica Gagliano ACMI 2022-11-17 | Artist Tully Arnot's latest work, EPIPHYTES, is a multi-sensory virtual reality experience exploring plant communication, posthumanism and alternate forms of perception. To create EPIPHYTES, Arnot partnered with evolutionary biologist Monica Gagliano, who pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own ‘voices’ and detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. Her work has extended the concept of cognition (including perception, learning processes, memory) in plants. The pair spoke about Arnot's practice and why he chose VR as a medium to express his ideas, and discussed the importance of slowing down, 'listening' to, and looking more closely at the communication lines and biological relationships that exist in the plant kingdom as a means of altering the way we perceive our world.About Tully Arnothttps://www.acmi.net.au/creators/86157--tully-arnot/About Monica Gaglianohttps://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/tully-arnot-epiphytes-audio-and-transcripts/#monica-gaglianoMordant Family VR CommissionProudly supported by Catriona Mordant AM and Professor Cav. Simon Mordant AO, the City of Melbourne and ACMILearn more https://www.acmi.net.au/collection-preservation/commissions/mordant-family-vr-commission/Learn more about Epiphytes: https://www.acmi.net.au/works/121797--epiphytes/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Unpacking Screen Australia Funding | ACMI X Livestream ACMI 2022-11-14 | various funding opportunities available, how to know where your project fits and answer any questions you have. This talk will cover content being made for games and online platforms.About Amelia Laughlan, Games Investment ManagerAmelia is a game producer from Melbourne, Australia. After writing about tabletop games while finishing her Japanese/history degree, Amelia joined the industry in 2017 with Tin Man Games. She spent time at Nintendo Australia as a business development specialist and worked for indie studio Snowman as Project Manager. She’s worked on titles across genres and platforms, including Fighting Fantasy Classics, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Table of Tales, Warhammer Underworlds: Online, Skate City, Where Cards Fall, Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City and Lucky Luna. In 2022, Amelia was appointed Games Investment Manager for Screen Australia, marking the return to video game funding for the national agency.About Lee Naimo, Head of OnlineAs Screen Australia’s first Head of Online, Lee oversees production funding for emerging Australian scripted and documentary creators working online, supporting projects such as Sarah’s Channel, Content, All My Friends Are Racist, Over and Out, Glennridge Secondary College, At Home Alone Together and many more. Lee also looks after initiative like Skip Ahead with YouTube, and established the partnerships Digital Originals with SBS/NITV and Every Voice with TikTok and NZ on Air. Lee is also responsible for Screen Australia’s Games: Expansion Pack funding, which launched in early 2022 and has so far committed over $4 million to 30 Australian games.Before joining Screen Australia, Lee was best known for his work in musical comedy trio The Axis of Awesome, who have over 150 million views online, as well as writing on Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia and co-creating Insert Coin, an online sketch comedy series about gaming with over 2 million views._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Tully Arnot: Epiphytes | Virtual Reality | 4–27 Nov 2022 ACMI 2022-11-03 | Tully Arnot's multi-sensory virtual reality work, 'Epiphytes' explores plant communication, posthumanism and alternate forms of perception.Set within an abstract representation of Tully’s childhood backyard, Epiphytes consists of an environment featuring a diffuse, shifting, magenta palette. Reliance on sight is de-escalated in favour of sound and scent to influence the user’s bodily responses within the virtual space. The work honours alternative forms of plant communication and consciousness, inviting the user to question their own perception. Epiphytes features interviews with evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, acoustic archaeologist Umashankar Manthravadi and echolocation teacher/blind researcher and activist Thomas Tajo. Arranging these sonic elements within the VR environment, Tully invokes curiosity and exploration by the user, while generating a conversational dialogue between these three diverse theorists. Field recordings of local birds and other ecological sounds complement the recorded conversations of the theorists, along with sounds representing water and nutrients flowing through trees, suggesting a natural environment that is either fabricated or fading. The audio is spatially controlled, using virtual reality as a powerful acoustic tool to represent sounds that cannot be created in reality. Tully Arnot is the 2019 recipient of the Mordant Family VR Commission.The Mordant Family VR Commission is created in partnership with Professor Cav. Simon Mordant AO and Catriona Mordant AM, the City of Melbourne and ACMI.Tully Arnot: EpiphytesMordant Family VR CommissionACMI Gallery 3, 4–27 Nov 2022Learn more: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/tully-arnot-epiphytes/_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Light illuminated: Oscar on Peter Sedgleys Colour Cycle III ACMI 2022-11-02 | Combining light and colour, Peter Sedgley creates the illusion of movement on the canvas. Dip into the romance of colour theory with Oscar from our visitor experience team, as he discusses Sedgley's shifting, expanding artwork.Visit Melbourne to see it at ACMI for a limited time: http://acmi.net.au/lightArtwork: ‘Colour Cycle III’, 1970, Peter Sedgley. @Tate: Purchased 1970.Light: Works from Tate’s CollectionMelbourne Winter Masterpieces® 202216 Jun – 13 Nov 2022ACMI, Fed Square, MelbournePresented with Creative Victoria & Visit Victoria#exhibition #light #tate #PeterSedgley #visitvictoria #colourtheory _____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Light illuminated: Laura Castagnini on Liliane Lijns Liquid Reflections ACMI 2022-11-02 | As Liliana Lijn’s kinetic sculpture rotates, it projects an ever-changing pattern of light and shadow across the room. Lead curator of our Light exhibition, Laura Castagnini, reflects on the transfixing qualities of ‘Liquid Reflections’.Meditate longer on this artwork: https://acmi.net.au/lightArtwork: ‘Liquid Reflections’, 1968, Liliane Lijn. @Tate: Purchased 1973Light: Works from Tate’s CollectionMelbourne Winter Masterpieces® 202216 Jun – 13 Nov 2022ACMI, Fed Square, MelbournePresented with Creative Victoria & Visit Victoria#exhibition #light #tate #LilianeLijn #visitvictoria _____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Light illuminated: Treise on James Turrells Raemar, Blue ACMI 2022-11-02 | James Turrell combines architecture, light and space to envelop the viewer in a coloured atmosphere that plays with the experience of perception.Treise Armstrong from our film programs team explains why she keeps coming back to let Turrell’s wave of blue wash over her.Enter Turrell’s blue world yourself: https://acmi.net.au/lightArtwork: ‘Raemar, Blue’, 1969, James Turrell. Tate: Presented by the Tate Americas Foundation, partial purchase and partial gift of Doris J. Lockhart 2013. © James Turrell.Light: Works from Tate’s CollectionMelbourne Winter Masterpieces® 202216 Jun – 13 Nov 2022ACMI, Fed Square, MelbournePresented with Creative Victoria & Visit Victoria#exhibition #light #tate #turrell #visitvictoria _____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Light: Works from Tates Collection | 2022 exhibition | MUST CLOSE 13 NOV ACMI 2022-11-02 | Curated by @Tate in the UK and drawn from their prestigious collection, Light: Works from Tate’s Collection celebrates groundbreaking moments from over 200 years of art history, and the artists who harnessed this elemental force through painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, installation and the moving image.Connected by their fascination with light as both material and subject, more than 70 works feature in this exclusive blockbuster exhibition, including must-see historical paintings by iconic artists like the great Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers, as well as the atmospheric beauty and transient light effects captured by Impressionist painters Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.These extraordinary paintings are juxtaposed against equally groundbreaking works from modern and contemporary artists: Olafur Eliasson’s crystalline sculpture Stardust Particle (2014), Yayoi Kusama’s kaleidoscopic The Passing Winter (2005), James Turrell’s immersive Raemar, Blue (1969), Tacita Dean’s 16mm film Disappearance at Sea (1996) and Liliane Lijn's moving sculpture Liquid Reflections (1968). Viewed collectively, these radiant works draw fascinating links across time, medium and style, projecting light onto the viewer’s body and absorbing them into visions of infinite lustre and luminosity.Presented alongside our award-winning centrepiece exhibition The Story of the Moving Image, which explores the essential contribution of light to the moving image, this major exhibition from Tate illuminates centuries of artistic practice and uniquely places film in a broader art historical context.Learn more: https://acmi.net.au/light_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au#exhibition #light #tate #visitvictoria
Mikala Dwyer on Weights of Light | Artwork at ACMI | Until 13 Nov 2022 ACMI 2022-10-13 | Mikala Dwyer explains how the transparent forms in her new commission 'Weights of Light' let us imagine ourselves drawn through them. Showing at ACMI until 13 Nov 2022.A family of translucent and ethereal bodies glide through the air, multiplying as their reflections spread across windows and glass surfaces. Depending on your perspective, and how they absorb and refract the light, they appear solid or intangible, flicking between visibility and invisibility. After all, these are “empty sculptures”, “shapes of nothing” according to artist Mikala Dwyer. But through the simple phenomena of light, material and form, and by contorting scale, Dwyer lets us imagine ourselves somehow drawn through them, like the atrium windows drawing the outside light, that elemental medium that has endlessly fascinated artists.This major new commission by contemporary Australian artist Mikala Dwyer is on display in ACMI’s largest foyer. It complements the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2022 exhibition Light: Works from Tate's Collection.Find out more: https://acmi.net.au/light_____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Games Talks: Ian MacLarty (Catacombs of Solaris, Mars First Logistics) | ACMI + RMIT ACMI 2022-09-28 | Explore experimental and commercial games with one of Melbourne's most prolific developers.Join Ian MacLarty, the creator of first person art game The Catacombs of Solaris and the upcoming open world simulation game Mars First Logistics, about his creative practice as an independent game maker.Ian is one of Australia's most prolific and acclaimed videogame makers. In this live discussion we'll talk to Ian about both his commercial and non-commercial games, and the interplay between the two in regard to his career and his technical craft.Hosted by RMIT University game maker and researcher Douglas Wilson._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
Games Talks: 2pt Interactive (Heavenly Bodies, Pogocat) | Alexander Perrin & Joshua Tatangelo ACMI 2022-08-31 | Meet the creators behind mobile hit Pogocat and beloved cosmonaut puzzle game Heavenly Bodies. Hear from Alexander Perrin and Joshua Tatangelo about their work with space-based physics, the importance and impact of architecture on their design process and practice, the intersection between fine art and game development and the secrets behind crafting a stellar couch co-op.Hosted by curator Jini Maxwell.About 2pt Interactive2pt Interactive combines the technical design expertise of Alexander Perrin and Joshua Tatangelo. We love games, fine art, purposeful interactivity, digital technologies and finding where each tastefully intersect.Some of 2pt's notable titles include the award-winning Heavenly Bodies, the endlessly challenging iOS hit Pogocat and the hyper-accessible web-based scenic railway Short Trip. Combined, their works have been downloaded over a million times, and have seen features on Colossal Design Magazine, Hyperallergic, WeTransfer and iOS App Stores worldwide._____________________Let's talk about the future of screen culture.ACMI is Australia’s only national museum of film, TV, videogames, digital culture and art. Every donation, large or small, helps us inspire the next generation of storytellers, coders, makers, watchers and players.DONATE: https://tickets.acmi.net.au/donate/i/23Follow usFacebook: facebook.com/acmionlineInstagram: instagram.com/acmionlineTwitter: twitter.com/ACMIwww.acmi.net.au
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