Home - Spectra
  • Home
  • About
  • SPECTRAvision
  • SPECTRAlive
  • Futured Artworks
    • Machines Like Us, Cells Like Them
    • Artificially Intelligent Art
    • Assembly For The Future Live From Planet City 2029
    • Assembly for the Future Live from Blakfullas University
    • Dispatches from the Future
    • The MEEP Report
  • Partners

25TH MARCH - 6TH MAY 2022

ONLINE & LIVE IN MELBOURNE

register interest

x

Register your interest

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST FOR PROGRAM UPDATES:


Get Involved

Email [email protected] to help, volunteer, or participate in an event.

  • Home
  • About
  • SPECTRAvision
  • SPECTRAlive
  • Futured Artworks
    • Machines Like Us, Cells Like Them
    • Artificially Intelligent Art
    • Assembly For The Future Live From Planet City 2029
    • Assembly for the Future Live from Blakfullas University
    • Dispatches from the Future
    • The MEEP Report
  • Partners
25TH MARCH - 6TH MAY 2022 ONLINE & LIVE IN MELBOURNE

  • In a darked room, with an errie neon green light, a multidimensional being stand leaning against a wall, gazing at the view. A power cord from their throat is plugged into the wall.

    CLUB MEDIA, Maie, A multidimensional being transplanted into our reality in the form of a Chinese teenager

ANAT SPECTRA 2022 is an artistic and discursive platform inspired by the intersection of art, science and technology on the theme of Multiplicity, reconfigured for these mercurial times as a Limited Series event.

SPECTRAvision: March 25 to April 14, 2022, online
SPECTRAlive: April 21 to April 23, 2022, Melbourne

We're looking forward to hosting you in Melbourne face-to-face, side-by-side, on and off-screen and revealing more about SPECTRAvision soon.

For many around the world, 2020 was a year zero. Not just for the decade but for humanity. We are no longer approaching tipping-point, we’ve arrived. Our economic, political and cultural systems seem bereft of the solutions to the problems they have created. For centuries, our dominant settings have been singular, linear and binary. Unsurprisingly, our species is in deep conflict with itself and the earth on which its continuity depends.

How do we move forward with care and respect for the earth? How do we live in the world without causing further damage? How do we live today to create better tomorrows? If the old ways are incapable of providing solutions to problems or, as Elizabeth Kolbert says, made worse ‘by people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems’ then we must look elsewhere for inspiration.

For artists, scientists and technologists, it is an extraordinary time. Art is built on the act of imagination; science demands unflinching curiosity in the space between fact and fiction; technology embraces the impossible. Our global, interconnected ecology means our actions have multiple consequences, not just in other disciplines but in other sectors, communities, societies and systems. It has always been so, but never so palpable.

To create futures for the human and non-human worlds that are fair, just and sustainable, we need a multiplicity of new ideas, ways of thinking, strategies and sensibilities; we need new frames and behaviours, new discoveries, new points of entry. ANAT SPECTRA 2022: Multiplicity speaks to the urgency of this challenge and a provocation to the ‘possible’ at the nexus of art, science and technology.

Foregrounding Australians working at the edge of experimental and anti-disciplinary practice, the program is presented online and in real life. ANAT SPECTRA 2022: Multiplicity comprises an artistic offering of moving image, performance, visual and sound art in dialogue with a discursive program in symposium and assembly formats. It will provide a space for the joy and pleasure of the contest of ideas, research and creation, deliberations of their impacts and meanings for future societies and the generation of new artworks that might help us get there. Our gathering will be intersectional, intergenerational, interdisciplinary and reciprocal.

Everyone is welcome.

ANAT SPECTRA 2022: Multiplicity is imagined by artist, curator and writer, David Pledger, in conversation and collaboration with Yorta Yorta/Wurundjeri actor-director, Tony Briggs, social impact producer and art-maker, Alex Kelly, artist-writer-director Robert Walton, Barkandji researcher and storyteller, Zena Cumpston and Art & Science researcher, curator and artist, Nina Sellars.

Tony Briggs, company founder of Typecast Entertainment will be curating a moving image program based around Indigenous Futures, the Assembly for the Future Program will be co-curated with Alex Kelly and feature Zena Cumpston as a First Speaker and Dr Robert Walton joins ANAT SPECTRA as the Co-Chair of the Symposium Academic Committee. They will jointly and individually provide critical advice on the developing Multiplicity program.

+ Read more

Science Gallery exterior. Photograph Peter Casamento. Science Gallery entrance. Photograph Niels Wouters/University of Science Gallery entrance. Photograph Niels Wouters/University of
Where

ANAT SPECTRA 2022: Multiplicity will be presented face-to-face, side-by-side, on and off-screen

Tickets are now available. 

https://spectra.org.au/tickets/

ANAT SPECTRA: Multiplicity celebrates and acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation on which SPECTRALive takes place. We also acknowledge our digital online gatherings reach many unceded countries. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

ANAT SPECTRA 2022 is proudly presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) in partnership with the Science Gallery Melbourne and Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne and together with program partners The Things We Did Next (TTWDNext), Typecast Entertainment, RMIT University and Leonardo.

 

 

© ANAT All Rights reserved 2022 Terms of Use Privacy Policy Access Statement

Website by EPIC Digital

NOW OPEN: Created by ANAT Alumnus Helen Pynor, 93% NOW OPEN: Created by ANAT Alumnus Helen Pynor, 93% Human explores the promiscuity of DNA and the unbounded nature of the self, through an investigation of DNA we exhale in our breath.
 
Helen and collaborating scientist Jimmy Breen use a scientific glassware condenser device, which converts gaseous breath into liquid, to capture a shared breath sample which pools as liquid at the base of the device, rendering what is normally imperceptible into visible form.
 
DNA in the combined exhaled breath sample is later extracted, sequenced and the genomic data analysed in Breen’s laboratory. This reveals 93% human DNA, alongside DNA from a vast range of microbial species, highlighting the multispecies nature of being ‘human’ and the respiratory tract as site for material exchange between self, human and non-human others, and world.
 
Helen is currently developing an installation work exploring the genomic data generated from her collaborative work with Jimmy.

Until 10 July, 8am - 8pm Level 1, ALG Foyer, Queensland Museum
 
Image: 93% Human, Helen Pynor, 2022, video, 10.20 min. This project was supported by ANAT and SAHMRI (South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute). 93% Human was commissioned by World Science Festival Brisbane for Curiocity Brisbane 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.
 
#HelenPynor @helenpynor @gammyknee @ejseccombe @badenpailthorpe @svenjakratz #aaanz #auscouncilarts #ArtistResidencies #research #RandD #ResearchAndDevelopment #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #SAHMRI #ArtScience #AnatAlumni #ANATsahmri @dominikmerschgallery #dna #speculative
Now that we've caught our breath and are able to l Now that we've caught our breath and are able to look back, WATCH some highlights from our ANAT SPECTRA 2022 Multiplicity juggernaut 🚀

WATCH the FULL SHOWREEL using the LINK IN OUR BIO

ANAT SPECTRA 2022 was proudly presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) in partnership with the University of Melbourne, Science Gallery Melbourne, together with program partners The Things We Did Next (TTWDNext), Typecast Entertainment, RMIT University and Leonardo.

We’d like to acknowledge our Curatorial Circle who walked alongside curator David Pledger: Alex Kelly, Nina Sellars, Tony Briggs, Robert Walton and Zena Cumpston, and our producing team, SPECTRAvision Producer, Dearna Newchurch, SPECTRAlive producer, Madeleine Collie, and producers Zamara Robison, Damienne Pradier (Typecast), Sophia Marinos and Robbie McEwan (The Things We Made Next).

@scigallerymel @unimelb @not_yet_its_difficult @leonardoisast @typecastent #TonyBriggs #NinaSellars #ZenaCumpston @zamarapresents @re_walton @ _echotango_ @melissaldelaney @dearnaj @madeleine___collie
@rmituniversity @AusCouncilArts @ArtsSouthAus @ttwd.next #ANATspectra2022 #DavidPledger #multiplicity #HybridEvents #AusCouncilArts #ArtSci #ArtTech #ArtScienceTechnology #SustainableFutures #TTWDN #AFTF
How can people see the sounds of wildlife? CONGRAT How can people see the sounds of wildlife? CONGRATULATIONS ANAT alumni artists Lyndon Davis, Dr Leah Barclay, and photography academic Dr Tricia King, who have won an Australian Council for the Arts grant to support the extraordinary Beeyali project.

Lyndon and collaborators Leah and Tricia’s 2021 New Light work, Beeyali features a series of experiments using different environmental materials to reveal cymatics, such as ochre and local flora on the Sunshine Coast.

Beeyali  is a Kabi Kabi word meaning ‘to call’. This work visualises the calls of different species on Kabi Kabi Country using cymatics, the science of visualising acoustic energy or sound. 

Lyndon is an internationally acclaimed Aboriginal artist, educator and cultural performer. Lyndon was born and raised on the Sunshine Coast, and is a Traditional Custodian and representative of the local Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi people.

Leah Barclay is an Australian sound artist, designer and researcher who works at the intersection of art, science and technology.

Tricia King is a Lecturer in Photography in the School of Business and Creative Industries and active documentary photographer.

Proudly presented by Illuminate Adelaide and ANAT, as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre Moving Image program, 'New Light' showcased experimental and diverse moving image works by contemporary First Nations artists. 'New Light 2021' featured Jasmine Miikika Craciun, Lyndon Davis and Ryan Andrew Lee.

Image: Lyndon Davis at his exhibition Djagan Yaman at USC Art Gallery. Photograph Tricia King

#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe  #lyndondavis  #NewLight @illuminateadelaide @adelaidefescent #innovation #art #technology #light #MovingImage #FirstNationsAustralia @leahbarclay @triciakingphoto  @usc.australia
@AusCouncilArts @ArtsSouthAus #ANATalumni @kik_design_  @ryan_andrew_lee
ANAT Alumni Feature :: Nathan Thompson is a multi- ANAT Alumni Feature :: Nathan Thompson is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the possibilities of man-machine interaction and the hidden corners that arise from this relationship.

Nathan builds machines and dissipative systems, both electromechanical and biochemical; and through the process, he manipulates life to question and problematise humanity’s position in the contemporary environment, to build a greater understanding of the inhabited space we share. His long-term enquiry surrounds the political and ethical issues encountered when we allow technology open access to our lives.

Read the FEATURE USING THE LINK IN OUR BIO

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

Image: Nathan Thompson and Matt Gingold, Transitions, 2021. Photograph Matt Gingold.

@nathan_john_thompson @symbiotica.lab #NeuroEthics #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2021  @AusCouncilArts #AusCouncilArts #transitions @fremantlebiennale
CONGRATULATIONS to our second 2022 ANAT Synapse re CONGRATULATIONS to our second 2022 ANAT Synapse resident Dr Steph Hutchison!

Steph will be collaborating with Jonathan Roberts at the Advanced Robotics and Manufacturing Hub and Australian Cobotics Centre to research how humans can predict the movement of robots, using dance improvisation and choreographic methodologies. 

DR STEPH HUTCHISON (QLD) + JONATHAN ROBERTS AUSTRALIAN COBOTICS CENTRE QUT

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. As a dance artist Steph creates and performs primarily improvised solo dance works that focus on extreme physicality and endurance of the human body, or engage a dialogue with digital technologies and systems.

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: Steph Hutchison, John McCormick and Adam Nash, Eve of Dust.

@armhubaus @stephehutchison #cobotics #cobots  #PerformanceRobotics @wild.system
 #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2022 #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund @copyrightagency_ @AusCouncilArts #AusCouncilArts #ArtScienceTechnology #ArtistResidencies #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #inclusivity
OPENING TOMORROW & responding to 2021 ANAT Synapse OPENING TOMORROW & responding to 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Dr Svenja J Kratz's quest for cellular immortality.

'Non-linear Histories #2: Genetic Legacy' forms part of an ongoing series of narrative artworks that reflect on the artist’s desire to establish alternative genetic offspring via cell and tissue culture technologies. 

The exhibition features a diverse array of works that reflect on the creative potential of endings, temporal foldings as well as the many entanglements that are fundamental to existence and continued becoming. 
At The Barracks Arts Centre, Tasmania

READ Svenja's blog USING THE LINK IN OUR BIO

Non-linear Histories at  was developed in a creative partnership with A/Prof. Brad Sutherland, Dr Jo-Maree Courtney, Dr Ashish Mehta and Dr Ariane Gelinas-Marion from the UTAS School of Medicine and A/Prof. Jane Nielsen from the Centre for Law and Genetics. 

Creative works were realised with technical assistance from Murray Antill, Nic Randall and Peter Marseveen and curatorial input from Dr Eliza Burke.

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 courtesy the artist, a sneak peak from the exhibition.

@svenjakratz #RegenerativeMedicine #qut #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2021 #BioTechnological #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund #bioart #sciart @qutrealworld #TasmanianSchoolOfMedicine #utas @derwentvalleyarts
“I have two clones at present, but will need to “I have two clones at present, but will need to keep passaging (splitting) them to ensure they are virus free.  By the close of the residency, I will have a viable cell line - so the key objective is complete!  Yay!” 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Dr Svenja J Kratz
 
Svenja's residency, involved the isolation, immortalization and classification of the fibroid cells with the intention of making the resulting cell line available for scientific and artistic research. Her project 'Posthuman Genetic Legacies,' with a focus on bioart, takes a feminist stance as a critical and speculative tool to consider alternative conceptions of motherhood and reproduction.
 
Svenja's exhibition Non-linear Histories #2: Genetic Legacy' featuring work from her ANAT Synapse residency OPENS 11 June 
The Barracks Arts Centre, Tasmania
 
READ Svenja's blog USING THE LINK IN OUR BIO

Dr Svenja J Kratz (TAS) + Associate Professor Brad Sutherland, School of Medicine, UTAS + Associate Professor Jane Nielsen, Centre for Law and Genetics, UTAS + Distinguished Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Centre in Regenerative Medicine Group, QUT.

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: Svenja Kratz, iPSC cells before and after cleaning, removing cell build up (in the centre of colonies) and any differentiated cells.

@svenjakratz #RegenerativeMedicine #qut #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2021 #BioTechnological #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund #bioart #sciart @qutrealworld #TasmanianSchoolOfMedicine #utas @derwentvalleyarts
2021 ANAT Synapse resident Dr Svenja J Kratz's pro 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Dr Svenja J Kratz's project 'Posthuman Genetic Legacies,' with a focus on bioart, takes a feminist stance as a critical and speculative tool to consider alternative conceptions of motherhood and reproduction.
 
In the featured image 'Time is Topological' (from the 2020 exhibition) “The central feature is a terrarium with an anatomical model with a snake in its belly surrounded by vagina dentata spiders. This element comments on the fear and desire to control female sexuality and references the legacy of hysteria and the ‘wandering womb’ – the belief that the uterus wanders about the body of a woman like an animal, and it is this condition that causes major illnesses including hysteria in women.”
 
'Posthuman Genetic Legacies' is a multi-stage project. 

Stage 1 culminated in a solo exhibition 'Mourning Story: Expectations, Absences and the Potentials for Self-Persistence' (2020), Rosny Barn Gallery, Tasmania.
 
Stage 2, Svenja's ANAT Synapse residency, involved the isolation, immortalization and classification of the fibroid cells with the intention of making the resulting cell line available for scientific and artistic research.
 
Stage 3 will expand on outcomes to consider legal and ethical frameworks that govern access to reproductive technologies.
 
Read more about the project here
https://bit.ly/3PDXi19

READ Svenja'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: Svenja Kratz, ‘Time is Topological’, 2020. Augmented anatomical model

@svenjakratz #RegenerativeMedicine #qut #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2021 #BioTechnological #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund #bioart #sciart @qutrealworld #TasmanianSchoolOfMedicine #utas @copyrightagency_
In this Transmission from the Future, we meet Prof In this Transmission from the Future, we meet Professor Zena Cumpston from the National Sky Rangers Program who delivers the 2029 Moreton-Robinson annual address.
 
WATCH :: Episode 5 : SPECTRALive, ASSEMBLY FOR THE FUTURE LIVE FROM BLAKFULLAS UNIVERSITY
Using the LINK IN OUR BIO 
 
Celebrating the first five years of the BLAKFULLAS (Blak Lives And Knowledge Fundamentals University for Living knowledge Living culture And Solidarity) University, Professor Cumpston reflects on the 2020s and the incredible transformations taking place as First Nations leadership and Country are given overdue authority and resources.

Recorded on 21 April 2022 at the Science Gallery Melbourne during the Assembly for the Future convened for ANAT SPECTRA 2022 :: Multiplicity, Professor Cumpston’s Transmission was responded to by civil society advocate and year 12 student Ahelee Rahman, and astrophysicist and Kamilaroi woman Krystal De Napoli.
 
Assembly for the Future is a project of The Things We Did Next, co-created by Alex Kelly & David Pledger and produced by Sophia Marinos with Not Yet It’s Difficult.

image @tillyboleyn 

#zenacumpston @scigallerymel @unimelb @not_yet_its_difficult @leonardoisast @typecastent @AusCouncilArts @ArtsSouthAus @ttwd.next  @_echotango_  @krystaldenapoli  @aheleerahman  #ANATSpectra2022  #ANATspectra2022 #DavidPledger #multiplicity #HybridEvents #AusCouncilArts #ArtSci #ArtTech #ArtScienceTechnology #SustainableFutures
"Dear Aeolid and Osmia, I am not sure if or how th "Dear Aeolid and Osmia, I am not sure if or how this social media transmission might find you in the future. In consideration of your report, I would like to acknowledge the poly-temporality of your evaluation and productive critique. 

Here, in 2022, I feel we now have a map to help us evolve into the multiplicity of species that you(s) are. My only concern is that your ‘disruption' might corrupt the timeline, however, I hope the gifts you have provided far outweigh any overt temporal impact.

Once again, or never again, or not ever, I thanks to you(s) and your single-future timeline. To 2082.”

DP aka David Pledger, 
Curator ANAT SPECTRA 2022 :: Multiplicity

READ THE MEEP REPORT using the LINK IN OUR BIO

The Multispecies Evaluation Program ANAT SPECTRA Report, was prepared for us by our artists-in residence from the future (2082), MEEP. After communing with us over 3 days in Melbourne, gathering data via multi-presencing and singular interactions, this wondrous report is an artefact from MEEP's experience / performance.

Image: MEEP artist-in residence from 2089, Science Gallery Melbourne 2022. Photograph Sarah Walker.

@alltomorrowsfutures @luna_mrozik_gawler @___m_e_e_p #ANATSPECTRA2022 #sciencegallerymelbourne #MEEP #MultispeciesEngagementEvalutionProgram @scigallerymel @unimelb @not_yet_its_difficult  @AusCouncilArts @ArtsSouthAus @ttwd.next #ANATspectra2022 #DavidPledger #multiplicity #HybridEvents #AusCouncilArts #ArtSci#ArtTech #ArtScienceTechnology

ANAT SPECTRA 2022 celebrates and acknowledges the Traditional Owners and custodians of the lands of the Yalukit Willam Clan, the Boon Wurrung and the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and acknowledge First Nations people as our first artists and scientists.

+ CONTINUE