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Tangible 3D Urban Simulation Table
BY Flora Salim
THEME LEADER Paul Loh
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Flora Salim researches human mobility and behaviour analytics, using context and activity recognition, and urban intelligence. For Triennial Voices Flora Salim shares a video presenting the Tangible 3D Urban Simulation Table– a model to illustrate how the urban landscape could integrate design alternatives created via volatile environmental phenomena, human movements ...LEARN MOREArticle
Motion fearness
BY Nikos Papastergiadis
THEME LEADER National Gallery of Victoria
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Nikos Papastergiadis on the challenges of global mobility and hospitality.LEARN MOREVideo
Spectacle, Speculation, Spam
BY Alan Warburton
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Accompanying the series Primitives by Alan Warburton is a video essay, entitled Spectacle, Speculation, Spam, which explores digital and experimental animation, and its relationship to visual art, history, institutions, and critical theory. View PrimitivesLEARN MOREVideo
Exploring Learning through Interactive Hologram
BY ALAN PERT, CLARE NEWTON, PAUL LOH AND TRENT CLEWS-DE CASTELLA
THEME LEADER Paul Loh
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Alan Pert, Clare Newton and Paul Loh are part of the Melbourne School of Design, the graduate school of the Faculty of Architecture, focusing on the built environment. For Triennial Voices, they shared Exploring learning through interactive hologram– a video illustrating a hologram presented at the University of Melbourne, with ...LEARN MOREArticle
Mapping the fatal borders of Europe
BY Karina Horsti
THEME LEADER Nikos Papastergiadis
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
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The Aegean Datahaven
BY Kyriaki Goni
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Kyriaki Goni’s Aegean Datahaven is a speculative project to create a series of repositories for personal and other data across the islands of the Aegean sea. Long connected by myths and civilisations, the islands today face harsh social and economic pressures, which can only be addressed through collective action and ...LEARN MOREPodcast
VR Gesturing: Re-imagining Piranesi
BY Paul Loh, Mond Qu and David Leggett
THEME LEADER The National Gallery of Victoria
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Paul Loh, Mond Qu and David Leggett examine the role of virtual reality in spatial design, examining how this technology not only influences but changes the way that designers, architects and artists model objects, perceive and understand space. To test the full capabilities of virtual reality, Paul Loh and his ...LEARN MOREArticle
No-man’s-land
BY Arnold Zable
THEME LEADER Nikos Papastergiadis
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
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The Tearoom
BY Robert Yang
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Robert Yang’s most recent game, The Tearoom, is a free, historical, public bathroom simulator about cruising, anxiety, and police surveillance. In 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio police department setup a hidden surveillance camera behind a two-way mirror, and secretly filmed men having sex with men in a public bathroom. The police ...LEARN MOREPodcast
Quotes on Change
BY Justin Clemens
THEME LEADER The National Gallery of Victoria
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Justin Clemens is interested in the notion of change as a mutating yet simultaneously consistent facet of our lives. He investigates this aspect from the imperceptible to the obvious, from the metaphysical to the physical, from the sociological to the political. For the NGV Triennial Voices, Justin contributes a selection ...LEARN MOREArticle
Dialogue with Behrouz Boochani
BY Arnold Zable
THEME LEADER Nikos Papastergiadis
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish journalist, human rights activist, poet and filmmaker who us currently detained on Manus Island. Arnold Zable speaks to Boochani about his experiences.LEARN MOREVideo
The Hitter
BY Tiona McClodden
THEME LEADER Hannah Black
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
In The Hitter, queer artist Tiona McClodden reads a text about BDSM practices while participating in the activity described. The text is by Brad Johnson, and McClodden pays homage to the poems, essays, and correspondence of the late writer who died of AIDS-related complications in 2011. This video contains content ...LEARN MOREArticle
Body
BY Hannah Black
THEME LEADER National Gallery of Victoria
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
British artist and writer Hannah Black reflects on the body in today’s socio-political landscape.LEARN MOREVideo
Primitives
BY Alan Warburton
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
The Primitives series explores the use of virtual crowd simulation to create sublime and spectacular computer-generated scenes of conflict, disaster and death for film and television. Expensive crowds of extras no longer need to be hired, fed and paid – now an army of digital bodies can be created at ...LEARN MOREVideo
These Things I
BY Tiona McClodden
THEME LEADER Hannah Black
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
In this video artwork US artist Tiona McClodden reads aloud from The Lesbian S/M Safety Manual (1988, edited by Pat Califia) drawing attention to the culture of trust and care underpinning BDSM practices and to a diversity of sexualities.LEARN MOREArticle
On the black generic
BY Aria Dean
THEME LEADER Hannah Black
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Aria Dean, practicing artist, writer and curator discusses issues of representation vs. abstraction in regards to the female form, particularly of black women in America.LEARN MOREPodcast
A day with Epilepsy
BY Philippa Karoly & Isabell Kiral-Kornek
THEME LEADER Marcia Langton
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Philippa Karoly believes in predicting the future and her colleague Isabell Kiral-Kornek has a passion for research communication and transforming big data into visual displays, making it accessible to a wide audience. Their work is focused on creating ways and tools to forecast brain activity, designed to help people with ...LEARN MOREVideo
I Hate Men and Cattle
BY Sarah M Harrison and Rindon Johnson
THEME LEADER Hannah Black
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
A video artwork by artists Sarah M Harrison and Rindon Johnson reflecting on Australian cultural complexities.LEARN MOREVideo
Recasting the artificial limb
BY Peter Lee
THEME LEADER National Gallery of Victoria
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Peter Lee is involved in biomechanics for lower limb prostheses and orthoses (broadly defined as a physical device applied externally to the body to assist in function or movement) to improve artificial limb function and facilitate the psychological acceptance of amputees. His team works on the development of new materials ...LEARN MOREArticle
Bodied
BY Derica Shields
THEME LEADER Hannah Black
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
London based writer Derica Shields on a walk through selected 1990s US visual and political history. Characters include Missy Elliott, Anita Hill, Desiree Washington, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, The Welfare Queen.LEARN MOREPodcast
The ‘invisible’ stentrode
BY David Grayden
THEME LEADER Peter Vee Sin Lee
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Prof Grayden’s main research interests are in understanding how the brain processes information and how to record information from the brain. He is conducting research in epileptic seizure prediction and electrical stimulation to prevent or stop epileptic seizures. For Triennial:Voices, Prof Grayden shares a video published by New Scientist of ...LEARN MOREPodcast
Argosy
BY Bella Li
THEME LEADER Justin Clemens
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Bella Li is a Melbourne writer and editor. For Triennial Voices, Bella has contributed extracts from her books Argosy (Vagabond Press, 2017) and Lost Lake (Vagabond Press, forthcoming in 2018), which explore the theme of change through the media of poetry and collage.LEARN MOREArticle
absence or – the Witch –
BY Bella Li
THEME LEADER Justin Clemens
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Bella Li is a Melbourne writer and editor. For Triennial Voices, Bella has contributed extracts from her books Argosy (Vagabond Press, 2017) and Lost Lake (Vagabond Press, forthcoming in 2018), which explore the theme of change through the media of poetry and collage.LEARN MOREArticle
Untitled
BY Hamishi Farah
THEME LEADER Hannah Black
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Hamishi Farah has retired from Australian art. He is currently recovering from the way you treat black artists.LEARN MOREPodcast
What compels us towards things that move?
BY Laura Woodward
THEME LEADER Jane Davidson
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Laura Woodward focuses her research on the potential of system-based kinetic installations. These systems, often powered by water, develop through the relationships between materials, movement, time and the artists’ hands, with the system’s inherent logic driving its formal and systematic emergences. The works tease out considerations of agency within systems, ...LEARN MOREPodcast
Motion Capture
BY Matthew Delbridge
THEME LEADER Jane Davidson
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Matthew Delbridge works in motion capture, which is used in the animation and film industry to create movement and action for digital characters. His research includes actor training, motion capture, performance technologies, animation, theatre history, cultural heritage, scenography, technology studies and production processes. He is involved in developing the recording ...LEARN MOREArticle
All change
BY Justin Clemens
THEME LEADER The National Gallery of Victoria
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Justin Clemens is interested in the notion of change as a mutating yet simultaneously consistent facet of our lives. He investigates this aspect from the imperceptible to the obvious, from the metaphysical to the physical, from the sociological to the political. For the NGV Triennial Voices, Justin contributes a selection ...LEARN MOREArticle
On the Virtual
BY James Bridle
THEME LEADER National Gallery of Victoria
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
James Bridle on the essence of virtuality, merging it’s existence within the physical world.LEARN MOREPodcast
Visual Poem on Change
BY Ali Alizadeh
THEME LEADER Justin Clemens
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Ali Alizadeh is a writer of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and literary criticism. He teaches, researches and supervises in contemporary creative writing, literary theory and literary studies. His PhD was titled ‘La Pucelle: the Epic of Joan of Arc’, and his new book, a novel, is also about Joan of Arc, ...LEARN MOREArticle
A letter to my father
BY Daniella Trimboli
THEME LEADER Nikos Papastergiadis
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Daniella Trimboli shares an intimate letter to her father about culture, politics, life and family expectations.LEARN MOREPodcast
Waterslides
BY Lucy Van
THEME LEADER Justin Clemens
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Lucy Van is a writer of prose poems and lyric and has set words to music with Coastal Shelf, Leo James and Laila Sakini. For Triennial Voices, Lucy Van contributes a written piece relating to waterslides as a type of non-aleatory art (incorporating chance into the process of creation), and ...LEARN MOREArticle
Living with our Daemons
BY Ingrid Burrington
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Ingrid Burrington presents six sigils which are magical reflections on The Realm of Rough Telepathy: story fragments, spells, sigils, incantations, and recipes that taken together provide the real and incomplete account of the pursuit, discovery, and global ascendancy of Rough Telepathy, commonly referred to at the Internet. The Realm of ...LEARN MOREArticle
The Maid pictured: truth and the aesthetics of Joan of Arc
BY Ali Alizadeh
THEME LEADER Justin Clemens
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Ali Alizadeh is a writer of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and literary criticism. He teaches, researches and supervises in contemporary creative writing, literary theory and literary studies. His PhD was titled ‘La Pucelle: the Epic of Joan of Arc’, and his new book, a novel, is also about Joan of Arc, ...LEARN MOREArticle
Uncontained bodies in anticipation and practice
BY Pip Wallis
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Passion, Lament, Glory
BY Jane Davidson
THEME LEADER The National Gallery of Victoria
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Jane Davidson investigates the aspect of movement within performance and music. Her contribution to NGV Triennial Voices is a full-length video of Passion, Lament, Glory, a live performance that took place at St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne in 2017. The work offers a dramatic movement-based representation of Baroque religious music ...LEARN MOREArticle
Living on the sea surrounded by the sea
BY Kyriaki Goni
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Kyriaki Goni’s Aegean Datahaven is a speculative project to create a series of repositories for personal and other data across the islands of the Aegean sea. View WorksLEARN MOREArticle
CIRCLES (A Parable)
BY Bella Li
THEME LEADER Justin Clemens
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Bella Li is a Melbourne writer and editor. For Triennial Voices, Bella has contributed extracts from her books Argosy (Vagabond Press, 2017) and Lost Lake (Vagabond Press, forthcoming in 2018), which explore the theme of change through the media of poetry and collage.LEARN MOREArticle
Vespers (I,I)
BY Bella Li
THEME LEADER Justin Clemens
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Writer Bella Li was invited to consider and respond in poetry or prose to a death mask by American-Israeli architect and designer Neri Oxman.LEARN MOREPodcast
3D-Printed Titanium Jaw
BY David Charles Ackland
THEME LEADER Peter Vee Sin Lee
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Dr David Ackland’s research focuses on simulation of human movement where he employs medical imaging and human motion experiments, using cutting edge 3D printing technology to create a working body part that will improve the quality of life of his patients. For Triennial Voices, Dr Ackland shares visual insights into ...LEARN MOREArticle
The 3D Additivism Manifesto
BY Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Morehshin Allahyari’s The Distributed Monument is accompanied by the The 3D Additivist Manifesto, a document published by Allahyari and writer and artist Daniel Rourke. The manifesto sets out the precepts of #Additivism, a movement that aims to disrupt material, social, computational, and metaphysical realities through provocation, collaboration, and ‘weird’ / ...LEARN MOREArticle
Cornell
BY Bella Li
THEME LEADER Justin Clemens
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Bella Li is a Melbourne writer and editor. For Triennial Voices, Bella has contributed extracts from her books Argosy (Vagabond Press, 2017) and Lost Lake (Vagabond Press, forthcoming in 2018), which explore the theme of change through the media of poetry and collage.LEARN MOREVideo
Augmented Studio
BY Frank Vetere
THEME LEADER Peter Vee Sin Lee
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Frank Vetere and his team apply a fusion of augmented reality and gaming technology to their daily studies of anatomy. For NGV Triennial Voices, Vetere and his team from Augmented Studio share video insights as to how they obtain augmentation to the body through projection mapping and virtual anatomy which ...LEARN MOREArticle
‘If you walk in someone else’s shoes, then you’ve taken their shoes’: empathy machines as appropriation machines
BY Robert Yang
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Robert Yang investigates the role of virtual reality as empathy machines. His recent video game The Tearoom is a free, historical, public bathroom simulator about cruising, anxiety, and police surveillance. View WorkLEARN MOREArticle
The Distributed Monument
BY Morehshin Allahyari
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Material Speculation is a digital fabrication and 3D printing project by Morehshin Allahyari that inspects Petropolitical and poetic relationships between 3D Printing, Plastic, Oil, Technocapitalism and Jihad. The Distributed Monument, aspects of which are visualised here as a process of documented destruction, research, and reconstruction, is a recovery of the ...LEARN MOREPodcast
Creating pieces of brain tissue using stem cells
BY Mirella Dottori
THEME LEADER Peter Lee
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Associate Professor Mirella Dottori’s research lies within the field of human pluripotent stem cell biology, which is one of the most rapidly advancing areas of medical research. Pluripotent cells can now be generated from human biopsy tissue and this technology allows the possibility of generating patient-specific stem cells for the ...LEARN MOREArticle
The Pink House
BY Ayla Hibri
THEME LEADER Meitha Al Mazrooei
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Photographer and activist Ayla Hibri’s short story about an uncommon encounter between two strangers, and her fascination with the colour pink.LEARN MOREVideo
Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History
BY Ian Alan Paul
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Founded in 2012, the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History operates as a critical fiction and experimental documentary, asserting that the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities have been closed and replaced by a museum that critically reflects on the social and political significance of the prison. The museum features an ...LEARN MOREArticle
Pleasure Garden
BY Genevieve Lacey
THEME LEADER Jane Davidson
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Genevieve Lacey is a recorder virtuoso, serial collaborator and artistic director, with a significant recording catalogue and a career as an international soloist. As part of Triennial Voices, Genevieve Lacey has contributed audio files of her work in Pleasure Garden – a listening garden inspired by the story and music ...LEARN MOREArticle
Colonial anxiety repressed in strawberry tarts
BY Meitha Al Mazrooei
THEME LEADER National Gallery of Victoria
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Meitha Al Mazrooei’s agricultural investigation in the United Arab Emirates.LEARN MOREArticle
The Black Flag: Guantanamo Bay and the State of Exception
BY Derek Gregory
THEME LEADER Ian Alan Paul & James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Founded in 2012, the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History operates as a critical fiction and experimental documentary, asserting that the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities have been closed and replaced by a museum that critically reflects on the social and political significance of the prison. The museum features an ...LEARN MOREArticle
The Savage Mind
BY Daniela Mitterberger and Tiziano Derme
THEME LEADER Paul Loh
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Daniela Mitterberger and Tiziano Derme investigate notions of the reality of past events, debating on identity and alterity using Digital Architecture and Virtual Reality. For Triennial Voices, Daniela Mitterberger and Tiziano Derme shared The Savage Mind, an art project which examines the relation between intangible cultural heritage, technology and the ...LEARN MOREArticle
AI-Sawaber complex
BY Tarek Al Ghoussein
THEME LEADER Meitha Al Mazrooei
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Tarek Al-Ghoussein’s work explores the boundaries between landscape photography, self-portraiture and performance art. Al-Ghoussein chooses his locations in much the same way a film director does, moving between abstraction and the specific circumstances found in particular places. Al-Ghoussein’s current project documents the vestiges of the lives of former tenants of ...LEARN MOREArticle
The Realm of Rough Telepathy
BY Ingrid Burrington and Meredith Whittaker
THEME LEADER James Bridle
SUPPORTED BY University of Melbourne, as part of the NGV Triennial – exploring the emerging intersections of art, design, science and society.
Ingrid Burrington presents six sigils which are magical reflections on The Realm of Rough Telepathy: story fragments, spells, sigils, incantations, and recipes that taken together provide the real and incomplete account of the pursuit, discovery, and global ascendancy of Rough Telepathy, commonly referred to as the Internet. The Realm of ...LEARN MORE
