SPEAKERS:
Hugh Davies
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey

This month we handover the controls to the audience and venture into the world of play and gamification in art making. Through an experientially-driven exploration of play-based techniques, these artists are choosing complex and interactive methods to allow for unique audience experiences in their artworks. By blurring the barrier between analogue and digital realms, they are able to create new worlds where provocation and poetry co-exist.

Hugh Davies is a maker, curator and researcher of games and play. His practice explores histories of media devices and cultures of games in the Asia Pacific Region. Awarded a PhD in Art, Design and Architecture from Monash University in 2014, Hugh’s studies in game cultures have been supported with fellowships from Tokyo Art and Space, M+ Museum of Visual Culture and the Hong Kong Design Trust. Davies is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. http://hughdavies.net

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Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are leading Australian audio conceptual artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about sound in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. Their practice intertwines local, national and international relationships.

They have an award winning long term collaborative practice. In 2017 their practice was awarded the prestigious national Australia Council Award for Emerging and Experimental Artforms.

http://madeleineandtim.net/

Experimenta Social is a series of talks, discussions and demos designed to provide proximity to some of Australia’s most adventurous contemporary artists, researchers and creative technologists.

This artist-led series is curated by Experimenta Media Arts explores practices at the nexus of art and technology, science, culture and design. You will hear from artists sharing their latest projects and researchers presenting projects that grapple with the concerns of our time. Beyond inconsequential debates over the role of media arts in a post-media world, Experimenta Social will combine activated audiences drawn from contemporary art, social research, electronic art and non-professional spheres for lively debate and discussion. Free drinks and refreshments are available.

Experimenta Social is a free event, taking place every third Wednesday of the month.
20 March, 17 April, 15 May, 19 June, 17 July, 21 August, 18 September, 16 October, 20 November 2019
www.experimenta.org/experimenta-social

Experimenta Social is presented in partnership with ACMI X, and supported by Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO.

ACMI X - VENUE ACCESS:

The venue is wheelchair accessible. Enter the Australian Ballet Centre building from Kavanagh St, into a lobby with elevators. Take the elevator to Level 4. ACMI X is further up the corridor and on the left. Amenities with wheelchair access are available on Level 4. There is on-site parking with elevator access.

Alternatively you can also get to ACMI X via St Kilda Rd, across the pedestrian bridge behind Arts Centre Melbourne to Australian Ballet Centre. ACMI X is located immediately to the right of the entrance.

For more info on how to get there, visit: https://www.acmi.net.au/acmi-x/#location

Please note that your email address will only ever be used to communicate with you regarding Experimenta Social events. Your information is strictly confidential and will never be shared with any third party organisations.

Image Credit: 'TIMeR’ app, 2019, by Hugh Davies in collaboration with Troy Innocent, Olivia Guntarik and N'arweet Carolyn Briggs.