Multisensory Cybernetics: bodies, machines, and nature in dialogue

ANU School of Cybernetics

A tour through five immersive installations at the School of Cybernetics

Foyer, Level 3, Birch Building #35, The Australian National University

Launching Cybernetics at ANU

ANU is hosting a series of public events and an inaugural exhibition to launch the School of Cybernetics. The School is making space for different futures and transforming the way society engages with technology.

Immerse yourself in five playful art installations, highlighting our relationship with interactive technology and the natural environment to ignite the senses and inspire visions about the futures that we can co-create.   In this session, artists featured in the exhibition <a href="https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/launch/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Australian cybernetic: a point through time </a>will guide visitors to engage in the experiences, explain the creative process, and welcome questions.

System of a Sound (exclusive premiere) A generative AI, audio-visual experience connecting visitors to the pulsating rhythms of the Birch building as a living system.  Artists: Justin Shave, Charlton Hill, Caroline Pegram and Dr Brendan Wright, Uncanny Valley  Rodolfo Ocampo and Dr Oliver Bown, UNSW  Dr Josh Andres and Adrian Schmidt, ANU School of Cybernetics

Random Excuse Generator  Spin the dials, push the levers, flip the switches and pedal away... This interactive installation, referencing the early days of cybernetics, prompts reflection upon the myths and narratives surrounding technology and its past, current and future impact on our lives. Artist: Mark Thompson, Speculative Histories Laboratory, Institute of Backyard Studies

PANIC: Playground Ai Network for Interactive CreativityThis interactive work explores how different ways of connecting “Creative AI” models up to one another can give rise to different outputs, emergent behaviours, recurring patterns, and degenerate or edge cases. But just because we can put our text/audio/images into these models and have them provide new text/audio/images in return, does it mean that we should?Artists:Ben Swift/Adrian Schmidt, ANU School of Cybernetics

Hydraloops: experiments in ethico-aesthetics   A collaborative material investigation into the interconnecting systems of the Murray Darling Basin. Interplays between organic and digital elements reference the relationships between the human and non-human in such waterscapes. Artists: Emily April O’Neill, Clementine Belle McIntosh, Bridget Baskerville, ANU School of Arts and Design

Terpsichora pressure-sensitive floors  The terpsichora pressure-sensitive floors (The Floors) are a set of wooden platforms with sensors which respond to movement and pressure, facilitating music-making via whole-body movement. The Floors are primarily used for performance of composed and improvised electronic music. They are made as part-replicas of Vernus floors, originally designed for the Australian pioneering dancer Philippa Cullen  (1972). Artist: Dr Iran Sanadzadeh, Monash University

<h3>Join our guided tours!  </h3>This event is followed by a guided tour around Birch Building and through our exhibition <a href="https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/launch" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Australian Cybernetic: a point through time.   </a>This guided tour is optional, but bookings are essential. We have provided a separate but easy-to-do registration through this booking page. Tickets are limited, book yours ahead!  Our exciting exhibition and public program continue throughout the day to celebrate the official launch celebrations of both the <a href="https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ANU School of Cybernetics</a> and the award-winning Birch Building. For the complete list of all events, visit <a href="https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/launch/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/launch/ </a>Pay &amp; Display parking is available at the back of the Birch Building and around the university.

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