Experimenta Recharge: 6th International Biennial of Media Art

Overview

How do stories from the past change when you're telling those stories with new technology? The artists featured in Experimenta Recharge explore this question, as well as how knowledge might be communicated to new generations through cutting edge media.

Media art is naturally multidisciplinary and experimental, and the variety of art forms featured in this exhibition — photography, sound art, animation, film, robotics and electronic sculpture, to name a few — make for an intensely stimulating sensory blend. Several works have been commissioned specifically for the exhibition, including a 3D-printed take on 19^th century portraiture by Australia’s Cake Industries (Simulacrum 2014), a sound and mixed-media installation piece by German artists Korinsky (RL2000, 2014), and Australian artist Svenja Kratz’s sculptural mix of synthetic materials and cancer cell DNA (The Contamination of Alice, 2014).

Experimenta Recharge’s opening night on 25 August features live performances by Michelle Xen and The Neon Wild, with the exhibition continuing until 4 September and then reopening as part of Brisbane Festival from 8 to 26 September.

Image: Khaled Sabsabi. ‘70,000 Veils’ (installation view, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne) 2014. 100-channel digital video, 100 LCD monitors, 3D glasses, sound dimensions variable. Image courtesy RMIT Gallery and Experimenta Media Arts. © the artist.