Wade Marynowsky: Nostalgia for Obsolete Futures

Overview

Everyone remain calm. There are robots at the NGV. Real life robots. Robots that look disutrbingly like Daleks in dresses.

A well-known purveyor of the absurd, Dr. Wade Marynowsky is an Australian artist and researcher who specialises in experimental and emerging art forms. As a researcher, Marynowsky's topics of interest include contemporary art, media and technology in art, and experimental performance work. So really, it's unsurprising that his work reflects his research. His recent projects have included There Goes the Neighbourhood where Marynowsky mixed computer games and urban spaces with a dead kangaroo, and The Acconci Robot which featured a shipping crate robot which followed you every time you turned away from it. Much like robots themselves, his work is unnerving, funny, self-aware and occasionally very confronting.

Marynowsky has made a name for himself as a leading artist in the field of experimental digital art and has been exhibited all across Australia. In this latest show at the NGV, he's letting his dolled up Daleks (note: not actual Daleks) loose in the NGV foyer while treating us to audiovisual installations, performances and sound sculptures.

If there's one robot-themed contemporary art exhibition you go to this year, make it this one.