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RiAus has a jam-packed program of science acts for Fringe 2013. But if you’re still hungry for more, there are a number of other science-related acts at various locations around Adelaide. Please note that these acts are not produced by RiAus, but by external artists/companies. Comedy ... Continue Reading »

Art vs Science. No, not the band, but the question of whether art and science are speaking the same language. On one hand art is usually defined by imagination and the expression of creative skills while science is thought of as the intellectual and practical study of the physical and ... Continue Reading »

In the words of author Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-1959), ‘there are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.  Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other’. The ... Continue Reading »

David Kerr has a background in visual arts, design and education. He has worked as a teacher, a practicing artist, an art lecturer, an arts administrator and an exhibition designer. He is currently the manager of design and development at the South Australian Museum; and he maintains his practice as ... Continue Reading »

Janice Lally has been a gallery director, curator, and independent consultant in the arts, crafts, design and cultural heritage sectors since 1990. Prior to that as a Master of Clinical Biochemistry (1980, Flinders University) she was a researcher in medical science for nearly 20 years. She was awarded a PhD ... Continue Reading »

Colour, science, pattern and form drawn from the natural and hi-tech worlds – all this is ready and waiting to be explored in the Incredible Inner Space exhibition. Selecting the images for this exhibition was a really exciting chance to show off, not only great images, but great science ... Continue Reading »

I would like to share with you the process I used to calculate the volume of my heart using my fist. It is understood that your fist is about the same size as you heart. Without getting some high-tech medical scanning done, using water displacement was the best method I ... Continue Reading »

I’m inspired by technologies for imaging the inside of the human body. I wonder if the more we understand about how our bodies work, will it change the way we see ourselves? I know my view of my own body has changed a great deal since starting my research. Micrograph images [caption ... Continue Reading »

Recently, we tagged along on a tour of the Queen’s Gallery’s current exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci – Anatomist, led by its impressively knowledgeable curator, Martyn Clayton. We highly recommend this exhibition, but for those who can’t make it, here’s what we learned. The exhibition begins with a short introductory film. Nature(watch ... Continue Reading »

This SALA season, RiAus will open its FutureSpace Gallery to an art exhibition that takes us to a place we all know – or we think we do – the domestic environment. RiAus aims to foster links with the local arts and science community and within the SALA Festival, its Domestic ... Continue Reading »

Renate Nisi shared her inspiration for the upcoming art exhibition Domestic + Science. Renate explores "gut" feelings and their connection to consciousness. Her quest is to examine the way we feel before we realise what we are thinking. Following images are connected to the work she will ... Continue Reading »

Revital Cohen is a designer who develops critical objects and provocative scenarios exploring the juxtaposition of the natural with the artificial. Her work spans across various mediums and includes collaborations with scientists, bioethicists, animal breeders and physicians. As a research associate within the Design Interactions department at the Royal College ... Continue Reading »

Richard Pell is an artist working at the intersections of science, engineering and culture. He is the founder of the Center for PostNatural History (CPNH), a public outreach centre dedicated to the intersection of culture, nature and biotechnology, which collects and exhibits genetically engineered life-forms. The postnatural refers to the life ... Continue Reading »

Deborah Kelly is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown in streets, skies and galleries around Australia, in the Singapore and Venice Biennales, and elsewhere. Her award-winning collaborative artwork with Tina Fiveash, Hey, hetero! has been shown in public sites from Sydney to Glasgow, and is taught in ... Continue Reading »

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist, designer and writer, using the medium of design to examine the social, ethical and cultural implications of emerging technology and science. Through intensive research into synthetic biology, Daisy is exploring the role of design in a Biotech Revolution. Now Design Fellow on Synthetic Aesthetics, an ... Continue Reading »

Dr Melinda Rackham is a multi award-winning Network Artist, a widely published writer and Adjunct Professor at the RMIT School of Media and Communications. She has been instrumental in the exhibition of, and dialogue surrounding, networked and distributed art practices in Australia and beyond. Melinda has extensive experience in producing critically ... Continue Reading »

In the picture: Robert Habel (L) and Cole Larsen (R) Filmmaker Cole Larsen and painter Robert Habel met in Launceston, Tasmania in the early 1980s. They connected over a shared love of athletics, art, film, punk music and the Collingwood Football Club. They moved to South Australia in December 1988, where ... Continue Reading »

Acrylic and screen print on board. 5.12m x 2.28m x 2.85m Artist's Synopsis This work is an extension of my painting practice. The edge of the canvas is expanded to create an all-encompassing environment. The painting becomes a pattern which is applied to the walls, floor and ceiling. The lighting brings out ... Continue Reading »

Pricking 1.2 Digital/multi media consisting of an interactive multi-touch table (wood) and custom developed design software. Additional credits: Paul Nicholas, Ian Maxwell and Indae Hwang. Artist's Synopsis Louis Kahn famously asked the brick what it wants to become, with the brick responding, ‘an arch’. This project poses the same question to lace. Pricking is ... Continue Reading »

Blue Wall Drawing #1 under construction Image courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery Artist's Synopsis The work at RiAus is a prototype for whoosh: a wall drawing inspired by sound, motion, wave dynamics and time; a set of instructions that describes how to construct infinite variations of a geometric free-form (gestural) wave, within a defined ... Continue Reading »

Membrane Layer from the Natural Produce Series 2011 Disperse dyes digitally printed on polyester chiffon. 95cm x 210cm. With thanks to Huntech, Upper Hutt and Massey University, Wellington NZ. Artist's Synopsis Digital textile printing technology has not only revolutionized how printed textiles can be produced, it has also engendered an alternative design approach, ... Continue Reading »

Flicker 2010 Generative software program, computer, monitor. Duration 2:20 minutes. Developed in collaboration with Oliver Brown. Artist's Synopsis I work across the disciplines of art and science. I am interested in developing new modes of creative expression through computation, expression that, in the spirit of Gyorgy Kepes, leads to a “deeper and richer ... Continue Reading »

Model for Liquid Geometry 1, 2010 Custom made neon and plastic. 1.3 x 1.2 x 0.6m. Courtesy of the artist and Fehily Contemporary. Artist's Synopsis Model For Liquid Geometry 1 and 2 show my exploration of geometry and mathematics. The pieces embody the contradictions of nature versus culture, and the mathematical versus a ... Continue Reading »

Armed Space with Ornament 2012 Fluoro acrylic on wall 2.7m x 3m. With assistance from Julie Walker. Artist's Synopsis In this wall painting I play with fictive space, optical experience, intricacy and excess. The regularities of geometry and symmetry can mysteriously give rise to spatial and visual disorientation. I aim to create a zone ... Continue Reading »

Plotting Glitches, 2011-2012 Digital screen program. Additional credits: Todd Margolis, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). Acknowledgements: Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass, Software Studies Initiative, UCSD. Artist's Synopsis Computer glitches are the completely random, unpredictable and unexpected failures of digital systems. They are the result of approximated values and computational ... Continue Reading »

Kinetic Painting: real-time software application. Additional Credits: Copyright © Paul Brown 2012, all rights reserved. Acknowledgements: Made using Processing™ processing.org Artist's Synopsis Dragon continues my interest in artworks that use simple systems to construct themselves and it is a product my ongoing concern with the systematic creation and exploration of ... Continue Reading »

Tim Schork of Melbourne’s innovative MESNE Design Studio and Melbourne-based artists Caroline Durré, Sam Songailo and Kerrie Poliness are all in Adelaide this week to create optically dazzling installations for the RiAus Adelaide Fringe exhibition at the Science Exchange FutureSpace Gallery. Art, Pattern and Complexity opens to the public on Thursday 16 February, ... Continue Reading »

RiAus presents its latest art exhibition, showcasing the work of painter Robert Habel and filmmaker Cole Larsen. Energy Landscapes: the new frontier explores the aesthetic appeal of established and emerging industrial landscapes. View full media release

In a recent article featuring Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's Synthetic Kingdom project, Hettie Judah asked, "would people still be scared of nanotechnology if we could make it strawberry flavoured?" In some ways the artworks in LIFE 2.0: artifice to synthesis are so subtle that they don't need sweetening. New technologies slide ... Continue Reading »

Lynne Sanderson is a media artist, audiovisual performer, lecturer, researcher and technician. The Uncanny Valley is her curatorial debut. As a media artist, Lynne’s artworks are interactive and involve the participation of the public. She has exhibited extensively including MTV Australia, the Museum of Modern Art NYC, ISEA95 Montreal, Adelaide Biennial ... Continue Reading »

George Poonkhin Khut completed his undergraduate studies in Sculpture at the University of Tasmania in 1994, where he studied across studios from painting and sculpture to ceramics, video and electronic sound. He holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Western Sydney, Australia, for his research into the ... Continue Reading »

Marina Wallace is Director of Artakt, The Innovation Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and co-director with Martin Kemp of the Universal Leonardo. Marina Wallace is closely engaged with contemporary art and design as an art historian, writer, lecturer curator and artist. She has curated a number ... Continue Reading »

What is an energy landscape? Artists Robert Habel and Cole Larsen have explored the concept of an energy landscape, and the complex interactions that occur between humans, energy technology and the settings they inhabit. What makes a landscape beautiful, and how can we balance aesthetics, human ... Continue Reading »

Painter Robert Habel and filmmaker Cole Larsen enmeshed themselves in established and emerging industrial landscapes including the ‘alternative’ energy landscape - solar and wind farms, geothermal, biomass and tidal energy. This collaboration uncovered an aesthetic appeal while delving into the debate surrounding the environment and our ... Continue Reading »

Exhibition was open from Friday 5 August–Wednesday 7 September 2011 The RiAus Adelaide Reef was the result of collaborative crochet crafting from hundreds of creative participants. Crafters have produced an astoundingly beautiful and diverse coral reef that encompasses mathematics and marine biology as well as responding to the crisis of ... Continue Reading »

We explored the connections between synthetic biology and art on the LIFE 2.0 exhibition's closing night, then moved on to the Science Exchange bar for an informal discussion. LIFE 2.0 curator Melinda Rackham was joined by Jane Messenger, curator of Patricia Piccinini's exhibition at ... Continue Reading »

The controversial LIFE 2.0: artifice to synthesis exhibition opened at the Science Exchange to a crowd of curious and enthusiastic guests.

Full article and photos from The Adelaide Review: Life 2.0: Artifice to Synthesis Launch at RiAus (April 2011)

Curator of LIFE 2.0 - artifice to synthesis, Dr Melinda Rackham, says the upcoming RiAus exhibition investigates changing notions of nature and technology, genetic manipulation and synthetic biology. “While once human craftsmanship and inventiveness helped our species to flourish, today synthetic biology manipulates organisms to ensure our survival,” Dr Rackham said. One ... Continue Reading »

The much anticipated Mysteries in Science exhibition opens today at the Adelaide Science Exchange. The exhibition, from the New York Hall of Science, contains entries from the 11th International Digital Print Exhibition, a competition organised by Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. Full media release: Is it science, art or both? ... Continue Reading »

White carnations flush and blush with the blood of local artist Niki Sperou. The provocative piece is on show at the RiAus Science Exchange, for the South Australian Living Artists Festival. Full article from Adelaide Now: For Niki, art is in her blood (10 August 2010)

In a world first, the national science hub, the RiAus, will explore the not quite human through an art exhibition comprising artists’ works from America, Germany and Australia, in ‘The Uncanny Valley’ of the Science Exchange from Thursday 3rd June 2010. Full media release: Welcome to the Uncanny Valley ... Continue Reading »

Matters of the heart will be the prime focus of the national science hub this month when the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) hosts George Poonkin Khut as resident artist and presents a series of heart-themed events to the public. Full media release: RiAus gives science some heart (4 ... Continue Reading »