Experimenta

Join Experimenta at Melbourne Art Fair in 2026! As part of the CONVERSATIONS program, we are keeping the dialogue about screen based practices front and centre. Link: https://experimenta.org/event/melbourne-art-fair-2026/

On Saturday 21 February 1:30pm, the public talk Conversations: Curating Video explores approaches to curating video and new media art, and the future of exhibiting and collecting in this ever-changing sector. Hear from panel members Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, curator of Melbourne Art Fair’s VIDEO program, Bianca Durrant, Director, Experimenta and Digby Houghton, co-founder and editor of weekly film newsletter KinoTopia.

This dialogue is part of the 2026 Experimenta 40 Program, celebrating Experimenta’s 40th year championing experimental work. Experimenta is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

The CONVERSATIONS program is curated by Melbourne Art Fair and presented by Guardian Australia.

Melbourne Art Fair Creative Australia

Experimenta Social is a platform for dialogue, where artists, technologists and thinkers come together. On Thursday 28 August, we discuss empathy in relation to machines with Katrin Hochschuh and Lubi Thomas. Find out more via: https://experimenta.org/event/experimenta-social-49/

A co-presentation with Goethe Institut and SensiLab, Monash University, where Katrin Hochschuh is currently completing an Experimenta residency.

Katrin Hochschuh’s visit to Australia is supported by the Goethe-Institut.

Hochschuh & Donovan are Katrin Hochschuh and Adam Donovan. Image courtesy of the artist.

⁠ SensiLab, Monash University Goethe-Institut Australien🤖

Discover more about Plasticity of Mirrors, an Experimenta Commission (2025) from Hochschuh & Donovan. This work is a new robotic swarm species for the democratic creation of a collective intelligence that offers a utopian narrative for the future of robotic ecosystems at this critical moment where AI meets embodiment.

Hear about the development and reception of this work at our Experimenta Social on Thursday 28 August. How do humans respond to this robotic swarm? And why? Bookings via link: https://experimenta.org/event/experimenta-social-49/

A co-presentation with Goethe Institut Goethe-Institut Australien and SensiLab SensiLab, Monash University

Katrin Hochschuh’s visit to Australia is supported by the Goethe Institut Goethe-Institut Australien

Hochschuh & Donovan are Katrin Hochschuh and Adam Donovan. Image courtesy of the artist.

⁠ Goethe-Institut Australien SensiLab, Monash University

RSVP NOW! EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #49: Are the Robots Friendly?

WHEN: Thursday 28 August 2025, from 6pm
WHERE: SensiLab, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East
Free, in person ticketed event.
Book here: https://experimenta.org/event/experimenta-social-49/

Join us in Melbourne, for our next Experimenta Social talks series. Hear from Katrin Hochschuh of Hochschuh & Donovan in conversation with Lubi Thomas, as they discuss the development of Plasticity of Mirrors, a new robotics work touring in Experimenta Emergence. A co-presentation with Goethe-Institut and SensiLab, Monash University

Katrin Hochschuh’s visit to Australia is supported by the Goethe Institut Goethe-Institut Australien

Hochschuh & Donovan are Katrin Hochschuh and Adam Donovan. Image Credits: Plasticity of Mirrors, 2025, An Experimenta Commission. Photo by Warwick Gow. Profile images courtesy of the artist and curator.

⁠ Goethe-Institut Australien SensiLab, Monash University