The Synapse initiative supports creative partnerships between scientists and artists through the residency program, a database of international art/science collaborations, an archived discussion list and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage program, which supports longer-term partnerships between artists and scientists in academic research settings. Dr George Poonkhin Khut + Kids...
During 1990 ANAT coordinated an Australian tour by two of the key figures in the international art and technology community, Roger Malina (Editor, Leonardo magazine) and Carl Loeffler (Executive Director, Art Com), both from San Francisco. Carl and Roger visited Adelaide, Alice Springs, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Ballarat and Sydney. They presented...
ANAT were invited to present a program of Australian video and new media artworks at Gallery Connexion in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Body Of Information was an eclectic selection of work, which interrogated a range of issues faced by Australian artists; exploring identity, critiquing the decentred subject, interrogating heritage, tearing up...
In 1997 ANAT with support from the Australia Council, activated the deep immersion project with a series of online residencies 'deep immersion: creative collaborations'.
A talk at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London discussing the works of the following artists: Patricia Piccinini John TonkinIsobelle DelmotteLloyd SharpMartine CoromptMichael GrimmGashgirlVideo Subvertigo ANAT Director, Amanda McDonald Crowley presented a selection of Australian artists work as part of the Deep Screen Diving program of the ICA organised by Lisa Haskell. According...
In early December 2001, ANAT launched the Arcadia publication. Arcadia aimed to delve into confluences between art, technology and theology. This investigation is part of the larger Deep Immersion project, which provided thematic focuses for ANAT's activities over the three-year period 1998 to 2000.
Broken Spaces was a collaborative project between doppio-parallelo Rosebud (the Ngapartji Narrative and Interactivity Research Project), the Media Resource Centre, and ANAT.
ANAT has always explored the interdisciplinary nature of art, science and technology within political, cultural and social frameworks.
Michael Chion defined the term Synchresis to mean “the spontaneous and irresistible weld produced between a particular auditory phenomenon and visual phenomenon when they occur at the same time.”
In 2005 ANAT partnered with the City of Melbourne’s Art House program and held the ANAT New Media Lab 2005 Create_Space at the newly refurbished Meat Market in North Melbourne.
MAAP 2002 (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific), previously staged in Brisbane, was held in Asia for the first time.
ANAT's 1995 Summer School was staged at the Academy for the Arts, Queensland University of Technology.
Launched in December 2004, miniSeries was a national initiative to support the development of creative applications for mobile and wireless devices.
The inaugural school designed specifically for Indigenous artists took place from 3 - 24 July, 1999 at Northern Territory University in Darwin. The Indigenous National School was project managed by Indigenous artist, curator, writer, lecturer and consultant, Brenda L Croft (Gurindji). Although other annual ANAT Summer Schools...
The Scismic Project was also supported by ANAT as part of Deep Immersion: Scientific Serendipity.
The Synapse initiative supports creative partnerships between scientists and artists through the residency program, a database of international art/science collaborations, an archived discussion list and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage program, which supports longer-term partnerships between artists and scientists in academic research settings. Dr Mary Rosengren + the Commonwealth Scientific...
The first round of ANAT's Synapse Art and Science Residency program supported artists Julie Ryder, Peter Charuk, David O'Donovan and Annemarie Kohn in scientific placements.
The 2002 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art was a major survey exhibition co-ordinated by the Art Gallery of SA and staged during the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
During 2004 ANAT worked closely with Adelaide City Council (ACC) on the development of the Luminosity project.
ANAT assisted the Goethe Institut, Sydney in joining 20 Goethe Instituts all around the world on the internet, delivering multimedia commentaries on the human image.
In line with ANAT's commitment to developing projects which support and encourage critical discourse and dialogue, and following on from highly successful projects such as Virogenesis, CODE RED and FOLDBACK, ANAT developed a new project for 1999, titled Resistant Media.This project built on research ANAT had undertaken into tactical media...
For the Telstra Adelaide Festival 2000, ANAT and the Contemporary Art Centre of SA, presented Verve: The Other Writing.
In July 1991, ANAT held the first of its Winter Schools in Computer Aided Art, Design and Manufacture.
aliens.au was a survey of Australian new media art assisted by the Australian Film Commission's marketing department.
In 1999 ANAT worked very closely with NxT - Northern Territory Xposure, the Territory's first Multimedia Symposium on the development of their program.
