White Night Melbourne 2015
White Night Melbourne, one of Australia’s most celebrated cultural events, is approaching to once again transform Melbourne’s streets, cultural institutions, public spaces, gardens and buildings filling them with light, music and cultural events. White Night 2015 is set to feature more than 80 free events and activities which include Australian and international artists.
We bring you our picks from White Night 2015.
Circles of Light
This event will be held at Queen Victoria Gardens and will present a unique display of emerging designers from The Design Circle. The event will enable the interaction and experimentation with an electronic herbarium of plant life with emotions, lighting up Chapter House with sculptural installations. By mixing the latest innovations in horticultural technology with art, Circles of Light will present the opportunity of experiencing how to light up a room or create original music compositions by touching plants and leaves.
Experimenta Recharge
The sixth biennial of media art at RMIT, Experimenta Recharge, presents the works of Australian and international artists who work across photography, installation, electronic sculpture, interactive and immersive media, robotics, sound art, 3D printing, gaming, animation, and video. The exhibition brings together technology and cultural context through commissions and artists inspired by and entangled with the past.
Colonise
Colonise will take place in Scot’s Church as an experiment that uses light painting to outline and colour surfaces. It uses three new styles of projection art: 360° projection mapping onto hand-made sculpture, live ‘light painting’, and projection as performance. Audience can experience Artist Alinta Krauth spend the evening painting sections of the church and watch 360° projections of glitch film and animation onto origami, representing local nocturnal animals.
Ghostly Machines
Large and complex machinery is a necessary component for enhancing the experience that audiences will have. Ghostly Machines displays what would happen if these machines starred in their own show.
There is something eerie about objects behaving in unexpected ways. Ghostly Machines presents a visual and sonic feast through mechanical ballet, kinetic art and sound design. The end of the event will see the machines take over the sonic spectrum of the space by producing sound and controlling samples by their own movement and operation.
White Night Melbourne 2015 will take place from 7pm Saturday 21 February until 7am Sunday 22 February.
www.whitenightmelbourne.com.au
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