What happens when you cross creativity in science with innovation in art? Immerse yourself in this festival and find out
Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team.You couldn’t dream up a festival in which Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales unravel the mysteries of the universe one day and you journey to the darkest parts of the ocean with a panel of marine biologists the next. Or where you can learn how Indigenous knowledge might direct the future of food, and where even toddlers can experiment with physics.
The festival offers a program within a program by inviting esteemed and emerging artists working with science and technology to create a trail of artworks across the cultural precinct at South Bank. The Art/Science Program celebrates what is inherently creative about science and inherently innovative about art, rejecting the limitations that have set art and science in opposition.
Smigla-Bobinski’s ADA exemplifies this spirit of collaboration. Making its Australian debut, ADA is a three-metre-wide helium-filled sphere, covered with hundreds of charcoal points, its kinetic possibilities only realised with other moving bodies, co-creating a drawing in time and space. Like so many of the events in the Art/Science Program, ADADrawing on Complexity: Experiment 9, by Queensland artist Briony Barr. Photo supplied.
Over 10 days participants will create an agent-based model, usually simulated by computers, to reveal the unpredictable patterns that emerge when individual agents interact. It’s riveting science that might seem daunting to understand but is made gorgeously comprehensible with Barr’s guiding rules and much colourful paper tape.
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