Experimenta Playground

Experimenta Playground: International Biennial of Media Arts

Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art

Friday 29 August 2008 to Friday 17 October 2008
Experimenta Playground showcases the latest work from Australia's leading media artists alongside media artworks from artists around the globe. The exhibition re-invents the gallery space as an environment of surprise and delightful discovery exploring the notion that play is a means through which we are able to make sense of the world.

The exhibition re-invents the gallery space as an environment of surprise and delightful discovery exploring the notion that play is a means through which we are able to make sense of the world. In Experimenta Playground, media artists invite us to play and consider social behaviour, identity, the real/imagined, material/ immaterial, and the role of play in life. The artworks reinvent old games and our known environment, reveal narratives in the most unexpected places and push the boundaries of cinematic language.

The exhibition re-invents the gallery space as an environmen
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© All rights reserved image © the artists. An Experimenta New Visions Commission 2007 Australia
Angela Barnett, Andrew Buchanan, Darren Ballingall, Chris MacKellar and Christian Rubino, still image from interactive installation,