17 Days Celebrating Science, Art & Tech

17 days celebrating science, art & tech

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curiocitybrisbane.com 12—28 March 2021

Acknowledgement of Country Curiocity Brisbane acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, work, create and congregate. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. Minister for Tourism Industry The Right Honourable, Development and Innovation the Lord Mayor of Brisbane and Minister for Sport Councillor Adrian Schrinner The Honourable Stirling Hinchliffe MP Get ready to be inspired with the return of Curiocity Brisbane, our city’s Let your imagination run wild most fascinating showcase of science, as we celebrate the return of innovation, technology and the arts. Curiocity Brisbane. This year’s program brings together This unique event is a celebration local and international creators, of creativity, innovation, science, makers, inventors, scientists, technology and art, held over technologists and artists and 17 days, featuring the installation of shines a spotlight on Brisbane as ‘Curiocities’ across the city, a series an Asia Pacific hub for innovation of thought-provoking ‘Curious and creativity. Conversations’ and events including The Curiocities, a range of free the World Science Festival Brisbane. interactive digital and physical The Palaszczuk Government is installations, are ready to be explored proud to support Curiocity Brisbane across the City Botanic Gardens, as part of Tourism and Events South Bank, Cultural Precinct and Queensland’s It’s Live in Queensland CBD. There is also so much to see at events calendar. the World Science Festival, the only I encourage you to embrace your extension of it outside of New York, curiosity by exploring this fantastic and the Gallery of Modern Art’s The event and our state capital’s perfect Motorcycle Up Late program. mix of arts, culture, dining, stunning Enjoy exploring your Curiocity natural assets and laidback lifestyle. in Brisbane. AIRLIE BEACH RACE WEEK FESTIVAL OF SAILING, THE WHITSUNDAYS, 12 - 19 AUGUST 2021

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Welcome to Curiocity Brisbane 2021, celebrating 17 days of science, art & tech. We are proud to present an expanded program featuring 30 world and national premiere works among more than 60 Curiocities that can be explored across four precincts. We also feature unique installations from Queensland school students, selected from a state-wide expression of interest that attracted some truly inspiring ideas. We’ve brought six of these ideas to life, with the help of leading creators and makers whose work will fuel the curious spark we believe exists within us all. Curiocity Brisbane is delighted to partner with Queensland Museum in its delivery of World Science Festival Brisbane and with the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) to present The Motorcycle Up Late program. We thank Tourism and Events Queensland and the Brisbane Economic Development Agency for supporting Curiocity Brisbane, along with major partner News Corp and media partner Nine Queensland. Curiocity Brisbane reflects our place as a global hub for science, technology, innovation and the arts. More importantly, it’s an open invitation to explore and play in this great city. Enjoy! Theresa Famularo Executive Producer Curiocity Brisbane 2021

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Explore the biggest questions in science at World Science Festival Brisbane World Science Festival Brisbane

Queensland Museum is once again proud to deliver World Science Festival Brisbane and be part of Curiocity Brisbane. For the first time we have partnered together to deliver the Queensland Schools Challenge, giving six schools the opportunity to create their own Curiocity installations that demonstrate the intersection of science, technology, engineering, art and maths (STEAM). This nexus of science and art is at the heart of World Science Festival Brisbane, delivering a program of thought-provoking conversations, inspiring experiences and engaging workshops across five days from 24–28 March. We can’t wait to explore the work of artist Craig Walsh and his prehistoric creatures. Working alongside Queensland Museum’s award-winning palaeontology staff, Craig has created projections of prehistoric creatures known to have inhabited the Brisbane River (Maiwar) millions of years ago. This special collaboration between World Science Festival Brisbane and Curiocity Brisbane can be viewed from the Goodwill Bridge. And in 2021, our program will offer a range of events and digital experiences that celebrate human curiosity. Please join us at World Science Festival Brisbane and get involved in Curiocity Brisbane as we explore and immerse ourselves in the wonder and awe of science. Dr Jim Thompson CEO, Queensland Museum Network

03 Curious Conversations with Benjamin Law

04 Robles. Francisco Daniel Photographer: Join our Master of Curious Conversations, Benjamin Law, as he leads a series of FREE, thought‑provoking discussions with creators, makers, scientists and engineers. Virtual Time Machines for Benjamin Law is an Australian writer Cultural Storytelling and broadcaster. He co-hosts a Benjamin Law in conversation with weekly pop culture show on radio, Brett Leavy & Guest and an online startup and tech Saturday 13 March TV program. 10.30am to 11.30am Benjamin has a PhD in creative The Gardens Club, writing and cultural studies from City Botanic Gardens QUT. He loves feisty discussion and was born curious – the perfect Delve into the world of temporal combination for our Master of spatial storytelling, where Curious Conversations. satellite‑generated terrain enables travel into The Dreaming landscapes of First Nations People. It’s a place Register for your where cultural knowledge and FREE ticket at practice is shared and preserved. curiocitybrisbane.com We will be navigating this futuristic space with self-titled ‘Virtual Heritage Jedi’ Brett Leavy and Guest. Image: Brett Leavy.

05 Recycling, Science, An Engineer and a Guitarist Design – Repeat walk into a bar… When waste looks sexy! Benjamin Law in conversation with Benjamin Law in conversation with Vanessa Tomlinson, Dr Hassan Guillaume Crédoz & Guest Karampour & Karin Schaupp Tuesday 16 March Saturday 20 March 10.30am to 11.30am 10.30am to 11.30am Flowstate, South Bank Flowstate, South Bank We are all well-versed in the 3 Rs What happens when an engineer and (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). But what a guitarist walk into a bar? They have would it look like to recycle and a conversation and decide to embark create new things from your home, on building the world’s largest studio or garage? What if it could be acoustic guitar, of course. your new business? Well, that may not be the full story. Join us for a creative conversation The idea, the maths, the timber, (that isn’t recycled!) as we travel the sound… these are all part of an from the heart of Beirut to Brisbane important journey and process. through science, design and invention. Delve into this story and hear Image: Guillaume Crédoz. first‑hand why the coming together of creative and mathematical minds equates to harmonious beauty. Images L–R: Karin Schaupp (photographer Cybele Malinowski), Vanessa Tomlinson.

06 Exploring the How can cross- Hyperconnected collaborations shape the Underworld ‘STEAM’ conversation? Benjamin Law in conversation with Benjamin Law in conversation with Tara Pattenden, Steve Axford & David Morton & Guest Catherine Marciniak Saturday 27 March Thursday 25 March 10.30am to 11.30am 7.00pm to 8.00pm Hilton Hotel, Wintergarden Nucleus, World Science Festival Dead Puppet Society (DPS) is one Brisbane, Cultural Precinct of Queensland’s most innovative Beatrix Potter’s sketches of mycelium theatre companies. In 2020 as the over 100 years ago were considered pandemic shut down all touring irrelevant, however, today those same and theatrical performances, the sketches are regarded as significant. company took a pause to think about Mycelium is vital to our soils, breaking its future. down organic material for reuse. The result of that pause has enabled They are also a vital communication DPS to expand its repertoire. and nutrient network supporting Key to this has been choosing to 92 per cent of Earth’s flora. cross‑collaborate with other skillsets Explore this hyperconnected within the world of STEM. underworld of mycelium through the DPS have the ‘A’, but who are they eyes and lens of artists and naturalists collaborating with from the STEM Tara Pattenden, Steve Axford and space and what are they creating? Catherine Marciniak. Image: David Morton. Images L–R: Tara Pattenden, Steve Axford, Catherine Marciniak. Register for your FREE ticket at curiocitybrisbane.com

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Curiocity Brisbane has created a 17 days 6.5-kilometre circuit connecting the City Botanic Gardens, South Bank, Cultural celebrating Precinct and the CBD with over 60 Curiocities. Use your smartphone to interact using the latest science, in augmented reality and digital technology that connects our past and our future. art & tech Touch, tap, spin and play with intriguing installations based on science, engineering, technology, art and maths (STEAM). Visitors can engage and play with the Curiocities between 8am to 8pm, from 12 to 28 March 2021.

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28 never- before-seen installations

Curiocity Brisbane Queensland Schools Challenge

Debuting at Curiocity Brisbane this year, the Queensland Schools Challenge provides an opportunity for students from three See the primary and three secondary schools to six school bring their creative ideas to life. World Premiere Curiocities Held in partnership with World Science Festival Brisbane, schools were selected following a state‑wide Expression of Interest that demonstrated the high level of creativity and future-thinking among our young people. Over the past few months, students and teachers from the six schools have been working with professional makers and creators to turn their ideas into reality. These Curiocities form part of the more than 60 digital and physical installations at Curiocity Brisbane. Delegations from the winning Queensland schools will travel to Brisbane to be part of Curiocity Brisbane and enjoy a special behind-the-scenes tour of World Science Festival Brisbane. Read more about each of the six school Curiocities on pages 12–14. They are open to the public from 8am to 8pm, 12–28 March at the Cultural Precinct.

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Polyethylene Reef Hope

Creators Creators Trinity Bay State High School, Ferny Grove State High School, Cairns Brisbane

Polyethylene Reef is an interactive Hope is a mechanical hand sent sculptural work created from recycled down by Mother Nature to inspire plastic drink bottles intercepted from hope in humanity through simple, the school waste stream. We invite recognisable hand gestures. you to interact with the reef while You are invited to take a photo of contemplating the sheer volume of yourself with Hope and share it on plastic waste disposed of each day. social media. Location Location Cultural Precinct Cultural Precinct

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The Dancing What if we Water Fountains worked together?

Creators Creators Isis District State High School, Leichhardt State School, Childers Ipswich

The Dancing Water Fountains is an You are invited to enter the Gunya interactive work that explores the and explore how Australia would be choreographed and synchronised different in terms of sustainability movement of water to pitch, and conservation if the European frequency and rhythm through Settlers had embraced the local various music tracks. knowledge and worked together with our First Nations peoples. Location Cultural Precinct Location Cultural Precinct

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The 3 Towers Curiocity Blooms

Creators Creators Payne Road State School, Dalby South State School, The Gap Dalby

Inspired by the towers atop Curiocity Blooms appears from a Mount Coot-tha, The 3 Towers is distance as a circular flower garden, a celebration of light, sound, and however as you get closer the motion. You are invited to explore the garden is in fact an innovative and interactivity of each of these towers. interactive design of renewable power sources. Location Cultural Precinct Location Cultural Precinct

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Let your imagination roam free! World Premiere

Maiwar AR

Maiwar AR is a virtual heritage learn about places where they lived, and animated cultural tour of first worked and played. contact Brisbane. Maiwar AR is a unique virtual Be immersed, via your smartphone experience that will inform or Wi-Fi enabled tablet, within the and entertain users, while authentic historical past and be embedding cultural perspectives transported back through time to a of a day‑in‑the‑life of the original Brisbane (Maiwar) one day prior to custodians of Brisbane. European Settlement. Creator As you casually walk through the Bilbie Labs precincts within Curiocity Brisbane, using Maiwar AR you’ll trigger virtual Location geospatial scenes that will give City Botanic Gardens, you a deeper understanding of the Goodwill Bridge, South Bank, connection of First Nations people to Cultural Precinct, CBD specific areas within the landscape of the four precincts and you’ll Country Brisbane QLD, Australia IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

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Evanescent

Evanescent: meaning fleeting, soon with differing wavelengths. These passing out of sight, from memory or properties give the dichroic film its existence. An example of evanescent unique aesthetic effects, mimicking is the way a mirage disappears. those of the bubble. Evanescent is an artwork driven by Creators the forces and natural occurrences Chimera Atelier and within the changing world around us. Pineapple Design Studio The use of dichroic film creates the illusion of the bubble-like form. The Location original meaning of dichroic, from City Botanic Gardens the Greek dikhroos, two-coloured, refers to an optical device, which can Country split a beam of light into two beams NSW, Australia

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Virtual Footprints

Virtual Footprints is a location-based, invasive species will increase a augmented reality game that allows player’s carbon footprint and the players to virtually plant, grow and garden will suffer; make positive, nurture flora in the City Botanic mindful choices to lower the carbon Gardens in Brisbane. The intention footprint score and the garden is to playfully educate players about will thrive. native flora and fauna, ultimately to emphasise the importance of caring Creator for the environment. OrCha How players engage or interact Location with the virtual plants and seeds City Botanic Gardens will impact the overall health of the environment. Making Country harmful choices, like introducing VIC, Australia

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Enchanted Tropics

Enchanted Tropics is an unblinking possums watch from their augmented reality installation hidey‑holes and hanging bats wait inspired by Queensland’s own flora patiently before erupting into flight! and fauna. Visitors can point their The enchanted forest sets the stage smart devices at large cut-out trees for a talented cast of Queensland’s and watch them come to life with finest wildlife! animated bugs, animals, blossoming flowers and falling leaves. Each Creators animation will be accompanied by a EyeJack and magical soundscape. Think Fantasia Helena Papageorgiou by the Brisbane River but instead of Mickey Mouse, we have a cheeky Location gecko orchestrating the fun! City Botanic Gardens Glowing butterflies, dragonflies Country and hummingbirds will flutter Brisbane QLD, Australia among the trees, while stunned

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Pocket Cosmos

Pocket Cosmos is a giant vertical found in nature to give audiences a kaleidoscope – a mirror prism tactile and immersive experience. which transforms the surrounding environment into a firmament of Creators light, colour and movement. Inspired Cave Urban, Laura Jade and by humanity’s predisposition for Leslie Marsh pattern recognition, the installation Location draws on the science of optics and City Botanic Gardens light to explore the phenomenon of symmetry. The physical structure Country plays upon the geometrical patterns NSW, Australia

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Trace, Touch, Feel The Brisbane River

Experience the curious and and geospatial data, with bird’s‑eye unexpected sensation of ultrasonic and on-the-ground viewpoints pressure against your hands as you enticing visitors to explore how soar like a bird on an immersive Brisbane is moulded by its riparian geo‑tour of Brisbane River from environment. Moreton Bay to Wivenhoe Dam. Glide past graceful bridges linking Creators the city, cliff to cliff, or touchdown StarSapphire Productions and along Brisbane shorelines to enjoy VISER the shapes, sounds, and forms of the Location city’s unique interplay of geology, The Cube, QUT Gardens Point wildlife, and human activity. Hosted at The Cube, QUT’s world-class Country multi-screen venue, this ‘haptic’ Brisbane QLD, Australia journey uses rich satellite imagery

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Future Cities for Future People

People are at the core of cities, thinking differently about the space transforming streets into markets, around you. Create a city, experience parks into parties and bringing augmented reality and hear your architecture to life through shared urban soundtrack. experience. As urban populations What will your city look and grow, community engagement is as sound like? important as ever. Future Cities for Future People gives you the tools Creator to learn about and create your own Michael Hunter urban space through augmented reality and music. Location QUT Gardens Point This exhibit aims to demonstrate simple engineering and urban Country planning concepts and have you Brisbane QLD, Australia

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The Party Button

Come party with The Party Button, Goodwill Bridge. Get some friends an interactive artwork inspired by together and coordinate pressing crosswalk traffic interfaces, made up the button at the same time for a of ‘walk’ and ‘stop’ traffic lights and a special surprise! traffic light button. Creators When the button is pressed, the Stephanie Piper and standard crosswalk ‘slow beep/fast Joseph Burgess beep’ combo is played, transitioning into one of 20 party tracks. The Location lights switch on, showing the traffic Goodwill Bridge light characters dancing in a rainbow of LED colours. Two Party Buttons Country will be on display at either end of the Toowoomba QLD, Australia

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The Residents

Working alongside Queensland By day, the strange river residents Museum’s award-winning can be seen through the underwater palaeontology staff, celebrated surveillance cameras on the Goodwill visual artist Craig Walsh has created Bridge or lucky viewers can catch stylised, high-definition projections of them playing in the water as they prehistoric creatures known to have come closer to the surface at night. inhabited the Brisbane River (Maiwar) millions of years ago! Creator Craig Walsh Queensland Museum palaeontologists likened the descriptions to Pliosaurs, Location which lived in Australian waters more Goodwill Bridge than 100 million years ago. Country NSW, Australia

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James The Rat King

James The Rat King is an immersive View snippets of the animated film multimedia experience narrating and learn more about our plague the story of the Bubonic Plague in history by scanning 12 QR codes Brisbane between 1900 and 1907. spread along “The Rat Route” from This epidemic caused widespread fear, the Maritime Museum to the State panic and hasty health responses. Library of Queensland. James The Rat King presents an Creator overview, in a fairy-tale setting, of Dr Nicola Hooper and this much-feared disease. It offers a Dr Zeynep Akcay scientific and historical perspective and comparison to our current Location circumstances of living through South Bank, Cultural Precinct a pandemic. Country Brisbane QLD, Australia

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Platonic Volumes and Cosmologies

Platonic Volumes and Cosmologies (truncations) in colour and their is a large-scale lattice structure projected transparent links; the of inscribed platonic volumes centre is a dodecahedron (in red), illustrating a tipping point in scientific then an icosahedron (in orange), thinking derived from Kepler’s then a truncated icosahedron theories on cosmology. (in teal). The pavilion is entirely parametric Creator and 3D-printed from recycled Bits to Atoms plastic. It reinforces the seamless link between design, structural analysis Location and fabrication technologies. South Bank The geodesic volumes are the result Country of the addition of three consecutive stages of geometric transformation Lebanon

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Microbiota is a magnification and You are encouraged to climb and representational depiction of the explore this artwork, while learning micro-organisms that live in and about the significant role microbiota around us. play in our lives. Microbiota are ecological communities Created from repurposed slide of commensal, symbiotic and sections the materials will be pathogenic micro-organisms found 100% recycled at the end of the in and on all multicellular organisms artwork’s lifespan. from plants to animals and of course humans. Trillions of microbes are Creator living in and on your body right now. Clayton Blake Most don’t harm you at all. In fact, they Location help you digest food, protect against South Bank infection and even maintain your reproductive health. Country Brisbane QLD, Australia

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Floating Nature

An overhead floating landscape The altering vivid colour shadows of Queensland Northern Banksias produced will paint the landscape (also called Jingana), creates and the audience below. an ever‑changing and vivid colour landscape. Creator Skunk Control Colours alter throughout the day. Light interacts with the Banksia Location leaves as they reflect, diffract and South Bank transmit light, day and night. The leaves are arranged as in nature Country (Fibonacci arrangement) so as to VIC, Australia maximise their contact with sunlight.

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Wave Machine

The hypnotising rhythms of the speed are easily observed through Wave Machine demonstrate cause this energetic installation that and effect, with movement of represents the invisible forces that the connecting rods at one end move through air and fluids. generating energy and creating a wave. Create unique patterns or Creator take turns copying the wave pattern XYZ Dimensions sent from the opposite end of Location the machine. South Bank The relationship between wavelength, frequency and wave Country NSW, Australia

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Vortibles

Feel a sense of wonder and magic and movement of the structure itself, when you walk under this enchanting, as well as movement of visitors, all suspended 3D world of crocheted processed by computer and amplified. vortex nets up to six metres high and more than three metres wide. Creators Victoria Lees, Rodney Berry This intriguing web of discovery and Paul Hill is made from white acrylic wool. It enchants by day and lights up at Location night to create intriguing shadows South Bank and shapes. Hourglass forms evoke movement in time and space. Sound Country is generated from subtle vibration Townsville QLD, Australia

36 Colour Me Beautiful

Featuring five colourful runways Creator leading to a vivid portrait landscape Tine Bech Studio on a large LED screen, Colour Me Beautiful invites you to play and Location interact. Images are live posted South Bank onto a large screen – colouring Country you beautiful. United Kingdom This large-scale physical and digital installation invites people of all ages to walk the runway, strike a pose and be captured in a bright maze of colour.

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Chatterbox

Chatterbox allows us to interact and produce audiovisual behaviours. communicate, even in times when Drawing on a century‑long tradition social distancing is encouraged. of interactive sonic devices, starting Chatterbox is an interactive with the Theremin and Russolo audio‑visual installation that allows noise machines, Chatterbox the public to ‘play’ a bespoke reimagines these gestural-mechanical sculptural instrument by approaching experiences as public art for a new and moving their bodies near the century using digital electronics and human-sized sculptural form. The renewable power. Chatterbox sound world consists of Creators abstract speech-like utterances that Andrew R Brown, Daniel Della‑Bosca, vary from ‘calls’ to ‘whispers’ according John Ferguson, David Harris, to the participant’s distance from Timothy Tate and Jason Nelson the instrument. Electronically controlled illumination Location acts in concert with the sounds to South Bank

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The Immersive Guitar

Are you ready to be blown away by Creators the world’s largest acoustic guitar? Queensland Bruce Wolfe Step into The Immersive Guitar Conservatorium Architect and see how an instrument looks Research Centre Dr Hassan from the inside. Play the walls and Vanessa Tomlinson Karampour the strings and feel the music this Co-Project Leader Engineer oversized immersive guitar creates. Karin Schaupp Jim Redgate The Immersive Guitar is an Co-Project Leader Luthier instrument, a meeting place and a space for contemplation and Location conversation. Be inspired as you South Bank explore this unique blend of Country design, engineering, acoustics Brisbane QLD, Australia and sustainability.

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Ēngines of Ēternity: Galíng

Galíng: Filipino word meaning to heal, In Ēngines of Ēternity: Galíng, you are to improve. invited to look through the cylinders Meet the rotifer—a microscopic aquatic and interact with the Rotifera animal with superpowers! visualisations to experience this remarkable process. Your voice acts Rotifer DNA disintegrates when as sonic DNA material to help the their environment dries up. But rotifers heal and evolve. Help restore once water becomes available, they the rotifers by talking to them—but undergo a DNA restoration process not too loudly! that, astonishingly, also integrates foreign genetic material from their Creators surroundings. This drives their SEADS (Space Ecologies evolution and continued survival. Art and Design) Philippines: Diego Maranan, Franchesca Casauay, Juancho Moreno, Pieter Steyaert SPONSORED BY Location South Bank Country Philippines

40 Photosynthesis Ballet: Florescentia

Florescentia, from the Latin word We invite you to move around meaning ‘blossoming’, is inspired and below the six moving forms by the phenomenal natural to experience the full beauty of transformations found in the natural this installation. biology of plant life. The blended hues of colour create gradients Creators through the dancing form, with Pineapple Designs and partnering colours representing the Chimera Atelier life cycle of the blossoming form. Location This installation incorporates both Cultural Precinct movement, sound and light, exploring the ephemerality of life in an ever Country and rapidly changing state. NSW, Australia

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The Living Lantern

The Living Lantern is constantly how we are capable of adapting evolving based on the interaction to change and the importance of between wind and light. It has a working together when we face dynamic, wind responsive outer new situations. membrane that opens and closes to filter the light from its core. Creators NEON and Lanterns symbolise the inner Frankie Boyle Studio light that guides the soul through periods of darkness with the Location promise of a new day. In light of the Cultural Precinct devastating effects of Coronavirus, this installation illustrates the Country responsiveness of humankind and United Kingdom

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The Magic of Mycelium

The Magic of Mycelium is an This Curiocity draws parallels with interactive experience that makes our connectivity as a community use of light, sound and augmented and engages through sensor-based reality to highlight the generally interaction, while highlighting the unseen role of mycelium – complex work of female mycologists. tubular threads of fungus or fungus‑like bacterial cells that Creator spread underground. Elektrolab Described as nature’s information Location super highway, these intricate Cultural Precinct structures play a special role in breaking down harmful toxins Country in the environment and turning Brisbane QLD, Australia them into usable nutrients for a healthier ecosystem.

43 STORM

STORM (Stochastic Translator of STORM explores some of these in Resonant Morphology) is an immersive a realtime interactive audio visual interactive installation designed installation whose behaviour is and themed around concepts of the intrinsically non-deterministic human transition forward from its (stochastic). Using these combined current biological form, with attention mathematical and scientific visual to some of the processes engaged and sonic generation principles, body and questions raised around these sensing by a webcam generates possibilities. The original idea derives and moderates a highly resolute, from Australian sci-fi writer Greg complex and dynamic visual display Egan’s 1994 book Permutation City and soundscape. that explores many concepts, including quantum ontology, through various Creator philosophical aspects of artificial life Tim Gruchy and simulated reality. Location Cultural Precinct

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Now You See Me

Have you ever wondered about what Persuade your friends to dance you can’t see with your eyes? and play in front of the lenses to Now You See Me is a giant pair of see their bodies morph and mutate binoculars offering an alternative in unexpected ways. The more perspective of the world in front movement that happens in front of of you. the lenses, the wilder the visuals. These are no ordinary binoculars Creator – when you peer through the giant Anagram lenses, the world looks beautifully distorted. Rainbows spiral, faces Location are replicated and molecular Cultural Precinct textures pulse. Country United Kingdom

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8-Bit Brisbane

Lurking around the CBD is 8-Bit There are five games to explore. See Brisbane, a collection of pop-up, if you can find them all.Hint – one of retro-styled mini games that open them can be found on a CityCat! instantly on your smartphone by scanning a QR code. Creator Lightweave The games are simple, fun and celebrate a uniquely Brisbane Location experience. Shoo away the bin CBD chicken or navigate the burning hot pavements of our fine city with Country bare feet. Brisbane QLD, Australia

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Artificial Ecology

Artificial Ecology is a digital ecosystem Artificial Ecology encourages comprising movable 3D augmented visitors to work collaboratively to reality organisms. By tapping and create different configurations of dragging on device screens, users organisms, discovering how the can move the organisms toward organisms react to one another each other and their close proximity and what configuration makes will trigger various events; changing the ecosystem thrive. colours, pulsing, deforming and emitting ambient sounds. Some Creator organisms will emit light and their EyeJack light will thrust other organisms into Location animation. Another organism will emit CBD particles of water which will trigger others to grow and transform. Country NSW, Australia

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Bees Being

Did you know that bees are the various behaviours of bees responsible for two-thirds of our against a backdrop of poppies, food production by way of being chrysanthemums and clouds principle pollinators? featured in the stencilled design. Bees Being adds an interactive This is an interactive experience you element to an existing public can view through your mobile device. artwork, titled ‘Across the Oceans Creator their Fragrances Intermingled’, Pamela See located on the glass ceiling in the Albert Lane building. Location Bees Being applies augmented CBD reality technology to the Country existing artwork, animating Brisbane QLD, Australia

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Shoal

A school of blue-green chromis fish Shoal is a mesmerising installation have taken up residence in the heart inspired by pressing issues of of the city. But the coral outcrop climate change and our irreplaceable on which they depend has been relationship with the natural world bleached by warming waters. around us. Apparently at ease in their new Creator home, the fish swim lazily through Dead Puppet Society imaginary currents in the air. That is, until they catch sight of a passerby. Location Through integrated robotics and Queen Street Mall proximity sensors, these delightful Country little creatures focus their attention and consider us with curiosity. Brisbane QLD, Australia

49 Brisbane City Council Outdoor Gallery: Sunny Side Up

Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery transforms Brisbane’s laneways and city streets into imaginative, curious and engaging spaces. Comprising light boxes, banners, vitrines and evening projections, the Outdoor Gallery displays art outside in city streets, instead of inside on gallery walls. Recently, the Outdoor Gallery has grown to now include art projections at Howard Smith Wharves. Share your experience of the Outdoor Gallery exhibitions and public programs using #BNEPublicArt and #curiocitybrisbane. For all Brisbane City Council Outdoor Gallery events during Curiocity Brisbane and further program details and bookings please visit: www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/things- to-see-and-do/experiences-and- culture/public-art-in-brisbane/ outdoor-gallery

Image top: Jordan Azcune’s artwork, Surrender (White Caps), 2020 featured in the Giffin Lane Banner as part of Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery exhibition Sunny Side Up. Image middle: Alex Holt and Sarah Thomson. Image bottom: Amelia Hine at Howard Smith Wharves. Exhibition: Curator’s walking Sunny Side Up tour with artist Charlie Hillhouse Now until 18 April 2021 24/7 Friday 12 March 2021 No bookings required 4.30pm – 5.30pm Outdoor Gallery and Bookings required. Augmented Reality Outdoor Gallery Until 18 April 2021, experience Join us for a curator’s walking Council’s Outdoor Gallery Sunny tour throughout the Outdoor Side Up exhibition curated by Gallery with co-curator and artist Sarah Thomson and Alex Holt, Charlie Hillhouse. including a number of talks, tours and engagements. Sunny Side Up is a collection of Curator’s walking vibrant artworks by emerging tour with artist Brisbane-based contemporary artists that explore Brisbane’s subtropical Amelia Hine identity, unique physical features, and cultural atmosphere. The Friday 26 March 2021 exhibition brings to the fore the 4.30pm – 5.30pm optimism, abundance and playful Bookings required. spirit of the Sunshine State. Outdoor Gallery Scan the QR Code below to Join us for a curator’s walking tour experience these artworks throughout the Outdoor Gallery with through your phone. co-curator and artist Amelia Hine. eyejack.link/sunny-side-up

This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Program Calendar

Page PrecinctCultural Botanic City Gardens BankSouth CBD QUT Gardens Point Goodwill Bridge QAGOMA Queensland Museum CityCat Time Date 02 World Science Festival Brisbane ● ● worldsciencefestival.com.au 24–28 Mar 04 Curious Conversations ● ● ● See p4–5 13, 16, 20, 25, 27 Mar 12 Polyethylene Reef ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 12 Hope ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 13 The Dancing Water Fountains ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 13 What if we worked together? ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 14 The 3 Towers ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 14 Curiocity Blooms ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 16 Maiwar AR ● ● ● ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 17 Evanescent ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 18 Virtual Footprints ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 19 Enchanted Tropics ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 20 Pocket Cosmos ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 21 Trace, Touch, Feel The Brisbane River ● 10am–4pm 12-28 Mar 22 Future Cities for Future People ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 23 The Party Button ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 24 The Motorcycle Up Late ● 6pm–10.30pm 19 & 20 Mar 30 The Residents ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 31 James The Rat King ● ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 32 Platonic Volumes and Cosmologies ● ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 33 Microbiota ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 34 Floating Nature ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 35 Wave Machine ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 36 Vortibles ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 37 Colour Me Beautiful ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 38 Chatterbox ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 39 The Immersive Guitar ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 40 Ēngines of Ēternity: Galíng ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 41 Photosynthesis Ballet: Florescentia ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 42 The Living Lantern ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 43 The Magic of Mycelium ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 44 STORM ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 45 Now You See Me ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 46 8-Bit Brisbane ● ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 47 Artificial Ecology ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 48 Bees Being ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 49 Shoal ● 8am–8pm 12-28 Mar 50 Outdoor Gallery: Sunny Side Up ● 24/7 Until 18 Apr

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