17 Days Celebrating Science, Art & Tech

17 days celebrating science, art & tech

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curiocitybrisbane.com 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, 12—28 March 2021 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 Acknowledgement of Country I encourage you to embrace your extension of it outside of New York, and the Gallery of Modern Art’s The Curiocity Brisbane acknowledges the Traditional curiosity by exploring this fantastic Motorcycle Up Late program. Custodians of the lands on which we live, work, create event and our state capital’s perfect and congregate. We pay our respects to Elders past, mix of arts, culture, dining, stunning Enjoy exploring your Curiocity present and emerging, and recognise the continuing natural assets and laidback lifestyle. in Brisbane. connection to lands, waters and communities. AIRLIE BEACH RACE WEEK FESTIVAL OF SAILING, THE WHITSUNDAYS, 12 - 19 AUGUST 2021 Welcome

Welcome to Curiocity Brisbane 2021, QUEENSLAND 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 IS HOME TO 60 Curiocities that can be explored across four precincts. We also feature unique installations from Queensland school students, selected from a state-wide expression WORLD-CLASS 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 EVENTS 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 Majestic C.1929 / © Haas Moto Galleries LLC / Photography: and media partner Nine Queensland. Grant Schwingle Curiocity Brisbane reflects our place as a global hub Brisbane Brisbane Sunshine Coast for science, technology, innovation and the arts. More The Motorcycle: NRL Magic Round Big Pineapple importantly, it’s an open invitation to explore and play Design, Art, Desire 14 - 16 May 2021 Music Festival in this great city. Enjoy! Closing 26 April 22 May 2021 2021 Theresa Famularo Executive Producer Curiocity Brisbane 2021

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01 World Science Festival March 24–28 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 Explore the biggest Brisbane can be viewed from the Goodwill Bridge. And in 2021, our program will offer a range of events and questions in science at digital experiences that celebrate human curiosity. World Science Festival Brisbane 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

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.

04 Robles. Francisco Daniel Photographer: 05 Recycling, Science, An Engineer and a Guitarist Exploring the How can cross- Design – Repeat walk into a bar… Hyperconnected collaborations shape the Underworld ‘STEAM’ conversation? When waste looks sexy! Benjamin Law in conversation with Benjamin Law in conversation with Vanessa Tomlinson, Dr Hassan Benjamin Law in conversation with Benjamin Law in conversation with Guillaume Crédoz & Guest Karampour & Karin Schaupp Tara Pattenden, Steve Axford & David Morton & Guest Catherine Marciniak Tuesday 16 March Saturday 20 March Saturday 27 March 10.30am to 11.30am 10.30am to 11.30am Thursday 25 March 10.30am to 11.30am Flowstate, South Bank Flowstate, South Bank 7.00pm to 8.00pm Hilton Hotel, Wintergarden Nucleus, World Science Festival What happens when an engineer and Dead Puppet Society (DPS) is one We are all well-versed in the 3 Rs Brisbane, Cultural Precinct (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). But what a guitarist walk into a bar? They have of Queensland’s most innovative would it look like to recycle and a conversation and decide to embark Beatrix Potter’s sketches of mycelium theatre companies. In 2020 as the create new things from your home, on building the world’s largest over 100 years ago were considered pandemic shut down all touring studio or garage? What if it could be acoustic guitar, of course. irrelevant, however, today those same and theatrical performances, the your new business? Well, that may not be the full story. sketches are regarded as significant. company took a pause to think about its future. Join us for a creative conversation The idea, the maths, the timber, Mycelium is vital to our soils, breaking (that isn’t recycled!) as we travel the sound… these are all part of an down organic material for reuse. The result of that pause has enabled from the heart of Beirut to Brisbane important journey and process. They are also a vital communication DPS to expand its repertoire. through science, design and invention. Delve into this story and hear and nutrient network supporting Key to this has been choosing to 92 per cent of Earth’s flora. cross‑collaborate with other skillsets Image: Guillaume Crédoz. first‑hand why the coming together of creative and mathematical minds Explore this hyperconnected within the world of STEM. equates to harmonious beauty. underworld of mycelium through the DPS have the ‘A’, but who are they Images L–R: Karin Schaupp (photographer eyes and lens of artists and naturalists collaborating with from the STEM Cybele Malinowski), Vanessa Tomlinson. 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 Register for your FREE ticket at curiocitybrisbane.com

06 07 Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane has never looked so curious!

Blank Canvas Curiocity Brisbane has created a 17 days 6.5-kilometre circuit connecting the NEW INSPIRATION 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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DISCOVER | PLAN | EXPERIENCE visitbrisbane.com.au 09 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 The Dancing What if we Water Fountains worked together? Creators Creators Trinity Bay State High School, Ferny Grove State High School, Creators Creators Cairns Brisbane Isis District State High School, Leichhardt State School, Polyethylene Reef is an interactive Hope is a mechanical hand sent Childers Ipswich sculptural work created from recycled down by Mother Nature to inspire plastic drink bottles intercepted from hope in humanity through simple, The Dancing Water Fountains is an You are invited to enter the Gunya the school waste stream. We invite recognisable hand gestures. interactive work that explores the and explore how Australia would be you to interact with the reef while choreographed and synchronised different in terms of sustainability You are invited to take a photo of movement of water to pitch, and conservation if the European contemplating the sheer volume of yourself with Hope and share it on plastic waste disposed of each day. frequency and rhythm through Settlers had embraced the local social media. various music tracks. knowledge and worked together with Location our First Nations peoples. Location Location Cultural Precinct Cultural Precinct 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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Maiwar AR Evanescent

Maiwar AR is a virtual heritage learn about places where they lived, Evanescent: meaning fleeting, soon with differing wavelengths. These and animated cultural tour of first worked and played. passing out of sight, from memory or properties give the dichroic film its contact Brisbane. Maiwar AR is a unique virtual existence. An example of evanescent unique aesthetic effects, mimicking Be immersed, via your smartphone experience that will inform is the way a mirage disappears. those of the bubble. or Wi-Fi enabled tablet, within the and entertain users, while Evanescent is an artwork driven by Creators authentic historical past and be embedding cultural perspectives the forces and natural occurrences Chimera Atelier and transported back through time to a of a day‑in‑the‑life of the original within the changing world around us. Pineapple Design Studio Brisbane (Maiwar) one day prior to custodians of Brisbane. The use of dichroic film creates the European Settlement. illusion of the bubble-like form. The Location Creator As you casually walk through the original meaning of dichroic, from City Botanic Gardens Bilbie Labs precincts within Curiocity Brisbane, the Greek dikhroos, two-coloured, Country using Maiwar AR you’ll trigger virtual Location refers to an optical device, which can split a beam of light into two beams NSW, Australia 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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Virtual Footprints Enchanted Tropics

Virtual Footprints is a location-based, invasive species will increase a Enchanted Tropics is an unblinking possums watch from their augmented reality game that allows player’s carbon footprint and the augmented reality installation hidey‑holes and hanging bats wait players to virtually plant, grow and garden will suffer; make positive, inspired by Queensland’s own flora patiently before erupting into flight! nurture flora in the City Botanic mindful choices to lower the carbon and fauna. Visitors can point their The enchanted forest sets the stage Gardens in Brisbane. The intention footprint score and the garden smart devices at large cut-out trees for a talented cast of Queensland’s is to playfully educate players about will thrive. and watch them come to life with finest wildlife! native flora and fauna, ultimately to animated bugs, animals, blossoming emphasise the importance of caring Creator flowers and falling leaves. Each Creators for the environment. OrCha animation will be accompanied by a EyeJack and How players engage or interact Location magical soundscape. Think Fantasia Helena Papageorgiou by the Brisbane River but instead with the virtual plants and seeds City Botanic Gardens Location will impact the overall health of Mickey Mouse, we have a cheeky City Botanic Gardens of the environment. Making Country gecko orchestrating the fun! harmful choices, like introducing VIC, Australia Glowing butterflies, dragonflies Country and hummingbirds will flutter Brisbane QLD, Australia among the trees, while stunned

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Trace, Touch, Feel Pocket Cosmos The Brisbane River

Pocket Cosmos is a giant vertical found in nature to give audiences a Experience the curious and and geospatial data, with bird’s‑eye kaleidoscope – a mirror prism tactile and immersive experience. unexpected sensation of ultrasonic and on-the-ground viewpoints which transforms the surrounding pressure against your hands as you enticing visitors to explore how environment into a firmament of Creators soar like a bird on an immersive Brisbane is moulded by its riparian light, colour and movement. Inspired Cave Urban, Laura Jade and geo‑tour of Brisbane River from environment. by humanity’s predisposition for Leslie Marsh Moreton Bay to Wivenhoe Dam. Creators pattern recognition, the installation Location Glide past graceful bridges linking draws on the science of optics and the city, cliff to cliff, or touchdown StarSapphire Productions and City Botanic Gardens light to explore the phenomenon of along Brisbane shorelines to enjoy VISER symmetry. The physical structure Country the shapes, sounds, and forms of the Location plays upon the geometrical patterns city’s unique interplay of geology, NSW, Australia 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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The Residents James The Rat King

Working alongside Queensland By day, the strange river residents James The Rat King is an immersive View snippets of the animated film Museum’s award-winning can be seen through the underwater multimedia experience narrating and learn more about our plague palaeontology staff, celebrated surveillance cameras on the Goodwill the story of the Bubonic Plague in history by scanning 12 QR codes visual artist Craig Walsh has created Bridge or lucky viewers can catch Brisbane between 1900 and 1907. spread along “The Rat Route” from stylised, high-definition projections of them playing in the water as they This epidemic caused widespread fear, the Maritime Museum to the State prehistoric creatures known to have come closer to the surface at night. panic and hasty health responses. Library of Queensland. inhabited the Brisbane River (Maiwar) Creator James The Rat King presents an Creator millions of years ago! overview, in a fairy-tale setting, of Craig Walsh Dr Nicola Hooper and Queensland Museum palaeontologists this much-feared disease. It offers a Dr Zeynep Akcay likened the descriptions to Pliosaurs, Location scientific and historical perspective which lived in Australian waters more Goodwill Bridge and comparison to our current Location than 100 million years ago. circumstances of living through South Bank, Cultural Precinct Country a pandemic. NSW, Australia Country Brisbane QLD, Australia

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Platonic Volumes and Cosmologies Microbiota

Platonic Volumes and Cosmologies (truncations) in colour and their Microbiota is a magnification and You are encouraged to climb and is a large-scale lattice structure projected transparent links; the representational depiction of the explore this artwork, while learning of inscribed platonic volumes centre is a dodecahedron (in red), micro-organisms that live in and about the significant role microbiota illustrating a tipping point in scientific then an icosahedron (in orange), around us. play in our lives. thinking derived from Kepler’s then a truncated icosahedron Microbiota are ecological communities Created from repurposed slide theories on cosmology. (in teal). of commensal, symbiotic and sections the materials will be The pavilion is entirely parametric Creator pathogenic micro-organisms found 100% recycled at the end of the and 3D-printed from recycled in and on all multicellular organisms artwork’s lifespan. Bits to Atoms plastic. It reinforces the seamless link from plants to animals and of course Creator between design, structural analysis Location humans. Trillions of microbes are Clayton Blake and fabrication technologies. South Bank living in and on your body right now. The geodesic volumes are the result Most don’t harm you at all. In fact, they Location Country help you digest food, protect against of the addition of three consecutive South Bank stages of geometric transformation Lebanon infection and even maintain your reproductive health. Country Brisbane QLD, Australia

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Floating Nature Wave Machine

An overhead floating landscape The altering vivid colour shadows The hypnotising rhythms of the speed are easily observed through of Queensland Northern Banksias produced will paint the landscape Wave Machine demonstrate cause this energetic installation that (also called Jingana), creates and the audience below. and effect, with movement of represents the invisible forces that an ever‑changing and vivid the connecting rods at one end move through air and fluids. colour landscape. Creator generating energy and creating a Skunk Control Creator Colours alter throughout the day. wave. Create unique patterns or XYZ Dimensions Light interacts with the Banksia Location take turns copying the wave pattern sent from the opposite end of leaves as they reflect, diffract and South Bank Location the machine. transmit light, day and night. The South Bank leaves are arranged as in nature Country The relationship between (Fibonacci arrangement) so as to VIC, Australia wavelength, frequency and wave Country maximise their contact with sunlight. NSW, Australia

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Vortibles Colour Me Beautiful

Feel a sense of wonder and magic and movement of the structure itself, Featuring five colourful runways Creator when you walk under this enchanting, as well as movement of visitors, all leading to a vivid portrait landscape Tine Bech Studio suspended 3D world of crocheted processed by computer and amplified. on a large LED screen, Colour Me vortex nets up to six metres high and Beautiful invites you to play and Location more than three metres wide. Creators interact. Images are live posted South Bank Victoria Lees, Rodney Berry onto a large screen – colouring This intriguing web of discovery Country and Paul Hill you beautiful. is made from white acrylic wool. United Kingdom It enchants by day and lights up at Location This large-scale physical and digital night to create intriguing shadows South Bank installation invites people of all ages and shapes. Hourglass forms evoke to walk the runway, strike a pose movement in time and space. Sound Country and be captured in a bright maze is generated from subtle vibration Townsville QLD, Australia of colour.

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Chatterbox The Immersive Guitar

Chatterbox allows us to interact and produce audiovisual behaviours. Are you ready to be blown away by Creators communicate, even in times when Drawing on a century‑long tradition the world’s largest acoustic guitar? Queensland Bruce Wolfe social distancing is encouraged. of interactive sonic devices, starting Step into The Immersive Guitar Conservatorium Architect Chatterbox is an interactive with the Theremin and Russolo and see how an instrument looks Research Centre Dr Hassan audio‑visual installation that allows noise machines, Chatterbox from the inside. Play the walls and Vanessa Tomlinson Karampour the public to ‘play’ a bespoke reimagines these gestural-mechanical the strings and feel the music this Co-Project Leader Engineer experiences as public art for a new sculptural instrument by approaching oversized immersive guitar creates. Karin Schaupp Jim Redgate and moving their bodies near the century using digital electronics and renewable power. The Immersive Guitar is an Co-Project Leader Luthier human-sized sculptural form. The instrument, a meeting place and Chatterbox sound world consists of Creators a space for contemplation and Location abstract speech-like utterances that Andrew R Brown, Daniel Della‑Bosca, conversation. Be inspired as you South Bank vary from ‘calls’ to ‘whispers’ according John Ferguson, David Harris, explore this unique blend of Country to the participant’s distance from design, engineering, acoustics Timothy Tate and Jason Nelson Brisbane QLD, Australia the instrument. and sustainability. Electronically controlled illumination Location acts in concert with the sounds to South Bank

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Ēngines of Ēternity: Galíng Photosynthesis Ballet: Florescentia

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 Florescentia, from the Latin word We invite you to move around animal with superpowers! visualisations to experience this meaning ‘blossoming’, is inspired and below the six moving forms remarkable process. Your voice acts by the phenomenal natural to experience the full beauty of Rotifer DNA disintegrates when as sonic DNA material to help the their environment dries up. But transformations found in the natural this installation. rotifers heal and evolve. Help restore biology of plant life. The blended once water becomes available, they the rotifers by talking to them—but Creators undergo a DNA restoration process hues of colour create gradients not too loudly! Pineapple Designs and that, astonishingly, also integrates through the dancing form, with Chimera Atelier foreign genetic material from their Creators partnering colours representing the life cycle of the blossoming form. surroundings. This drives their SEADS (Space Ecologies Location evolution and continued survival. Art and Design) This installation incorporates both Cultural Precinct movement, sound and light, exploring Philippines: Diego Maranan, the ephemerality of life in an ever Country Franchesca Casauay, Juancho Moreno, and rapidly changing state. NSW, Australia Pieter Steyaert SPONSORED BY Location South Bank Country Philippines

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The Living Lantern The Magic of Mycelium

The Living Lantern is constantly how we are capable of adapting The Magic of Mycelium is an This Curiocity draws parallels with evolving based on the interaction to change and the importance of interactive experience that makes our connectivity as a community between wind and light. It has a working together when we face use of light, sound and augmented and engages through sensor-based dynamic, wind responsive outer new situations. reality to highlight the generally interaction, while highlighting the membrane that opens and closes to unseen role of mycelium – complex work of female mycologists. filter the light from its core. Creators tubular threads of fungus or NEON and Creator Lanterns symbolise the inner fungus‑like bacterial cells that Frankie Boyle Studio Elektrolab light that guides the soul through spread underground. periods of darkness with the Location Described as nature’s information Location promise of a new day. In light of the Cultural Precinct super highway, these intricate Cultural Precinct devastating effects of Coronavirus, structures play a special role in this installation illustrates the Country breaking down harmful toxins Country responsiveness of humankind and United Kingdom in the environment and turning Brisbane QLD, Australia them into usable nutrients for a healthier ecosystem.

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STORM Now You See Me

STORM (Stochastic Translator of STORM explores some of these in Have you ever wondered about what Persuade your friends to dance Resonant Morphology) is an immersive a realtime interactive audio visual you can’t see with your eyes? and play in front of the lenses to interactive installation designed installation whose behaviour is Now You See Me is a giant pair of see their bodies morph and mutate and themed around concepts of the intrinsically non-deterministic binoculars offering an alternative in unexpected ways. The more human transition forward from its (stochastic). Using these combined perspective of the world in front movement that happens in front of current biological form, with attention mathematical and scientific visual of you. the lenses, the wilder the visuals. to some of the processes engaged and sonic generation principles, body and questions raised around these sensing by a webcam generates These are no ordinary binoculars Creator possibilities. The original idea derives and moderates a highly resolute, – when you peer through the giant Anagram lenses, the world looks beautifully from Australian sci-fi writer Greg complex and dynamic visual display Location Egan’s 1994 book Permutation City and soundscape. distorted. Rainbows spiral, faces Cultural Precinct that explores many concepts, including are replicated and molecular Creator textures pulse. quantum ontology, through various Country Tim Gruchy philosophical aspects of artificial life United Kingdom and simulated reality. Location Cultural Precinct

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8-Bit Brisbane Artificial Ecology

Lurking around the CBD is 8-Bit There are five games to explore. See Artificial Ecology is a digital ecosystem Artificial Ecology encourages Brisbane, a collection of pop-up, if you can find them all.Hint – one of comprising movable 3D augmented visitors to work collaboratively to retro-styled mini games that open them can be found on a CityCat! reality organisms. By tapping and create different configurations of instantly on your smartphone by dragging on device screens, users organisms, discovering how the scanning a QR code. Creator can move the organisms toward organisms react to one another Lightweave The games are simple, fun and each other and their close proximity and what configuration makes celebrate a uniquely Brisbane Location will trigger various events; changing the ecosystem thrive. colours, pulsing, deforming and experience. Shoo away the bin CBD Creator chicken or navigate the burning emitting ambient sounds. Some EyeJack hot pavements of our fine city with Country organisms will emit light and their bare feet. Brisbane QLD, Australia 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 Shoal

Did you know that bees are the various behaviours of bees A school of blue-green chromis fish Shoal is a mesmerising installation responsible for two-thirds of our against a backdrop of poppies, have taken up residence in the heart inspired by pressing issues of food production by way of being chrysanthemums and clouds of the city. But the coral outcrop climate change and our irreplaceable principle pollinators? featured in the stencilled design. on which they depend has been relationship with the natural world Bees Being adds an interactive This is an interactive experience you bleached by warming waters. around us. can view through your mobile device. element to an existing public Apparently at ease in their new Creator artwork, titled ‘Across the Oceans home, the fish swim lazily through Creator Dead Puppet Society their Fragrances Intermingled’, imaginary currents in the air. That is, Pamela See located on the glass ceiling in until they catch sight of a passerby. Location the Albert Lane building. Location Through integrated robotics and Queen Street Mall Bees Being applies augmented CBD proximity sensors, these delightful Country reality technology to the little creatures focus their attention Country existing artwork, animating and consider us with curiosity. Brisbane QLD, Australia Brisbane QLD, Australia

48 49 Brisbane City Council Exhibition: Curator’s walking Outdoor Gallery: Sunny Side Up tour with artist Sunny Side Up Charlie Hillhouse Now until 18 April 2021 24/7 Friday 12 March 2021 Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor No bookings required 4.30pm – 5.30pm Gallery transforms Brisbane’s Outdoor Gallery and laneways and city streets into Bookings required. Augmented Reality imaginative, curious and engaging Outdoor Gallery spaces. Comprising light boxes, Until 18 April 2021, experience Join us for a curator’s walking banners, vitrines and evening Council’s Outdoor Gallery Sunny tour throughout the Outdoor projections, the Outdoor Gallery Side Up exhibition curated by Gallery with co-curator and artist displays art outside in city streets, Sarah Thomson and Alex Holt, Charlie Hillhouse. instead of inside on gallery walls. including a number of talks, tours Recently, the Outdoor Gallery has and engagements. grown to now include art projections Sunny Side Up is a collection of Curator’s walking at Howard Smith Wharves. vibrant artworks by emerging tour with artist Share your experience of the Brisbane-based contemporary artists Amelia Hine Outdoor Gallery exhibitions that explore Brisbane’s subtropical and public programs identity, unique physical features, Friday 26 March 2021 using #BNEPublicArt and and cultural atmosphere. The 4.30pm – 5.30pm #curiocitybrisbane. exhibition brings to the fore the optimism, abundance and playful Bookings required. For all Brisbane City Council Outdoor spirit of the Sunshine State. Outdoor Gallery Gallery events during Curiocity Scan the QR Code below to Brisbane and further program details Join us for a curator’s walking tour experience these artworks and bookings please visit: throughout the Outdoor Gallery with through your phone. www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/things- co-curator and artist Amelia Hine. to-see-and-do/experiences-and- eyejack.link/sunny-side-up culture/public-art-in-brisbane/ outdoor-gallery This project is supported by Image top: Jordan Azcune’s artwork, Surrender the Queensland (White Caps), 2020 featured in the Giffin Lane Government Banner as part of Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor through Arts Gallery exhibition Sunny Side Up. Image middle: Queensland. Alex Holt and Sarah Thomson. Image bottom: Amelia Hine at Howard Smith Wharves.

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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