SPECTRAlive :: In-person Gathering

ANAT SPECTRA 2022 :: Multiplicity is an artistic and discursive platform inspired by the intersection of art, science and technology.

SPECTRAlive :: 

SPECTRAlive is a 3-day, in-person gathering around artistic propositions, creative research and deep listening that generates a collective imagining of our futures.

Included in your SPECTRAlive ticket is a free pass to Episode 6, SPECTRAvision ('Postscript', online, 6 May).

Full details, including contributing artists can be found at spectra.org.au/spectralive

DAY ONE (Science Gallery)
Thursday 21 April

Future Propositions

MORNING

Registrations
9am -9.30am
Gournd Floor, Science Gallery

Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony
9.30am
Oculus Courtyard, Melbourne Connect

PROPOSITIONS
10am - 1pm
Black Box Theatre, Science Gallery Melbourne

  10am - 11am
  Earth is in Time on Time In-Conversation

  11am - 12pm
  Friends Are Electric In-Conversation

  12pm - 1pm
  This is The Tracker Data Project In-Conversation

1 - 2pm
Lunch Break

Accessibility: The Science Gallery is a fully accessible venue (including a closed-loop hearing system) and the event will include live captioning.

AFTERNOON

Gathering
2pm - 4:30pm 
Assembly for the Future at Blakfullas University
Black Box Theatre, Science Gallery Melbourne

Accessibility: The Science Gallery is a fully accessible venue (including a closed-loop hearing system) and the event will include Auslan interpretation and live captioning. It will be recorded and made available to ticket holders a week following the event with Auslan interpretation and closed captioning.


EVENING

Opening Night Cocktail Soiree
6-8pm 
Mental Exhibition, Science Gallery

Accessibility: The Science Gallery is a fully accessible venue

DAY TWO  (Science Gallery and Various Locations)
Friday 22 April

Edge of Practice

We will send a separate email to attendees to select specific events for Day Two.

MORNING  

9.30am -1:30pm
The Good, The Bad, The Living Lab, Symposium
Black Box Theatre, Science Gallery Melbourne 

Accessibility: 
The Science Gallery is a fully accessible venue (including a closed-loop hearing system) and the event will include live captioning.

AFTERNOON

Edge of Practice :: Parallel Event Program
(ticket holders will be sent a unique link to choose between events):

1. 2pm - 4.30pm  Reality Contest (VR) featuring Glass House / Aurora Australis Ultimo Choro. 30 min sessions.
   
   Accessibility: this demonstration is held in a wheelchair accessible venue, and there are accessible amenities on the ground floor. This experience has a high degree of immersive visual content and is not considered suitable for people with very low vision, however those wearing glasses can keep them on within the headsets.
   
   
2. 2pm - 4.30pm  64 Ways of Being, Self-guided immersive theatre experience
   Melbourne CBD, leaving from Parliament House
   
   Accessibility: this experience is not wheelchair accessible. This experience has a high degree of immersive visual content and is not considered suitable for people with low vision and/or hearing impairments.
   
   
3. 2pm – 2:50 pm or 3 - 3.50pm  Can you trust a Stone?  Artist Talk and Demonstration
   Vasey Lab, meet at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University Melbourne
   
   Accessibility: this demonstration is held in a wheelchair accessible venue, however there are no accessible toilets.
   
   
4. 2:30pm - 4pm Posthuman PUBLICS: Reverberating Futures, Guided sound, projection & VR experience
   Meet on the lawn of State Library of Victoria,  end in the Keith Murdoch Gallery 
   
   Accessibility: This experience is wheelchair accessible. This experience has a high degree of immersive visual content and is not considered suitable for people with low vision and/or hearing impairments.
   
   
5. 3pm - 4.30pm  Walking While Listening, Artist-led Sound Walk 
   Melbourne CBD, leaving from Oculus Courtyard, Melbourne Connect
   
   Accessibility: This experience is wheelchair accessible. This experience has a high degree of auditory content and is not considered suitable for people with hearing impairments.
   
   
6. 3:30pm - 4pm Wheel, Curator and Artist Talk
   Science Gallery, meet at front desk
   
   Accessibility: The Science Gallery is fully accessible venue, and the event will include live captioning.

4:45pm – 5pm
Multispecies Engagement Evaluation Program (MEEP)
Black Box, Science Gallery Melbourne

EVENING

  5pm - 7:30pm
  Friday Night at the Movies, Film Program
  Black Box, Science Gallery Melbourne

  Accessibility: The Science Gallery is fully accessible venue

DAY THREE (The Capitol Theatre and Storey Hall, RMIT University) 
Saturday 23 April

Deep Listening

MORNING
10:30 -1pm The Capitol, RMIT University 

  10:30am -11:15am  
  Atmospheric Disturbances, World Premiere, Immersive Sound Work
  The Capitol, RMIT University 

  11.30am -12.15pm
  Listening to Ecocide, Lecture/Performance
  The Capitol, RMIT University 

  12.30pm -12:50pm
  Sensing Environments, Audio-Visual Artwork 
  The Capitol, RMIT University 

Accessibility: The Capitol is a fully accessible venue (including a closed-loop hearing system).

AFTERNOON
  2pm - 5pm
  Storey Hall, RMIT University
  Building 16, 336-348 Swanston Street, Melbourne

  2pm -  3:30pm
  A Ministry for Multiple Futures Collective Conversation
  Storey Hall, RMIT University

  4pm - 5pm 
  The Planting, World Premiere Immersive sound event
  Storey Hall, RMIT University

Accessibility: Storey Hall is an accessible venue (including a temporary closed-loop hearing system).

For detailed information, visit: spectra.org.au

ACCESSIBILITY

ANAT is committed to access and inclusion and we aim to make our events accessible. If you have any requirements please let us know at:
spectra@anat.org.au or 08 8231 9037. 
We are proud to work with Access2Arts, in supporting the development of increased access and inclusion for SPECTRA events. Access2Arts’ purpose is to foster an inclusive arts community that develops, embraces and celebrates the unique talents, skills and perspectives of people who are d/Deaf or disabled. In order to create a future where d/Deaf and disabled people thrive within an inclusive arts ecology.

Keeping You Safe

As part of ANAT SPECTRA 2022, SPECTRAlive will run for 3 days, operating within any government guidelines that may be in place at the time. COVID-safe policies for each venue can be found at spectra.org.au/locations

SAFETY IS OUR PRIORITY: please wear a mask when indoors. 

Whilst many of us are happy to be getting out and about again, we note that many venues have a mask-wearing requirement. Please check venue-specific requirements here for further information.

We are maintaining audience numbers well below the full capacity limits of each space and will ensure that the public can maintain a distance of 1.5 meters where they need to in each of the venues. We will also have some events live streamed into public spaces or breakout rooms so that audiences can assess their own limits within each venue.

Stay up to date with the latest information about COVID-19 by visiting coronavirus.vic.gov.au

Please follow COVID-safe practices when attending SPECTRAlive and help stop the spread.

• Stay home if you are unwell
• Keep 1.5m from other attendees
• Wear a mask when indoors
• Wash your hands regularly
• Keep our venues open by respecting their guidelines spectra.org.au/locations

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ANAT acknowledges and pays respects to the First Nations peoples of the land we call Australia. Aboriginal peoples are the Traditional Custodians and we recognise their continued cultural, spiritual and technological practices.

We also acknowledge and pay respects to all First Nations peoples beyond Australian shores. As the very first storytellers, we understand  that First Nations peoples hold invaluable knowledge and perspectives that are vital in the research, interrogation and development of traditional and emerging technologies, across both our physical and digital realms.

ANAT SPECTRAlive 2022 celebrates and acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

ANAT SPECTRA 2022 is proudly presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) in partnership with the University of Melbourne, Science Gallery Melbourne, together with program partners The Things We Did Next (TTWDNext), Typecast Entertainment, RMIT University and Leonardo.