In her new work, experimental short film Latency and Lacerations, artist Amanda Bennetts takes us on an ontological journey from Maroochydore’s Smart City Data Centre to the ocean’s edge at Main Beach. Tracing the terrestrial path of a submarine fibre optic data cable that connects the Sunshine Coast to the world, the work reveals the tension between seamless digital systems and the unpredictable realities of our physical bodies.

Developed through R|Artist Residency: Urban Ecologies, Amanda used field recordings, drone footage and bio-data sensors as tools for artistic inquiry, culminating in a work that offers a provocative look at our local data-driven infrastructures as experienced through the lens of a body in flux.

Event Details

Where: Lecture Theatre 2 (LT2), UniSC, 90 Sippy Downs Dr, Sippy Downs QLD 4556
When: Wednesday, 11 June
Time:
5:30pm Doors open
6:00pm Screening
6:20pm Artist Talk facilitated by Dr Leah Barclay

Cost: Free, RSVP essential

Parking

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We recommend parking in Carpark 6 or 7 (see parking and amenities map).

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For anyone with mobility challenges, please email info@wearescca.org prior to the event and we can arrange for a Safe UniSC escort to the CAVE2.

About Amanda Bennetts

Amanda Bennetts is an early career new media and installation artist who has been based on Kabi/ Kabi (Gubbi Gubbi) Country on the Sunshine Coast. Living with a progressive neurological disease and a rare muscular disease, Bennetts harnesses her lived experience to critically explore care, illness, and disability. Bennetts is an awarded artist and has exhibited extensively within her emerging career, accruing 20+ group exhibitions. Bennetts' career highlights include winning the 2022 Best In Show Visual Arts award following her Bachelor of Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art (QCA). Since then, she has held solo exhibitions at notable galleries, including Brisbane's Outer Space (2024), Sydney's Firstdraft (2024), and Brisbane's Metro Arts (2023). She was also a finalist in the prestigious 2023 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane.

Internationally, Bennetts has expanded her presence through several key opportunities. In 2023, she exhibited collaborative work at the Ars Electronica Festival, developed within the highly selective Ars Electronica x IT: U FOUNDING LAB Summer School and Fall Term. In 2024, she completed a residency at CTM Festival's MusicMakers Hacklab in Berlin, where she was one of 10 international artists selected to explore the theme 'Sustenance.' Her collaborative project, Untuning Rituals, combined experimental sounds and body movement, culminating in a live performance at Berlin's Radialsystem Halle. Additionally, she showcased her collaborative project Do Algorithms Care? with Johanna Einsiedler at the Ars Electronica Festival (2024). In 2024, she was commissioned by Sydney Opera House and Accessible Arts for Carve Crevice from Grace.

R|Artist Residency: Urban Ecologies is a five-month program supporting mid-career and senior artists to explore themes of urban sustainability and regeneration through creative technology. Delivered by SCCA as part of The Refinery, in partnership with the Creative Ecologies Research Cluster at UniSC.

Supported by Major Partners, Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Sunshine Coast Council through the Regional Arts Development Fund, and media partners In Noosa Magazine and Hello Sunshine Magazine.