A day of artist-led discussions, performances & workshops that interrogate AI in creative practice.

Are you an artist curious or uneasy about integrating AI into your practice?

Artists, Machines, and the Space Between, is a part-lab, part-studio day dedicated to the exploration and interrogation of AI as a tool for new forms of creative expression.

Come wade through the complexity of AI with us, revealing its creative potential and challenges. Through the lens of critical, hands-on experimentation, we will present the outcomes of two Art x AI creative research residencies, an artist-led workshop and pop-up interactive demos.

Curator-in-residence Mat Spisbah x Dr Jasmin Pfefferkorn present Hylozoic
The pair draws on social nostalgia and examine the shifting aesthetics of synthetic media and the emotional resonances surrounding human vs machine-generated content.

Artist-in-residence Alisdair Macindoe x Dr Lea Frermann present Depth Perception 
The work explores how automated linguistic meaning can be embodied and negotiated through improvised dance.

Artist-led workshop by Mel Huang Buntine, Monica Lim and Touch Collective (Minnie Park and Nick Marriott)**
This workshop will look into MediaPipe as a performative tool to add elements such as gesture control, hand tracking and object detection via a webcam.
** As the workshop will be hands-on, there is a free, limited registration. Please add a 'Workshop registration' to your cart if you're interested in attending the workshop. This workshop is BYO laptop - more details to follow for registered participants.

Pop-up interactive demos at Science Gallery Melbourne’s Distraction exhibition

Decide for yourself whether it’s a creative friend, foe, or something in between. Step in, engage and experiment, and draw your own conclusions. Whether you're excited, skeptical, or just curious, this is a chance to engage with AI as both a tool and a concept—on your own terms.