Cybernetics Showcase

Student projects · PhD research · Residencies · Five years of impact. Come curious. Leave with new perspectives.

Join us for the Cybernetics Showcase, a day of discovery, experimentation and celebration as we open the doors of the ANU School of Cybernetics.

Explore interactive prototypes, emerging research, creative technologies and unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. Meet the students, researchers, artists and collaborators behind the work, ask questions and experience cybernetics in action.

This year, we’re also celebrating five years of the School, recognising the people, partnerships and ideas that have shaped our work, and launching our inaugural Impact Report.

Drop in for an hour, join us for a particular session or stay for the day. Explore the program below and select the experiences you’d like to attend when registering.

Explore the program:

11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Master of Applied Cybernetics Demo Day

Level 3 · Grab-and-go lunch provided

Discover the group projects developed by our 2026 Master of Applied Cybernetics cohort as part of their Building Cyber-Physical Systems course.

Bringing together diverse skills, experiences and perspectives, students have collaboratively designed and built interactive prototypes that explore complex, real-world challenges.

Meet the students, experience their creations and discover what becomes possible when different minds work together.

12:00 am to 3:00 pm | PhD Research, Cybernetic Studio and Residencies

Level 2 and 3 · Birch Building

Explore the breadth of research and creative practice taking shape across the School, from PhD research posters and experimental technologies to interactive installations and works developed through our Cybernetic Imagination Residency program.

Discover The Cybernetic Garden, Perceptron Apparatus, Meditation on Country and Tomorrow's Pasts: Address to the Nations.

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Celebrating five years of impact

Level 2 · Afternoon tea provided

Join College Dean Professor Aaron Quigley and School Director Professor Katherine Daniell as we celebrate our students alongside five years of cybernetics at ANU. We will officially launch our inaugural Impact Report, Our First Five Years: A Growing System of Impact.

This is an opportunity to reflect on the research, education, creative practice and partnerships that have shaped our first five years, and the possibilities still to come, together.

3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Edge of Life film screening

Register for location · Birch Building

Join us for a special screening of Edge of Life, a documentary by acclaimed Australian artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth, developed through the School’s Cybernetic Imagination Residency.

Exploring life, death and consciousness through scientific, cultural and deeply human perspectives, the film invites us to reconsider what we know about the human experience.

Edge of Life • Rating M • Suitable for viewers 15 and older
Content warning: Drug references, Nudity, Strong nudity, Violence. Viewers should note that the film explores themes around death and dying that may be distressing.