Re:cultivate
Unlocking collaboration between art, science and technology to foster new knowledge, ideas and emerging modes of multidisciplinary practice.
Image Credit: ‘Uprise’ by Yandell Walton, 4 channel projection installation, 2019. (Supplied by the artist)
Re:cultivate is a three-month creative partnership between the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) and FB IDEAS with artist Yandell Walton.
Using the theme of water in Fishermans Bend as inspiration, the residency will support Yandell Walton in a period of interdisciplinary exploration, immersive creative research, knowledge-sharing and collaboration with subject matter experts. By supporting the process of collaborative and creative development, the program aims to strengthen partnerships that advance art, science, and technology, and seed future projects and opportunities.
Piloting new models for collaboration
The residency program expands on ANAT’s 20 year legacy shaping and delivering the ANAT Synapse residency model, which to date has been largely focused on academic partners. This ANAT Bespoke program in Fishermans Bend not only provides a platform to engage with local industry partners, it is also way for ANAT to pilot residency programs that facilitate a creative partnership with industry partner. In doing so, they seek to enhance collaboration methods and demonstrate best practices for impactful art/science/technology collaborations.
“It is an extraordinary time to be an artist, a scientist, a technologist. In a global ecology that is genuinely interconnected, actions in our disciplines have multiple consequences in other sectors, communities, and societies. ”
Project Partners
FB IDEAs
About the Artist - Yandell Walton
Yandell Walton (she/they) is a multi-award-winning artist whose practice spans immersive moving image, interactive installation, and sound. Her work is recognised for blurring the boundaries between physical and virtual space, and for exploring themes of impermanence in relation to environmental, social, and political change.
Walton’s installations have been exhibited widely across Australia and internationally in both gallery and public contexts, including ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE Festival, Rising (Melbourne), Dark Mofo (Hobart), VIVID (Sydney), Light City Festival (USA), Experimenta’s Speak to Me Biennial, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA).
For this project, Walton continues her investigation into more-than-human ecologies and speculative futures.
“I’m interested in how technology, ecology, and systems of care might converge to imagine new ways of sensing, relating, and co-creating with the nonhuman world.”
Project Lead
Australian Network for Art & Technology
Yandell Walton