What is an art 'crit'?

An art critique (or ‘crit’) is a structured group discussion used predominantly in art school spaces to give the presenting artist an opportunity to hear how a viewer engages with their work.

Can I attend as an audience member without presenting work?

Absolutely, and bring your friends! Audience members can choose to provide feedback or simply view the works being presented. Attendance is FREE and you can register to attend via the link on this page.

How are 'crit' sessions run?

This session will follow a ‘silent crit’ format where the presenting artist does not introduce their work. After viewing the piece, moderator Tanya Cubric guides the discussion by first addressing the formal aspects of the work (medium, visual effects, sound, performance choices etc) before opening the floor to more subjective responses. Finally the artist is invited to respond to the points raised.

Is there a code of conduct?

Presenting works in development is a vulnerable act. It is expected that viewers are mindful of this when offering their feedback. Although the moderator, Tanya Cubric, will be leading the discussions, it is all of our duty to safeguard the space. Each session will begin with a reminder of this format.

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What's on

ACMI Experimental Forum

When

Wed 18 Mar – Wed 20 May 2026

A monthly forum for artists to present experimental video and performance works-in-development and receive guided audience feedback.

Modelled on the format of an art school ‘crit’, this monthly program invites four guest artists to share works-in-development across experimental video and performance practices.

Guided by moderator Tanya Cubric, the audience is encouraged to watch attentively before collaboratively unpacking what they have observed. The discussion focuses on visual and sonic choices, form and rhythm, as well as the emotional and conceptual impressions of each piece.

This program offers emerging and established artists a supportive space to test ideas, hear genuine audience responses and return to their practice with deeper insight. For audiences, it offers a rare window into the creative process and an invitation to engage closely with ambitious, exploratory work.

Everybody is welcome to attend! You can register to attend as an audience member via the link on this page.

Artists looking to present work can submit an application here.

When

Wed 18 Mar – Wed 20 May 2026

Tickets

FREE (registration required)

Where

Gandel Lab 1, Level 1
ACMI, Fed Square

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22 April Showcase

Arlo Mountford

Over the past 20 years Arlo Mountford has developed an extensive practice, exhibiting nationally and internationally whilst primarily being based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.

His work spans a wide field of mediums, often resulting in large-scale installations which integrate sound, video, animation, object-based work, drawing, photography, AI and digital image making. Conceptually his practice is preoccupied with history and time, viewing them both as a burden to and a resource for contemporary art making.

Jasper Caverly

Jasper Caverly is an early career film practitioner working across factual and fiction, with a focus on social realism and queerness. Their work interrogates the collision of disparate identities in a globalised society, using story as a vessel for empathy building between the unknown and the understood.

Jasper is a VCA Masters graduate who has taken part in MIFF's Accelerator Lab, AIDC's Leading Lights program and was recently mentored by Werner Herzog on the Azorean island of São Miguel. ‘Antipode’ is his first foray into moving image presentation outside of theatrical exhibition.

Thoughtful Refusals, Ali Choudry, video (digital still), 2026.

Ali Choudhry

Ali Choudhry is an artist and researcher whose practice broadly seeks to understand social and political relationships through photographic thinking. He is currently completing a creative practice PhD, which focuses on the refusal of surveillance capitalism: a form of capitalism where corporate institutions harvest data from ordinary everyday citizens for the purpose of financial gain.

This body of work employs various digital and analogue sensors including photographic, electric, sonic, and haptic systems to make visible the operations of surveillance.

Judy Kong

Judy Kong is a Hong Kong–born artist working primarily with time-based media and installation. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from RMIT University. Her practice explores the complexity of human emotion and cultural memory. Through abstraction and the reassembly of cinematic narratives, she transforms video, sound, and sculpture into perceptual experiences.

Her work has been exhibited at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Counihan Gallery (Melbourne), First Site Gallery (Melbourne), and Unpack Gallery by The HongKonger (UK). She was shortlisted for the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2023 by Arts Thread (UK). She is an ACMI X artist-in-residence (2025).

Tanya Cubric

Tanya Cubric is an artist and curator based between Naarm/Melbourne and London, working across experimental video, performance, and installation. Drawing on her background in film and theatre, her practice creates playful and absurd scenarios that explore power, otherness, and self-authorship.

She has presented work with Firstdraft, RMIT Galleries, Kings ARI, SET Studios (London), Cambridge Junction, Teatro Medresesi (Izmir), and Earl Lu Gallery (Singapore). She is currently an ACMI X artist in residence and has received support from Arts Council England.

Find out more about Tanya Cubric