ACMI Experimental Forum Archive

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. 

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.

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 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).

Katherine Lanterna is a movement-based artist exploring the intersection of grace and rebellion. Existing between these realms, her practice merges grit with poise to investigate themes of self-contradiction, irony, and vulnerability. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Katherine received the Orloff Family Trust Award and a Graduate Artist Residency at Lucy Guerin Inc, where she developed her first choreographic work, At the Hands of Men.

She has since performed for Melanie Lane and Joel Bray, and continues to collaborate across music, visual arts, film, and fashion.

Jasmin Seale is an artist working across video, print, and installation to explore the motivations and mechanisms behind acts of documentation. Her practice examines the individual as collector, the tension between purpose and obsession, and the DIY forms of archiving born from the urge to hold on to what might be lost.

She has completed a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University and holds a Bachelor of Design from Swinburne University of Technology.

Leon is an artist who works with sound and vision and installation. They are interested in the poetics and politics of infrastructure, cities, ecology and the time in which change happens. Leon lives and works on Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri country.

Artist Emma X Zhang creates immersive light installations and audiovisual performances that bridge the digital and physical. Transforming source materials from microscopy and landscape archives across varying resolutions, she builds experiential works through hyper-colour and compressed abstraction. Recent exhibitions include Sorse Gallery and Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, with live audiovisual performances for Platform Presents and SIRC-UIT. She is currently developing a new body of work for an upcoming exhibition at Whitehorse Artspace.