Experience art that celebrates and interrogates digital culture.
INT. SPACESHIP – NIGHT (2024)
Play live at ACMI or online
A text-based role-playing game set in ACMI’s museum. As a rising sci-fi filmmaker, you’ll make story-shaping decisions that determine your film’s fate. Inspired by ACMI’s exhibitions, this immersive experience challenges you to explore big ideas and create the next indie hit – or a box office bomb.
Created by Jordan Prosser and Nathan Harrison
Emile Zile: We Are As Gods (2024)
Video work, 7 mins, 49 secs
A hybrid theatre experience blending live streaming, gaming and monologue. Through intimate portraits of gamers mid-stream, We Are As Gods captures raw, overlapping dialogue – part performance, part confession – and seeks to find the human in the network, the flesh in the data packet.
Created by Emile Zile
Olivia Koh: Minyak Sawit Keluarga (Palm Oil Family) (2023)
Interactive online experience
In this exciting new co-commission from Hyphenated Projects and ACMI, artist Olivia Koh examines her paternal family’s farming practices in rural Southern Malaysia.
Created by Olivia Koh
The Grannies (2019)
A gang of wayward artists escape the confines of Read Dead Redemption 2. Get a rare glimpse into the cracks of an apparently seamless digital world, through an artist's eyes.
Directed by Marie Foulston
This work was featured in the exhibition Out of Bounds: Exploring the limits of videogames (2023)
Daniel Jenatsch: The Close World – The Building (2022)
Interactive online experience
Daniel Jenatsch’s first foray into playable video-based art explores the imaginative capacity of AI.
Created by Daniel Jenatsch
APHIDS: FAWN (2022)
Video work, 5 mins
Death by barracuda, mum hunted in the forest, parents shipwrecked. There is a trope across children's literature and cinema that centres the parentless child (or animal) as protagonist.
Created by APHIDS
Xanthe Dobbie: The Long Now (2022)
Video work, 11 mins 30 sec
Technocapitalism, climate grief and ancient history collide in Xanthe Dobbie's single-take desktop performance exploring the human urge to seek immortality.
Created by Xanthe Dobbie
DOKU: Live or Die Alone – The Karma Circle (2022)
Online experience
Artist Lu Yang takes the exploration of digital augmentation into contemporary and historical realms for his latest motion capture performance.
Created by Lu Yang
Firepit Collective: HYPER//ECHO (2022, archived)
Online experience
Explore a virtual space, and create fragile digital artefacts and messages for others, in this interactive web-based artwork.
Created by Firepit Collective
Laura Duffy: Spawn (2022, archived)
Video work
What do freak-science, fairies and queer flower coding have in common? These themes intersect in a new experimental video work by Te Whanganui A-Tara based artist Laura Duffy.
Created by Laura Duffy
Ross Gibson: head_phone_film_poems (2021)
Online experience
Thirteen iPhone-made films remixing archival footage from ASIO, crime scene photos and Ross Gibson’s own recordings. head_phone_film_poems blends mystery, memory and surveillance into haunting micro-narratives of contemporary and historical unease.
Created by Ross Gibson
Unfinished Camp (2021, archived)
What is the future of art in a decentralised world? Three young artists will seek to answer that question as part of a global initiative.
About Jazz Money, Kalanjay Dhir and Moorina Bonini.
Lu Yang: Delusional World (2020)
Exploring digital voyeurism and online cultures, Lu Yang's Delusional World summons audiences to our new online gallery to encounter a frenetic collision of Chinese mythology, sci-fi futures and live performance.
Created by Lu Yang
Matthew Griffin: content (2020, archived)
As we doom scroll through content, Matthew Griffin encourages us to consider how we engage with the proliferation of information we are subjected to online.
Created by Matthew Griffin