Projects and partnerships

2022 –

A two-day symposium exploring the future of arts, culture, and technology in Australia – and the mindsets, capabilities and skills we need to get there.

2021–23

ACMI, in conjunction with the Australia Council’s national Cultural Digital Program, runs a mentoring initiative for strategic technology and digital mentoring for cultural organisations.

2018

Supporting creative people to transform their ideas into sustainable businesses; an initiative of the Victorian Government’s Creative State strategy delivered by ACMI and State Library Victoria.

2018

Where creative technology meets cultural entrepreneurship. Supported by Launch Vic.

2021–23

ACMI partnered with Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) in North Melbourne on a new initiative to support local musicians and producers.

2019 –

A unique opportunity to support the next generation of Australian game developers, championing graduate students to hone their skills and transition into the games industry.

2018 –

ACMI and RMIT invites game developers, filmmakers, moving image artists, tech wizards and individual creators to show their products/works at ACMI and gather audience feedback. 

A diverse range of festivals on Melbourne’s cultural calendar call ACMI home.

Read about ACMI's experiments in media, technology & user experience.

The Lens is a free handheld, take-home device that lets visitors collect the artworks and objects they discover in our exhibitions.

We are exploring the potential of machine learning and generative outputs with our online collection.

February – April 2023

Seven of our staff joined representatives from twelve cultural institutions from around the world to develop Web3 literacies and learn more about what blockchain technologies might offer the arts and cultural sectors.

Our digital initiatives are driven by an ethos of open sourced and open access technologies wherever possible.

In 2020, ACMI partnered with Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF) in Frankfurt to create an interactive visitor experience for their museum inspired by ACMI’s Constellation. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the project will advance DFF’s digital transformation and it will be completed in June 2024.

XOS (eXperience Operating System) is a collection of software and related hardware devices that we use to run exhibitions. It connects together collection data, images and videos, Internet-of-things (IoT) devices in the exhibition, constellations and content online and is designed to deepen the impact our exhibitions have on our visitors. We do this through the Lens.

Our community of creative practitioners, startups and businesses working with creative technology across film, TV, videogames and art.

A free, bi-monthly showcase of evolving projects by makers working across film, TV, videogames and art.

A communal work space in Regional Victoria where creatives can create, connect, learn and grow through networking, business development programs and mentoring.