ACMI Experimental Forum

Dylan Marelić a Croatian-Australian artist and arts-worker based on Wurundjeri country. Wokring within the mediums of sculpture, moving image and sound, Marelić's practice involves the use/misuse of technology to “reanimate” found materials: drawing out poetic links between human made structures and natural phenomena.

He has exhibited across Naarm at a number of artist-led spaces including Incinerator, Haydens, Trocadero, BLINDSIDE, Hair, CAVES and TCB. 

Elgar and Emerald met while studying dance at the Victorian College of the Arts. Aside from their individual work, they have developed a collaborative practice together that spans both improvised and choreographed movement, site specific performance, costuming, and digital media. 

Their collaborative work has been presented across theatres, galleries, events and various streets and parks across Naarm. 

Often in a reflective manner, their work addresses consumption, escapism and transformation through absurdist themes. 

Oliver Lardner is an artist working across virtual reality, game design, and installation. His practice examines how technologies such as VR and machine learning reshape public space and collective experience, often staging works between physical sites and headset-based virtual environments. Through virtual pavilions, immersive worlds, and hybrid installations, his work asks what public art means inside private head-mounted displays. Lardner has exhibited nationally, and his VR work has been recognised by the Australian Game Developer Awards. Based in Melbourne, currently completing Master of Fine Art (Research) at Monash University, artist in residence at Linden New Art and ACMI X.

Alessandro Umberto D'Aloia is a Melbourne-based film / philosopher, writer, and experimental filmmaker.

As part of his Residency at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), he is currently exploring what it means to make a 'goat gland' film in the twenty-first century: the practice of reworking existing moving-image material into new cinematic forms through editing, montage, sound, and recomposition.