ACMI, Now or Never & Soft Centre present
Art in the age of hybrid media
Team Rolfes & Hamill Industries
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When
Wed 27 Aug 2025
3.30pm
Two pioneering studios converge to reimagine the boundaries of screen-based performance, technological expression and sensory experience.
Barcelona’s Hamill Industries are known for crafting transmedia installations and visual narratives for the likes of Floating Points and San Francisco Ballet – innovating digital screen work to create expanded audiovisual environments. New York’s Team Rolfes experiments with VR and mixed reality to build surreal, immersive spaces collaborating with artists including Lady Gaga, Arca and Metallica.
Together, they investigate how emerging tools – from AI and neural interfaces to quantum aesthetics – are transforming screen-based expression, while inviting speculation on how these technologies might rewire creativity, destabilise authorship and reshape collective imagination.
Hosted by ACMI’s Director of Programming, Emily Sexton.
Presented with
SOFT CENTRE
Described as ‘ecstatic, extreme and staunchly experimental’, SOFT CENTRE events are distinctively extra sensory. Since its inception at the Casula Powerhouse in 2017, SOFT CENTRE has championed the fringes of electronic music, sound art, contemporary dance, performance art, light works and new media art. Included in Resident Advisor’s Top Ten festivals globally (June 2023) and winner of FBi Radio’s Best Music Event (2017 & 2018), SOFT CENTE stands out for its cutting-edge cross-disciplinary programming, innovative use of unconventional public space and dedicated community.
Alongside the flagship festival in Gadigal/Sydney, SOFT CENTRE has produced major programs and commissions for MONA, Dark MOFO, Svbkvlt (China), Vivid, FIBER (Amsterdam), Now Or Never and the Sydney Opera House.
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