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25.01.2022 Catch up on an out of this world discussion featuring our Mediator Adam! This panel featuring J. A. Hastings, Janet Biggs and Angelo Vermeulen explored learnings from the Biosphere projects and what can happen in that juicy liminal space between science and art.

25.01.2022 To celebrate LGBTQI STEM Day on November 18 we're inviting LGBTQIA+ researchers and LGBTQIA+ folks of all ages in Australia to enter our Science on a Serviette competition, a collaboration with QueersInScience. This competition is for anybody who feels like their formula is perfect enough to display at the Louvre. Or, on a more practical level, anybody whose family might need a visual aid to finally help them make sense of your research area. Download our template and explai...n your research or any scientific area within the four corners of the serviette and you'll be in the running to win a voucher to Hares & Hyenas Bookshop. Entries are open now! More information: https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com//science-serviette-co

25.01.2022 We've teamed up with Minus18 to bring you a virtual chill-out session to spend time with LGBTQIA+ youth in a safe and calm environment AND get an insider look at our MENTAL exhibition! 12 to 19-year-olds welcome. BOOK HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/virtual-chill-out-with-minu

25.01.2022 Be part of Rising Festival in our collaborative artwork Museo Aero Solar! An initiative piloted by Studio Tomás Saraceno, these giant air balloons will take flight at the festival this June. Workshops taking place this Wednesday 12 May on The University of Melbourne campus invite contributions of plastic bags inscribed with your hopes/dreams/fears for the future. More info: https://rising.melbourne/festival-program/museo-workshops

24.01.2022 Today is the opening day of Ars Electronica! The online festival brings together cultural organisations from across the globe - including members of our global network. Our events span workshops about sustainable plastics making to a conversation the parallels between a stick insect, an android and a dancer, plus a virtual tour of our PERFECTION artwork Biometric Mirror at its new home in Amsterdam at Nxt Museum! Find us online in Kepler's Gardens, where we will be part of global conversations mapping the new world. https://ars.electronica.art//science-gallery-network-melb/

23.01.2022 ONEWEEKLEFT If you're 15-25 and science or art curious, there's still time to apply for our advisory group Sci Curious. These legends guide almost every single part of the Science Gallery Melbourne process. More info here: https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com//sci-curious-callout-

23.01.2022 If you or someone you know are a 15-25 year old artist or producer with a fire in their belly, tell them to get their skates on and apply to Let's Take Over 2021! This 16 week development program is a PAID opportunity to learn skills about creative producing to collaborate and design a multi-artform, participatory festival that can be engaged with in person at Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre or online. PLUS a youth led symposium in partnership with Science Gallery Melbourne (that's us) at our shiny new building in 2021. Get a feel for this year's event by watching the video linked below. Applications are closing next Monday 31 August, so shimmy over here and get yours in on time! https://www.darebinarts.com.au/special-proj/lets-take-over/

22.01.2022 Announcing our opening exhibition MENTAL: Head Inside. We react to the world in response to our individual perceptions, biogenetic makeup and emotional states. Almost half of us will directly experience challenges to our mental health in our lifetimes. MENTAL presents over 20 new projects from local and international artists and research collaborators whose stories and experiences span across the mental health spectrum. Selected through our open call process by curatorial... panels of young people and expert advisors, their projects combine science, technology, and creativity to examine a topic with more relevance than ever! Opening JUNE 15, MENTAL offers a welcoming space to reflect on the many different ways of being, surviving, and connecting in the world. Sign up to our email list for all the details on how you can be among the first visitors to head inside. melbourne.sciencegallery.com/mental

22.01.2022 Words to describe 2020: snoozefest, misfire, tedious, zoom-bombed, binfire. Words to describe 2021: Science Gallery Boredom Rebellion Youth Symposium. Presenting our third annual Youth Symposium, where 18-30 yr olds from across the globe pitch us workshops, performances and discussions that matter to YOU. To unite across our blue marble we'll be hosting the 2021 event online so the limitations of geography area thing of the past. For more information and how to submit your ideas, go here: https://sciencegallery.submittable.com//youth-symposium-20

20.01.2022 Entries are still open for #ScienceOnAServiette, our competition celebrating LGBTQI STEM Day on November 18. Sketch or draw your research, or a scientific area onto our template and you could win a voucher to Hares Hyenas. More info here: https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com//science-serviette-co

18.01.2022 How does your DNA translate into data? Should artificial intelligence be able to recognise you? With facial recognition becoming a part of our every day lives, these are no longer questions of a distant future. Biometric Mirror is a participatory art installation that prompts people to think critically about these questions, and was first unveiled at our 2018 exhibition PERFECTION. It's now touring the world and recently landed in The Netherlands at Nxt Museum. Join us next week for a panel discussion with its creators as part of Ars Electronica. Tune in live here, or watch the recording in your own time https://youtu.be/FGICWlpORT4

18.01.2022 The countdown is on! Only three hours until the red hot event FLAMES OF OPPORTUNITY: Michael-Shawn Fletcher in conversation with Rae Johnston gets underway. Join us for a yarn about climate, caring for Country and how Indigenous futurism might save us all. Free to attend, bookings below.

18.01.2022 We are hiring! Click through to current opportunities in learning, engagement and public programs! https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com/jobs

18.01.2022 In honour of Reconciliation Week and tomorrow’s National Sorry Day, we are reflecting on the housewarming of Science Gallery Melbourne as a reminder that we work, innovate, and play on unceded lands, and have a subsequent responsibility to elevate First Nations voices This video captures the traditional smoking ceremony held by Wurundjeri elder Aunty Di Kerr who paid homage to the site’s complex past while cleansing it for new stories to be told : Eva Otsing

17.01.2022 Our sister gallery Science Gallery Bengaluru are digging into the past, present and future of plants at PHYTOPIA! There might be only five days to go, but you can still take a guided tour of their online exhibit and head along to their free talks programme: https://bengaluru.sciencegallery.com/phytopia

17.01.2022 When doors open in our future home at Melbourne Connect, excellent exhibitions will not be the only experience on offer. Recently announced, the STEM Centre of Excellence is a partnership between Department of Education & Training, Victoria and The University of Melbourne. Rose Hiscock, Director, University of Melbourne Museums and Collections, said "It's a coup to welcome Bridgette van Leuven to the Science Gallery Melbourne team to spearhead the STEM Centre of Excellence.... Her game-changing approach to arts education is renowned in the sector and we look forward to working together". The Centre will further our aim to encourage futures in science, technology, engineering and maths. https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com//stem-centre-excellen

14.01.2022 Reminiscing today on pre-lockdown Science Gallery escapades starring some eager members of our team and an an artificially intelligent mirror that analyses your face and reflects a thoughtful poem right back to you As you can see, some are short and sweet while others are long and foreboding. ‘Mirror Ritual’ will appear as part of our opening exhibition MENTAL: Head Inside coming soon.

14.01.2022 Cultural burning is the practice of using fire to prevent catastrophic wildfires or bushfires. Aboriginal people in Australia have been managing Country for millennia using these and other methodologies that are in harmony with the environment. Michael-Shawn Fletcher's research joins the dots between Indigenous knowledges of Country and Western science, gathering evidence that there are other more effective methods to care for our planet. This work feels more urgent than ever... in the wake of last summer's bushfires. This #NAIDOCWeek we are profiling the Annual Hugh Williamson lecture, presented in partnership with the Indigenous Knowledges Institute at The University of Melbourne, where Michael-Shawn shared his research with NITV's Rae Johnston. Watch full video here: https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com/news/naidoc-week-2020

13.01.2022 Food is a big deal at this time of year and we hope you have spent plentiful time breaking bread with you and yours! In the spirit of the season, we are reflecting on our 2019 DISPOSABLE event Recipe for Disaster for today's #summerofscience. At this event, four food experts guided (and provoked) attendees to examine collective myths, anxieties, pleasures, conveniences and comforts around food and diets. Are conversations about food just a recipe for disaster or could this critical discourse enable urgent discussions about food security? Tell us, what's on your table?

13.01.2022 Thought leaders from arts and science will come together at Environmental Film Festival Australia to take a closer look at technology, space exploration and humanity's future, in their Closing Night panel: The Biosphere and The Biosphereans. J.J. Hastings, CEO of Analogica and Director of the SENSORIA Program, Janet Biggs, an interdisciplinary artist known for her immersive work in video, film and performance, Angelo Vermeulen, space researcher, biosystems engineer, futurist and artist. Their conversation will be moderated by Science Gallery Melbourne mediator and self-professed starry-eyed space nerd Adam Grodeck. Head to effa.org.au for more info! #EFFA2020 #FilmFestival #IndependentFilm #MelbToDo #environmentalfilm

12.01.2022 First Nations people were the first artists and scientists.

12.01.2022 Join us 6pm tonight on Instagram live for a Seaweed Salon with Seaweed Appreciation Society Artists Jessie and Lichen. They'll share their research in a Q&A that speculates on a radically sustainable seaweed future. This session is best served with a kelp cocktail, which you can mix up by watching their How To video, now live on YouTube.

11.01.2022 From styrofoam to straws, we know that single use plastics have expiration date - and it's just around the corner. Our planet is in dire need of a radical sustainable intervention, and seaweed could be the answer we're looking for. Artists Jessie French and Lichen Kelp's work as Seaweed Appreciation Society International is to create practical artworks that ask not how, but when biomutualism will play a part in our everyday lives. Seaweed Salon was supported by BASF. #nationalscienceweek #sustainableliving #algae #stem #science

11.01.2022 We are excited to announce FLAMES OF OPPORTUNITY, The Hugh Williamson Lecture. In a year book-ended by catastrophic bushfires both in Australia and the Americas, it’s clear that existing approaches to caring for Country need to change. This online discussion between First Nations thought leaders Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher and award-winning STEM Journalist Rae Johnston is timely, as we imagine a future where Indigenous knowledge has radically altered the threat of climate change. FLAMES OF OPPORTUNITY is free, taking place via Zoom webinar 6pm Thursday 29 October. Register below!

07.01.2022 . The doors to Science Gallery Melbourne open JULY 20 for the launch of MENTAL: Head Inside. Close to half of us will face challenges to our mental health across our lifetime. That’s why we’ve curated our exhibition in collaboration with artists, researchers, and expert advisory groups across the mental health spectrum. ... Book now it's free to head inside! https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com/mental

05.01.2022 "I use my artwork to try to understand something complex or that I don’t understand. By turning that into a physical space, building a world, visitors become the protagonist in this speculative, fictional scenario, where we ask 'Is this the future that we want'?" Lucy McRae's background as an interior designer influenced the creation of Biometric Mirror, which began life at PERFECTION in 2018. Listen to her in conversation with our Head of Research Dr Niels Wouters and Nxt Museum Creative Director Natasha Greenhalgh. https://youtu.be/FGICWlpORT4

04.01.2022 Dissect dance in this discussion with choreographer Prue Lang, artist Mathieu Briand and evolutionary ecologist Prof Mark Elgar. Their recent collaboration co-presented with CHUNKY MOVE at National Science Week was a movement experiment BODY/INSECT/MACHINE, inspired by a phasmid - a stick insect! Join them for a discussion with poet and broadcaster Alicia Sometimes to reflecton how an insect, a human and an android can communicate through dance. Their conversation will be live at 6pm next Wednesday 9 Sept. Set a reminder here: https://youtu.be/gM8pFgQTPR4

04.01.2022 You still have one more week to enter a uni-wide competition inspired by our 2021 exhibition MENTAL! Open to all The University of Melbourne students, share what comfort means to you in less than 500 words and you're in the running for a $240 VISA gift card. Entry details are at bit.ly/writtenideascomp. MENTAL x Written Ideas Competition is made possible by the collaboration between Built Industry Group - BIG @WISEunimelb with the support of WISE - Women in Science and Engineering and MSD - Melbourne School of Design. For more info contact [email protected] or [email protected]

04.01.2022 Smash boredom this summer at our Youth Symposium on 29 January 2021. Free to join and featuring workshops, presentations and panels, it's an opportunity to connect with a global community of young science and art folks. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-gallery-2021-youth-sym

03.01.2022 The contemporary body has become a fusion of meat, metal and code. Organs can be extracted from cadavers and missing limbs can be reanimated from metal. We function as phantom flesh online. What it means to be human today is perhaps not to remain human at all. Stelarc is an experimentalist incorporating prosthetics, robotics, VR, the internet and biotechnology into his performance art. Join us in person or online, Monday, JULY 12 to see science and art collide. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aa-visiting-schools-melbour

03.01.2022 Unveiled in 2018 for our PERFECTION exhibition, Biometric Mirror was a collaboration betwen science fiction artist Lucy McRae and Dr Niels Wouters. It was an installation that invited participation and provoked questions about DNA, data and ethics. In this video our Head of Research Dr Niels Wouters explains more about the collaboration. Since 2018, the installation has been exhibited at National Gallery of Victoria and has just travelled to The Netherlands for display at Nxt Museum. Join Niels with Lucy McRae this week for a discussion with Nxt Museum creative director Natasha Greenhalgh as part of Ars Electronica. https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgard//biometric-mirror/

03.01.2022 "Our Barka has been raped, violently altered, and irreparably damaged by agriculture, widespread water theft and mismanagement". Reflecting on the environmental desecration of the Barka (Darling River), Science Gallery curator Zena Cumpston questions the 2021 NAIDOC theme "Heal Country", asking "can we really heal on stolen land?" Read the full post here: https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com/blog/heal-country

03.01.2022 How it started VS how it's going The recent COVID restrictions placed on museum and gallery spaces mean we have to delay our public opening. Stay tuned as our new opening date and booking details will be announced very soon.

02.01.2022 Every Saturday over the holidays we'll share an exhibit or artwork from our archives for a #summerofscience so you can stay connected, stay inspired and stay weird with us To kick off we are looking back an artwork from our 2017 exhibition BLOOD, which featured one of Australia's summer icons. Mozzies were the subject of Jipil Jung's artwork 'The Mums', a series of elegant photographs from mosquitos that fed on his own blood. The exquisite stills prompted viewers to wonder what it would be like if they injected us with something good. https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com/blood-exhibits/the-mums

01.01.2022 What does comfort mean to you? The experience of being MENTAL is something we will explore at our inaugural exhibition in 2021. From how we take care of ourselves and others to the simple fact of what it's like to be a being with a brain - our first exhibition has a lot of food for thought. Along with our friends at Built Industry Group - BIG, WISE - Women in Science and Engineering and MSD - Melbourne School of Design we encourage writers or anybody who has a way with words ...to enter a writing competition inspired by our upcoming exhibition MENTAL. Choose a writing prompt and create a response under 500 words by 11.59PM Sunday 11th October 2020 and you'll have a chance to win a $240 VISA gift card. Enter at bit.ly/writtenideascomp. Any questions? Email [email protected] or [email protected]

01.01.2022 Life inside an airtight terrarium? Can relate. In 1991 the Biosphere 2 project recreated Earth's atmosphere inside a life-sized terrarium in the Arizona desert. Environmental Film Festival Australia screens the eerily relatable Spaceship Earth next week and our mediator Adam Grodec will host a panel discussion with Angelo Vermeulen, J.J. Hastings and Janet Gibb to reflect on the highs and lows of this relevant experiment.

01.01.2022 Wie geht's, Berlin?! As a city renowned for its thriving art and design scene, we are thrilled to welcome Technische Universität Berlin as the ninth member of our network. Mehr hier: https://sciencegallery.org/news/berlin

01.01.2022 It's nearly time to head inside! More information at melbourne.sciencegallery.com