Among The Machines features works by 13 Australian and New Zealand artists who interrogate relationships between utopia, technology, nature and place. Situating the long term concerns of ecology alongside the hopefulness of utopian thought, and with a focus on the South Island of New Zealand, the works in the exhibition offer a speculative map for the future histories of media, machines and humans. For this, the second instalment in a series of collaborative curatorial projects with visiting scholars, the Gallery will be working with Dr Susan Ballard, a New Zealand academic based at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Artists represented in Among The Machines are:
Douglas Bagnall
Aaron and Hannah Beehre
Stella Brennan
Ruth Buchanan
Daniel Crooks
Hayden Fowler
Jae Hoon Lee
Susan Norrie
Fiona Pardington
Nathan Pohio
Ann Shelton
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
Ronnie van Hout