Christine & Stephen Procter Interdisciplinary Craft Symposium 2026
Symposium
This symposium will demonstrate how digital tools can advance creative, cultural, and making practices. It also interrogates a broader definition of technology as any purposeful transformation of material, the value of ingenuity, and implications on ecology. Focusing on glass and ceramics, we will…
Plant Discovery and Art-making at Wanniassa Hills Reserve
Workshop
AboutJoin Dr Rebecca Mayo and Professor Mitchell Whitelaw and explore Wanniassa Hills Reserve through plant discovery and art-making. Observe, learn and create with the plants and other inhabitants of Wanniassa Hills Reserve. This activity combines hands-on making with digital tools…
Artist Talk | Harriet Schwarzrock
Gallery
Please join us for a special Art & Design Forum hosted in the School of Art & Design Gallery. Harriet Schwarzrock will present an artist talk and discussion exploring her PhD project, Eliciting Plasma Illumination as a Responsive and Relational Medium within Blown Glass. All welcome. …
Art & Design Forum | Sary Zananiri
Art forum
Photographing Biblical Modernity: Frank Scholten in British Mandate PalestineNote: The venue has been changed to SRWB Seminar Room 3.Drawing on Zananiri’s new book of the same name, this presentation revisits the extraordinary archive of queer Dutch photographer and Catholic convert Frank Scholten…
Art & Design Forum | Brianne Cohen
Art forum
The Empathic Lens: Art, Animism, and Ecology in Contemporary Southeast AsiaThis talk will introduce my forthcoming book, The Empathic Lens: Art, Animism, and Ecology in Contemporary Southeast Asia (University of Minnesota Press, fall 2026). Examining a range of photography and video work, The…
Eliciting Plasma Illumination as a Responsive and Relational Medium within Blown Glass | Harriet Schwarzrock
Gallery
Drawing on the dual etymology of plasma as both a luminous state of matter and a vascular component of blood, I create blown-glass objects that explore the boundaries between object and observer through intimate, luminous interactions within shared electromagnetic fields. Rather than the distant…
Enlighten Beyond at Mt Stromlo: A 13.8 Billion Year Adventure
Arts & entertainment
As part of Canberra’s Enlighten Festival, Mount Stromlo Observatory will become a luminous meeting point of art and astronomy. Enlighten Beyond at Mt Stromlo invites visitors to explore our connection to the cosmos through projections and immersive experiences set against the observatory’s…