Workshop + Panel Discussion | Swimming with Drones:
Michele Barker & Anna Munster


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Anna Munster & Michele Barker, from the series ecologies (Arctic), 2024, AI film still

In this workshop, artists Michele Barker and Anna Munster invite you to explore Lake Burley Griffin – from below. Using underwater drones, the artists will guide participants through a hands-on experimental filming workshop that considers the technical aspects and creative potential of this still fledgling technology.

Saturday 28 February

Participants meet at the foreshore of Lake Burley Griffin for an hour of exploration and filming and then reconvene back at photo access where the footage will be included in a 1hr in-conversation panel/talk between the artists and members of ANU’s Computational Culture Lab on experimental drone and machine image capture (eg LIDAR, drones and AI imaging) by artists.

Note: There will not be time in the workshop to edit footage however, all participants will be able to take clips home

10am workshop start at Lake Burley Griffin SOLD OUT
11:30am swimming with drones and lunch break
12:30pm panel discussion at photo access, all welcome
1:30pm finish

Workshop SOLD OUT
Panel discussion, all welcome, registration not required

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Michele Barker & Anna Munster

Michele Barker & Anna Munster are established award-winning media artists and researchers. Their work has been shown extensively in venues such as The Art Gallery of NSW, The Science Museum, Detroit, and the Museum of Art, Seoul. They have created works spanning the media arts landscape over a 30-year period, focusing on experimental cinema and acoustic environments to explore the multifaceted complexities of human and more than human perception, movement and duration. Their body of work develops a unique audiovisual language using cinematographic, editing and sonic compositional techniques that deliver new kinds of embodied viewing experiences.

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