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Transforming the Art & Technology Interface

Arts leaders from Adelaide and Korea discuss transforming art and technology.

Case studies from MOD. and other South Australian organisations were centre stage at ‘Art + Technology Interface: Translating, Transforming and Transitioning’ on 24-25 February. The University of South Australia and the Korean Association of Arts Management, drew together arts leaders from Adelaide and Korea. As well as us, leaders from South Australia included: Illuminate Adelaide Patch Theatre […]

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We’re looking for people to join a MOD. Youth Board

We’re looking for people to join a MOD. Youth Board. It’s a program for young people who are interested in testing, prototyping, and co-designing concepts, exhibitions, events, and experiences.   Sound like you? We’re recruiting for new members now. Who you are:  You are between 15 and 25 years of age  You may be a student […]

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It’s very big sky country

Words by Ali Gumillya Baker

The following words are taken from an interview with Ali conducted by MOD. in 2021, discussing her personal connection with Mirning Country as a Mirning woman.   My name is Ali Gumillya Baker, and I’m an artist and an academic. I was born and raised on Kaurna Yarta.  My family are from the west coast of South Australia, […]

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Transforming Trash to Treasure

Transforming old exhibit components from trash to treasure

One of our guiding principles is being “Sustainable for Life”. So when we come to the end of an exhibition, we endeavour to repurpose all the bits and pieces that have made up the exhibits on show in our galleries. In the past, if we could not find a new home, or a suitable reuse […]

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You Can’t Touch This

Interactive exhibits get a bit tricky during a pandemic. One of our design principles here at MOD. is to be participatory, that is, creating spaces for doing, not just seeing. But if you can’t touch something, how can you interact with it? Here are a few good ways we found while developing It’s Complicated. Feeding […]

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Cultivating squishy robots

The Hooded Lycrabot (Flore pneumaticae) is a synthetic organism that can detect heat from living things. We have been cultivating them here at MOD. for quite a while, and since it is World Creativity and Innovation Day, we decided it was as good a time as any to release them on an unsuspecting public. The […]

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Behind the Scenes: who are our siblings?

When you create an exhibition set thirty years in the future, there are significant considerations when it comes to expressions of identity and diversity. We wanted to think about how society could change with regards to our understanding of gender and sexuality, and we also wanted to consider what disability might look like in the […]

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Exploring digital futures for museums

At the start of the year, automation and artificial intelligence were challenging the future of work, and the climate crisis was reshaping our expectations of the economy and nature. And then COVID-19 hit. These large shifts are changing the practices of museums, and as a result new ideas and practices are emerging in digital spaces. […]

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Behind the Scenes: powering our future mobility

So we’ve spent some time thinking about the health care infrastructure holding up this future Australia, but there’s a lot more to consider. How will we get around in our vision of the future? And what sort of role has sustainability assumed when we are experiencing the very real and very serious impacts of climate […]

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Behind the Scenes: the future of health care

SEVEN SIBLINGS FROM THE FUTURE has returned after a brief hiatus. Last time I left you when we were considering building the world of Eucalara. We know that the future Australia will have a greater number of people from a greater number of places. But given we are currently experiencing the first global pandemic in […]

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