A collection of articles written by us and our collaborators about designing a museum and our experiments in science, art, and innovation.
Schools Design Challenge 2022 Each year, MOD. holds a Schools Design Challenge open to secondary school students across the state. We offer a provocation related to our current exhibition and ask students to come up with a creative response. This year, for our exhibition INVISIBILITY, we asked: What is invisible that shouldn’t be? We invited […]
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When speculative fiction becomes real - how Trigger Warning sparks conversation about the internet, information fragmentation and peace.
The World Wide Web. Facebook. Twitter. Reddit. Open up the news on your phone, and what do you see? Everything seems to be escalating conflict, the horrors of the world. Well, you’re not the only one who has noticed how much our media focuses on the increasing violence of our world today. What happens when […]
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At MOD, we don’t just make exhibits we make new knowledge! We work with a range of researchers from different fields to bring our exhibits to life. Introducing us… Hello ☺️ I am Brooke, a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts student. I am currently in my third year and have been a moderator at MOD. for […]
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We’re really excited to introduce our first Youth Board. This group of 10 young people have different interests, some are at school, some uni, and some working. All of them are excited about science, art, and helping to create experiences for people like them. The group will spend the year with us, helping to design […]
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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. It’s a program for young people who are interested in testing, prototyping, and co-designing concepts, exhibitions, events, and experiences. We’re recruiting for new members now if this sounds like you. Who you are: You are between 15 and 25 years of age You may be […]
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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 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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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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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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