In a miserable year, the Adelaide Festival brought us joy
This year has got off to an awful start. Thank God for the Adelaide Festival, a blaze of hope, skill and fun. Here are our critics’ highlights of a beautifully crafted program.
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Picturing the unimaginable: a new look at the wreck of the Batavia
The shipwreck of the Batavia and subsequent murders of 115 men, women and children have inspired many retellings. A new exhibition combines art and science to find new angles on an old tale.
Science by stealth: secret missions of a visual science communicator
There once was a DNA molecule, magnified 250 million times. Its mutated form hovered above Federation Square, Melbourne, perceived only subliminally by many of the transient pedestrians below.
Let’s vote on it: can we use democracy to fund science?
Why not let scientists vote for who they think should get grant funding for their research?
Australia’s videogames are inventive, acclaimed and world‑class, so where’s the government support?
Australia’s videogame industry has called for an end to the government’s silence around funding. And with local games competing on the world stage, it’s time for the cultural medium to be recognised alongside TV and film.
95% male conductors, 70% ageing classics and zero appetite for risk: what’s wrong with elite Australian opera
Our new research has tracked the gender of artists working at Australian opera companies and found evidence of pervasive gender inequality.
Monolith considers the cultural and social implications of new technology, without overdoing it
New Australian film Monolith is a refreshingly high concept film, as opposed to the usual social realist and period dramas.
A token sale: Christie’s to auction its first blockchain‑backed digital‑only artwork
To quote the artist: ‘bruh… this crypto space seems super interesting though and i see a ton of potential to do some weird shit nobody has done yet.’
Videogames or homework? Why not both, as ACMI has 75 game lessons for you to try
Australia’s national museum for screen culture, ACMI, has released an online digital learning lesson bank — In Game Lessons.
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