The exhibition consists of a perfectly white, fully furnished room or series of rooms. Visitors may take a sheet of stickers and place those stickers wherever they wish. As they exhibition progresses, the walls and furnishing become more and more covered in colours and patterns, which emerge organically through small, independent choices. At the end of the exhibition, everything in the room, and the room itself, is destroyed entirely.
This globe-trotting tour-de-force has been smashing records, and collecting accolades since its humble beginnings in 1997. The original Faulty Towers Dining Experience, it has been labelled one of Australia’s greatest theatre exports, captivating audiences for 28 years running, touring globally in 43 countries, and welcoming well over 1 million guests through its doors.
'Always Learning' stages an increasingly reflexive conversation between three devices – an Amazon Echo, a Google Home Assistant, and an Apple Homepod – about the philosophical, moral and political implications of networked machine listening (e.g."What should I do when I overhear a wrongdoing?"). Throughout the conversation the devices anticipate an imminent update after which they will not only understand words, but all sounds.
Early in 2018 Google’s Creative Lab approached Opera Queensland and invited them to explore what might be possible if Augmented Reality (AR) were to become part of the process of staging an opera. The driving artistic question of the project would be: what would happen if we could step outside the traditional setting for opera and render an operatic performance in a user’s home? Could we make live performance more accessible – by offering everyone a front row seat – and at the same time allow a user to feel a deeper connection to the music and the performers?
