Interdisciplinary arts

Take it to the edge.

Interdisciplinary arts challenges and transforms our vision of what the arts can be. It stretches the boundaries of existing artforms, merges forms previously housed in well-defined boxes.

Want to mix mobile phones, dance and astronomy? Step inside. Want to inject your creative ideas into Australia’s innovation system? Collaborate with other disciplines like art and science. Want to stretch your thinking to the outer limits, beyond what’s known to what hasn’t even been conceived? Stand back for art that employs robotics and biotechnology or exists only in synthetic, virtual worlds.

Australian creators are at the front of this new artistic practice, developing interdisciplinary and hybrid outcomes in performance, installation, film, video, projection, sound and visual arts. Convergence, cross-disciplinary practice, conceptual leaps.

Anything is possible.

Emerging artists embark on EPIC opportunities Sarah Howell is a Tasmanian new media artist with a passion for social technology, visual communication and storytelling. Her arts practice crosses between visual arts and writing through the medium of comics.

Australia’s first Second Life arts residency In September, Australia Council for the Arts announced the recipients of its $20,000 artists residency in the 3-D online virtual world of Second Life.

Career pathways in media arts How do emerging and mid-career artists extend their practice and support themselves financially? Five artists from various disciplines explain how they established themselves in the media arts sector.