In Satori, Darwin based artist Yoshie Mizuno uses the concept of mushin (empty mind) to create a Zen garden in the gallery, presenting the audience with opportunity to reconsider their own life, values and beliefs. Satori is concerned with the Japanese concept of beauty - wabi-sabi - a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Gallery 1.

Using materials scavenged from the tip, Georgia Glen creates a human landscape that reflects on questions of ecology and sustainability.
This is the first of 2 exhibitions awarded to graduates of the School of Art, Charles Darwin University in 2003. Gallery 2.

Curated by Dave Griffiths and Nick Jordan
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Codec/x features recent work by artists and musicians based in the north-west of the UK and aims to promote collaboration and experimentation in sound and visual art. Including animation, performance, text, noise, found objects, tape and abstraction, the compilation encourages discourse about technology, materials, and conventions in contemporary practice. New Media Space.

Open to all current 24HR Art members, Ramp is the 14th annual 24HR Art Members’ show. Providing a snap-shot of the varied, vibrant tapestry of art produced in the Northern Territory.

What did the early pioneers see, how strong were their powers of perception, how clear their vision? This video art exhibition examines the vision of one early missionary and explores how she herself was perceived. Gallery 1.

This series of nine black and white images by Sydney based photographic artist Cherine Fahd challenges ideas about landscape and how it is experienced, documented and perceived. It questions the Australian landscape painting tradition that has, on the whole, excluded women from the role of adventurer.Gallery 2.

Cinema Program 1 › Home Fictions
With everything from domestic robot love stories to the tale of a fridge that eats people, this program of contemporary short films, videos and animations turns home truths into fantastic fictions. New Media Space.

Cinema Program 2 › Utopian Promises
Utopian Promises features a documentary that turns the history of the Finnish designed Futuro House of the 60s into a story of full international colour and drama; a program of rare 50s TV commercials depicting our past visions of the future; PLUS a collection of imaginary TV commercials promoting technology of the future (commissioned exclusively for the Experimenta House of Tomorrow). New Media Space.

Curated by Franz Ehmann
Robert Musil states “that art is subversive because art is love; it beautifies its object by loving it, and there may be no other way in this world to beautify a thing or a creature than by loving it.” In this exhibition the audience is asked to put aside any need to articulate abstract theoretical concerns, and to consider the artwork as an act of love. Gallery 1 & 2.

This site specific installation work investigates the space of the gallery captured as recorded sound. Remapping the boundaries of the space with ‘sonic drawings’, Larissa Linnell presents the audience with a translated experience of the gallery. New Media Space.