Anne Scott Wilson and Ars Electronica Australia collaborated on the artistic interface that connects the physical with the digital at GAD2019.  

Accompanying the Beehive in the City Hall Foyer is a live performance and installation that invites the public to participate and reflect their city, their voice and their perception.

"Beehive" (Bienenstock) is an ongoing artistic research experiment developed by Ars Electronica for collecting and contextualising video content from the activity of people. In the broadest sense it is a cross-media platform for crowd sourced video documentation. Beehive serves as a metaphor: like a society of bees, registered participants swarm out, capture  footage of a happening from a multitude of perspectives and then enter into the collective hive.

Performance every half hour from 6:30 in the City Hall Foyer.

Using kinetic sculpture, AI and machine learning from biological and movement data gathered in real time, this project explores the idea of a parallel universe within the everyday. ‘If you stay where you are, you'll run into yourself’ is a quantum provocation that inspires how I use materials.

Sensational slide guitarist Tim Hulsman will improvise live music on a giant, two or three stringed instrument, designed and built by industrial artist Mike Patton, triggering explosions of colour onto the mega screen behind by visual artist Nina Grant, in a multi-dimensional, interactive experience of light, sound and substance.

15min shows starting at 6.45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45

What appear to be two ordinary Lampposts sit opposite each other until you pass by. They begin to speak, they love getting involved in other people’s lives and have opinions on everything. Get up close and personal, Lampposts want to experience your affection – even inanimate objects have feelings you know!

Now You See Me: A Guerrilla Art and Drama Collaborative will be a student-led exhibition. More than two-dozen Year 9 students from Christian College Geelong (Bellarine Campus) will create an interactive space to showcase both installation and performance-based artwork. Students will explore sight, hearing and touch, with the audience involved.

Melbourne based studio, John Fish, present Tripex at Geelong After Dark 2019. This large scale array of pixel tubes will transform the Apex structure in Johnstone Park to become a luminous tower of pulsing light reminiscent of sci-fi film culture.

Delicious. Decadent. Divine, and Diminishing: OYSTER is an art installation about quantity and appetite. Piles of oyster, mussel and scallop shells display the decline and current restoration of oyster/shellfish populations in Port Philip Bay. Visit the OYSTER SALOON-BAR for a freshly shucked oyster and contribute to the installation and restoration.

Pillowfort's Zoetrope will challenge the public’s perception of time and space by engaging the viewer through the illusion of persistence of motion. Moving an image that is positioned generally in 2 dimensional space into a 3 dimensional physical space.

Nuku>_ evokes the retro charm of early text-based video games, but reimagined as a live theatre experience. Using puppetry and a clever mashup of old and new technology, a vacant shop becomes the play-space for quirky girl Nuku, her actions and adventures only limited by the audience’s imagination.

Intuitively bees can sense a flower's electrical charge, through this sixth sense they find the right blossom. ‘Electric world of bees’ is an installation full of natural flowers juxtaposing sculptural bees drawing attention to the ingenuity of bees and their intuition.

Senses will be transported through design eras - paper street maps were once the only way to navigate, but with the internet age we have navigational devices that talk to us. Listen for interjections of politeness unknown to the current digital navigational world, but perhaps the way of future design.

Shifting Gears is an assembly of bicycle frames rotating upwards in a helix around a central pillar. Using LED units to illuminate patterns on the wheels, and tickers attached to the frames, the sight and sound of this piece encapsulates the freedom and excitement of riding a bike.

Pop into Flukes Chill Out Space, have a relax and be entertained by some of Geelong’s amazing young musicians and look at some beautiful artwork from Metal Art & Design before moving onto the rest of the night.

The Hearts and Mind Installation commissioned by WorkSafe is the latest initiative to help Victorians stay safe at work. Designed to change how you see your workplace, it will help create a safer working environment. An important initiative that everyone can experience.

‘Botanical Lobotomy' highlights our connection with our changing world. Audiences will be able to feast on the selection of illuminated plant specimens made from a combination of new, recycled and found objects. Discoveries made through scientific experimentation and genetic modification will reveal bizarre, whimsical, mysterious and reimagined life forms.

We find ourselves living on an insignificant planet, circling a humdrum star.

Lost in a galaxy in a forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more planets than people. (Carl Sagan - Words from documentary 'Cosmos')

Why in the night sky are the lights hung? Why is the Earth Moving around the Sun? (Robin Pecknold - Lyrics from a song called 'Blue Spotted Tail' by band Fleet Foxes) ‍

Why in the night sky are the lights hung? Why is the Earth Moving around the Sun?