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New exhibition searches for optimistic visions of a future emerging from industrial ruins

Though it fails to adequately tackle how yesteryear’s dystopia became today’s reality, ACMI’s new exhibition tries something arguably riskier.

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At ACMI’s The Future & Other Fictions, artists challenge us to imagine a more optimistic world

The Future Other Fictions, ACMI’s flagship summer exhibition, explores where storytelling imagines and rethinks the future.

The Conversation

All surface, no substance. Kids will probably love Beings at ACMI. Pity about the rest of us

At this week’s launch of Beings by Universal Everything, ACMI board member Ian Forsyth noted that ACMI’s last exhibition, Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature, exceeded audience targets by 40–50%. This is an enormous success by any measure. It proves ACMI’s vision for its premiere exhibition space is working.

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Universal Everything a parade of the digital fantastic

At a world premiere exhibition by global art collective Universal Everything, visitors will find their movements generate the strangest of digital creatures.

AAP

Remote worker havens: we review the best places to work for free in central Melbourne

Cafes, public libraries, even Federation Square can offer Melbourne’s remote workers respite from four walls at home

The Guardian - AU

Marshmallow Laser Feast at ACMI is a sumptuous visual feast – but something is missing

In my office, someone has pinned a cartoon in which two dogs consider an abstract sculpture on a plinth. As he strokes his chin one of them asks, “Yes, but is it food?”.

The Conversation

ACMI’s Goddess asks us rethink our gaze – and the bias it contains – when we look upon women on the screen

The most fascinating aspect of screen museum ACMI’s new exhibition Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion, and the major contribution it makes, is the way it generates fresh understandings of women on screen, including in relation to Australia.

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Dr Nigel Gray was determined to stop tobacco advertising in Australia. Eventually his efforts paid off

The powerful anti-tobacco ads that shifted public opinion in Australia are featured in a new exhibition at Melbourne's ACMI museum.

ABC News

From Marilyn to Margot: Goddess is a crowd-pleasing celebration of women on film

This compact new exhibition at Melbourne’s Acmi, opened by actor Geena Davis, will have something new for most

The Guardian - AU

Geena Davis on Thelma and Louise, rejecting Jack Nicholson’s advances, and working to break Hollywood’s glass ceiling

Geena Davis is a big-screen feminist icon. But she wasn't always the trailblazer we see today.

ABC News

Treasure trove of historical Mildura footage saved in WIN TV building clear-out

A historian intends to digitise the archival footage of Mildura taken from the former TV news building, which he says is oftentimes "the only coverage" of local past events.

ABC News

Your ultimate Melbourne events guide: the best things to do this weekend and what’s on through December

Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s ultimate guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals happening around the country. Here, we’ve picked out some highlights for Melbourne in December

The Guardian - AU

Light: Works from the Tate's Collection honours the body and its sensations – this is art which is meant to be felt

Review: Light: Works from The Tate’s Collection, ACMI

The Conversation

ACMI lights up with art from the UK's Tate

Artworks from the UK's Tate galleries will go on show for an exhibition exploring how artists use light.

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How conceptual artist Gillian Wearing and photographer Cindy Sherman make us confront our performances to the world

Review: Gillian Wearing Editing Life, and Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #58, PHOTO 2022.

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