Online is the New Irl, 2020

July 16 – Aug 13
Exhibition

Presented on a new custom-built online platform, this year’s festival exhibition integrates a diverse mix of interactive net art, art games, machinima and video works, live streams from artist studios, web tool hacks, and other artworks that can be experienced – in a time of lingering COVID-19 lockdown measures – digitally. Not every artwork featured in the exhibition may have been created in direct response to the pandemic, but what unites them all is their resonance with themes such as digital connectedness, overcoming isolation, building and maintaining virtual relationships, and coming to terms with the many new realities of digitally mediated, ‘socially distanced’ life online.

This exhibition is curated by Katie Micak and Martin Zeilinger.

Works by
Hiba Ali
Jennifer Chan
Ronnie Clarke
Hilarey Cowan
Thirza Cuthand
Maya Ben David
Steph Davidson
Hannah Epstein
Jord Farrell
Dimitris Gkikas
Milumbe Haimbe
Fay Heady
Amay Kataria
Samuel Kiehoon Lee
Gina Luke
Ben McCarthy & Cale Weir
Amelia Merhar
Roberto Santaguida
Juli Saragosa
Jordan Sparks
Lee Tusman
Syrus Marcus Ware
Qirou Yang