Assemblage is Flinders University’s research centre for

artistic enquiry and art creation.

We are a meeting point of art and science, health, technology, engineering, industry and community.

We embrace new technologies and ambitious collaborations to dissolve perceived barriers between artforms, disciplines and areas of research to uncover boundless possibilities.

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Hyperaurea

On the winter solstice, a crowd gathered to see Sean Williams' brilliant immersive installation HYPERAUREA: Echoes of Midwinter presented at FUMA.

Watch now: Hyperaurea @ FUMA

ASPERA

Recently, our Assemblage Director, Associate Professor Tully Barnett presented “Artists, Universities and Cultural Infrastructure” at the 2023 Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA) Conference.

Book launched!

One of Dr Claire Henry's new monographs, Screening the Posthuman (Oxford University Press, 2023), was launched by Assemblage on Friday 30 June.

News

Intake to the National Institute of Circus Arts has been ‘paused’. Where to next for Australia’s performing arts training?

Professor Chris Hay explains in his latest Conversation piece.

AAP.Image/Glenn Hunt

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UNIVERSAL KILLER unleashed

Former Assemblage AIR, Liam Somerville, presented his UNIVERSAL KILLER exhibition at The Light Room Gallery last month. Liam showcased a 13-minute uncut expansion of his killer video on an S-shaped, horizontal screen, extending his vision further into a dark, neon aesthetic.

Read the CityMag story

Someone Else's Bucket List

Dr Amy Matthews’ new book is out now! It’s a tear-jerking, heart-warming story of sisterly love.

“A poignant look at how the bonds of sisterhood can shape our lives.” –Namrata Patel, author of The Candid Life of Meena Dave

Find out more

Ambisonic Artist in Residence

During his Assemblage residency, Jesse is working on Mandala - an ambisonic soundscape composition, drawing metaphorically on the Tibetan Buddhist understanding of the mandala as a three-dimensional projection of a particular deity's palatial residence.

Mandala will celebrate the soundscapes of South Australian national parks and is concerned with cultivating respect and reverence for their resident non-human inhabitants.

“The Assemblage residency is a wonderful opportunity to produce new work, simultaneously exploring new technologies (like the Void and the Ambisonic Studios), cultivating necessary new skill sets to effectively use them and engaging with fresh perspectives and ideas” Dr Jesse Budel said.

Find out more about our Artist in Residence program

Featured Works

Works by academics

Postgraduate works

The Void

Assemblage’s motion capture and digital story platform is The Void – a powerful collaboration space for digitising performance, screen production and experimentation.

The Void is a flexible and adaptable digital facility that integrates performance and digital art to produce creative works that can be projected on a screen or played as video games – all in real-time, high visual fidelity and centred on the vision of the artist.

Sally Coleman in the VOID with Unreal Engine

Digital Artist in Residence

Find out more about our Artists in Residence

Find out more about Rosina's project Herding Caterpillars

Each year Assemblage runs an Artist in Residence programme which is the result of a competitive application process. The two – three month residency is designed to benefit the chosen artist as well as our students and researchers. Their work is allied to the major research themes of Assemblage.

In 2022 we hosted our Digital and Environmental Artist in Residence, Rosina Possingham. This residency was focused on amplifying research and activity in our motion capture and virtual production studio The Void.

2022 Artist in Residence Rosina Possingham

_{Project partners: Flinders University's The Void, Butterfly Conservation SA, Brewed Engagement Extended Reality (BEER) Labs}

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We are Assemblage

Associate Professor Tully Barnett

Director - Assemblage Centre

Dr Amy Matthews

Deputy Director - Assemblage Centre

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Acknowledgement of Country

Flinders University was established on the lands of the Kaurna nation, with the first University campus, Bedford Park, located on the ancestral body of Ngannu near Warriparinga. Warriparinga is a significant site in the complex and multilayered Dreaming of the Kaurna ancestor, Tjilbruke. For the Kaurna nation, Tjilbruke was a keeper of the fire and a peacemaker/lawmaker. Tjilbruke is part of the living culture and traditions of the Kaurna people. His spirit lives in the Land and Waters, in the Kaurna people and in the glossy ibis (known as Tjilbruke for the Kaurna). Through Tjilbruke, the Kaurna people continue their creative relationship with their Country, its spirituality and its stories.

Flinders University acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians, both past and present, of the various locations the University operates on, and recognises their continued relationship and responsibility to these Lands and Waters.

Flinders University Reconciliation Action Plan