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ADA
WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL
Grand opening 14 March 2024
Exhibition 15-24 March 2024, 8:30am – 9:30pm
South Bank Cultural Forecourt, Brisbane, Australia
ADA X CASUS: Movement Performance
Friday 15 & Saturday 23 March 2024 at 6.30pm
Performers of award-winning troupe Casus bring their sheer physicality and multi-disciplinary movement to ADA. Casus’ collaborative cross-cultural approach to performance promises to push the limits of physical interaction with this kinetic sculpture. > more
ADA X DRONE: Sound Experience
Saturday 16 March 2024 from 6pm
Brisbane’s experimental and ambient sound community binds live performance with groundbreaking international artwork ADA, in an amalgam of electro-acoustic instruments, hardware sets and generative composition. > more
Art and Agency in Systems Science
Sunday 17 March 2024 at 1.30pm
Artists Karina Smigla-Bobinski and Briony Barr delve into the systems, programming and agency in their respective WSFB artworks, ADA and Drawing on Complexity in conversation with curator Lucy Quinn. > more
Named after 19th century English mathematician, Ada Lovelace, ADA is a self-forming artwork, visitors animated, under destruction sculpture, a post-industrial “creature“, resembling a molecular hybrid from nano biotechnology. Filled up with Helium and spiked with charcoals, the membrane-like globe floats freely in white cube room and leave marks on the walls, ceiling and floor. However hard the visitor tries to control «ADA», to drive her, he or she would notice very soon, that «ADA» is an independent performer. It is a movement exprienced visually, which like a computer make an unforeseeable output after inputting a command. > more
Hailed by The New York Times as ‘a new cultural institution’, the World Science Festival – founded by renowned Physicist Professor Brian Greene and Emmy award-winning journalist Tracy Day – has been held annually in New York for more than a decade.
The World Science Festival brings together great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that presents the wonders of science and the drama of scientific discovery to a broad general audience.
World Science Festival has featured scientific and cultural luminaries including Stephen Hawking, Sylvia Earle, Anna Deavere Smith, Oliver Sacks, John Hockenberry, Elizabeth Vargas among many others. The annual Festivals have collectively drawn more than 1.3 million visitors since 2008, and millions more have viewed the programs online.
World Science Festival is a production of the World Science Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation headquartered in New York City. The foundation’s mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. > more
Each year World Science Festival Brisbane paints the town red and takes science out of the laboratory and into the streets, parks, museums, galleries and performing arts venues of Brisbane and regional Queensland!
Queensland Museum holds exclusive licence to host the festival in the Asia Pacific – the only global extension of this initiative, attracting over 1.5 million attendances since launching in 2016.
World Science Festival Brisbane reinforces Queensland Museum’s position as a leader in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and engagement.
The festival provides Queensland Museum an opportunity to engage audiences outside the traditional education sphere, and promote a whole of life “entanglement” with STEM – delivering on our mission of creating authentic and compelling experiences and stories that inspire, enrich and empower. The festival is delivered to regional Queensland throughout the calendar year under the banner of World Science Festival Queensland.
Queensland Museum in conjunction with the Queensland Government, our valued partners and stakeholders, industry experts and the wider STEM community is committed to ensuring World Science Festival Brisbane and Queensland, is delivered to the highest standard and engages the widest audience possible. No matter what, now is the time to celebrate science! > more
World Science Festival is presented by the Queensland Museum with generous support from:
