ANAT

Australian Network for Art & Technology :: National Network, Residencies, Art+Science+Technology Collaborations, Partnerships and Programs.

ANAT is a global leader in pairing artists with science and technology partners. Collaboration is in our DNA! For over thirty years we have forged relationships with industry, academia, the community and government to create unique opportunities for artists. We deliver residencies, symposia, workshops and other professional pathways, supported by robust national and international networks. ANAT is supported via Creative Australia and CreateSA.

19/06/2026

Support artists through your donation.

For almost four decades, ANAT has been centering artists working at the intersection of art, science and technology.

Help us continue to support the artists doing the work, creating, experimenting, researching, and pushing into new modes of practice.

Your contribution, no matter how small, will help ANAT to deliver our programs and goes directly to the artists we serve.

ANAT is a Deductible Gift Recipient.
Donations of $2.00 or more are tax deductible.

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“A thriving cultural ecology depends on artists and arts workers being able to build full, financially sustainable careers across a lifetime, from first creative acts to the deepest wells of experience. Employment in the arts is a whole-of-career, whole-of-community, whole-of-life commitment.”
ANAT CEO Melissa Delaney

Imagery: ANAT SPECTRA 2025 event imagery courtesy .grim.
1. DAY 1 :: GATHER, UniSC Art Gallery forecourt. 2. DAY 2 :: CONVERSE, Michelle Brown and Enid Guruŋulmiwuy. 3. Tully Arnot, ‘Soft’, 2024, 4K video, sound; 21 mins (looped) Music by Megan Alice Clune. ‘Reciprocity’ installation view UniSC Art Gallery. 4. DAY 1 :: GATHER, Vanessa Tomlinson and Erik Griswold :: ‘30 x 30 Out of Time’. ANAT SPECTRA 2025 was presented by ANAT and UniSC, on Kabi Kabi Country, in the heart of the Sunshine Coast Biosphere Reserve.

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17/06/2026

2 WEEKS TO APPLY :: ANAT Locale Mentorships

A mentorship program connecting South Australian emerging and early-career artists with established practitioners from ANAT’s national alumni network.

In 2026, Locale offers 3 mentorships with dedicated time for one-on-one, online conversations with a focus on reflection, advice and dialogue across art, science and technology.

ANAT Locale is a rare, paid opportunity, each mentorship includes:

4 x 1-hour online sessions, one-on-one with your mentor/s (via Zoom)
A wrap-up online meeting with ANAT’s CEO (up to 1 hour)
A mentoring relationship shaped around your genuine needs at this stage of your practice
Space to explore curiosity and cross-disciplinary thinking that opens new pathways of creative intent

Artist fees:
Artists will be paid for their time to participate in the program based on NAVA’s Code of Practice. The fee is $40 per hour for each mentoring session and the final wrap up meeting with ANAT’s CEO – a total artist fee of $200, plus superannuation. Mentors will also be paid for their time.

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 1 July 2026
Notification of outcome: Friday 14 August 2026
Mentorship period: September to November 2026

APPLY via 🔗 in our BIO

Image: Tega Brain with Alex Nathanson, Benedetta Piantella and the Solar Protocol Collective, 'Can the sun do the thinking?' 2021 – 2024, installation view, ANAT SPECTRA 2025 :: Reciprocity in partnership with UniSC. Photograph Marcia Grimm.
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14/06/2026

Congratulations and thank you :: ANAT Board transitions

As ANAT moves toward its 40th anniversary in 2028, the organisation enters a new chapter in its governance with gratitude and enthusiasm. Reflecting on a significant moment of transition, we acknowledge the extraordinary contribution of outgoing Board member Michèle Saint-Yves and warmly welcome Melita Grant as ANAT’s incoming Board Chair.

Living and working on Kaurna Country, Michèle brought to the ANAT Board a rare combination of artistic insight, strategic thinking and deeply embodied advocacy. A writer working across stage, screen and poetry, her practice spans performance, access and inclusion, neuroscience and social systems.

ANAT welcomes Melita Grant into the role of Board Chair. A Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, Melita’s work spans social justice, sustainability, water management and international development across the Asia-Pacific region. With more than two decades of experience working across government, universities and civil society, she brings a deeply collaborative and systems-oriented approach to leadership.

READ move via 🔗 in BIO

Image: Melita Grant and Michèle Saint Yves.

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11/06/2026

What could your organisation discover by inviting an artist into the room?

Over the last decade, ANAT Bespoke has partnered with organisations across diverse sectors. From water utilities, health and medical research institutes and national science agencies, to universities and the wine industry.

ANAT is CALLING for Expressions of Interest for the Bespoke program.
Details in our BIO 🔗

ANAT Bespoke supports tailored pathways for industry and research partners to work with artists across art, science and technology.

From Yandell Walton’s Re-cultivate with South East Water and FB IDEAs, where real tidal and reservoir data shape a virtual landscape, to Dr Helen Pynor’s SAHMRI residency exploring what happens when DNA goes rogue.

These ambitious projects brought artists into dialogue with real world complex systems, technologies and fields of knowledge.

Images credits in the comments

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08/06/2026

"There is something wonderful and wonderous about seeing da Vinci’s 500-year old scientific sketch alongside the laboratory-experiment photography and graphic tracings, and the trial bubble trajectory simulations… Musical ideas and notations are emerging!"
Elissa Goodrich, 2026 ANAT Synapse rresident

Our 2026 ANAT Synapse resident Elissa is working with long time collaborator Prof Richard Manasseh, from the fluid dynamics team at Swinburne University of Technology.

The duo are focusing on how fluid dynamics (bubble clouds) and new music and sound art converge, diverge and enhance our understanding of nature’s processes and human manipulations of it.

READ Elissa's Creative Research Journal 🔗 link in BIO

Image: Leonardo da Vinci’s bubble illustration from his Codex Leicester, c.1506 -1512

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05/06/2026

Today is 🌏 World Environment Day :: Perfect timing to highlight the work of Peachey & Mosig

Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig are Canberra based visual artists working across moving image, sound, textiles, and installation.

Grounded in human ecology and field research, their collaborative practice explores the evolving relationship between humans and the natural world through sensory, site-responsive encounters that translate ecological tensions into poetic forms.

During their 2006 ANAT Synapse residency at the Australian National University’s Department of Archaeology and Natural History, they worked within ecological research frameworks, using field sampling, specimen collection and palaeoecological methods to explore human impact on the ACT landscape through environmental and archaeological evidence.

Images: Peachey & Mosig, The nature of secrecy - C-Type print 155 x 105cm | The age of reflection - Rock, wood. Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig courtesy the artists.

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03/06/2026

A sustained body of more than 50 artist-in-residence journals is archived on the ANAT website. Collectively they document Australian experimental practice, collaboration and inquiry across art, science and technology over more than three decades.

Each creative research journal is utterly unique in subject matter, perspective, method and medium. Spanning dark energy, frogs, satellites, optical illusions and seaweed bio-polymers to name just a few.

ANAT’s longevity is itself evidence of what continuity makes possible :: deep relationships with artists, research institutions, international networks, and the communities that hold and transmit culture across generations.

Images: ANAT Synapse creative research journals
Jessica Herrington 2016 :: The Kanizsa square illusion
Alicia Sometimes 2023 :: A jellyfish, an interpretation of ‘dark energy’ moving
Niki Sperou 2020 :: Experimental seaweed bio-polymer films
James Nguyen 2025 :: Listening to frog calls
Anna Madeleine Raupach 2022 :: Space Situational Awareness
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31/05/2026

The Kiewa River Sound Map :: Is longstanding alumni Philip Samartzis's latest project, developed over the past three years through the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture in partnership with Switzerland’s Gwaertler Stiftung.

The project traces the evolving acoustic life of the Kiewa River from the Bogong High Plains to the Murray River. Through field recordings, video, and an aleatoric digital interface, the work explores how ecology, weather, infrastructure, and human intervention shape the river’s sonic identity.

Experience the project:
https://www.kiewa-index.com

Sound recording, direction: Philip Samartzis
Video: Madelynne Cornish
Datasets: Professor Nick BondDirector of the Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems, La Trobe University
Design, development: Public OfficeThe Kiewa River Sound Map has been generously supported by the Gwaertler Stiftung (2024–26)
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28/05/2026

APPLICATIONS OPEN :: ANAT Locale Mentorships

A mentorship program connecting South Australian emerging and early-career artists with established practitioners from ANAT’s national alumni network.

In 2026, Locale offers 3 mentorships with dedicated time for one-on-one, online conversations with a focus on reflection, advice and dialogue across art, science and technology.

ANAT Locale is a rare, paid opportunity, each mentorship includes:

4 x 1-hour online sessions, one-on-one with your mentor/s (via Zoom)
A wrap-up online meeting with ANAT’s CEO (up to 1 hour)
A mentoring relationship shaped around your genuine needs at this stage of your practice
Space to explore curiosity and cross-disciplinary thinking that opens new pathways of creative intent

Artist fees:
Artists will be paid for their time to participate in the program based on NAVA’s Code of Practice. The fee is $40 per hour for each mentoring session and the final wrap up meeting with ANAT’s CEO – a total artist fee of $200, plus superannuation. Mentors will also be paid for their time.

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 1 July 2026
Notification of outcome: Friday 14 August 2026
Mentorship period: September to November 2026

APPLY via 🔗 in our BIO

Image: Tega Brain with Alex Nathanson, Benedetta Piantella and the Solar Protocol Collective, 'Can the sun do the thinking?' 2021 – 2024, installation view, ANAT SPECTRA 2025 :: Reciprocity in partnership with UniSC. Photograph Marcia Grimm.
grimm .australia

25/05/2026

The Windmill Trust Scholarship is to support visual artists from regional NSW to take up career development and/or presentation opportunities for their work.

One individual or group will be awarded up to $10,000.
This scholarship provides assistance towards the cost of:
• Exhibiting work, including space rental, artist fees, travel, documentation.
• Professional development and education.
• Independent artistic research or practice including studio fees, residencies and travel.

Closes :: 13 July 2026, midnight AEST.

https://regionalartsnsw.com.au/windmill-trust-scholarship/

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