Get your best Halloween costume ready and join us for a free party featuring live music, roaming performances and prizes for the best costumes, as DISTRACTION stays open late.
What will you wear to dance the night away with the ghosts of your attention at this special Halloween edition of Friday Night Social?
Wander through Dreamscrolling – an evolving audiovisual environment exploring content overload, dreamlike states and the subconscious drift, and take in live music performance by the University's Interactive Composition students.
Sign up for our costume competition to win a prize, keep an eye out for ButohOUT! dancers moving through otherworldly exhibition spaces and don’t miss Rino’s DJ set that will provide the perfect soundtrack for a spooky night out. No costume on hand? Swing by our face painting station, where award-winning face painter Taylor Courter will create custom designs inspired by the DISTRACTION artworks.
Science Gallery Melbourne’s Friday Night Socials are free parties where you can explore the latest exhibition against a backdrop of immersive performance acts and live DJ sets. Food and drinks are available for purchase.
Focusing on interactive games, play and creative technologies, the DISTRACTION exhibition explores the ways we might harness the cacophony of digital content and find meaning within it.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rino is the solo project of Indonesian born, Melbourne/Naarm-based producer Rino Darusman. Spanning realms of soaring euphoria and hypnotic rhythms, Rino’s sonic world is at once meditative and energetic. It showcases a brand of electronic music that conveys deep human emotions and provides a highly visceral experience through vast textures and tuneful melodies.
Photo by Vikk Shayen
ButohOUT! is a creative platform that breaks expectations and boundaries. It invites diverse arts and non-arts communities to engage with the profound internationally acclaimed art form of Butoh.