Join us after-hours to celebrate the power of radio, as Radio Climate expands beyond the EMERGENCE[Y] exhibition for a night of listening, conversation, collective broadcasting and music.
In collaboration with Creative Climate, Science Gallery Melbourne transforms into a live radio ecology, featuring a communal listening party, a performance lecture by artist and researcher Casey Rice, and live DJ sets.
Explore the exhibition, contribute your own thoughts to the Radio Climate archive, and settle in with food, drinks and good company.
Tune in, listen closely, and discover how sound can connect communities, environments and climate stories across distance and time.
This event will be live broadcast on 3CR.
Program
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6:00pm - 9:00pm
Hear the stories collected through Radio Climate at Science Gallery Melbourne together.
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Hayden’s ambient soundscape performance mixes field recordings from nature with electronic music. This work creates a listening experience where contrasting sonic elements can meet and share a voice.
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7:00pm - 8:00pm
When the phone network goes down, radio doesn’t. CB and UHF radio, and now mesh networking tech like MeshCore and Meshtastic, all sit on the same kind of resource: open, licence-free spectrum, usable by anyone at low cost, running on low-power hardware with no reliance on paid business models or carrier infrastructure.
This talk looks at that lineage — from CB through to mesh radio — as a continuous line of publicly available communications infrastructure, and at how that bandwidth works as a shared, low-cost resource in practice.
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8:00pm - 9:00pm
Pre-event sound walk
5:00pm - 6:00pm - Submerged Listening Walk with Geoff Robinson
Prepare your ears for a night of listening, with a guided sound walk
Departing from Science Gallery Melbourne at 5:00pm, join sound artist Geoff Robinson on a guided listening walk tracing the submerged creek flowing under Melbourne University returning in time for the Radio Climate: Friday Night Social programming to begin at 6.00PM.
Science Gallery Melbourne’s Friday Night Socials are free parties where you can explore the latest exhibition along with additional one-night-only programming and live DJ sets. Food and drinks are available for purchase.
The new exhibition EMERGENCE[Y] explores adaptation, innovation and resilience in a rapidly changing world.
Creative Climate is the national peak body for arts and climate, supporting artists and organisations to work towards climate-aligned cultural transformation.
Presented with Creative Climate.
