Australia’s national museum of screen culture, ACMI, has partnered with experience design agency Art Processors for its new exhibition, “The Future & Other Fictions”.
The teams designed and produced a visitor experience that draws on aesthetics like cyberpunk and solarpunk, boasting spaces that foster engagement.
“Featuring more than 180 works, The Future & Other Fictions showcases speculative visions of the future from cyberpunk cities to rewilded landscapes and solarpunk utopias. At the heart of the exhibition is the visitor, with a thoughtfully choreographed journey that enhances the emotional and intellectual connection with the artworks, props, costumes and film clips on display,” Tara McDonough, exhibition design director at Art Processors, said.
“The Future & Other Fictions” is the first collaboration between the ACMI and Art Processors teams.
The Art Processors team enabled ACMI to present an exhibition showcasing storytelling through film, videogames and screen-based art.
“Every design choice was made with the visitor in mind. We have crafted an experience where they can step into a story where they’re not just a spectator, but part of the narrative. The exhibition has a cinematic quality, inviting visitors to interact, reflect, and even shape their own vision for the future in small but meaningful ways,” McDonough added.
“The Future & Other Fictions is an expansive mix of physical objects – intricate costumes, delicate props, digital and interactive media and large scale screen-based art – about complex and contested subject matter: our future. The Art Processors team have skillfully delivered a vibrant and bold exhibition design, creating a captivating and coherent visitor experience full of hope, colour, optimism and potential that has wide appeal across ages and cultural backgrounds,” Seb Chan, ACMI director & CEO, said.
“Our challenge was to design a space that explores imagined futures through the journey of the creative process. We aimed to showcase a diverse range of themes and perspectives, and also offer a cohesive, digestible journey for visitors to engage with, and, hopefully, reflect on after leaving. To achieve this we worked closely with ACMI, combining their expertise in content curation, with Art Processors’ design, technology and experiential knowledge to craft a singular, novel experience that still celebrated ACMI’s distinct flavour. The result is a vibrant space, with each turn revealing something unique,” Vanda Nemeth, exhibition designer, Art Processors added.
“The Future & Other Fictions” is running from 28 November 2024 to 27 April 2025 at Melbourne’s ACMI in Gallery 4.
