Science Gallery Melbourne is a bold addition to the City of Melbourne, exploring the collision of art and science, and playing a vital role in shifting our understanding of science, art and innovation. As a member of the Science Gallery’s Youth Advisory Board, Sci Curious, Jess has helped shape the evolution of the gallery from artwork themes to architectural designs.
Jess collaborated on artist and PhD candidate Rachel Hanlon’s most recent ‘Hello Machine’ installation for Science Gallery’s inaugural exhibition MENTAL. Part exhibition, part experiment, MENTAL is a welcoming place to confront societal bias and stereotypes around mental health. Jess’s project involved scripting and recording an artificially intelligent chat bot which participants can communicate with through a vintage telephone in the style of a Turing machine.
“Rachel Hanlon’s work explores this question our modern day society asks itself by reflecting on her own personal connection to the telephone. Her works make available many layered metaphors and meanings through reinterpretations of the now obsolete technologies that are heightened by our cultural reliance on them as a part of the narrative of our times. Her installations stimulate thoughts regarding objects/things in relation to the passing of time, changes to our ‘selves’ and our rituals, cementing the telephone as an object that verifies its place within our history as part of our cultural voice.”
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