Atmospheric Memory at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum

Atmospheric Memory at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum

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About

Experience a unique immersive art environment where you control interactive artworks while surrounded with light, sound and colossal projections.

Inspired by computing pioneer Charles Babbage’s proposal that the atmosphere is a ‘vast library’ recording everything we say, Atmospheric Memory invites audiences to listen to the turbulent voices in the medium where we live – the atmosphere: invisible but precious, filled with echoes and sounds from the past.

What is the atmosphere trying to tell us?

The production premiered at Manchester International Festival in 2019.

Want to present this show?

Atmospheric Memory is available for future presentation in a touring version or bespoke presentation for your venue/festival.

For full details, please contact Michelle Rocha, Head of Touring at michelle.rocha@factoryinternational.org

Recent Presentations

Sydney

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s breathtaking art experience Atmospheric Memory was exhibited from 12 August to 5 November 2023 as part of Sydney Science Festival 2023 at the city's Powerhouse Museum.

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Artworks and Atmospheres

A mechanical artwork
See the full breakdown of artworks and atmospheres from Atmospheric Memory.
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  • The most ambitious art project at this year's festival.

    New York Times

  • Inventive and provocative.

    The Sunday Times

  • Visually memorable, and a crowd pleaser.

    State of the Arts

Past Presentations

North Carolina

2–17 Dec 2021

Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Manchester

6–21 July 2019

MIF19

Learning Programme

Manchester International Festival and Science and Industry Museum teamed up to devise and present an Atmospheric Memory engagement programme, supported by The Granada Foundation.

AM learning programme

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Teacher's Resource Pack

Atmospheric Memory education pack
This resource pack contains five hands-on, cross-curricular classroom activities inspired by Atmospheric Memory.

Each activity lasts approximately 15 minutes – but also includes extension ideas, helping you to create a full lesson plan around it.

Credits

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Artist

José Luis de Vicente Curator

Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Science and Industry Museum, FutureEverything, ELEKTRA/Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal and Carolina Performing Arts – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Produced by Manchester International Festival and curated with FutureEverything and Science and Industry Museum.

Supported by Wellcome.

Accompanied by an education programme supported by The Granada Foundation.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer dedicates Atmospheric Memory to Jóhann Jóhannsson

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