In Life in Pieces, Melanie Meggs explores chronic illness, memory loss, and identity through sculpture and AI-generated video, examining survival as an ongoing negotiation with a body forever altered.

James Rhodes is a Newcastle interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and teacher at Newcastle Art School whose practice examines photography as a physical and spatial object rather than simply a two-dimensional image.

This week, the concrete pedestal begins and is finalised for Life in Pieces.

Social media and digital platforms have reshaped how art is distributed, viewed, and discussed. Platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, websites, and virtual galleries allow artists to share work without relying only on traditional gallery systems.

New media art uses digital technologies which creates complex ethical questions.

Samir draws on theories that describe serious illness as a threat not only to the body, but also to the integrity of the self. This strongly reflects how I feel.

Interdisciplinary artist Clare Weeks uses her own body to explore illness, identity, and the relationship between fragility and endurance.

Artists use machine learning to generate images, extend photographic and digital processes, construct speculative worlds, analyse data, automate movement, and create responsive installations.

My installation, Life in Pieces, sits alongside two digital video works Unsolvable and Frustration, forming a cohesive system that examines the experience of living within a body that no longer functions in a predictable or unified way.

The second attempt on the making of the resin head proves a success.

We visited both the Art Gallery of New South Wales and White Bay Power Station, two exhibition sites operating within the Biennale program.

This week explores how contemporary artists use technology to create artworks that respond, shift, or evolve through audience interaction, code, sensors, virtual reality, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

New decision to add a second video into the installation to communicate the internal frustration and physical tension held within the body.

Sound plays an important role in the visual arts by adding another layer to how we experience a work.

Julianne Swartz is an artist known for her installation-based practice that integrates sculpture, sound and architecture.

Installation art is a form of contemporary art that focuses on creating an environment rather than a single object.

Researching new technologies and experimental approaches has allowed me to consider how digital processes can be applied meaningfully within my body of work.

Video art emerged in the late twentieth century when artists began using video cameras and television technology as creative tools rather than simply as devices for recording events.

This week we examine the expanded field of photography, digital imaging and animation as contemporary artistic methodologies.

My approach focused on translating my existing black-and-white self-portrait into a digitally fragmented structure.