LUST
FOR LIFE
14 – 23 FEBRUARY
83 High Street, Prahran VIC 3181
Biography
Karen Ann Donnachie & Andy Simionato
Donnachie & Simionato, (aka Donnachie, Simionato & Sons). Karen ann Donnachie and Andrea [Andy] Simionato have worked exclusively together in the expanded fields of computational art, new-media, design, and post-digital publishing since the 1990s. Through their human and nonhuman collaborative systems, they make electronic art, robotic drawing and other automated-art-machines, such as Trumpet of the Swan, A Jagged Orbit & The Library of Nonhuman Books. They have received critical recognition in their fields including the Electronic Literature Orgnanization Award (USA) and the 2024 Tokyo Type Directors Club Grand Prize; their artworks and designs are exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally including the German Museum of Books and Writing (Leipzig, Germany).
Megalithic structures perform slow dance-like movements in a disused office space while a robotic-phonograph autonomously generates a sound-scape using a single vinyl record by capturing samples from the record, playing it backwards (also known as back-masking), and scratching, in the tradition of early DJ culture of the 1980s and 1990s.
Once the artists, Donnachie and Simionato, place a vinyl record onto the robotic-machine, the ‘nonhuman’ performance continues indefinitely, or until the vinyl record is completely destroyed.
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Works
Hermeneutic Machine Variations [Installation view NotFair] 2026
Proudly Supported by:
NotFair Art Foundation
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