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Ben Andrews and Emma Roberts

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Ben Andrews and Emma Roberts are a new-media artist duo from Wathaurong Country in south-east Australia. Their work—spanning installation, lecture performance, projection, and immersive theatre—explores embodiment and the liminal space between the physical and digital.

Their collaboration began with immersive shows allthestarstheybleedtogether (2016) and STARLESS (2017), both commissioned by the City of Melbourne. The durational installation Gondwana (2022) opened at Sundance before showing at Adelaide Festival, ACMI, SxSW, Wales Millennium Centre, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, etc. Gondwana won Best Interactive/Immersive at the Australian Directors’ Guild and Australian International Documentary Conference awards, and has been seen by overn 1,00,000 people worldwide.

They began exploring motion perception with House, Unmoored (2023), lecture-performance Embodied/Misembodied (ongoing), and immersive-theatre-for-one Turbulence: Jamais Vu (2023), which won top prizes at IDFA DocLab, was invited to Venice Film Festival’s Best of VR program, and is now nominated for the Annwn, a global immersive art prize. The immersive audio performance Co(m)motion was invited to be developed at 2024’s Venice Biennale College (Immersive) and is currently in development with Geelong Performing Arts Centre.