NEW EXHIBITIONS EXPLORE DIGITAL CULTURE & THE FUTURE OF ATTENTION

Season 3 Exhibitions

Artists:  Solo exhibitions by Axel Garay and Nadège Philippe-Janon; Group exhibition featuring Amalia Lindo, Clara Chanisheff, Guy Louden, Katie Paine, Oliver Hull (curated by Sebastian Kainey)

Exhibition dates: Saturday 1 August to Sunday 25 October 2026
Opening Event: Saturday 1 August, 2pm to 4pm
Venue: Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Road Brunswick VIC 3056 
Admission: FREE, open Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, and Sunday, 1pm to 5pm.

Through installation, moving image, scent, sculpture and sound, these exhibitions invite us to consider how technology and online environments shape the ways we connect, communicate, and make sense of the world.

FRONT GALLERY: From within the infinite flow

From within the infinite flow:  curated by Sebastian Kainey

From within the infinite flow brings together the work of Amalia Lindo, Clara Chanisheff, Guy Louden, Katie Paine, and Oliver Hull in an exhibition examining the digital systems that condition our lives. Working across video, installation, sculpture, and sensory experimentation, the artists explore the hidden infrastructures, algorithms, and narratives underpinning how we engage with each other and the world around us.

Tracing relationships between the body and data, outdated hardware and current networks, physical spaces and online environments, the exhibition considers how once-open digital spaces are increasingly governed by surveillance, algorithmic control, and systems that shape behaviour, identity, and even bodily experience. Rather than imagining an escape from these structures, the exhibition asks what it means to navigate and critically examine systems we cannot easily step outside of.

MIDDLE GALLERY: Nadège Philippe-Janon: Ecologies of Attention

Ecologies of Attention: Nadège Philippe-Janon

Ecologies of Attention is an installation of oscillating, pendulum-like sculptures powered by elemental and industrial energy sources including wind, solar energy, microbial life, and fossil fuels. Constructed from everyday materials and activated by simple mechanical systems, the works respond to shifting forces and rhythmic cycles, exploring relationships between time, perception, energy, and our physical environment.

Drawing on the hypnotic legacy of the pendulum — and parallels between states of hypnosis and screen addiction — the installation playfully considers the attention economies that increasingly influence the flow of daily experience. In a time marked by accelerating technological change and climate anxiety, Ecologies of Attention offers audiences moments to slow down, reconnect with bodily awareness, and attune to the rhythms operating within and around them.

REAR GALLERY: Axel Garay: Ama Algorithmius (Mother Algorithm)

Ama Algorithmus (Mother Algorithm): Axel Garay

Ama Algorithmus (Mother Algorithm) is a photo-media and audiovisual installation by Axel Garay exploring the mysticism surrounding algorithmic technology and the unseen influence of digital systems in contemporary life. Expanding on a project first presented at the Yirramboi Festival in 2025, the exhibition combines cyanotypes, lightbox works, projected video, and an original soundscape by cellist Thomas Veitch.

Through these interconnected forms, Garay reflects on the ways artificial intelligence and contemporary technologies are often imbued with reverence and mystery, obscuring the political and commercial structures that shape them. As a proud Meriam (Eastern Torres Strait Islander), Puerto Rican, and Malaysian queer artist living in Naarm, Garay approaches the project as both a cultural and conceptual meditation on power, belief, and perception in the digital age.

A series of free public programs and school holiday activities will complement the exhibitions – details to be announced.

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