Melania Jack

Melania Jack is a multimedia artist working with film,  projection, sound, digital collage, and performance. Their work critically explores gender, labour, and technology, posthuman feminisms, environmental ethics, and non-human rights. They have exhibited both in solo and group shows, co-authored papers for NIME and ISEA, and received awards for their interactive installation work. They have recently undertaken an artist program at the Centre for Projection Art, Melbourne, where their work has been featured at Fed Square for Now or Never Festival, Bunjil Place and Collingwood Yards for Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Patty Preece

Patty Preece is a Cairns-based musician, electronic music producer, Ableton Live Certified Trainer, and sound artist whose creative practice interrogates aesthetic and relational hierarchies at the intersection of sound, gender, and technology. Engaging with posthuman feminisms and sonic cyberfeminisms, their work challenges conventional performer- instrument-audience dynamics through the use of hacked domestic objects, DIY electronics, and immersive performance ecosystems.

With a career spanning over two decades, Preece’s practice integrates live performance, instrument design, music production, and sound installation. Their recent project, Hot & Heavy, is an immersive performance-installation exploring themes of labour, technology, and climate change through interactive sound and movement. Preece holds a Master of Research from CQUniversity, where their thesis, Oscillations: Exploring a Performance Ecosystem Through a Sonic Cyberfeminisms Lens, received the Outstanding Thesis Award. Currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Queensland, their research expands Hot & Heavy, examining labour, technology, and collective sonic experiences through a posthumanist framework.