Art Vs Science Festival – Molecular Sculpture

Scale Free Network’s Molecular Sculpture activity was part of the Art Vs Science Festival, one-day science, art and music festival at the Lismore City Hall organised by The Northern Rivers Science Hub from Southern Cross University as a part of a National … Continued

BZ Chemical Reaction – Performance

SFN’s first live performance was at the Grand Eye and Ear Ball, closing night of The OtherFilm Festival, held at The Old Museum in Brisbane. Demonstrating a real-time complex system evolving inside two petri dishes, each BZ (Belousov-Zhabotinsky) chemical reaction … Continued

Art-Science Lab at Ipswich Art Gallery – 2010

In March 2010, SFN was invited by curator Ingrid Hedgecock to spend three weeks at the Ipswich Art Gallery in Queensland. In this workshop series, along with kit of our microscopes, petri-dishes, fascinating objects, projectors, library of highly magnified images … Continued

The Invisible Yarra: River Drawing Lab at the Moomba Festival

For Melbourne’s annual Moomba Water Festival in 2009 (Australia’s largest and longest running free community festival), we were invited by ArtPlay to create an interactive installation for the general public. Our friends ‘Slow Art Collective’ had been commissioned to create … Continued

Molecular Smorgasbord at National Science Week

For our very first trial of the Molecular Smorgasbord activity, we brought our plasticine, toothpicks and molecular recipes to Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Markets as part of National Science Week 2010’s ‘Living Science’ event. Over one day, members of the public, … Continued

Art Gallery of Ballarat

During National Science Week 2010, SFN travelled to former gold-rush boom-town, Ballarat (VIC) to run a three day art-science lab installation. Hosted by The Art Gallery of Ballarat, we set up our microscopes, projectors, art equipment and molecular sculpture activity … Continued

Molecular Smorgasbord at Castlemaine Farmers Market

According to Re:Science, every week is National Science Week! We were invited by Re:Science to bring our Molecular Smorgasbord to the people of Castlemaine (VIC). As part of their Living Science event, we set up a stall in the local … Continued

Free Range Science at Wendouree

Invited by the Royal Institution of Australia, SFN took part in a Free Range Science event at Wendouree West in regional Victoria. We brought a number of microscopes, art-science books and some of our favourite objects to look at – … Continued

Molecular Sculpture at CSIRO Education

Everything is made out of molecules!!! On a nano-scale, you and this computer screen are made of the same things…..along with everything else in and around you! To explore this amazing phenomenon, SFN was invited by CSIRO Education (VIC) to … Continued

RiAUS Art-Science Lab – Drawing on the Microscale

Over 4 days in Adelaide, Scale Free Network collaborated with the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) to deliver a series of structured and open-house workshops to groups of children, families, CSIRO Double Helix Club members and local artists. As part … Continued