Lumia: art/ light/ motion is an exciting new media exhibition presented by State Library of Queensland in partnership with Queensland-based Kuuki collective artists Priscilla Bracks and Gavin Sade :: until June 5, 2011 :: slq Gallery, level 2, Cultural Centre, State Library of Queensland, Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia.

Explore contemporary life and encourage thought about the future through an extraordinary collection of hand-crafted and interactive electronic creatures and installations. These beautifully crafted new media artworks in Lumia: art/light/motion combine the bespoke with art and technology to create strange but intriguing objects.

Lumia invites you to play, learn and then ponder the way we live and the environmental and social implications of our choices.

Be tempted to travel deep into the Antarctic, plunge into the Great Barrier Reef, be swamped by an orchestra of crickets, enter the Charmed world and travel back in time to a Victorian parlour where you can interact with a ‘new-world’ lyrebird.

Kuuki is a collaboration bound together by an interest in how people interact with, and shape the world in which they live. Kuuki is a Japanese word that translates literally to oxygen, air or atmosphere, but is also used colloquially to mean things we take for granted, but cannot live without. Priscilla and Gavin take an avid interest in contemporary issues and popular culture, reading the air or mining the wealth of our collective consciousness and action for inspiration and ideas.

This inspiration and ideas has been transformed into five new media artworks which will draw you into a curious ‘other’ world – intriguing the most curious of minds, and invite you to engage with contemporary global issues and reconsider personal and cultural priorities.

In the creation of these works, the artists have used data, information, research and have interpreted important historical references from State Library in a non-traditional way, such as Gould’s Birds of Australia, which we are fortunate to possess.

The exhibition also features Curious Creatures, the chance for children to create their own weird and wonderful creatures in this interactive on-line.

Lumia has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.