Now or Never

Programming Officer

Programming

Curation

Production

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Art. Ideas. Sound. Technology

The future is now.

Featuring more than 300 Australian and international sonic and visual artists, creators and composers, Now or Never is Melbourne/Narrm’s newest large-scale festival celebrating digital art and future thinking.

Taking over city streets and venues – from late-night club spots to stately historic buildings – an essential lineup has been curated for a cutting-edge program of spectacular art installations, adventurous music performances and thought-provoking experiences. Audiences will be transported to a place where technology rarely goes alone.

This is an open invitation to explore the future, in the present. A call for curiosity and collective awe. A leap into the unknown. It’s now or never.

A woman speaks into a microphone on stage. People are seated at tables with food. The room is very tall with heritage white walls and collumns that are lit up in a pink colour.

Image: Building Cities on Colonised Land, Now or Never 2023

A heritage building with a seated audience in front of a very large tall screen. A man is on stage speaking to the audeience.

Image: Never Permanent, Now or Never 2023

Three dancers wearing motion capture technology which looks like black straps on their arms and legs. They are posing dramatically and are lit up in intense pink lighting.

Image: Body Crysis, Now or Never 2023

A large glass box in the city streets. Inside the box is a writing machine which is creating reems of paper which are hanging up inside. A woman crouches on the ground inside the box, folding the paper that the machine has created. A couple stands outside the box on the pavement, holding one of the pieces of paper about the size of a newspaper and reading it together.

Image: This Is Not Your Breaking Point, Now or Never 2023