Play brilliant new games for free when the Best of the Independent Games Festival returns to ACMI. Dubbed the ‘Sundance of the game world’, the annual festival encourages innovation in game development and recognises the best work of indie designers from all around the world. ACMI presents 14 international award-winners that expand our expectation of what a video game can be, from the instant classic Minecraft, to the mind-bending challenges of Australia’s own Antichamber.

[thousand words] is a photography exhibition in Sydney’s newest public art space, Lane Four at The Galeries. Curated by aMBUSH Gallery in a collaboration with William York of York Production, ten photographers have been invited to submit a single thought-provoking image, accompanied by 100 words to describe the inspiration and story behind it. Photographers include Montalbetti + Campbell, Andrew Quilty, Tim Georgeson, Amanda Prior and Stephen Dupont.

An exhibition by one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, William Kentridge. Premiering in Australia after travelling to San Francisco, New York, Paris, Vienna, Jerusalem and Moscow, the exhibition explores five key themes that have captivated Kentridge throughout his career. Born in South Africa and well-known for his stop motion films of charcoal drawings, Kentridge’s multidisciplinary approach will be showcased through over 60 works ranging from animations, drawings and prints to theatre models,
sculptures and books.

Ben Ashton-Bell’s If the World Made Sense presents a body of work that shows Ashton-Bell’s exponential growth and development into his visual style. Used as an opportunity to create pure hand-crafted pieces, the work has been created using a combination of pencil, airbrush, gauche and watercolour to achieve the desired effect.

Through his work, Ashton-Bell explores themes of humanity and nature. The concept behind If the World Made Sense is propelled by the chaos of our world, touching on the sometimes senseless act of humans destroying what’s around them. The exhibition examines a futuristic fictional world, exploring the remnants of war and the evolution of nature taking back its rightful place.

Art comes face to face with architecture in ‘Vision in Motion’, a major project by artist Narelle Jubelin. ‘Vision in Motion’ animates an Australian history of modernism, presenting a survey of Jubelin’s intricately sewn petit points of the past three decades alongside newly commissioned works inspired by architecture and the built environment. Jubelin has also developed a new site specific installation, working with Percy Everett’s 1950s building originally designed for the Caulfield Technical School, now Monash University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, an iconic local modernist building.

Australian photographer Jonny Lewis’s latest exhibition, Shadowman investigates shadow as a rite of passage for both novice and professional photographer alike. The exhibition explores “the spaces in between” as a zone where images appear to the photographer in a dream-like state.