ARNOT Tully

Tully Arnot’s interdisciplinary practice explores models of plant-based multisensory perception as well as how technology mediates our relationships with the natural world, through areas including plant robotics and the simulation of nature. 

Arnot’s work also examines how emergent ways of being are facilitated by social media and human-robot interactions, including with AI, companionship robots and consumer level replacements of human pleasure, connection and labour. 

Through exploring these fields, Arnot’s practice looks to understand how these relationships with various non-sentient forms reflect upon our own capacity to interact meaningfully with one another, in a hyperconnected but disconnected reality.

Recently Arnot was awarded the 2022 ACMI Mordant Family VR Commission, collaborating with evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, was a 2020 City of Sydney Creative Fellowship artist, and previously won the 2015 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship, 2014 NAB Emerging Artist Award, and SOYA365 in 2012.

Arnot has exhibited widely at museums, galleries, and biennales internationally and has a Bachelor of Design and Master of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales, Art + Design Australia, and is a current PhD Fellow at the School of Creative Media, with Professor Zheng Bo.

In conversation with evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano