Dino Zoo features well-known dinosaurs such as T-Rex, Stegosaurus and Triceratops as well as five Australian dinosaurs including Queensland’s own Muttaburrasaurus, Kunbarrasaurus, Rhoetosaurus, Coelurosaur and Australovenator nicknamed Banjo. Visitors can immerse themselves in the zoo, interact with the dinosaurs, and play fun activities on the touch screens. Some of…
Winter holiday sees nature in focus
QUT’s Winter holiday program saw The Cube come alive with over 3,700 budding geologists, nature explorers, and aspiring artists. The holiday program, inspired by The Cube’s new project Nature imagined, offered a range of activities for visitors to explore and interact with science, art, and nature. A guided tour…
The makings of Nature imagined
The Cube’s Nature imagined project displays three of William Robinson’s captivating landscape paintings, digitised for the first time at high resolution. Visitors can zoom in on each of the artworks to see intricate detail and discover fascinating facts about the painted landscapes. This project brings together the interaction…
Unpacking the development of Nature imagined
Q&A with Vanessa Van Ooyen and Simon Harrison Nature imagined is an exciting new collaboration and will be displayed in two mediums: in the William Robinson Gallery and digitally on The Cube. This unique interaction of art and science provides an inspiring and explorative digital experience and this…
Calling all creatives: The Cube 2018 Artist in Residence program
Are you a professional working in visual art, interactive design, science communication, digital storytelling, software engineering, data visualisation or games design? Do you want to push the boundaries of your practice and develop an innovative project on one of the world’s largest interactive display spaces? If answered ‘yes’…
The Cube turns five!
What a year it has been! We can’t believe we’re already half a decade old. The Cube just turned 5, and what better way to celebrate than taking a look at some of the highlights of the past year. Georgie Pinn’s Cube Residency Cube Resident George Pinn brought…
Exploring art and science over Summer
How was your summer? We spent ours exploring art and science with lots of new friends! Our Public Programs Officer, Kerry Turnbull takes us through the highlights of the 2018 Draw it. Code it. | QUT Summer Holiday Program at The Cube. What a blast January was! We were…
Deconstructing Gosia Wlodarczak’s artist residency at QUT Art Museum
“One of the main rules which structure all my drawings is that I do not work from imagination. I draw my surrounding as I look at it in the very moment of mark making. Every line, every shape you see on the drawing belongs to the shape which is…
Finding maths in movies – you just need to know where to look!
QUT’s resident pop-culture roboticist Professor Michael Milford (Science and Engineering Centre and Australian Centre for Robotic Vision) joined host Lee Constable for a quick-fire chat about maths in movies, as part of the Fast Five event at the 2018 Family Fun Day. Here’s a recap of their talk…
80s style games with a maths twist!
Everything old is new again and you can get your 80s fix with The Retro Arcade, which launches on 6 January 2018 at the Draw It. Code It. QUT Summer Holiday Program. Using the power of algorithms and Unity 3D software to immerses users in an 80’s style…