Sugar Glider Digital is honoured to be included in the 10th anniversary of West Bund Art & Design in 2023. As a young and innovative gallery, we have chosen to make our international art fair debut in Shanghai because it is an artistic epicentre in Asia for contemporary art.

The year is 2050. Do we still think AI is inherently bad, or are we collaborating with it to make art, write screenplays and compose scores? Will art curators become redundant? What does ‘digital’ art look like today? Is immersive art still interesting? How has technology transformed our experience of arts and culture?

Nancy Liang predominately works with paper and collage. Her projects often explore place and history, and more recently Chinese and Korean folk-culture, mythology and traditional arts and crafts.

Sugar Glider Digital is teaming up with Purpose Conference! Join us and 800+ other diverse thinkers as we showcase immersive digital art at Purpose Conference at Carriageworks 8-9 November.

We are excited to announce that our panel discussion, 'The Digital & Immersive Future of the Arts: How and Why We Need to Get There' has been selected for the inaugural SXSW Sydney this October.

Billy Ryan is an artist and filmmaker based in Sydney, Australia. His works aims to explore the unseen, capturing the familiar as wondrous, exotic and uncanny. Ryan employs the use of a full spectrum infrared camera - capturing the natural environments via light waves which are invisible to the human eye.

For International Women’s Day, we hosted a provocative panel discussion on the future of art projects with a panel of acclaimed speakers working at the cutting edge of AI, art, design and placemaking.

Sheldon Harrington is a Widjabul Artist from the Bundjalung Nation on the Far North Coast of New South Wales. Harrington has been painting, designing and creating for more than 10 years and continues to learn and share the knowledge that has been passed down through his family. Harrington works across mediums blending traditional Aboriginal art and contemporary with modern design.

Mia Forrest is an artist based in the Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia. Mia’s work has exhibited worldwide, including Vellum LA, Tweed Regional Art Gallery, Cannes AVIFF Art Festival, Channels International Biennial of Video Art at the Australian Center for Moving Image, Queensland Film Festival, and Aesthetica Film Festival.

Stefania Shevchenko is an interdisciplinary artist who creates immersive visual narratives that ponder the planet’s evolution through futuristic landscapes. Shevchenko holds a Bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in Expanded Practice at Griffith University Queensland College of Art.

Artists have always struggled to maintain copyright and ownership of their work, and the infinite, seemingly instantaneous possibilities of the internet and AI makes this even harder. How can we frame AI in a way that does not undermine the hard work of artists?

Digital art manifests simultaneously as more sustainable and more destructive - if knowledge is power then the only way to move forward is through making decisions informed by truth and objectivity.