Experimenta Media Arts

Name

Experimenta Media Arts

Website

https://experimenta.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Experimenta Media Arts is an Australian non-profit founded in 1986 that commissions, exhibits, and tours contemporary art shaped by technology. Based in Collingwood with 1-10 staff, it serves the cultural and arts sector through curated programs and exhibitions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Media Arts & Cultural Services

NAICS

Museums (712110), Performing Arts Companies (7111)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Fringe & Experimental Performing Arts (MPAGABAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Arts Education & Community Arts Programs (BPAGAHAC), Media Arts & Performance (Film, Stagecraft, Lighting, Sound) (EDAMAAAJ)

Keywords

• Contemporary art exhibitions
• Media arts curation
• Art commissions
• Touring art exhibitions
• Art and technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Collingwood

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Experimenta Media Arts commissions, exhibits, and tours contemporary art that is driven by ideas and shaped by technology. Operating as a non-profit cultural organization, it presents experimental media artworks through curated exhibitions and touring programs to public audiences. The organisation's programming focuses on artists working at the intersection of art, science, and emerging technologies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Art Commissions Program
• Contemporary Art Exhibitions
• Touring Exhibition Program

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Emerging players

• InterAccess: Toronto-based gallery and studio dedicated to media arts and emerging technology practices; comparable as a smaller, non-profit commissioner-exhibitor of technology-driven contemporary art, with a more regionally scoped footprint.

Direct peers

• ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image): Australia's flagship museum of film, video, games and digital culture; commissions and exhibits media and screen-based contemporary art in Melbourne, making it the closest direct peer to Experimenta Media Arts by mission, geography, and programming model.
• Ars Electronica: Linz-based organization operating a major festival, museum, and Futurelab dedicated to art, technology, and society; directly comparable as a global benchmark for commissioning, exhibiting, and touring technology-driven contemporary art.
• Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA): Melbourne-based contemporary art institution commissioning and exhibiting new work; a strong Australian peer with overlapping commission-and-exhibit programming, though broader in focus than Experimenta's technology-driven remit.
• Rhizome: Non-profit organization supporting the creation, exhibition, and preservation of born-digital and net-based art; highly comparable as a mission-aligned commissioning/presenting non-profit in the new-media-art niche.
• Institute of Modern Art (IMA Brisbane): Queensland contemporary art institution that commissions and presents experimental work by Australian and international artists; comparable as an Australian non-profit curatorial commissioning peer.
• ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe: German center for art and media that commissions, exhibits, and researches media art; a near-perfect functional parallel to Experimenta's commission-exhibit-tour mandate in the technology-art space.
• V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media: Rotterdam-based center for art and technology producing, exhibiting, and researching unstable media art; directly comparable as a small, mission-driven non-profit media-arts commissioner and presenter.
• Eyebeam: NYC-based art and technology center that commissions, produces, and exhibits work at the intersection of art, technology, and social justice; directly comparable as a non-profit media arts commissioner and presenter.

Broad incumbents

• Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA): Sydney's flagship contemporary art museum; not media-arts specific, but a larger incumbent in the Australian contemporary art commissioning/exhibition space with overlapping artist relationships and audience.

Market position

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/experimenta-media-arts

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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