Composite: Moving Image Agency & Media Bank
Composite: Moving Image Agency & Media Bank is an Artist-Run agency dedicated to supporting artists’ moving image practices in Australia through exhibition, research, education and distribution.
Composite began within a dedicated screening room and production space at the Collingwood Yards and is now located at the Brunswick Mechanics Institute. It works in concert with other organisations, initiatives and festivals to champion artists’ moving image practice in the visual arts to a wide audience and create new income opportunities for individual working artists.
Composite hosts a year-round screening program; facilitate screening events, workshops and education programs; build an online database of artists’ video and film works; develop a distribution and licensing model for Australian artists video and film works; and house a Media Bank to provide free loans of technical equipment for artists working with moving image.
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Composite: Moving Image Agency & Media Bank is located at Brunswick Mechanics Institute in Merri-bek, Naarm/Melbourne and provides specialist development and promotional support to visual artists working at the intersection of visual arts, media arts, and film sectors.
Composite was founded at Collingwood Yards a new, permanent and affordable home for scores of artists and independent arts organisations working across music, visual arts, performance, digital media, creative industries and beyond. As part of the first wave of tenants, from 2020-2024, Composite staged countless exhibitions, screenings, discussions, broadcasts, and other activities, along with programming partnerships with other organisations.
In 2024, Composite relocated to the Brunswick Mechanics Institute as part of a new programming residency with our friends at Next Wave. Read more about getting to find Brunswick Mechanics Institute here.
Composite: Moving Image & Media Bank,
270 Sydney Rd, Brunswick VIC 3056
Supporters
Composite is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, the City of Melbourne, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the City of Melbourne.
Venue hire
Get in touch if you are interested in presenting a work at Composite. Whether it be private screenings and performances, classes and workshops, video and audio recordings, book launches, artist talks.
For reservations, contact:
hello@composite.org.au