Current Talks

Wellington Launch - CIRCUIT: Dialogues in Artist Moving Image
Wellington Launch - CIRCUIT: Dialogues in Artist Moving Image
You are invited to the launch of CIRCUIT: Dialogues in Artist Moving Images, a new publication which celebrates a decade of artist moving image production in Aotearoa New Zealand from 2015–2025. The launch features editor Jess Clifford in conversation with curator Christina Barton and artist Martin Sagadin.

Auckland Launch - CIRCUIT: Dialogues in Artist Moving Image
Auckland Launch - CIRCUIT: Dialogues in Artist Moving Image
You are invited to the launch of CIRCUIT: Dialogues in Artist Moving Images, a new publication which celebrates a decade of artist moving image production in Aotearoa New Zealand from 2015–2025. The launch features artists Gavin Hipkins and Sonya Lacey in conversation with editor Jess Clifford.

VĀRUA: Imagining a Queer Pacific screen
VĀRUA: Imagining a Queer Pacific screen
A screening of three moving image works followed by a conversation with artists Iz Randell, Latamai Katoa, and Samson Dell. 2pm-3.30pm, Register via Humantix.

Environmentality
Environmentality
"Our devices are listening to us". A lecture-performance by Naarm Melbourne collective Machine Listening in which critical texts about AI are processed in real time.

Artist Talk: Mike Heynes
Artist Talk: Mike Heynes
Mike Heynes discusses his installation Proudly Brought To You In Standard Definition, now showing at CIRCUIT until 20 December.
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CIRCUIT Cast: Comic Release
CIRCUIT Cast: Comic Release
Artist Joe Jowitt hosts a three-part podcast series of conversations with artists on the ways that humour can engage with contemporary social, political, and ecological challenges.

Artist & Curator Talk: Leap to the Place of Two Pools
Artist & Curator Talk: Leap to the Place of Two Pools
Join visiting curator Erin Robideaux Gleeson and artists Sonya Lacey and James Tapsell-Kururangi for a kōrero around their commissions in Leap to the Place of Two Pools, CIRCUIT's 2025 programme of Artist Cinema Commissions.

Art/Action
Art/Action
A conversation with artists Dieneke Jansen and Heleyni Pratley on using art to investigate the mechanics of capital and as a tool for social justice.

CIRCUIT Cast: Hihi Aho
CIRCUIT Cast: Hihi Aho
A three-part podcast series of conversations unfolding from Rematriation, a programme of moving image works by contemporary Māori artists, hosted by writer Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu).

Artist Talk: Wild Wild Life
Artist Talk: Wild Wild Life
Join artists Tia Barrett, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Obadiah Russon, Layne Waerea, and Gabriel White for a discussion about their commissions in Wild, Wild Life, a collection of seven new artist videos developed in response to the city of Auckland.

CIRCUIT Cast: Sites of Connection
CIRCUIT Cast: Sites of Connection
A three-part podcast series of conversations with artists who work at the intersection of filmic language, poetry, and metaphor, hosted by Dani McIntosh.

Legacies in conversation: May Adadol Ingawanij and Martin Sagadin
Legacies in conversation: May Adadol Ingawanij and Martin Sagadin
In conjunction with the exhibition Legacies, CIRCUIT presents a conversation with curator May Adadol Ingawanij and artist Martin Sagadin, moderated by Mark Williams.

What sparks the words?
What sparks the words?
A conversation with writers Tina Makereti, Gregory Kan, and Gwynneth Porter, on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art beyond the essay, chaired by Thomasin Sleigh.

The DNA of Film
The DNA of Film
A conversation with Nova Paul, Jamie Berry and Jae Hoon Lee, three artists whose recent works are born from a dynamic relationship between nature, mauri and filmic technologies