National Institute for Experimental Arts

The National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) is Australia's leading institute for experimental collaboration in art, science and emerging technologies. Through arts-led thinking they generate new insights into globally important issues resulting in real-world outcomes.

NIEA encompasses a range of transdisciplinary labs and creative research programmes. These are united by a focus on the practical and conceptual value of aesthetic inquiry. Their research offers the sciences and humanities new perspectives on human interaction and experience. Through innovative experimental methodologies they investigate the corporeal and social dimensions of interaction in relation to a range of technologies, environments and wider settings.

At any one time, NIEA labs and programmes work on a number of major cross cutting themes. In 2014 they launched the theme of Medical Visualisation, Health and Wellbeing.