FuckUp Nights x Science Gallery Melbourne
Welcome to this very special collab: FuckUp Nights Melbourne x Science Gallery Melbourne, as part of the brand new SWARM exhibition opening!
FuckUp Nights is a global storytelling movement born in Mexico in 2012, showcasing stories of failure, in whatever our speakers choose - personal, projects, business, and so on.
Each month, speakers' FuckUp stories discuss what they learnt from their biggest mistakes & how they moved on- all whilst sharing invaluable advice along the way, with hundreds of people attending each event around the world.
The speakers will candidly share in 7-10 minutes:
* What their project / business was
* What went wrong / How it affected their personal life / What they learned / What they would do differently.
Speaker 1: Dr Kyle Turner - CEO, Pearlii
Dr Kyle Turner, a Wiradjuri man from central NSW, is founder and CEO of Pearlii, a dental technology startup based in Melbourne.
It aims to improve oral health around the globe via free dental check-ups using AI computer vision and your smartphone camera. Kyle has raised $1.25M seed investment to date, while he dreams of Pearlii becoming the Who Gives A Crap of dental care with 50% of profits paying for treatment for people who can't access or afford a dentist.
Prior to building Pearlii, Kyle was a lecturer in epidemiology at the University of Melbourne, which followed his PhD at the University of Oxford.
https://www.pearlii.com/
Instagram: @pearliiapp
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Speaker 2: Phoebe Gardner, Co-Founder & CEO, Bardee
Phoebe Gardner is Co-founder and CEO of Bardee, a Victorian-based agri-tech startup transforming food waste into high-quality organic fertiliser, and protein for pet food and animal feed, with insects. Every tonne of food waste diverted from landfill by Bardee offsets 1,900kg of CO2e emissions.
Alongside Entomologist, CTO and Co-founder Alex Arnold, Phoebe, with a background in architecture, has built Bardee’s commercial pilot facility, Moonbase, in Sunshine North, into Australia’s largest insect breeding, protein and fertiliser facility. They are on a mission to reshape the global food system by transforming waste in 10,000 cities.
https://www.bardee.com/
Instagram: @thisisbardee
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Speaker 3: Bronwen Clune - Web3 Founder & Artist, School of Crypto Art
Bronwen Clune has worked in senior levels across technology, innovation and media for the last 15 years. She launched a failed NFT art project at the height of the NFT frenzy - when even scam projects were minting out daily.
She shares what she's learnt about web3, the metaverse and NFTs - the good and the bad, and why despite losing significant money, sleep and sanity - she wholeheartedly believes in the opportunity that web3 brings for equality.
Currently, you can find her building the School of Crypto Art.
Twitter: @bronwen_nft
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At the end of each story, we have a bit of Q&A time where you’ll have a chance to ask questions- nothing too cheeky, but feel free to dig around.
You’ll hear stories and advice you won’t get elsewhere - and these stories will (hopefully) put you in good stead to not make the same fuckups.
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Also on this evening:
Celebrating the start of Spring, this Friday Night Social we are bringing you a cross-pollination of happenings that activate the senses. You will dance to trippy tunes, taste delicious delights, see plants like never before, smell flowers in bloom, and feel the magic unfold.
What’s on:
- A live set from DJ Katie Pearson
- A drag performance from DANDROGYNY
- A SWARM Drawing Party with Kari Lee McInneny-McRae
- A School of Fish dance performance from VCA student group
- US! Stories of learning through failures by F*ck UP Nights
- A sonic romp through a bubbling swamp featuring Lichen Kelp and Dylan Martorell
- A show from magician and author Nicholas J Johnson
- Seed Propagation Booth from designer Morwenna Schenck
- SWARM exhibition open for extended hours, 5-9pm
A Collab with:
Our hosts this month are the wonderful folk at Science Gallery Melbourne, as part of their brand new exhibition: SWARM.
Are we hardwired to be part of the pack?
From Saturday 13 August 2022 you can enter SWARM, a space that uncovers the very essence of human behaviour and questions what drives us to be social.
There are more of us now than ever before – 7.9 billion people across the entire globe – with most of us now living highly urbanised lives in an ever-growing network of cities. We are also increasingly connected through a technological frenzy of social media and digital interfaces, allowing us to share our lives to hordes of followers, to crowdsource ideas, digitise workforces, and be part of global political movements.
Humans are not alone in our collective social behavior. From swarms of social insects, murmurations of birds, to molecular movements, swarming behavior underlies nearly everything. We are also seeing swarm algorithms driving our future lives, in which we will see swarms of drones and nanorobots helping (or hindering) the very essence of what it means to be human.
Through a series of collaborative exhibits and projects, SWARM delves into the science and art behind what it means to be part of a pack. You’re encouraged to reflect on your role in the collective. Will you go it alone? Or join the swarm?
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Exploring the collision of art and science, and playing a vital role in shifting our understanding of science, art and innovation, Science Gallery Melbourne is part of the acclaimed Global Science Gallery Network pioneered by Trinity College Dublin. Science Gallery Melbourne builds on the success of the Network, bringing a southern hemisphere flair to its innovative models of engaging 15-25 year olds with science.
Science Gallery Melbourne is located in Melbourne Connect – a new innovation precinct being developed by the University of Melbourne on the corner of Grattan Street and Swanston Street. The Gallery is part of the Museums & Collections department at University of Melbourne, forming connections with other collections, galleries and museums at the university as part of the Cultural Commons.
One of eight global nodes, Science Gallery Melbourne aims to involve, inspire and transform curious minds through arts and science.
Find out more: https://melbourne.sciencegallery.com/
Find out more about us at https://www.meetup.com/FuckUp-Nights-Melbourne/
Location
Science Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne Connect, 114 Grattan St, Parkville VIC, 3052