Until 2 May

Distraction

Name: Distraction
Start: 2026-02-18
End: 2026-05-02
Location: Science Gallery Melbourne

This free exhibition plugs into the streaming torrent of content and the places brains go when it wants to focus on anything but the thing. You know… that thing you’re supposed to be doing right now?

Your distraction of choice could be scrolling, daydreaming or escaping into a digital universe. When minds are bouncing around the whirring, flashing pinball machine of existence – is wayward attention a way of coping with the chaos?  

Visit Science Gallery Melbourne to experience the playful ways humans devote their time in an increasingly nonsensical world. With a hundred tabs open and endless avenues to explore, how is it possible to harness the cacophony of content and find meaning within it?

Science Gallery at the University of Melbourne, where art and science collide.

Photography by Astrid Mulder.

Date	Times
Wed 8 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 9 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 15 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 16 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 22 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 23 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 29 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 30 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm

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