The 23m by 7m image of Melbourne artist Marco Fusinato's 2009 work Double Infinitive 2 will feature on the gallery "Big Wall" until the end of the year.
"It looks like a massive postcard has blown in from the Octagon," DPAG curator Aaron Kreisler said.
"It's a newspaper image of a man throwing a brick at a riot. It almost looks like he's throwing the brick through the glass window of the gallery," he said.
"We've never had a photographic print that spread from tip to tip before. We had to re-measure the wall."
The image was constructed from more than a dozen 7m strips of photographic paper and is the first installation in the exhibition "Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art".
"The image can't be comprehended without imagining the sounds this scene would create," Mr Kreisler said.
"By blowing up an image, there is a visual noise created.
The pixellation creates a low resolution and a noisy image.
"Art can be aural, as well as visual. It's about the notion of sound visualised as art."
The exhibition will include 13 installations of projections, sculptural works and drawings in nine different gallery spaces, by artists including Vicky Browne, Michael Morley, Philip Dadson, Robin Fox, Marco Fusinato, Michael Graeve, Brent Grayburn, David Haines, Eugene Hansen, Jenny Gilliam, Dr Kron, Joyce Hinterding, Kusum Normoyle, Thembi Soddell, Torben Tilly and Robin Watkins.
• "Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art" runs from Saturday until November 11.
