un Magazine 20.1: Stones & Circuits: Art, AI, and the More-Than-Human Commons:
Meet un Magazine 20.1: Stones & Circuits: Art, AI, and the More-Than-Human Commons.👀
Guest edited by V Barratt and Julianne Pierce (VNS Matrix), this issue brings together artists, writers and thinkers imagining technology beyond extraction, surveillance and corporate control.
Through anti-racist, decolonial and transfeminist perspectives, Stones & Circuits explores the commons as a way of building different futures—where art isn’t just responding to technology, but actively reshaping it.
Featuring contributions from Thomas Capogreco & Nū, Dave Court & Jennifer Mathews, Francesca da Rimini, Xanthe Dobbie, Amit German, Katy Ilonka Gero, Sarah Kantrowitz & Petja Ivanova, Suzanne Kite, Angela Ka Ki Lee & Chris Tegho, Make or Break, OMSK Social Club, Lexei Sasha Salpeter, Mara Schwerdtfeger, Tayer, Bianca Tainsh, and Jemimah Widdicombe.
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UN MAGAZINE 20.1 STONES & CIRCUITS, ART, AI, AND THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN COMMONS LAUNCH — 15.08.26 | 3–5PM
How might we imagine technology beyond extraction, alienation and optimisation? Perhaps the more-than-human commons might be a start?
Join un Projects to celebrate the launch of un Magazine 20.1: Stones & Circuits: Art, AI & the More-Than-Human Commons, guest edited by V Barratt and Julianne Pierce (of VNS Matrix).
With readings from contributors, copies of the new issue, drinks, and good conversation, the afternoon unfolds alongside FutureJuice’s current exhibition Automation Bias — bringing artists, writers and curious minds together to think through technology, ecology and the futures we want to build.
Speaking and reading we have: Dave Court, Jennifer Mathews, Tayer, Dr Francesca da Rimini, V Barratt & Julianne Pierce. Hosted by Rayleen Forester.
Exhibiting: Marian Sandberg, EJ Son, Stelarc, James Dodd, and Eness.
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For more than 20 years, un Magazine has been a platform for ambitious contemporary art writing from across Australia. It arrives in Adelaide/Tarndanya to launch its latest issue, guest edited by VNS Matrix’s V Barratt and Julianne Pierce, celebrating South Australia’s enduring contributions to conversations around art, technology and the more-than-human.
Don’t miss this special evening! RSVP and grab your copy today!
Free. All welcome. Auslan interpretation.
248 Flinders Street, Kaurna Yarta.
Celebrate the launch of un Magazine’s latest issue, Stones & Circuits: Art, AI & The More-Than-Human Commons, guest edited by V Barratt & Julianne Pierce
See members of VNS Matrix and a selection of Stones & Circuits contributors perform readings, sound and movement within NCM’s current exhibition Stigmergy, where a network is built on artist protocols, treating infrastructure as an artistic medium.
Sat 1 Aug 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
All are warmly welcome to attend.
Copies of un Magazine 20.1 along with select back issues, will be available ✨
Light refreshments will be provided.
This event will have an Auslan interpreter.
Free.
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un Magazine We Swear We Saw This. Drawings about notebooks and notebooks about the Wor(l)ds.
19.2 We Swear We Saw This, guest edited by Azza Zein reflects on the notebook — as witness, a site of translation, a mapping device, a tool to demarcate time and otherwise unpublished notes and drawings. Inside you’ll find Articles that explore the variety of methodologies found in artists’ and writers’ notebooks. 📔 Including historicism on Australian painter Bea Maddock, Palestinian artist Nahil Bishara, New Zealand Choreographer Douglas Wright, American modernist poet H.D, and conceptual artist Lutz Bacher. You’ll find artist pages with sketches of Nubia, carrier pigeon portraits, familial scrapbooking, surreal playing cards and notebook neologisms. Reflections on local projects from Dandenong’s ‘HOME 25’ exhibition, to Launceston’s ‘Portrait of Community’ at Sawtooth ARI. The notebooks you will encounter here, Zein writes, are an assemblage of… wandering lines: some resilient insertions, some playful, some occulted, some caring and reparative.
Contributions by Menna Agha, Mya Cole, Carlos Eduardo Morreo, Marcela Alejandra Gómez Escudero, Joyce Joumaa, Tina Stefanou, Miriam La Rosa, Sunny Lei, Laura Luciana, Hugh Magnus, Marcus McKenzie, Thomas Moran, Georgia Mulholland, Zoë Sadokierski, Zara Sully & Lisa Roberts and Toyah Webb.
Designed by Dennis Grauel & Zenobia Ahmed.
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un Anthology 2014-2024: another decade of art and ideas
Capturing the best of the last decade of: critical essays, experimental texts, exhibition reviews, artist reflections, queer(ed) bibliographies, collaborative poems and urgent political pronouncements published in un Magazine. This un Anthology is a must-read.
Following on from our 2014 anthology, we’ve produced the latest un Anthology 2014-2014 (another) decade of art and ideas, in whcih we asked guest editors from the past 10 years to chose a piece to re-publish from their volume and write a new introduction for it.
Featuring works by Rosie Isaac, Pip Wallis Anatol Pitt, Anastasia Klose, Genevieve Grieves, Andrew Norman Wilson, Sam Peterson, Gabriel Curtin & Ender Başkan, Melissa Ratliff, and Timmah Ball. New introductions from Shelley McSpedden & Meredith Turnbull, David Capra, A. Wurri & Arlie Alizzi, Hugh Childers & Bobuq Sayed, Elena Gomez & Rosie Isaac, Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks & Astrid Lorange), Hilary Thurlow & D Harding, and Bahar Sayed & Gemma Weston. Plus essays from Lily Hibberd and Audrey Jo Pfister.
un Magazine 18.1 Badaud x 18.2 After-care
un Magazine 18.1: Badaud, guest edited by Tara Heffernan
Contributors: Tara Heffernan, Scott Robinson, Daniel McKewen, Elyssia Bugg, Georgia Puiatti, Yannick Blattner, Vincent Lê, Aimee Dodds, Sam Beard, Eugene Hawkins, Francis Russell, Alexandra Peters & Carmen-Sibha Keiso.
un Magazine 18.2: After-care, guest edited by Joel Sherwood Spring
Contributors: Joel Sherwood Spring, SJ Norman, Enoch Mailangi, Ragnar Thomas, Georgia Hayward, Hideko G. Ono, Suvani Suri, Diego Ramírez, Nadia Demas & roxxy marsden.
un Extended – un Projects online platform for arts writing, podcasts, and events.
Editorial: a surplus of enthusiasm
by Victoria Perin
‘While I am admittedly prone to hyperbole, I do think editing un Extended in 2025-26 could have been the best job I’ve ever had. I asked a dozen authors to entertain and inform readers, while writing about art and artists that I personally wanted to know about. And they did it! The power went to my head. This is how Ingrid Sischy must have felt, I say to myself after I call un Projects’ General Manager Audrey Pfister and request an extra $1,000 for an additional commission (and she says ‘yes’!). This is how editing should be: no oversight, with a decadent audience of one (me). We got the photographer Phoebe Hewertson to take handsome portraits of everyone. With a little budget and a long leash, un turned me into a kind of lord of independent arts publishing.’
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