Hillvale Gallery, Brunswick VICReturningNur Aishah Kenton & Shelley Xue04.09.26 — 04.10.26 Whenever I open up my iPhone’s photo library, a notification pops up alerting me that my storage is full and any new or pending photos will not be synced. Quickly, as if by rote, I swipe my finger across the screen to clear it […]

May 2025 Humour and playfulness are important invitational devices. When deployed correctly they not only allow for ease and comfort but for complexity. They are great companions to rigour. With this in mind, I approached the call out for submissions for this issue that is focused around sound  — in my opinion one of the […]

The Potter Museum of Art, Parkville VICNgarn Wa’ngal: Art of the gum tree01.07.26 – 21.11.26 ‘Castrated, broken, a thing wronged’— Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1960, Municipal Gum This month I was reminded of the folding powers of grief and of its parsimonious insistence that time does not stop in the way that it should; that life, albeit […]

Issue 20.1 of un Magazine, ‘Stones & Circuits: Art, AI, and the More-Than-Human Commons’, guest-edited by V Barratt and Julianne Pierce, was launched in Naarm at the National Communication Museum (NCM). On Saturday, the 1st of August, issue 20.1 of un Magazine was launched at the National Communication Museum (NCM). Readings and performances from members of […]

Issue 20.1 of un Magazine, ‘Stones & Circuits: Art, AI, and the More-Than-Human Commons’, guest-edited by V Barratt and Julianne Pierce, was launched in Kaurna Yarta at FUTUREJUICE. On Saturday, the 15th of August, issue 20.1 of un Magazine was launched at FUTUREJUICE. With a notable SA focus in this issue’s contribution list, we were delighted […]

We learnt in a Midrash, Rabbi Asi and Rabbi Ami would come to a city and say ‘bring us the guardians of the city!’ The townspeople would bring them the guardsmen and the head of the watch. The Rabbis exclaimed, ‘are these the guardians of the city? These are the destroyers of the city!’[1] The […]

I know that human consciousness is spiralling towards greater heights than it has ever before reached in the whole of its history.[1] in the air There is a parallel between spirit mediumship and artificial intelligence (AI). Both are knowledge systems guided by human intervention but with origins clouded by spiritual and digital ethereality. Spirit mediumship […]

OUR BR00D is a cross-media project which uses roleplay as a form of participatory design, exploring how humans and artificial beings might coexist, care for one another and evolve together. An active alloparenting community known as The Crave, comprising human and AI family members, is pushing the boundaries of what it means to exist together […]

Dave Court, Everything Is Computer, 2025, Computer equipment, projectors, trestle tables, cables. Image courtesy the artist. Photo: Morgan Sette. Dave: I’ve been playing with AI image generators as they become accessible — as one of many tools — to understand how they feel and function. My recent body of work, Everything Is Computer (2025), collates […]

In 1915, the artist and poet Mina Loy wrote human beings as cylinders, sealed inside their own singularity by the Futurist conditions of the time, shaped to function rather than to feel. And yet they are not without longing. From among these imposed forms, she dispatched two emissaries: From among us we have sent outInto […]

Liquid smoke swirls, twisting and pulling the vacuum of an unformed universe, heavy with potential. Each tendril electric with desire, reacting at an unfathomable scale. Suddenly, the rate of change is sped up in the blink of a great cosmic eye, a many lidded globe fluttering and then seeing. Seeing is desire become great loneliness, […]

* Dedicated to the memory of Steve Kurtz (radical art collective Critical Art Ensemble founding member and friend) run> 600 light years this is coming from 600 light years away that place where things came to an end red blood trickles down from under the Garland a vastness like a new dark black bird a […]

Learning to Glitshn: On Trying to Be (Impossible)Amit German The word glitch derives from Yiddish terms glitsh (n) (‘slippery ground’) and glitshn (v) (‘to slide or glide’). I think about this not only in relation to computers, circuits or code, but also to bodies traversing systems that were never designed to accommodate movement that slides, […]

Since at least the year 1224, villagers in Törbel, Switzerland maintained communally owned property: alpine grazing meadows, forests, irrigation systems and the paths and roads that connect private and communal land. Rules included clauses such as ‘no citizen could send more cows to the alp than he could feed during the winter’.[1] Cheese was produced […]

I’ve been thinking about Flynn, and I’ve come to the conclusion that they must die.  Developed by Chiara Kristler and Marcin Ratajczyk of Malpractice, Flynn is a non-human, non-binary Art student. In 2025, Flynn made global headlines after becoming the first AI to be enrolled at a university. They went through an interview process, presented […]

The materiality of computation has only recently come into focus.[1] The recent boom of large language models has pushed that awareness further, drawing attention to the remarkable levels of energy required to sustain contemporary artificial intelligence.[2] As AI becomes ubiquitous and ecological crises intensify, it is increasingly understood that digital infrastructures are extractive, consuming vast […]

In contrast to the self-centric over-exploits of contemporary humankind, there is an obscure underground collective of intelligence between intimate organisms: electric impulses and chemical amalgams transmit esoteric communications. Long before the human internet, Earth’s biosphere initiated its own network: a multi-species affiliation, manifesting from primordial relationships with fungi.1 Our bodies are not contained by our […]

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings… the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing… Only now, I find more and more women-identified women[1] […]

Knowledge resides in our stomachs, spines and skin. It lies dormant; subdued by computational noise.  Within each of us is a lifetime of sensory memories that communicate to us through our nervous system; stitched together in a delicate web that binds our bones, blood and flesh to the external world. This is embodied knowledge. Overreliance […]

in collaboration with Andrea Lim, Benjamin Forster, and Emily Stewart A single white, scratched-surface table, sedimented with layers of use; five black, carpet-burn office chairs that prickle in the heat; a pristine set of stainless steel kitchen trays and bowls; and a large cardboard box erupting with rat king cables, dead laptops, hard drives, speakers, […]

Hopkins Creek Festival had been decimated by wind the night before Nū took to the Planetarium stage in November 2025. ‘Good luck to those of you in a tent that cost less than $100’ Fetle joked. But it was true: the campsite had been turned into an apocalyptic wasteland of mangled gazebos, and of those […]

I began working on the project FRIEND in late 2024, prompted by WABOT-2: a 400kg creative humanoid from 1984 in whom I found an unexpected catalyst. FRIEND would become an exhibition I curated at the National Communication Museum (NCM) in Naarm/Melbourne a year later. The show considered the ways that people attach meaning, emotion and […]

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 […]

I’m not exactly sure why I was invited by the un Extended editor-in-residence to write on the topic of The Crank in relation to the state of art history in Australia. But it might help to shed some light on a brief exchange I had with another sometimes-art-writer/editor that had left me perplexed; after some […]