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Naarm/Melbourne 20.1 Stones & Circuits Magazine Launch

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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).

Person dressed in black sitting with legs crossed and reading a copy of Magazine 20.1
Photograph of un Magazine 20.1 being perused at the Naarm launch.

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 VNS Matrix and un Magazine contributors - Thomas Capogreco, Francesca da Rimini, Xanthe Dobbie, Julianne Pierce, Lauren Abineri, and V Barratt - unfolded alongside Stigmergy. Exploring artist-led protocols, infrastructure, and networked systems, the exhibition from Pseudo entered into a fortuitous and fruitful dialogue with the speculations of un Magazine contributors.

Audience gathered in a dark exhibition space, watching Francesca da Rimini's reading beside a large illuminated installation of metal framework and screens.
Photograph of the audience listening to Francesca da Rimini's reading, with a peripheral view of an installation from Stigmergy.
Dark exhibition space with two large projection screens displaying colorful video imagery and performer Lauren Abineri sitting before them.
Photograph of a performance piece by Lauren Abineri and un Magazine 20.1 co-editor V Barratt.

What weaves these diverse, idiosyncratic, and at times playfully perplexing performances together is a commitment to thinking otherwise about the future we want to build. They ask us to attend to the relations between the environment, technology, and art. In so doing, they suggest that it is through the gaps that emerge in this ever-shifting web that we might begin to catch sight of the as-yet-unknown.

Several copies of Magazine 20.1 arranged on a dark table, showing the magazine’s white covers with pink graphics and text.
Copies of un Magazine 20.1 displayed on a table at the Narrm launch.
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