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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ross Bolleter (RB): Devising pieces where the musicians are widely separated in space but are playing in the same time interval was quite natural for me, especially after my experiences with the kinds of improvisational circumstances which emerge in conventional spaces. My earliest experiences were playing with other improvisers in situations which were highly convergent, […]
How do audiences talk to institutions? To artists? Can they talk back? Artists are reaching the public not just through exhibitions, or through publicity channels, or even critical arts writing. Audiences use media — social media, specifically — to imagine an online open–forum to engage with art and artists. There’s a fraught online ecology that […]
September 2025 The annotated call We Swear We Saw This. Drawings about Notebooks and Notebooks about the Wor(l)ds explores the variety of methodologies found in artists’ and writers’ notebooks. The theme of the issue adapts titles from both the anthropologist Michael Taussig’s book and artist Adrian Piper’s work.[1] Taussig expands on how drawing as a […]
Our lines are the first vehicle we ride to reach the shape of memory. Nubian aunties have been sketching our way to a lost homeland on sand, and etching those shapes in our collective consciousness, before they swipe the sand to level with the palm of their hand. And this particular kind of sketching lives […]
The Tasmanian painter and printmaker Bea Maddock’s (1934-2016) exploration of spatial experience had been key to her practice well before she began making formal landscapes. Curiously, her comments on qualities of place often belied how seriously she took spatial observation. Maddock described her book This Time (1967-69) as having ‘no real story, it’s just about […]
Introductory Note: The Problem of Notation What does it mean to take note of a place? To observe it, record it, mark it: without seeking to fix or contain it? This deceptively simple question underpins the intellectual premises of the exhibition HOME 25 – Invisible Cities shown in Dandenong between 21 June and 27 September […]
With each day the weight seemed to shift beneath me. The weight of the decision to go: to approach the border with the full knowledge that the consequences would never be mine to control. This weight was the kind that sits behind the ribcage, low and slow. The weight of being seen, of being misread, […]
In the stark geometry of colonial Jerusalem, where stone and ideology pressed against each other with brutal intimacy, Palestinian artist Nahil Bishara drew her lines. The Palestine Museum’s online collection preserves what the empire would erase: 234 annotated university assignments from Bishara (1942-1955), each page a small rebellion against the cartography of exclusion.[1] Here, in […]
First published in 1956, H.D.’s Tribute to Freud is a poetic account of her psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud. Written intermittently between 1944 –1948, it is a strange little book: part composite biography of the famous psychoanalyst, part diary and part epistolary exchange. Following the London Blitz, H.D. — already an established poet, novelist and translator […]