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 […]
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, […]
‘That’s when I found out my mum could access other worlds — ones that neither we nor my dad nor any of us could reach. Especially not my dad. I remember one of many days watching him flipping through Maga’s notes. I remember him starting off slow, scanning left to right, top to bottom and […]
As I sit to write this, US-backed Israel has officially resumed its genocidal campaign against Gaza, and continues its violations across greater Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. At the time of writing, Creative Australia has revoked Lebanese artist Khaled Sabsabi’s nomination to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2026 and Monash University has indefinitely postponed […]
When I first started writing music in Mandarin and Hokkien, I didn’t think that I was one day going to write about ‘tonal meltings’ or the affect of listening to music similar to mine — indie-folk tunes and ballads supported by the mantra-like repetition of acoustic guitar motifs, with tenderness and plainness in the lyricism. […]
Every summer, time slipped by in a haze. As the season evaporated under the sun’s dry gaze, quick like tears on midday pavement, the afternoon hours would grow deep and long. At summer’s end we would mourn its swiftness but during it we were routinely fatigued by its painful luminosity. On summer afternoons I would […]
Polyphony for Intertidal Ecologies was a participatory workshop and performance event at Monmar (Point Nepean) that took place on 8 February 2025. Participants included: Vāimanatu Avene, Elijah Cristiano, Anna Farago, Frosty, Audax M. Gawler, Bridget Hillebrand, Jivan Simons Mistry, Georgia Nowak, Rosa Mar Tato Ortega, Justine Walsh, Dominic White and Christabel Wigley. We are walking across the […]
For the following conversation, we met each other outside our studios. We talked; we are friends and enjoy talking art and Blackfella shit. Nicholas (NC): Could we transcribe something ‘cause the brief for the magazine was about sound? You’ve (Daisy) done sound and music for a long time. I also done music. Daisy (D): This […]
In 1975 at the University of California San Diego, an ensemble of white American performance artists led a sonic meditation bearing resemblance to Indigenous ceremonial traditions. Embedded in the performance were Native American and Australian Aboriginal acoustic cues, Eastern spiritual motifs and Lakota perspectives that had been compressed into a mono-cultural pallet for Western listeners.[1] […]