Seb Chan
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Museums|music|media|monsters|mayhem -
https://linktr.ee/sebchan
Five months since the last one, a whopper 6250 word episode 104 of Fresh and New is now winging its way to your inbox. It’s chock full of links and sounds, some near and distant memories and pokes at some of the challenges right now. Enjoy. (Because it’s _so_ long it may be sitting in your spam…)
about 2 months ago
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Cyclic Defrost Magazine
about 2 months ago
Cyclic Selects: Horse MacGyver Horse MacGyver is Naarm based media artist and sound designer Timothy Dwyer. He's been making some pretty unhinged music over the last decade or so on labels such as Nice music and Being Intense Records, playing live regularly, touring with Indonesia's iconic duo…
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Cyclic Selects: Horse MacGyver
Horse MacGyver is Naarm based media artist and sound designer Timothy Dwyer. He's been making some pretty unhinged music over the last decade or so on labels such as Nice music and Being Intense Records, playing live regularly, touring with Indonesia's iconic duo Senyawa - even making music videos for the likes of Lucy Cliche and Lost Animal. His latest album is…
https://www.cyclicdefrost.com/2025/11/cyclic-selects-horse-macgyver/
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The 4th edition of ACMI’s Future of Arts Culture & Technology symposium now has Early Bird tix on sale. Feb 11-13 with first round of speakers announced. Expect some new provocations …
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...
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Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium | 11 - 13 Feb 2026
A two-day symposium exploring the future of arts, culture, and technology in Australia – and the mindsets, capabilities and skills we need to get there.
http://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fact-symposium/
about 2 months ago
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Watching along with
#iPres2025
from afar - great to see how much bigger the digital preservation field is these days and how much more understanding there is of it’s importance
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A Relic of the Empire: Tom Ellard of Severed Heads Interviewed | The Quietus
Bridget Small speaks to Severed Heads mainstay, industrial musician and artist Tom Ellard; just don't call him a pioneer... yet
https://thequietus.com/interviews/severed-heads-interview/
2 months ago
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Melbourne tonight … so many people dressed up as Oasis fans …
2 months ago
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Nice
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quote from
@louieroots.bsky.social
- “A lot of times being in public, being personally next to someone, stops you being an asshole to them… You have that feeling of respect, you’re reminded there’s someone else at the other end of that computer.”
www.superjumpmagazine.com/material-pla...
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Melbourne Games Week: Celebrating Physical Play
Interviews with MIGW practitioners of tactile game spaces
https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/material-play-exploring-gaming-through-tactility-physicality-and-community/
3 months ago
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Indeed you can …
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3 months ago
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kuraine
3 months ago
just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok
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“We wanted to think instead about what we could do that was more action oriented. We wanted to locate where we have agency and not just give in to sorrow.” ❤️
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4 months ago
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Tim Sherratt
4 months ago
The Australian Creative Histories and Futures Project is running a survey to investigate data use across the arts and culture sectors. If you're a researcher, artist, or GLAM worker you might like to give your feedback: https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78qwtk2SZhWOoku
#glam
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ACHF Survey
This survey explores the current landscape of Australia’s cultural data sector
https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78qwtk2SZhWOoku
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It is easy to dismiss this as a single publication ending, but it’s a wider _infrastructural_ loss - and as Louise Adler says, easy to close, very hard to rebuild. These decisions have disastrous long term consequences beyond a single slice of the cultural sector
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4 months ago
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This is _such_ an exciting thing we are able to have happen at
@acmimuseum.bsky.social
… don’t miss it
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4 months ago
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As Bandcamp day winds up, there’s plenty of fantastic music to explore on this label too …
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5 months ago
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Super proud of the whole
@acmimuseum.bsky.social
team with Game Worlds now on full sale ->
au.variety.com/2025/digital...
… time to start planning your trip, customise your character, fill your inventory. Open Sept 18
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ACMI Unveils Full Lineup for 'Game Worlds' Exhibition
ACMI has unveiled the full lineup for 'Game Worlds', its major upcoming exhibition dedicated to the art and impact of video games.
https://au.variety.com/2025/digital/news/acmi-game-worlds-exhibition-lineup-25877/
5 months ago
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Threatening Music Notation
5 months ago
Oh that will not be a problem
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“it feeds the interconnectedness all of those funky and psychedelic and arty things and gospel right into your brain and right into the mainline of our living folk culture all over again”
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6 months ago
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Much sampled, so good to see this available for the youths …
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6 months ago
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Cyclic Defrost Magazine
6 months ago
Unsound Adelaide: Fri 11th – Sat 12th July 2025 To call Unsound eclectic is an understatement. It never fails to provoke, confound, seduce or dismay – often in equal measure, and often in the course of one set. Held across two nights in the Adelaide CBD it has become something of a beacon for…
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Unsound Adelaide: Fri 11th – Sat 12th July 2025
To call Unsound eclectic is an understatement. It never fails to provoke, confound, seduce or dismay – often in equal measure, and often in the course of one set. Held across two nights in the Adelaide CBD it has become something of a beacon for forward thinking international and local artists irrespective of genre. It began, at the Lions Art Centre…
https://www.cyclicdefrost.com/2025/07/unsound-adelaide-fri-11th-sat-12th-july-2025/
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We always hear about art museum collections and scans revealing things beneath layers of paint, but less often stories about the other types of museum collections …
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Unlocking secrets hidden inside the world's most precious specimens
This view inside some of the most precious and rare museum specimens on Earth is helping scientists to better understand the story of life — and it's all done without a scalpel in sight.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-12/3d-model-ct-scans-show-secrets-deep-inside-the-museum-specimens/105370648
6 months ago
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So happy to have _finally_ sourced a copy of this! It’s a fantastic synthesis of 400k words of oral histories conducted over the pandemic and captures a huge slice of sector knowledge, 50 years of practice, and method that museums have often forgotten
6 months ago
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Telnet!
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7 months ago
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The second half of this excellent piece is worth reading twice for a zoomed out view of many policy shifts going back decades
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7 months ago
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Laura Harding
7 months ago
The Australian Design Centre has had its funding cut. Design is so critically important, and so under appreciated and unsupported in Australian culture. ADC is looking for partners, sponsors, or people who can help them keep supporting designers and makers. Please share.
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Important Announcement
Australian Design Centre (ADC) is an integral part of the arts ecology in Australia. This small, dynamic, independent organisation has nurtured and supported thousands of artists since 1964, presentin...
https://australiandesigncentre.com/latestnews/important-announcement/
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Douglas McCarthy, frontman with industrial group Nitzer Ebb, dies aged 58
No cause of death given for influential electronic body music vocalist whose punchy, declarative style found fans across both rock and dance
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/12/douglas-mccarthy-nitzer-ebb-dies-aged-58
7 months ago
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Episode 103 of Fresh and New is (finally) in your inbox or trapped in your spam filter! Enjoy! This one is a long one with many threads all being pulled at once
7 months ago
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A super good and insightful read about what happens to the ‘middle’ in culture ‘industries’
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8 months ago
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RMIT Games
8 months ago
ACMI + RMIT Audience Lab is back Saturday June 7 ✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu4Y...
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ACMI + RMIT Audience Lab
YouTube video by ACMI – The Australian Centre for the Moving Image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu4YZ5n2ZMo
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Amazing treasure trove in the Internet Archive
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8 months ago
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In all the
#silksong
rumours and manic excitement about
@acmimuseum.bsky.social
and the upcoming Game Worlds exhibition, there’s been a long historical commitment to games at ACMI -
www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
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Why we care about videogames
ACMI Director & CEO Seb Chan outlines a manifesto for videogames at ACMI.
https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/why-we-care-about-videogames-seb-chan/
8 months ago
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A lovely piece from Cat Hope celebrating the life and strange music of Alan Lamb.
@cyclicdefrost.bsky.social
has also republished a piece from Issue 10 in 2005 on Lamb when the mag was in print form too.
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8 months ago
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GenAI ‘remakes’ (if you can even call them that!) have nothing to do with game preservation … obvs … lots of good stuff in this piece!
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9 months ago
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OMG WUT?!
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9 months ago
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Tim Sherratt
9 months ago
I've written a new blog post on the
#trove
API keys debacle that answers some questions raised by my first two posts, and provides some updates on recent actions by the National Library of Australia. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/11/update-on-trove-data-access.html Please share!
#glam
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Original post on hcommons.social
https://hcommons.social/@wragge/114317700862078276
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Organoids …
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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The composer still making music four years after his death – thanks to an artificial brain
In Australia, a team of artists and scientists have resurrected the US composer Alvin Lucier. It raises a storm of questions about AI and authorship – and it’s also incredibly beautiful
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/09/alvin-lucier-dead-composer-making-music-ai-artificial-intelligence-brain
9 months ago
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This is coming on September at
@acmimuseum.bsky.social
… which you don’t want to miss!
youtu.be/NsE8wTSEhEY?...
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Announcing GAME WORLDS! A new playable exhibition at ACMI
YouTube video by ACMI – The Australian Centre for the Moving Image
https://youtu.be/NsE8wTSEhEY?si=1pTijFznFwPsGWAI
9 months ago
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AMaGA does not often make statements on issues beyond Australian borders, but as our sector is so internationally intertwined, it is vital to reassert the importance of memory institutions and the work they do -
www.linkedin.com/posts/museum...
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#amaga #imls #smithsonian #museumsector #librariesmatter #culturalheritage… | Australian Museums and Galleries Association
The Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA), as Australia’s peak body representing workers in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/museums-australia_amaga-imls-smithsonian-activity-7312966914278846464-oBhg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAACd7rABgBiqI4QZ_kzehSC0jdoZLQGJX70
9 months ago
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Melbourne friends -
@acmimuseum.bsky.social
is doing screenings of the new Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke visual album Talk Tales with Jonathan Zawada on May 8. See and hear it properly, first session has an exclusive live Q&A … don’t miss your tickets -
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/tal...
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales + Q&A (2025) Thu 8 May
Join us in the cinema for an early look (and listen) at the new visual album by Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke followed by a very special Q&A exclusive to ACMI.
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/tall-tales-qa/
9 months ago
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In a still slightly jet lagged mania, Episode 102 of Fresh and New is now winging its way to your inbox with more photos, chance musical encounters and reflections on last week in Boston. Check your spam filters! Enjoy!
10 months ago
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Episode 101 of Fresh and New is now winging its way to your inbox with lots of photos and reflections on last week at Uni of Michigan. Check your spam filters! Enjoy!
10 months ago
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Rachel Coldicutt
10 months ago
Thinking about why public services should not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far: (1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access (1/n)
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As someone who runs a publicly owned ‘screen culture’ museum, I am likely biased in endorsing this perspective! Yes to public investment in an ecology of digital public spaces, and the requisite capabilities and skills to nurture them
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10 months ago
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For those faraway, like me, trying to make sense of things
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10 months ago
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies
10 months ago
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
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Ritter Audiac cassette at the Sindecuse Dentistry Museum. “An audio alternative to anesthetics” - one of many amazing collection items …
10 months ago
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Shannon Mattern
10 months ago
"a binder clip delivers a very rewarding set of tangible pleasures... Your fingertips fit naturally into the handles’ rounded openings... And after the clip has been deployed, is there anything better than flipping down the handles and feeling them snap shut with that familiar thwap? I think not!"
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The Binder Clip: An Appreciation
Seriously, is there anything this brilliant piece of design can’t do?
https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-binder-clip-an-appreciation?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1136879&post_id=159218460&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=s9ot&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Mara
10 months ago
"The IMLS accounts for 0.0046 percent of the federal budget, while museums contribute $50 billion to the U.S. economy annually."
observer.com/2025/03/trum...
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Trump’s Latest Executive Order Eliminates the Institute of Museum and Library Services
The IMLS is the only federal agency dedicated to supporting the nations museums.
https://observer.com/2025/03/trump-executive-order-shuts-institute-of-museum-and-library-services/
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In a lovely coincidence, I am sitting in a great talk from
@tjowens.bsky.social
who _also_ happens to be at UMich this week!
10 months ago
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kottke.org
10 months ago
UbuWeb, a pirate library of avant-garde artifacts, closed in 2024. But last month, they started the site back up again. “Archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way of preserving crucial, subversive, and marginalized forms of expression.”
[ubu.com]
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Super talk from
@adrianhon.bsky.social
on The Future History of the World in 7 On Screen Objects which was part of the post-FACT weekender. Strap in - it’s a lot of fun!
www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
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The Future History of the World in 7 Objects - lecture by Adrian Hon
Ever wondered what movies, videogames and TV shows get right – and hilariously wrong – about the future?
https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/future-history-world-7-objects/
10 months ago
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