Seb Chan
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- The program for FACT26 at ACMI is now online! We’ve added more speakers and you might want to consider coming along in Melb! There’s people speaking who you know and people you need to know! www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...
- The backstory behind one of four new commissioned games for ACMI’s Game Worlds - and you don’t even have to visit to play it. It’s also a lovely piece of speculative world building. (The other three new commissioned games are also online including one written for the Commodore 64)
- For those _still_ making websites for museum visitors, this may be of interest …
- Bennett Foddy is giving a talk at ACMI on Wednesday evening (Jan 14) . . . www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/ben...
- If you scratch the surface you'll find much more than just ragebait in @foddy.net 's work. Ahead of a chat at ACMI @nomibelle.bsky.social spoke to Bennett for Lightmap our interview podcast. www.sifter.com.au/post/taking-...
- 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…)
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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...
- First nine speakers … Jason Scott, Ruby Justice Thelot, Sofia Widmann, Sewon Barrera, Jessica Walthew, Samuel Cairnduff, Sunghee Cho, John O’Shea, Dr Christen Cornell … lots more to come!
- 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
- Melbourne tonight … so many people dressed up as Oasis fans …
- Nice #MIGW 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...
- Indeed you can …
- If you're in Melbourne, you can currently see Doom-on-a-Lego-brick up close at ACMI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U... www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
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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.” ❤️
- I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Seb ChanThe 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: unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78qwtk2… #GLAM
- 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
- This is _such_ an exciting thing we are able to have happen at @acmimuseum.bsky.social … don’t miss it
- As Bandcamp day winds up, there’s plenty of fantastic music to explore on this label too …
- 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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- “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”
- Much sampled, so good to see this available for the youths …
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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...
- 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
- Telnet!
- 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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- 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
- A super good and insightful read about what happens to the ‘middle’ in culture ‘industries’
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- Amazing treasure trove in the Internet Archive
- 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-...
- 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.
