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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#xenotone _ stills from an [emerging] transitional world.

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This week for Climate Action Week -Miner’s Journey at the UTS Data Arena.

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Jay Springett @thejaymo.net · 29/10/2025

A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #068 -- Attention -- You can feel when a world…

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068. Attention

You can feel when a world…

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Miner’s journey, 2025 (installation detail - Samstag Museum, Tarndanya, AU) Single-channel video, audio (14 minutes)

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I love that projectors default to this blue wash. (Jarman / Klein / Windows)

Projection on wall, the default blue of the projector, in gallery install setting.

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Install in progress “Miner’s Journey” at Samstag Museum of Art - Tarndanya / (now)Adelaide.

Gallery with projection on wall, install paraphernalia in the foreground and gallery bench. Projection has calibration details and images from point clouds

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We (Thom van Dooren, Julia Kindt, @zoesadokierski.bsky.social and myself) recently launched the Animal Tales project at Chau Chak Wing Museum exploring storytelling with the many animals (big and small) within the museums displayed collection. a big thanks to all of the story tellers involved!

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

How do we speak *with* rather than *for* our more-than-human kin? The UTS Visualisation Institute's Multispecies storytelling event - in conjunction with the @seisydney.bsky.social and the 'Storytelling for Lost and Threatened Places' symposium. events.humanitix.com/multispecies...

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Multispecies Storytelling: Lost and Threatened Places

Live performances and exhibition of creative work alongside the symposium Storytelling for Lost and Threatened Places.

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

たんぽぽ−no。1 (from gaussian splat)

dandelion plant and digital ephemera generated via gaussian splatting.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is awesome. Just like us, older birds sing hits from when they were young www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Birds of a more advanced age tended to belt out older songs that were less common among the population as a whole

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Dear Google, this is _not_ a Noisy Miner, and nowhere on their website does the Australian Museum suggest so. Ongoing #enshittification

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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 04/02/2025

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

If we time-traveled back 30 million years, we would see Pelicans we recognise as Pelicans! #bird #birds #wip #designResearch #moreThanHuman #storyTelling

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Okay I have some possibly surprising (for me) thoughts about how this could be non-awful. I worked on an Encyclopaedia Britannica modernisation project in 1999/2000, when we put the Encyclopaedia on the Internet. As was the vogue at the time, we made a "knowledge portal".

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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Interesting article on birdsong & human language to share this week. It’s work that could lead to understanding the brain, gene therapy & differences in speech & language - dysphasia. 🧵 www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-bir...

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What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language? | Quanta Magazine

We often consider spoken language to be a feature that distinguishes humans from other forms of animal life. Brain research, however, suggests that other creatures — including certain birds — share so...

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“Stevie” a Diprotodon was central to overground-understory.net/what_raven_s... I ran into one of his kind in Adelaide today…

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Up and running - “Twice, again: Virentis” (UTS building 1)

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

WIP (screen fragment) [Twice, again: Virentis]

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Lots of great panels at this (free) conference including a keynote from Angie Abdilla. I have a new work showing in the associated exhibition & will be running a #criticalAI workshop with Monica Monin on the Friday.

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Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Four more nudibranchs from #Humboldt tide pools for #Nudivember. I added alt text to the images, but it's my first try and I'd appreciate any feedback on how to make it better.

A red white and brown nudibranch with many long finger-like projections on its back and long red antennae seen from above and crawling on a an encrusted rock.

A small cream-colored nudibranch with pale orange highlights on its gills and only a few finger-like projections on its back and medium length antennae seen from the side and crawling on a brown marine alga.

An orange black and white nudibranch with many finger-like projections on its back and long antennae facing the camera and crawling on a red marine alga.

A yellow, red, brown and white nudibranch with many finger-like projections on its back, which are red at the base, and long antennae facing the camera and crawling on a brown marine alga.

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“The Making of Misbehaving Machines” up and running at Parramatta City Library. misbehavingmachines.net #criticalVisualisation #criticalDesign #ml #ai #creativePractice

Screen and exhibition collateral on table. A sign reads “A Misbehaving Machine”. Text on the screen if in blue on a green background and has a series of questions and answers.

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Notebook: finalising the layout for the two screens of “Twice, again: Virentis” ( #moreThanHuman #worldBuilding ) @ artechlaw.org/hacking-visu... (UTS) in December. #researchThroughDesign #criticalVisualisation #eLit

Notebook with pen and pencil notes on dotted paper.

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Mangrove 1: do you think we will ever get to the island? Mangrove 2: the island is coming to us. (they wait) #morethanhuman #storytelling #network #ecologies

Constructed digital image (nerf > point cloud > vr) a floating island with vivid green strike through.

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Also slow posting over at Mastodon—> assemblag.es/@ab

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Fragment from an AI in the Library co-design workshop earlier this year, resulting in a dataset for the creation of Misbehaving Machines. Some notes at: misbehavingmachines.net/making

Coloured sticky notes with handwritten text. Printed text reads “completely fanciful or absurd questions”

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Making of Misbehaving Machines: an AI in the Library project, has its first install today at Ultimo TAFE Library. Each install has a “black box” housing a raspberry pi doing all the LLM misbehaving (generation) locally. misbehavingmachines.net #designresearch #ml #criticalvisualisation

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Mangrove 1: How is time passing for you? Are the waves getting stronger? … Mangrove 2: Time is flowing quickly for me. The tide is changing fast! … (They stand in silence for a moment, listening to the sound of the waves) … (Years have passed) #overGroundunderStory #morethanhuman #storytelling

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

seventeen trains [train fifteen] (15/17) {trains of thought via rapid iteration, custom trained ml models, experimental travels in world building with the more-than-human} ongoing series material exploration / sketches vimeo.com/867746091 design-research practice-based-research more-than-human

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seventeen trains [train fifteen]

seventeen trains [train fifteen] (15/17) {trains of thought via rapid iteration, custom trained ml models, experimental travels in world building with the more-than-human}

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

This Sepia apama or giant cuttlefish probably only lived a year or two before ending up in a collection over 170 years ago (1849) - Neural radiance field (2023) More-than-human NeRF Urban Field Naturalist

A giant cuttlefish on display in a museum cabinet, encased in captured in a large liquid filled container - captured as Neural radiance field.

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

The first stages of a recent “world building with chance & choice” workshop (including old and new forms of generative text and image) for first year viscom students at UTS

Handwritten text “time: 5 Utopian future…” on cutting mat with 20 sided dice.

Handwritten text - “ISM: 7 skepticism…” on cutting mat with pink highlighter.

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Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

seventeen trains [train seven] (7/17) {trains of thought via rapid iteration, custom trained ml models, experimental travels in world building with the more-than-human} ongoing series of material exploration / sketches vimeo.com/867369558 design-research practice-based-research more-than-human

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seventeen trains [tain seven]

seventeen trains [train seven] (7/17) {trains of thought via rapid iteration, custom trained ml models, experimental travels in world building with the more-than-human}

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