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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

Mon, 2 Jun, 6pm - 7:30pm AEST UTS Building 2 - Jones Street Foyer (under the big screen)

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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 · 30/11/2024

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

White text on blue background reading:

location_id:
AExternal_Territory_Nexus_Point_Children_of_the_Long_To morroo_Speculation
you see: As you attempt to grasp the concept of the umbilical cord, a fleeting vision presents itself - a tenuous thread that weaves through the cosmos, connecting disparate points of existence. The strand oscillates between shimmering auroras and dark, foreboding nebulae, its fibers echoing through time. It pulsates with the rhythm of creation and destruction, reflecting the ebb and flow of potentialities unfolding within the multiverse.
contographer: search for more information about the Children of the Long Tomorroo (hope I can find some answers)
virentis:
location_id:
External_Territory_Nexus_Point_Children_of_the_Long_To morroo_Archive_Section_ Illuminated
you see: As you dig deeper into the archives, fragmented records and cryptic entries come to life, offering glimpses into the mysterious Children of the Long Tomorroo. Ancient artifacts adorned with arcane symbols and forbidden knowledge reveal a shadowy organization that manipulates humanity from behind the scenes. A holographic projection flickers to life before you, displaying an encrypted transmission addressed to you: "Project Elysium initiated...
cartographer: decrypt the encryption on the Project Elysium transmission (finally, something concrete)
TURN: 34

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

Through the window you can see the sculpture Ripple Effect, by Pakistani-Australian artist Abdullah M.I. Syed. It juxtaposes with our machine nicely. www.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/phive/about/...

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Dynamic Art. Local Stories. | City of Parramatta

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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 · 18/11/2024

I defaced the digital version before posting.

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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 · 13/11/2024

Thanks Mez, lots of good company here :)

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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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