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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Episode 106 of Fresh&New on Asian futures and more is winging its way to your inbox (or spam!) … and some detours along the way. Enjoy
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It’s been a long time since I sent out a Fresh & New episode but Episode 105 is winging its way to you inbox (or spam folder). It covers lots of art in Venice, disappointing museum exhibits, @joemuggs.bsky.social ‘s Small Rooms, dj/Rupture, Holly Dicker’s hardcore, and more. Enjoy.
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is happening! Debuts Melbourne mid 2027 then global!
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Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Hooray!! We have needed an orphan works provision in Australia for a long time.
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This was a lot of fun to do this week - those moments when current work and previous worlds collide …
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
John O’Shea on provenance of food at bonus event No Harm Done #FACT2026
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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A deadline, says Ryuta, is a powerful technology. #FACT2026 BOOM
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Jessica Walthew on collecting artworks containing viruses as design works … within a large scale bureaucracy … at #fact2026 #digipres
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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...
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Program | Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium | 11 - 13 Feb 2026
Program details: Day one - Contemporary Digital Culture, Day two - Institutional, Creative and Collective Actions, and Day three: Creative Industries & Artificial Intelligence (Closed Session).
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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)
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
For those _still_ making websites for museum visitors, this may be of interest …
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Bennett Foddy is giving a talk at ACMI on Wednesday evening (Jan 14) . . . www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/ben...
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Bennett Foddy In Conversation | 14 Jan 2026
Bennett Foddy is one of the worlds most unusual and boundary pushing indie game makers, many of whose games have gone viral over the years. This is the only time he will be speaking in Australia for h...
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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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Cyclic Defrost Magazine @cyclicdefrost.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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…
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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.
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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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
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Melbourne tonight … so many people dressed up as Oasis fans …
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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...
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Melbourne Games Week: Celebrating Physical Play
Interviews with MIGW practitioners of tactile game spaces
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Indeed you can …
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kuraine @lena.fyi · 03/10/2025
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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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
“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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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025
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: unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_… #GLAM
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ACHF Survey
This survey explores the current landscape of Australia’s cultural data sector
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is _such_ an exciting thing we are able to have happen at @acmimuseum.bsky.social … don’t miss it
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
As Bandcamp day winds up, there’s plenty of fantastic music to explore on this label too …
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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.
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Threatening Music Notation @musicnotation.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Oh that will not be a problem
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
“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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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Much sampled, so good to see this available for the youths …
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Cyclic Defrost Magazine @cyclicdefrost.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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…
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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.
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Telnet!
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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...
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
😢 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
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A super good and insightful read about what happens to the ‘middle’ in culture ‘industries’
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RMIT Games @rmitgames.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Amazing treasure trove in the Internet Archive
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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.
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
OMG WUT?!
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025
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. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/11/… Please share! #GLAM […]
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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…
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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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.
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