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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 · 13/04/2026

Nice typography on the cover though

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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 · 10/02/2026

Hmmm I’ll flag with the team

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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Just the public ACMI-WIFI - it shouldn’t need a password!

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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Each years talks are recorded and go online after the event

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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Jason Scott @textfiles.com from the Archive is in person in Melbs as the opening keynote at ACMI’s FACT event in Feb … he has been a real champion of games preservation and has pushed things forward for decades! 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 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...

acmi.net.au

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 · 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 · 21/11/2025

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!

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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

I can’t see any other reason for such behaviour! Obvs eveything of musical value in the mid 90s was forward looking, chopped full of samples, and bass … 🤣

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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 · 31/10/2025

The computer version is actually a pre- recorded ACMI staff member! (Not AI generated!)

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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The D&D interactive is actually narrated by one of the ACMI visitor experience staff! (Not AI)

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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Legendary find and upload! Cc @textfiles.com may be interested in this ….

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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Oh that was a real classic! You’d prob love the Atone reissues too - atone3.bandcamp.com

atone3.bandcamp.com

the best of atone 1993/2024, by atone

10 track album

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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

I’ve alerted two of the ACMI team to this floppy disk! Not _everything_ can be collected and preserved forever but I’m _definitely_ sure they would be interested!

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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 · 25/09/2025

I’m pleased to report that both Zork 1 and The Hobbit have been getting a decent workout from the young folk at Game Worlds despite the not-massively-intuitive language parser …

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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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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

@dannyodwyer.bsky.social … @astroblob.bsky.social and I will give you a special tour of ACMI and obviously Game Worlds too … let us on DMs when you’ll be here

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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Much cheaper shipping has been updated today for all countries except US (apparently they’re still working on that - it’s tariff uncertainty!)

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Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

There’s a whole section in the Game Worlds exhibition on The Hobbit! (And @acmimuseum.bsky.social has had WotEF on show previously!)

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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 · 11/08/2025

Word is “probably licensing” …

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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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