iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 12/03/2026

🎂 ACMI XOS stats after the 5-year anniversary of re-opening: 23,639,934 unique Lens taps (31,870,244 total) 1,283,696 Lenses tapped more than one item 16.5 average museum objects collected per visit 508,183 flipbooks created 1,073,605 extra museum objects collected on the constellation tables

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 16/02/2026

Reverb x @ACMI 🔊 The exhibition explores vinyl culture and music’s influence on art, fashion, film and social movements.

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 11/02/2026

So much love for Robin Fox. Also, if they break, learning *why* gives you so much intuition for anything you make in the future in both related and unrelated fields. Break all the things. Fix all the things. Open Source all the things. #FACT2026

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 19/09/2025

We built some things to play at @acmimuseum.bsky.social Game Worlds. 🎮

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 18/08/2025

Peek inside the @acmimuseum.bsky.social media preservation lab to see the work our staff are doing to preserve physical and digital film, tv shows, digital art, and videogames. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu5f...

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Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab

YouTube video by ACMI – Your museum of screen culture

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 15/07/2025

Can't make it to the cinema? Watch MIFF with @acmimuseum.bsky.social Cinema 3 apps for iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, and Android. Rent the films here: cinema3.acmi.net.au/page/miff-on... App links: apps.apple.com/us/app/acmi-... play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 | ACMI Cinema 3

Available Australia-wide from Fri 15 to Sun 31 August, MIFF Online has a limited selection of festival highlights, including new films and free short films, with select access services made available.

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 30/06/2025

Four years after relaunching @acmimuseum.bsky.social our visitors are still averaging 15,000 unique Lens taps per day. Over the weekend XOS recorded its 20,000,000th unique tap from our fleet of NFC enabled BalenaOS Raspberry Pis. Well done little machines. 🥹

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 16/06/2025

Double Vision Double Vision @acmimuseum.bsky.social Book: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/dou...

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ACMI Labs @handle.invalid · 02/06/2025

In this post @sighmon.com shares our latest experiment, a supercut generator which uses previous work to make our video collection more searchable and presents the results as a cut up sequence labs.acmi.net.au/supercuts-89...

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Supercuts

Generating supercuts from ACMI collection video search results.

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 03/05/2025

Please consider voting Greens this election to help nudge us towards more solar/wind/batteries. ☀️ 🔋 vote.greens.org.au

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How To Vote Greens

Positive change starts with voting for people who will work for you and what you believe in

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 02/04/2025

🕹️🎮 Game Worlds @acmimuseum.bsky.social Opens 18 September 2025 🎟️Tickets go on sale this July 💌 Join the waitlist at: www.acmi.net.au/game-worlds #ACMIGameWorlds

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 23/03/2025

Powerwall TV is on the AppleTV App Store. 🔋 See your home energy solar and battery flow on the big screen. App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/power... Code: github.com/sighmon/Powe...

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 20/03/2025

Did you know you can apply to access and donate films to the @acmimuseum.bsky.social film collection via our website? Perhaps you’re interested in screening a film from our collection, or would like access for research purposes?

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 13/02/2025

It’s not magic - finding our way back to “just f*cking do it” from “move fast and break things”. Aaron Straup Cope #FACT2025

"No one cares what you do unless you think about it.
No one cares what you think unless you do it."
- Jack Schulze

"Anything which is presented as an inevitability is political."
- Zadie Smith (I think)

"We probably need to give up the transactional nature of our hope and do the thing that needs to be done because it needs to be done."
- Tressie McMillan Cottom

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 12/02/2025

Day 2. #FACT2025 The Age of Immersion by @adrianhon.bsky.social www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 11/02/2025

Dr. @debcha.bsky.social on making the best use of an abundance of decentralised renewable energy to rearrange the atoms of objects of the past, to objects of the future. #FACT2025 Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...

"I think of setting intentions this way as a kind of farfetching, in the sense of bringing something from far away up close, where you can get a better look at it, where you can better understand its contours and shape. Where you can contemplate what it's asking of you and what you are asking of it. Instead of wishing for a different future, farfetching invites you to haul that future into the present— in bits and pieces, if that's what it takes. It trades an empty hand for one with a grip on what's possible. All you have to do is pull."

- Mandy Brown

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 18/12/2024

We deployed XOS and its film watching toolkit to a selection of the State Library of Queensland's film collection to improve accessibility and searchability. Do you have a collection of films you'd like our computers to watch next? www.linkedin.com/pulse/inters...

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An interstate collaboration supporting digital transformation

“It will come as no surprise to any of our colleagues in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) sector that ACMI is aligning its practices and processes to make the most of digital tran...

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 19/11/2024

Finally found the best use case for large language models - is it yellow recycling bin collection week or green organics? ♻️

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 31/10/2024

We had our first 2MWh month of solar production this month. We exported 1.7MWh of that to the grid. ☀️🏡🔋⚡️

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 28/06/2024

We've been exploring how large language models might enhance interacting with our museum collection, experimenting with fine-tuning and retrieval augmented generation. Words: labs.acmi.net.au/language-mod... Code: github.com/acmilabs/col...

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Language model explorations with our collection

How we built a natural language collection chat server using LangChain and our Public API.

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 12/06/2024

Today’s home power plant stats: Generated 30kWh of solar. Exported 20kWh to the grid during the day. Charged our home battery. Exported another 5kWh as the sun went down and the grid needed it. 🏡 🔋 ☀️ ⚡️

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 09/05/2024

I’ve started looking at clouds and guessing how many kW of solar they filter. ⛅️ Today we had a couple of really dense 6.5 kW fluff burgers. Luckily they were small and passed quickly.

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 03/05/2024

ACMI's museum software (XOS) is now powering a film museum in Germany (DFF). 🖤 www.acmi.net.au/projects-par... We wrote collection data integrations with Axiell, Europeana, JustWatch, and Wikidata. Translation helpers using OpenAI GPT-4. And the DFF Constellation APIs are compatible with ACMI.

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Konstellationen // Constellations – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF)

Our collaboration with DFF to create an interactive visitor experience for their museum inspired by ACMI’s Constellation is now live.

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 09/04/2024

One of my favourite moments walking to work is the transition into the parklands. I’m in a serene bubble of noise cancellation with traffic streaming by, and then as soon as I enter the trees I switch to transparent mode and the bird sounds open up and burst into my ears.

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 07/04/2024

Break in case of emergency. music.apple.com/au/album/yac...

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 04/04/2024

Nice numbers day.🥳 14,049,519 Lens taps. acmi.net.au/lens/ 299,869 Flipbooks created. 98% of our video collection have had their video image frames classified. labs.acmi.net.au/video-image-...

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Search inside our videos — Part 2: content discovery

Extending the ACMI video search by looking inside image frame content using VideoMAE, YOLOv8, and BLIP-2.

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 11/03/2024

15kW of solar and a 13.5kWh battery covered us for peak Adelaide summer energy use during a 40° day. Topped up the car, kept the house cool, recharged the home battery, exported battery power to the grid when it was struggling, and still generated 33kW more than we used. ☀️🔋🖤

A graph of our total solar production of 71.9kWh for the day.

A graph from the perspective of our home battery showing our home used 4.5kWh after the sun went down, and the supported the grid with 1.6kWh when it was struggling.

A graph from the perspective of the grid showing our home drawing 1kWh when the grid had excess power, and our solar exporting 32.6kWh of excess power during the day.

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Simon Loffler @sighmon.com · 28/02/2024

Beautiful walking album. 🔊 music.apple.com/au/album/hal...

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