64. Forwards to the edge
(Apologies for the enormous gap between episode 63 and this one - its nearly been a month! Here's a tune to listen to while you read on, for reasons that...
63. Winter came early this year
Upwards G's photo of K & I doing what people seem to do when they get to the top of a mountain these days Winter has descended quickly on Melbourne. Since...
62. Interfaces and maps
Actual dancing K & I went to an actual gig last weekend. It wasnt the first we had been at since things have slowly begun opening up, but it was the most...
61. Migrating the newsletter and the not-conference
Its worked! If you’re reading this message then the newsletter migration from Substack to Buttondown has worked! Hence the slightly different formatting this...
60. Opening new things, contestable curation, curated lists
It’s alive! I’m conscious that the last time I wrote to you was a month ago! But its been busy. I’ve spent the last few weeks with my colleagues launching...
59. Sounds, friction, time
Thanks to Dan Cohen’s tweet going viral after the last episode I need to welcome a lot of new readers! So “hi!” (and thanks Dan!) As some of you are new...
58. Hello 2021
Hello 2021. Feels just like 2020 with a tiny bit less dread, right? Or maybe just a different kind of dread. I started writing this one several times then...
57. Looking backwards to go forwards, words from talks
I’ve been doing a bunch of talks recently and several folks asked me to write them up rather than let them stay ephemeral moments. This shift to the...
56. On fictional virtual cities
Things are looking a little different today. Like everyone I know, we anxiously awaited the US election results, constantly refreshing web pages with the...
55. The work / longform / structure
Dan Andrews @DanielAndrewsMPSaid I'd go a little higher up the shelf. Here's to you, Victoria. October 26th 2020823 Retweets10,137 Likes 725 to zero. It’s...
54. On online communities, conferences, connections
Our cats pretending to imitate Annie Leibovitz’s John & Yoko. Photo by G.I’m procrastinating another task by completing this one. Yes, it’s gotten to that...
53. Buckets of data
The recently released new Google Arts & Culture experiment, Gael Hughes’ An Ocean of Books, is a cute but telling example of the challenges of large...
52. Lost memories
The Whitney’s recent exhibition cancellation controversy is yet another reminder that an art museum is not the same as a social history museum. Power and...
51. Epistolary transformations
(Air conditioners in Hong Kong, 2019)August is a cold month in Melbourne. Our rental is particularly poorly designed with only low efficiency airconditioning...
50. Fifty fifty
Fifty.I didn’t expect to get to fifty of these little missives when I started writing them. When I started this writing there was no real goal in mind, it...
49. Lockdown, labs, shadow libraries
I had hoped to get some of this out earlier but change is happening so fast at the moment. Things have escalated again in recent days and we are in a new...
48. On Planetary in 2020: curatorial activism and open sourcing in service of digital preservation
This was originally going to be posted on Medium but my frustration over whether it would be accidentally paywalled means I’m publishing it here instead as a...
47. More screens, sounds, fruit
Last episode I speculated about my experience of video tours, and I totally forgot to write anything about a really fantastic video tour that our friend...
46. Walking through video
“Somehow bullet holes in steel doors look like a collection of constellations trapped to catch the wrath of idiotsAnd we are the size of constellations in...
45. On generative music, digital exhibitions, and other distractions
[United States Office Of War Information, Gruber, E., photographer. (1942) Conversion. Jukebox plant. Solonoid selectors, devices which play the right record...