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John O’Shea on provenance of food at bonus event No Harm Done #FACT2026

A deadline, says Ryuta, is a powerful technology. #FACT2026

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BOOK NOW | Game Worlds | Playable exhibition until March 2026 ACMI’s Game Worlds: a major playable exhibition of 30+ video games including Hollow Knight: Silksong, World of Warcraft, The Sims, Neopets and more. On until March 2026.

This ACMI. In Melbourne. But the exhibition will tour globally over the coming years. www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...

Jessica Walthew on collecting artworks containing viruses as design works … within a large scale bureaucracy … at #fact2026 #digipres

Hmmm I’ll flag with the team

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

Each years talks are recorded and go online after the event

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).

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...

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).

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...

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)

For those _still_ making websites for museum visitors, this may be of interest …

Bennett Foddy is giving a talk at ACMI on Wednesday evening (Jan 14) . . . www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/ben...

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…)

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…

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…

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!

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.

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...

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

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

thequietus.com/interviews/s...

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 … 🤣

Melbourne tonight … so many people dressed up as Oasis fans …

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

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

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

Tamagotchi: Original Assortment The Original Tamagotchi is back with the same programming as 1997 and a variety of new stylish shells! You feed it, clean up after it, and even praise it. Plus, you can play mini-games! Includes the C...

The ACMI store does sell them online! shop.acmi.net.au/products/tam...

the best of atone 1993/2024, by atone 10 track album

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

Melbourne Games Week: Celebrating Physical Play Interviews with MIGW practitioners of tactile game spaces

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...

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!

Indeed you can …

Paavoharju!!

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