Seb Chan

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.”

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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

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 …

“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.” ❤️

@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

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

And voila!

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

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: https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78qwtk2SZhWOoku #GLAM

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

This is _such_ an exciting thing we are able to have happen at @acmimuseum.bsky.social … don’t miss it

Word is “probably licensing” …

As Bandcamp day winds up, there’s plenty of fantastic music to explore on this label too …

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.

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

Oh that will not be a problem

“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”

Much sampled, so good to see this available for the youths …

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…

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…

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.

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...

I loved this so much. The use of emulators too! Marcin’s history of keyboards book is also one of my fave things!

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

Telnet!

The second half of this excellent piece is worth reading twice for a zoomed out view of many policy shifts going back decades

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...

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.

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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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

A super good and insightful read about what happens to the ‘middle’ in culture ‘industries’