Andrew Burrell

Miner’s journey, 2025 (installation detail - Samstag Museum, Tarndanya, AU)
Single-channel video, audio (14 minutes)

Projection on wall, the default blue of the projector, in gallery install setting.

I love that projectors default to this blue wash. (Jarman / Klein / Windows)

Gallery with projection on wall, install paraphernalia in the foreground and gallery bench. Projection has calibration details and images from point clouds

Install in progress “Miner’s Journey” at Samstag Museum of Art - Tarndanya / (now)Adelaide.

Animal Tales

animaltales.com.au

We (Thom van Dooren, Julia Kindt, @zoesadokierski.bsky.social and myself) recently launched the Animal Tales project at Chau Chak Wing Museum exploring storytelling with the many animals (big and small) within the museums displayed collection. a big thanks to all of the story tellers involved!

Mon, 2 Jun, 6pm - 7:30pm AEST

UTS Building 2 - Jones Street Foyer (under the big screen)

Multispecies Storytelling: Lost and Threatened Places Live performances and exhibition of creative work alongside the symposium Storytelling for Lost and Threatened Places.

How do we speak *with* rather than *for* our more-than-human kin?

The UTS Visualisation Institute's Multispecies storytelling event - in conjunction with the @seisydney.bsky.social and the 'Storytelling for Lost and Threatened Places' symposium.

events.humanitix.com/multispecies...

dandelion plant and digital ephemera generated via gaussian splatting.

たんぽぽ−no。1
(from gaussian splat)

Birds of a more advanced age tended to belt out older songs that were less common among the population as a whole

This is awesome. Just like us, older birds sing hits from when they were young
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Dear Google, this is _not_ a Noisy Miner, and nowhere on their website does the Australian Museum suggest so. Ongoing #enshittification

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯

Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...

A thread. 🧵

Close up of Pelican feet under water

If we time-traveled back 30 million years, we would see Pelicans we recognise as Pelicans! #bird #birds #wip #designResearch #moreThanHuman #storyTelling

Tawny frogmouth in stealth mode

Tawny frogmouth in alert mode

#bird #birds #urbanfieldnaturalist
Tawny frogmouth

Mangrove estuary photograph taken from low angle

Forest

Okay I have some possibly surprising (for me) thoughts about how this could be non-awful.

I worked on an Encyclopaedia Britannica modernisation project in 1999/2000, when we put the Encyclopaedia on the Internet. As was the vogue at the time, we made a "knowledge portal".

What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language? | Quanta Magazine We often consider spoken language to be a feature that distinguishes humans from other forms of animal life. Brain research, however, suggests that other creatures — including certain birds — share so...

Interesting article on birdsong & human language to share this week.

It’s work that could lead to understanding the brain, gene therapy & differences in speech & language - dysphasia.

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www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-bir...

Local [mangrove] network

Diprotodon skeleton in Adelaide Museum.

“Stevie” a Diprotodon was central to overground-understory.net/what_raven_s...
I ran into one of his kind in Adelaide today…

Presentation mode - activated!

Up and running - “Twice, again: Virentis” (UTS building 1)

White text on blue background reading: location_id: AExternal_Territory_Nexus_Point_Children_of_the_Long_To morroo_Speculation you see: As you attempt to grasp the concept of the umbilical cord, a fleeting vision presents itself - a tenuous thread that weaves through the cosmos, connecting disparate points of existence. The strand oscillates between shimmering auroras and dark, foreboding nebulae, its fibers echoing through time. It pulsates with the rhythm of creation and destruction, reflecting the ebb and flow of potentialities unfolding within the multiverse. contographer: search for more information about the Children of the Long Tomorroo (hope I can find some answers) virentis: location_id: External_Territory_Nexus_Point_Children_of_the_Long_To morroo_Archive_Section_ Illuminated you see: As you dig deeper into the archives, fragmented records and cryptic entries come to life, offering glimpses into the mysterious Children of the Long Tomorroo. Ancient artifacts adorned with arcane symbols and forbidden knowledge reveal a shadowy organization that manipulates humanity from behind the scenes. A holographic projection flickers to life before you, displaying an encrypted transmission addressed to you: "Project Elysium initiated... cartographer: decrypt the encryption on the Project Elysium transmission (finally, something concrete) TURN: 34

WIP (text fragment) [Twice, again: Virentis]

WIP (screen fragment) [Twice, again: Virentis]

Lots of great panels at this (free) conference including a keynote from Angie Abdilla. I have a new work showing in the associated exhibition & will be running a #criticalAI workshop with Monica Monin on the Friday.

Through the window you can see the sculpture Ripple Effect, by Pakistani-Australian artist Abdullah M.I. Syed. It juxtaposes with our machine nicely. www.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/phive/about/...

A red white and brown nudibranch with many long finger-like projections on its back and long red antennae seen from above and crawling on a an encrusted rock.

A small cream-colored nudibranch with pale orange highlights on its gills and only a few finger-like projections on its back and medium length antennae seen from the side and crawling on a brown marine alga.

An orange black and white nudibranch with many finger-like projections on its back and long antennae facing the camera and crawling on a red marine alga.

A yellow, red, brown and white nudibranch with many finger-like projections on its back, which are red at the base, and long antennae facing the camera and crawling on a brown marine alga.

Four more nudibranchs from #Humboldt tide pools for #Nudivember. I added alt text to the images, but it's my first try and I'd appreciate any feedback on how to make it better.

Screen and exhibition collateral on table. A sign reads “A Misbehaving Machine”. Text on the screen if in blue on a green background and has a series of questions and answers.

“The Making of Misbehaving Machines” up and running at Parramatta City Library.

misbehavingmachines.net

#criticalVisualisation #criticalDesign #ml #ai #creativePractice

Notebook with pen and pencil notes on dotted paper.

Notebook: finalising the layout for the two screens of “Twice, again: Virentis” ( #moreThanHuman #worldBuilding ) @ artechlaw.org/hacking-visu... (UTS) in December.

#researchThroughDesign #criticalVisualisation #eLit

Ginger cat, paw raised, fluffy tail, in the bowl of a cat tower

Happy #caturday from Kinta

Constructed digital image (nerf > point cloud > vr) a floating island with vivid green strike through.

Mangrove 1: do you think we will ever get to the island?

Mangrove 2: the island is coming to us.

(they wait)

#morethanhuman #storytelling
#network #ecologies

3 young mangroves reflecting in their surrounding water.

morning (commute) observations.