Into the Xenotone

Into the Xenotone

Xenotone: an initial defininition

Xenotone:
An overlapping zone of tension between physical and digital ecologies. It is where these two ecologies meet, multiply, compete, integrate and produce something other.

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UNTITLED (Interventions for 2025): process

projected light and human shadows

Social archive of material experiments and install process of UNTITLED (Interventions for 2025)

A collaborative practice based research project with Biljana Jančić. Exploring digital ecologies as they intersect with the physical.

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Virentis at Hacking Visual Culture

Virentis at Hacking Visual Culture

Social post archive of Twice, again: Virentis at UTS Black Box Gallery

Social media post archive of twice, again: Virentis during its install at the Hacking Visual Cultures symposium, 2024

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exhibitions: The Making of Misbehaving Machines

exhibitions: The Making of Misbehaving Machines

What would happen if we designed an AI machine that didn’t pretend to be so certain, one that would openly misbehave?

Exhibitions open across our participating libraries: 18 November (TAFE NSW Ultimo), 25 November (Parramatta and Green Square libraries) and 2 December (UTS). The research team includes Heather Ford, Monica Monin, Andrew Burrell, Suneel Jethani (PhD), and Bhuva Narayan.

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ISEA 2024

ISEA 2024

Presenting "overGround:underStory— more-than-human storytelling with silicon and carbon kin" (paper) and "can't buy me love" (VR work) @ ISEA 2024

"overGround:underStory— more-than-human storytelling with silicon and carbon kin" was presented in the "more-than-human" panel on Monday, June 24, as a peer-reviewed full paper. "can't buy me love" - Amala Groom X …

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overGround-underStory : WEBSITE

overGround-underStory : WEBSITE

A central repository for aspects and elements of the ongoing project

overground-understory.net Gathering fragments from the overGround and the underGround together. More-than-human storytelling in multiple aspects, coming together in a new story–traversed through exploration. …

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Paper: overGround:underStory — more-than-human storytelling with silicon and carbon kin

Paper: overGround:underStory — more-than-human storytelling with silicon and carbon kin

ISEA 2024, more-than-human panel

Presented at ISEA 2024 in Brisbane. This paper investigates how creative practice can facilitate multispecies storytelling by positioning the practitioner as a medium or demiurge—an intermediary in a vast, unknowable …

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What Raven Saw - an overGround:underStory

What Raven Saw - an overGround:underStory

A spoken work slide performance exploring imagined and forgotten network fragments.

The overGround:underStory project provides a platform for knowing through doing. A large part of this doing takes the form of the invitation we made to "slow down, observe, record, ask questions and share" as part of …

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NeRF aesthetics

NeRF aesthetics

Static image material experiments with NeRF "hallucinations"

I have seen the noise created in the Neural Radiance Field generation process as "hallucinations", language that is both poetic and problematic at the same time. Rather than attempting to reduce this visual phenomenon, …

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In Conversation, can't buy me love

In Conversation, can't buy me love

Artist talk: Amala Groom, Andrew Burrell and Madeleine Collie in conversation

Our "in conversation" at the UTS Gallery has some interesting insights into the nature of collaborative practice and how the work came to be.

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