Tag: Speculative Imaginings
The Bounty Bear is Searching!
A favourite speculative interface.
The Bounty Bear from Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World is a perfect example of a speculative vision for an interface design that is both playful and critical of emerging technology. The Bounty Bear interface …
I Believe in Monsters!
Where I recall A Pair of Red Mittens with White Cross-stitch Patterning and a Train Full of Monsters.
For some reason, for as long as I can remember, I have had a memory that has constantly played on my mind. I wonder, is it because I have replayed it over and over so many times that it is so vivid, or has it always …
overGround:underStory @ Read to Me
A short excerpt from a performance reading of (an) overGround:underStory
A short excerpt from a performance reading of (an) overGround:underStory
Reanbar is here...
Thinking about remembering & forgetting in machine mediated conversations
Creating conversations between me (with insight into the protagonist's world model within the written text) and characters in "Twice, again", has brought up questions of how aspects of the ongoing conversation are …
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. …
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 …
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.
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
Multispecies Salon
More-then-human storytelling for Climate Action Week
During Climate Action Week, and as part of an ongoing series of more-than-human storytelling events, we are hosting an evening of readings and performances that reveal how storytelling can shape our understanding of, and responses to, the biodiversity and climate crises.
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.
Attending to the xenotone
notes towards early ventures into the emerging xenotone.
The xenotone does not follow a path, paths form through the xenotone. The encounter with the xenotone happens when physical, digital and speculative paths cross—this crossing need not form an alignment. I've been …
Twice, again: Virentis: Bounded (Un)Supervision
ELO 2026: conference paper
This short paper explores the creative possibilities of working accross computational infrastrcuture, tradtitional story telling and local large language models.
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