Andrew Burrell
@andrewxburrell.bsky.social
Practice-based researcher + educator: digitally mediated environments and interactions between physical and digital ecologies. More-than-human storytelling + world building. Digital humanities, Design research, senior lecturer visual communication UTS
This week for Climate Action Week -Miner’s Journey at the UTS Data Arena.
A Hundred Notes on Storydwelling. Note #068 -- Attention -- You can feel when a world…
068. Attention
You can feel when a world…
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Thinking about and working with pneumatophores. #practicebasedresearch #codesign #morethanhuman #storytelling
Miner’s journey, 2025 (installation detail - Samstag Museum, Tarndanya, AU) Single-channel video, audio (14 minutes)
I love that projectors default to this blue wash. (Jarman / Klein / Windows)
Install in progress “Miner’s Journey” at Samstag Museum of Art - Tarndanya / (now)Adelaide.
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!
Sydney Environment Institute@seisydney.bsky.social · last yr.Want to travel into the captivating worlds of animals? A talented group of storytellers from the University of Sydney and University of Technology Sydney have created an interactive animal trail to cultivate a deeper appreciation for some of the remarkable creatures that we share this planet with.
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...
Multispecies Storytelling: Lost and Threatened Places
Live performances and exhibition of creative work alongside the symposium Storytelling for Lost and Threatened Places.
events.humanitix.com
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. 🧵
If we time-traveled back 30 million years, we would see Pelicans we recognise as Pelicans! #bird #birds #wip #designResearch #moreThanHuman #storyTelling
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".
Arturo Serrano@carturo222.bsky.social · 2y agoExcuse me while I run in circles screaming in horror.
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. 🧵 www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-bir...
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...
quantamagazine.org
“Stevie” a Diprotodon was central to overground-understory.net/what_raven_s... I ran into one of his kind in Adelaide today…
Up and running - “Twice, again: Virentis” (UTS building 1)
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.
Suneel Jethani@skjethani.bsky.social · 2y agoI’ll be speaking on AI, creative practice and ‘our’ methodological obligations at Hacking Visual Cultures December 4-6 in Sydney. No cost registration. artechlaw.org/hacking-visu...
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.
“The Making of Misbehaving Machines” up and running at Parramatta City Library. misbehavingmachines.net #criticalVisualisation #criticalDesign #ml #ai #creativePractice
Notebook: finalising the layout for the two screens of “Twice, again: Virentis” ( #moreThanHuman #worldBuilding ) @ artechlaw.org/hacking-visu... (UTS) in December. #researchThroughDesign #criticalVisualisation #eLit
