It’s been a long time since I sent out a Fresh & New episode but Episode 105 is winging its way to you inbox (or spam folder). It covers lots of art in Venice, disappointing museum exhibits, @joemuggs.bsky.social ‘s Small Rooms, dj/Rupture, Holly Dicker’s hardcore, and more. Enjoy.

This is happening! Debuts Melbourne mid 2027 then global!

Australian Arts Review@artsreviewau.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ACMI, together with BBC Studios and the multi award-winning producers of Bluey, Ludo Studio, have announced an exclusive world premiere exhibition about the making of the much-loved animated TV series Bluey. artsreview.com.au/bluey-exhibi...

Hooray!! We have needed an orphan works provision in Australia for a long time.

Elliott Bledsoe@elliottbledsoe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Woah, the Copyright Amendment Bill 2026 passed the Senate today meaning Australia will very soon have a scheme limiting remedies available when users use orphan works. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... #Copyright #OrphanWorks #CopyrightLawReform

This was a lot of fun to do this week - those moments when current work and previous worlds collide …

JeanPoole@skynoise.net · 5mo ago

Sufi plugins, sonic curiosity & art optimism despite all the 😱 Great chat at acmi, melb - with Seb Chan + DJ Rupture

John O’Shea on provenance of food at bonus event No Harm Done #FACT2026

A deadline, says Ryuta, is a powerful technology. #FACT2026 BOOM

Jessica Walthew on collecting artworks containing viruses as design works … within a large scale bureaucracy … at #fact2026 #digipres

The program for FACT26 at ACMI is now online! We’ve added more speakers and you might want to consider coming along in Melb! There’s people speaking who you know and people you need to know! www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...

Program | Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium | 11 - 13 Feb 2026

Program details: Day one - Contemporary Digital Culture, Day two - Institutional, Creative and Collective Actions, and Day three: Creative Industries & Artificial Intelligence (Closed Session).

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The backstory behind one of four new commissioned games for ACMI’s Game Worlds - and you don’t even have to visit to play it. It’s also a lovely piece of speculative world building. (The other three new commissioned games are also online including one written for the Commodore 64)

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner.dev · 7mo ago

We put up a big post about Hint Line ‘93, the game we made for the ACMI museum! yarnspinner.dev/blog/hint-li...

For those _still_ making websites for museum visitors, this may be of interest …

mia ridge@miaout.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Great post from Lucie and ACMI folk: Making museums legible for machines (without breaking the human experience) | by Lucie Paterson | Jan, 2026 | ACMI LABS labs.acmi.net.au/making-museu... #MuseTech

Bennett Foddy is giving a talk at ACMI on Wednesday evening (Jan 14) . . . www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/ben...

Bennett Foddy In Conversation | 14 Jan 2026

Bennett Foddy is one of the worlds most unusual and boundary pushing indie game makers, many of whose games have gone viral over the years. This is the only time he will be speaking in Australia for h...

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SIFTER@sifterhq.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If you scratch the surface you'll find much more than just ragebait in @foddy.net 's work. Ahead of a chat at ACMI @nomibelle.bsky.social spoke to Bennett for Lightmap our interview podcast. www.sifter.com.au/post/taking-...

Five months since the last one, a whopper 6250 word episode 104 of Fresh and New is now winging its way to your inbox. It’s chock full of links and sounds, some near and distant memories and pokes at some of the challenges right now. Enjoy. (Because it’s _so_ long it may be sitting in your spam…)

Cyclic Selects: Horse MacGyver Horse MacGyver is Naarm based media artist and sound designer Timothy Dwyer. He's been making some pretty unhinged music over the last decade or so on labels such as Nice music and Being Intense Records, playing live regularly, touring with Indonesia's iconic duo…

Cyclic Selects: Horse MacGyver

Horse MacGyver is Naarm based media artist and sound designer Timothy Dwyer. He's been making some pretty unhinged music over the last decade or so on labels such as Nice music and Being Intense Records, playing live regularly, touring with Indonesia's iconic duo Senyawa - even making music videos for the likes of Lucy Cliche and Lost Animal. His latest album is…

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The 4th edition of ACMI’s Future of Arts Culture & Technology symposium now has Early Bird tix on sale. Feb 11-13 with first round of speakers announced. Expect some new provocations … www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...

Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium | 11 - 13 Feb 2026

A two-day symposium exploring the future of arts, culture, and technology in Australia – and the mindsets, capabilities and skills we need to get there.

acmi.net.au

Watching along with #iPres2025 from afar - great to see how much bigger the digital preservation field is these days and how much more understanding there is of it’s importance

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A Relic of the Empire: Tom Ellard of Severed Heads Interviewed | The Quietus

Bridget Small speaks to Severed Heads mainstay, industrial musician and artist Tom Ellard; just don't call him a pioneer... yet

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Melbourne tonight … so many people dressed up as Oasis fans …

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.” www.superjumpmagazine.com/material-pla...

Melbourne Games Week: Celebrating Physical Play

Interviews with MIGW practitioners of tactile game spaces

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Indeed you can …

James Brown@ancient.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If you're in Melbourne, you can currently see Doom-on-a-Lego-brick up close at ACMI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U... www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...

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

“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.” ❤️

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!

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

Alison Croggon@alisoncroggon.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is shocking news. Literary magazines - and all the other small orgs now under pressure or closing or gone - are the bedrock of culture and their ongoing costs are barely a blip in any institutional budget. Melbourne University ought to be ashamed www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

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

Maddy Thorson@maddymakesgames.com · 11mo ago

@noelfb.bsky.social and I will be at ACMI in Melbourne on October 6 for this :) www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mig...

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

Phantom Limb@phantomlimb.bsky.social · last yr.

Shhh. Before anyone else finds out. Pay-what-you-can on all digital catalogue. phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com

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

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.

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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”

UK Prime Minister@joemuggs.bsky.social · last yr.

So as we lost the great Eamon Downes aka Liquid last week, @danmallender.bsky.social asked my thoughts about why "Sweet Harmony" is such an anthem among anthems, and I said this.

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

Morgan Davie@fromthemorgue.bsky.social · last yr.

@floaker.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen, relevant to your interests and a game you made: The Prisoner now officially up on YouTube for anyone to watch. (Not regionlocked in NZ but might be elsewhere) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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…

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…

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