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kgt.bsky.social
My favourite takeaway from #FACT2025 has been from Aaron Straup Cope's keynote: futures are not inevitable, and futures that are marketed to us as inevitabilities ought to be treated as suspect.
February 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
sighmon.com
Day 2. #FACT2025 The Age of Immersion by @adrianhon.bsky.social

www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...
February 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
sebchan.bsky.social
Follow along with some of #FACT2025 in the hashtag … and you might also find a few Australian folks to follow around arts and culture too
February 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
tathra.bsky.social
Such a good takeaway from the final keynote, very wise words!!
#FACT2025
kgt.bsky.social kat @kgt.bsky.social · Feb 13
My favourite takeaway from #FACT2025 has been from Aaron Straup Cope's keynote: futures are not inevitable, and futures that are marketed to us as inevitabilities ought to be treated as suspect.
February 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
mjparry.bsky.social
Aaron Straup Cope’s sharp analogy of the web being plywood makes sense but his reference to plywood and 2x4s holding up this building…doesn’t quite scan for the rather specific construction of Fed Sq 😝 #FACT2025
February 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
josefinahuq.bsky.social
Hey Creative Australia pretty sure your representatives at this week’s #FACT2025 conference repeatedly pushed for ✨diversity✨, maintaining integrity, and stressed that organisations need to listen to artists more? If so, please hear us when we say this is absolute trash and must be reversed.
‘Art should not be censored’: Khaled Sabsabi responds to cancellation of Venice Biennale project
The Lebanese Australian artist, and curator Michael Dagostino say they are ‘extremely hurt’ by Creative Australia’s decision
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
ni-cdu.bsky.social
NI Researcher, Professor Jennifer Deger, presented the Day One Keynote at the Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium (FACT 2025) at ACMI (Federation Square, Melbourne) in Feb. #CDUresearch #CentreforCreativeFutures #FACT2025 @acmimuseum.bsky.social 📷 Matto Lucas
💻www.acmi.net.au/whats-on
March 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
mjparry.bsky.social
This discussion around representation of the non-humans in org governance reminds me of this work / approach that @nieuweinstituut.nl has #FACT2025 nieuweinstituut.nl/projects/zoo...
Word een Zöop
Hier lees je wat het betekent een Zoöp te worden of te zijn.
nieuweinstituut.nl
February 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
mikejonesphd.bsky.social
Spending the next two days at the Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium (FACT 2025) at ACMI #FACT2025
February 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
mjparry.bsky.social
Aaron Straup Cope from @sfomuseum.bsky.social enabling 60,000 collection objects with their own ActivityPub social media accounts reminds me of @cityofmelbourne.bsky.social giving 70,000 trees their own email address melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au #FACT2025
Test Melbourne Urban Forest Visual
The City of Melbourne maintains more than 70,000 trees. This website enables you to explore this dataset and some of the challenges facing Melbourne’s Urban Forest.
melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au
February 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
quail.bsky.social
I’m lucky that our collection and website is open enough that I have the ability to fight against political erasure requests, but certainly was on my mind all #FACT2025
quail.bsky.social Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · Feb 14
Considering the widespread removal of “trans” from the American internet, it’s terrifying to think that within the next 4 years with AI’s slow infection of every process, a little regex filter low enough in the stack could erase us completely from existence
February 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
mikejonesphd.bsky.social
Heading back to ACMI for day 2 of #FACT2025
February 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
handle.invalid
We had fun showcasing our AI collections search for @acmimuseum.bsky.social and @statelibraryqld.bsky.social and the latest AI experiment, the anecdote machine at the #FACT2025 networking event this week. More from @sighmon.bsky.social here labs.acmi.net.au/the-anecdote...
The anecdote machine
We’re always considering new ways of engaging with the ACMI collection, using legible technology, with interfaces that require minimal…
labs.acmi.net.au
February 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
ingridbmason.bsky.social
👉 Register for the FACT (Future of Art, Culture & Technology) Symposium, Workshops & Site Visits, 12-14 Feb 2025

#FACT2025 #Melbourne @acmimuseum.bsky.social

www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...
FACT 2025 | Wed 12 Feb – Fri 14 Feb 2025
Explores the future of arts, culture, and technology in Australia – and the mindsets, capabilities and skills we need to get there.
www.acmi.net.au
January 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
oconnorjustin13.bsky.social
At ACMI on Saturday 15th Feb, Deb Chachra, Dan Hill and myself discuss Culture as Infrastructure

2pm, book here:

www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fut...

@acmilabs.bsky.social
@sebchan.bsky.social
@cityofsound.bsky.social
@debcha.bsky.social

#FACT2025 #Melbourne
Shared Futures: Culture as infrastructure
“Infrastructure is everything you don’t have to think about”. Until you do.
www.acmi.net.au
February 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
sebchan.bsky.social
And all the #FACT2025 sessions are now up online with recordings and illustrated summaries. Enjoy - there's a lot to watch and they are jam packed with ideas and hope www.acmi.net.au/projects-par...
Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium
Rewatch the 2025, 2024 and 2023 Future of Arts Culture & Technology symposia
www.acmi.net.au
February 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
quail.bsky.social
Happy #FACT2025 everyone, lots of awesome people in an around @acmimuseum.bsky.social the next few days!
February 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
sighmon.com
hehe, so you're calculating 2025 factorial - which is `2025!=2025×2024×2023×⋯×3×2×1`

A very big number. #fact2025
February 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
mikejonesphd.bsky.social
Putting ‘fact 2025’ in DuckDuckGo brings up the calculator. The answer is infinity. #fact2025
Calculator showing the answer to 2025! as infinity.
February 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
sighmon.com
It’s not magic - finding our way back to “just f*cking do it” from “move fast and break things”. Aaron Straup Cope #FACT2025
"No one cares what you do unless you think about it. No one cares what you think unless you do it." - Jack Schulze "Anything which is presented as an inevitability is political." - Zadie Smith (I think) "We probably need to give up the transactional nature of our hope and do the thing that needs to be done because it needs to be done." - Tressie McMillan Cottom
February 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
quail.bsky.social
#FACT2025 is always amazing because you get such a range of creatives, of experiences, of expertises, and when they distill into a shared insight it's beautiful.
February 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
tathra.bsky.social
Hey #FACT2025 folks, I came in after lunch on day two part way through a film with provocative narration and clips of Hackers, The Matrix, Tron etc. I would love to see it from the start. Anyone have a link or know more about it? @sebchan.bsky.social @acmilabs.bsky.social @acmimuseum.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
quail.bsky.social
#FACT2025 I know that while I am an "Untouchable" I am also a Wizard, and I am very much being called out by Aaron here, but while he may be a grumpy man shouting at the sky, it's still nice seeing a grumpy man not shouting at me.
February 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
sighmon.com
Pull quotes on immersive experiences, agency, and videogames @adrianhon.bsky.social #FACT2025
"To assemble people unprepared for an event and say that they are 'participating' if apples are thrown at them or they are herded about is to ask very little of the whole notion of participation. Most of the time the response of such an audience is halfhearted or even reluctant ... [and] pure cliché..." ALLAN KAPROW ON HAPPENINGS (1966) "..Actually, there isn't really real agency. You're basically a floating camera ... You don't really have much control, but you can just choose where you stand to watch it." FELIX BARRETT / INTERVIEW WITH AH (2024) "I see computer RPGs, especially modern ones, as having more in common with traditional storytelling, where we have a very limited scope of agency in the majority of them, even very open world games ... these tools are much more like films or books than tabletop RPGs or larps." JON PETERSON / INTERVIEW WITH AH (2024)
February 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
sighmon.com
Dr. @debcha.bsky.social on making the best use of an abundance of decentralised renewable energy to rearrange the atoms of objects of the past, to objects of the future. #FACT2025

Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...
"I think of setting intentions this way as a kind of farfetching, in the sense of bringing something from far away up close, where you can get a better look at it, where you can better understand its contours and shape. Where you can contemplate what it's asking of you and what you are asking of it. Instead of wishing for a different future, farfetching invites you to haul that future into the present— in bits and pieces, if that's what it takes. It trades an empty hand for one with a grip on what's possible. All you have to do is pull." - Mandy Brown
February 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM