Avant Harde Drive: Creative Tech Meetup Are you a Sydney artist or creative working with emerging/immersive tech?

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AVANT HARDE DRIVE

I'm so delighted to be part of this next Tuesday!

ALT is about community and making everything accessible for the industry especially in Sydney! It’s wonderful to see these satellite community events happening ☺️

Check out the line up for ALT GAMES April 18-19 in Sydney!!
We have Shuhei Yoshida, Alanah Pearce and Billy Basso as our keynote speakers!!! Come 👍

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Cass Sweep! Already such a great achievement tho. There is still hope in journalism thanks to people like you <3.

Fast-paced retail therapy played with a barcode scanner🛒 and a digital collection of peculiar seashells🐚
Play these games and more at GAW Party featuring work by 🗣️📣
@oddgoo.bsky.social, Hee-eun Yeo, @reecyboii.bsky.social, @justcamh.bsky.social, Oscar Newsome, @managore.bsky.social & Arkington Owen

Actualising this idea has been a dream come true 🥰. Both in outcome and the process of working with @cassiebara29.bsky.social , Jacqui Moran and the rest of the team!

We continue our agenda of injecting DIY punk into Sydney's premiere game event 😈
Come hangout at the iconic Oxford Art Factory but for gamers. It's gonna be sick as hell🔥

Looking at the drawings people made for the the collaborative colouring book at #freeplayangles with a big smile. @free-play.bsky.social

Next at @free-play.bsky.social @oddgoo.bsky.social of sound scouts and @serenade.games with "Situated Love"

#freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

The poster for TANGENTS 2025 featuring a playful geometric design. The text reads; experimental games from around Australia, Wednesday July 30th 7pm - Late, Sabby Gallery 141 Victoria Pde Collingwood.

Better late than never! 👀

TANGENTS is back this year at @sabbygallery.bsky.social to coincide with the start of @free-play.bsky.social Angles Festival. Come play weird and wonderful games from across Australia!✨

🗓️ Weds July 30th
⏰ 7pm - Late
🎟️ Free RSVP 👉 events.humanitix.com/tangents25

Registration is now open for Game A Week Sydney!

Please join us and @pixelpasture.studio for another exciting program of
- playing each others' weird & wonderful experiments 🧪
- finding new ways to think about games 🤯
- connecting with your fellow gamemakers 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

We can't wait to see what you make! 🤩

‘We need to talk about “Florence” and emotional labour’ by Mahli-Ann Butt

Thanks to @oddgoo.bsky.social for digging up a copy of my old Florence piece from the internet archives! I thought it was gone forever! 🥹

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Honestly, I think even those of us who were saying gamergate is a training ground for/and direct path to outright fascism are probably a little bit surprised at how literally correct we actually were.

We made a "situated game" for my birthday, taking place at the Art Gallery of NSW.

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#artgalleryofnsw, #situatedgames, #indiegames

Thousands of overlapping objects at various distances are spread across this field, including galaxies in a massive galaxy cluster, and distorted background galaxies behind the galaxy cluster. The background of space is black.

Clean image of galaxy cluster MACS J1423, where the Firefly Sparkle galaxy is located.
🔭 🧪

Performed at my first Improv show! 😬

Live: Laws to ban social media for kids to be introduced tomorrow The federal government's legislation aims to get kids off social media by the end of the year. Follow live.

It is unconscionable that the government is introducing its social media ban legislation to parliament tomorrow without any expert or practitioner consultation or review - or even a clear definition of ‘social media’.