🎂 ACMI XOS stats after the 5-year anniversary of re-opening:

23,639,934 unique Lens taps (31,870,244 total)

1,283,696 Lenses tapped more than one item

16.5 average museum objects collected per visit

508,183 flipbooks created

1,073,605 extra museum objects collected on the constellation tables

The Vinyl Factory: Reverb Reverb explores sound through vinyl culture. It jacks us into places where music shakes cultural foundations to shape art, fashion, and social movements.

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Reverb x @ACMI 🔊

The exhibition explores vinyl culture and music’s influence on art, fashion, film and social movements.

So much love for Robin Fox.

Also, if they break, learning *why* gives you so much intuition for anything you make in the future in both related and unrelated fields.

Break all the things.
Fix all the things.
Open Source all the things.

#FACT2026

Speakers | Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium | 11 - 13 Feb 2026 This year’s lineup features Jason Scott, Ruby Justice Thelot, Sofia Widmann, Jessica Walthew, Sewon Barrera, Dr. Christen Cornell, John O’Shea, Samuel Cairnduff, Michael Brown, and more.

FACT 2026 Speakers: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...

Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium | 11 - 13 Feb 2026 A three-day symposium exploring the future of arts, culture, and technology in Australia – and the mindsets, capabilities and skills we need to get there.

Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium is on at @acmimuseum.bsky.social 11 & 12 February. #musetech

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Best time of the exhibition for Celeste speed run is 1 minute 56.841 seconds.

How did you go?

We built some things to play at @acmimuseum.bsky.social Game Worlds. 🎮

Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab Our new Media Preservation Lab (MPL) will position ACMI as a leading institution in the Asia-Pacific for the vital conservation of time-based media.

My job comes after this process to automate making the digital files searchable and playable.

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Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab YouTube video by ACMI – Your museum of screen culture

Peek inside the @acmimuseum.bsky.social media preservation lab to see the work our staff are doing to preserve physical and digital film, tv shows, digital art, and videogames.

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Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 | ACMI Cinema 3 Available Australia-wide from Fri 15 to Sun 31 August, MIFF Online has a limited selection of festival highlights, including new films and free short films, with select access services made available.

Can't make it to the cinema? Watch MIFF with @acmimuseum.bsky.social Cinema 3 apps for iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, and Android.

Rent the films here: cinema3.acmi.net.au/page/miff-on...

App links:
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Game Worlds Premium Pre-sale Be the first to score tickets to Game Worlds, Melbourne’s newest playable exhibition, opening this September, built for players, fans, friends and families alike.

🎮🎟️🤫 www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...

Four years after relaunching @acmimuseum.bsky.social our visitors are still averaging 15,000 unique Lens taps per day.

Over the weekend XOS recorded its 20,000,000th unique tap from our fleet of NFC enabled BalenaOS Raspberry Pis.

Well done little machines. 🥹

Double Vision
Double Vision

@acmimuseum.bsky.social

Book: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/dou...

Supercuts Generating supercuts from ACMI collection video search results.

In this post @sighmon.com shares our latest experiment, a supercut generator which uses previous work to make our video collection more searchable and presents the results as a cut up sequence labs.acmi.net.au/supercuts-89...

How To Vote Greens Positive change starts with voting for people who will work for you and what you believe in

Please consider voting Greens this election to help nudge us towards more solar/wind/batteries. ☀️ 🔋 vote.greens.org.au

ACMI Microgames Commission Got a great idea for a microgame?

Got a great idea for a #microgame?

@acmimuseum.bsky.social is offering fees between $5,000 and $10,000 for individuals or teams to build browser-based games.

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🕹️🎮 Game Worlds @acmimuseum.bsky.social

Opens 18 September 2025
🎟️Tickets go on sale this July

💌 Join the waitlist at:
www.acmi.net.au/game-worlds

#ACMIGameWorlds

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales + Q&A (2025) Thu 8 May Join us in the cinema for an early look (and listen) at the new visual album by Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke followed by a very special Q&A exclusive to ACMI.

Melbourne family: Tall Tales screening at @acmimuseum.bsky.social Thu 8 May 2025
6pm + Q&A with Mark Pritchard and Jonathan Zawada.

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

Powerwall TV is on the AppleTV App Store. 🔋

See your home energy solar and battery flow on the big screen.

App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/power...

Code: github.com/sighmon/Powe...

Explore works Donate items to ACMI.

If on the other hand you have an 8mm film collection you’d love to donate to the ACMI collection, we’d love you to fill out a donation proposal form: www.acmi.net.au/donations/

We’re also providing access to download public domain films via access requests too.

Example: Tomatoes for processing. Are you or a loved one really into tomatoes and would like a copy for your personal collection? Tap the “SUBMIT A REQUEST TO DOWNLOAD THIS WORK”: www.acmi.net.au/works/109006...

Australia's anti-war movement: 1965-1972 | Anne Cowden | 1993 | ACMI collection The initially small minority protesting against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War flourished into a massive mobilisation against the war that not only..

Example: Australia's anti-war movement: 1965-1972. We don’t have the rights to show the film online, but you can tap the link “SUBMIT A REQUEST TO ACCESS OR LOAN THIS WORK” to request access: www.acmi.net.au/works/82390-...

Did you know you can apply to access and donate films to the @acmimuseum.bsky.social film collection via our website?

Perhaps you’re interested in screening a film from our collection, or would like access for research purposes?

Apply for the 2026 ACMI, Artbank and Melbourne Art Fair Moving Image Commission ACMI is Australia's national museum of screen culture, located in Fed Square, Melbourne. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with us.

Make a work for ACMI 🔥

Apply for the 2026 ACMI + Artbank + MAF Commission.

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Perfect Days - Apple TV (AU) Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his pa…

Perfect Days 🖤

Komorebi 木漏れ日 (pronounced kō-mō-leh-bē), “sunlight leaking through trees.”

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The Lens Collect your favourite objects in The Story of the Moving Image exhibition and delve deeper into your curated collection online anytime, anywhere.

Worth noting: you can also watch it in the comfort of your own home/device when entering your Futures ticket (Lens) code here: www.acmi.net.au/lens/

So don't throw your ticket away!

p.s. we'd love to see the poster you make. :-)

"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

It’s not magic - finding our way back to “just f*cking do it” from “move fast and break things”. Aaron Straup Cope #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)

Pull quotes on immersive experiences, agency, and videogames @adrianhon.bsky.social #FACT2025

Day 2. #FACT2025 The Age of Immersion by @adrianhon.bsky.social

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