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
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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...
See you later Melbourne! You’ve been fun. Thanks to the rockstars at ACMI and #FACT2025 for such a great time and fab support. @sebchan.bsky.social 🎧
Amazing day running back to back Foom.live sessions at #FACT2025 at ACMI. Thanks to the 60-odd folks who joined and the Foom team for this go round. @scoxsmith.bsky.social @incognitosum.bsky.social
At ACMI on Saturday 15th Feb, Deb Chachra, Dan Hill and myself discuss Culture as Infrastructure
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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.
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
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...
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
Such a good takeaway from the final keynote, very wise words!!
#FACT2025
Slide with photo and quote of Brian Eno: “I more and more think that the job of art is to present you with other worlds... and the process of engaging with them is saying, "okay, I'm going to live in that world for a little bit. I'm going to exist in that and see what it feels like to be in that world." And that, to me, is the most important thing that we do really, as humans. We probe the possibilities for the future and for alternative locations and so on by living in them in a model, in a simulated form.” Location: acmi (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Melbourne, Australia Event: FACT 2025 conference, Future of Arts, Culture and Technology.
Just about every session at #FACT2025 had a @brianeno.bsky.social reference. His work is quite revered in this space. His music has shaped so many of us, not to mention his ideas. Thanks Dr Deb Chachra for kicking off the trend.
#readthealttext
Slide above the stage with the question “If we agree that our current institutions are struggling with the uncertainties and un-predictabilities of the present, then how might we redesign them for the future? Stage with seated panelists at a moment when no one was paying attention or being very photogenic. Location: acmi (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Melbourne, Australia Event: FACT 2025 conference, Future of Arts, Culture and Technology.
A great question asked of the panel on Future Structures, not a great photo of the panel but I met Gavin Somers afterwards and had a great chat about indigenous governance, perhaps an answer to the question on this slide.
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#readthealttext
Slide with quote above a stage with keynote speaker Dr Deb Chachra. “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 its 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”
One of my favourite quotes from #FACT2025 was this one from Dr Deb Chachra’s keynote.
The idea of “farfetching” is what I realise I try to do with people as a leadership futurist. To help make the possible feel plausible and something worth working towards.
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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.
#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.
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
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
"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
#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.
!["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)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w2qgo4fcjvue7vodvogx6xo3/bafkreicqqjbtoryg4gp5hrzagbomiywszkfeeihhifckotqwcq3izxxqia)
"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
hehe, so you're calculating 2025 factorial - which is `2025!=2025×2024×2023×⋯×3×2×1`
A very big number. #fact2025
Calculator showing the answer to 2025! as infinity.
Putting ‘fact 2025’ in DuckDuckGo brings up the calculator. The answer is infinity. #fact2025
Looking forward to starting off Day 2 of #FACT2025 with an @adrianhon.bsky.social Keynote!!
Heading back to ACMI for day 2 of #FACT2025
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
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...
"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
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
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Spending the next two days at the Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium (FACT 2025) at ACMI #FACT2025
Happy #FACT2025 everyone, lots of awesome people in an around @acmimuseum.bsky.social the next few days!
