Seb Chan
@sebchan.bsky.social
Museums|music|media|monsters|mayhem - https://linktr.ee/sebchan
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
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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
Melbourne tonight … so many people dressed up as Oasis fans …
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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...
www.superjumpmagazine.com/material-pla...
Melbourne Games Week: Celebrating Physical Play
Interviews with MIGW practitioners of tactile game spaces
www.superjumpmagazine.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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...
www.superjumpmagazine.com/material-pla...
Indeed you can …
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U...
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
Tilt Doom
YouTube video by Ancient
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Indeed you can …
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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
so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok
October 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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
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.” ❤️
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!
Climate Hacks | Broadcast
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.
pioneerworks.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“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.” ❤️
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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
ACHF Survey
This survey explores the current landscape of Australia’s cultural data sector
unsw.au1.qualtrics.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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
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...
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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
This is _such_ an exciting thing we are able to have happen at @acmimuseum.bsky.social … don’t miss it
@noelfb.bsky.social and I will be at ACMI in Melbourne on October 6 for this :) www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mig...
Celeste In Conversation | 6 October | Melbourne International Games Week
A behind the scenes look at the creation of hit indie game Celeste with its two creators, Maddy Thorsen and Noel Berry.
www.acmi.net.au
August 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This is _such_ an exciting thing we are able to have happen at @acmimuseum.bsky.social … don’t miss it
As Bandcamp day winds up, there’s plenty of fantastic music to explore on this label too …
Shhh. Before anyone else finds out.
Pay-what-you-can on all digital catalogue.
phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com
Pay-what-you-can on all digital catalogue.
phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
As Bandcamp day winds up, there’s plenty of fantastic music to explore on this label too …
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.
au.variety.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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
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Oh that will not be a problem
July 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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”
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.
Sweet Harmony
RIP a real one, but the connections still remain
joemuggs.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“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”
Much sampled, so good to see this available for the youths …
@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...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Prisoner
YouTube video by ITV Retro
youtube.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Much sampled, so good to see this available for the youths …
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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…
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…
www.cyclicdefrost.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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…
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…
We always hear about art museum collections and scans revealing things beneath layers of paint, but less often stories about the other types of museum collections … www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Unlocking secrets hidden inside the world's most precious specimens
This view inside some of the most precious and rare museum specimens on Earth is helping scientists to better understand the story of life — and it's all done without a scalpel in sight.
www.abc.net.au
July 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
We always hear about art museum collections and scans revealing things beneath layers of paint, but less often stories about the other types of museum collections … www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
So happy to have _finally_ sourced a copy of this! It’s a fantastic synthesis of 400k words of oral histories conducted over the pandemic and captures a huge slice of sector knowledge, 50 years of practice, and method that museums have often forgotten
July 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
So happy to have _finally_ sourced a copy of this! It’s a fantastic synthesis of 400k words of oral histories conducted over the pandemic and captures a huge slice of sector knowledge, 50 years of practice, and method that museums have often forgotten
Telnet!
💾 New from me: i interviewed @cara.city about the Telnet literary zine New Session, rejecting algorithms & AI brainrot, and the return of what i’m calling the Slow Internet 🐢 🖥️
This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol
New Session publishes poetry via Telnet, rejecting the internet’s fast-paced enshittification.
www.404media.co
June 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Telnet!
The second half of this excellent piece is worth reading twice for a zoomed out view of many policy shifts going back decades
Me in @meanjin.bsky.social on the debacle that is Creative Australia. “If it can’t fight for all the meanings and freedoms of art, if it can’t defend what is precious in our cultural heritage and future, what is it for?” meanjin.com.au/essays/coura...
Courage, imagination, understanding: Creative Australia in 2025
Perhaps the existential risk Creative Australia faces is its own pusillanimous lack of faith.
meanjin.com.au
June 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The second half of this excellent piece is worth reading twice for a zoomed out view of many policy shifts going back decades
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The Australian Design Centre has had its funding cut. Design is so critically important, and so under appreciated and unsupported in Australian culture. ADC is looking for partners, sponsors, or people who can help them keep supporting designers and makers. Please share.
Important Announcement
Australian Design Centre (ADC) is an integral part of the arts ecology in Australia. This small, dynamic, independent organisation has nurtured and supported thousands of artists since 1964, presentin...
australiandesigncentre.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The Australian Design Centre has had its funding cut. Design is so critically important, and so under appreciated and unsupported in Australian culture. ADC is looking for partners, sponsors, or people who can help them keep supporting designers and makers. Please share.
Episode 103 of Fresh and New is (finally) in your inbox or trapped in your spam filter! Enjoy! This one is a long one with many threads all being pulled at once
June 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Episode 103 of Fresh and New is (finally) in your inbox or trapped in your spam filter! Enjoy! This one is a long one with many threads all being pulled at once
A super good and insightful read about what happens to the ‘middle’ in culture ‘industries’
If you liked or hated my takes on ‘deprofessionalisation’, I went into a lot more detail in this great chat with @pushtotalk.gg for his newsletter.
Connected what’s going on now to what I observed in the Australian industry in the 2010s
www.pushtotalk.gg/p/gamings-gr...
Connected what’s going on now to what I observed in the Australian industry in the 2010s
www.pushtotalk.gg/p/gamings-gr...
Gaming’s Great Downsizing and the Garage-Band Game Economy
Brendan Keogh explains the post-2008 collapse of the Australian games industry and how it might prefigure changes coming for the rest of the world
www.pushtotalk.gg
May 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
A super good and insightful read about what happens to the ‘middle’ in culture ‘industries’
Reposted by Seb Chan
