Andrew Burrell
@andrewxburrell.bsky.social
Practice-based researcher + educator: digitally mediated environments and interactions between physical and digital ecologies. More-than-human storytelling + world building. Digital humanities, Design research, senior lecturer visual communication UTS
Morning in the mangroves.
August 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Morning in the mangroves.
Thinking about and working with pneumatophores. #practicebasedresearch #codesign #morethanhuman #storytelling
August 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thinking about and working with pneumatophores. #practicebasedresearch #codesign #morethanhuman #storytelling
Miner’s journey, 2025 (installation detail - Samstag Museum, Tarndanya, AU)
Single-channel video, audio (14 minutes)
Single-channel video, audio (14 minutes)
June 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Miner’s journey, 2025 (installation detail - Samstag Museum, Tarndanya, AU)
Single-channel video, audio (14 minutes)
Single-channel video, audio (14 minutes)
I love that projectors default to this blue wash. (Jarman / Klein / Windows)
June 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I love that projectors default to this blue wash. (Jarman / Klein / Windows)
Install in progress “Miner’s Journey” at Samstag Museum of Art - Tarndanya / (now)Adelaide.
June 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Install in progress “Miner’s Journey” at Samstag Museum of Art - Tarndanya / (now)Adelaide.
たんぽぽ−no。1
(from gaussian splat)
(from gaussian splat)
April 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
たんぽぽ−no。1
(from gaussian splat)
(from gaussian splat)
Dear Google, this is _not_ a Noisy Miner, and nowhere on their website does the Australian Museum suggest so. Ongoing #enshittification
February 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Dear Google, this is _not_ a Noisy Miner, and nowhere on their website does the Australian Museum suggest so. Ongoing #enshittification
If we time-traveled back 30 million years, we would see Pelicans we recognise as Pelicans! #bird #birds #wip #designResearch #moreThanHuman #storyTelling
January 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
If we time-traveled back 30 million years, we would see Pelicans we recognise as Pelicans! #bird #birds #wip #designResearch #moreThanHuman #storyTelling
January 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Local [mangrove] network
December 15, 2024 at 5:52 AM
Local [mangrove] network
“Stevie” a Diprotodon was central to overground-understory.net/what_raven_s...
I ran into one of his kind in Adelaide today…
I ran into one of his kind in Adelaide today…
December 12, 2024 at 8:27 AM
“Stevie” a Diprotodon was central to overground-understory.net/what_raven_s...
I ran into one of his kind in Adelaide today…
I ran into one of his kind in Adelaide today…
Up and running - “Twice, again: Virentis” (UTS building 1)
December 4, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Up and running - “Twice, again: Virentis” (UTS building 1)
WIP (text fragment) [Twice, again: Virentis]
November 30, 2024 at 1:40 AM
WIP (text fragment) [Twice, again: Virentis]
WIP (screen fragment) [Twice, again: Virentis]
November 29, 2024 at 4:59 AM
WIP (screen fragment) [Twice, again: Virentis]
“The Making of Misbehaving Machines” up and running at Parramatta City Library.
misbehavingmachines.net
#criticalVisualisation #criticalDesign #ml #ai #creativePractice
misbehavingmachines.net
#criticalVisualisation #criticalDesign #ml #ai #creativePractice
November 25, 2024 at 12:13 AM
“The Making of Misbehaving Machines” up and running at Parramatta City Library.
misbehavingmachines.net
#criticalVisualisation #criticalDesign #ml #ai #creativePractice
misbehavingmachines.net
#criticalVisualisation #criticalDesign #ml #ai #creativePractice
Notebook: finalising the layout for the two screens of “Twice, again: Virentis” ( #moreThanHuman #worldBuilding ) @ artechlaw.org/hacking-visu... (UTS) in December.
#researchThroughDesign #criticalVisualisation #eLit
#researchThroughDesign #criticalVisualisation #eLit
November 24, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Notebook: finalising the layout for the two screens of “Twice, again: Virentis” ( #moreThanHuman #worldBuilding ) @ artechlaw.org/hacking-visu... (UTS) in December.
#researchThroughDesign #criticalVisualisation #eLit
#researchThroughDesign #criticalVisualisation #eLit
Mangrove 1: do you think we will ever get to the island?
Mangrove 2: the island is coming to us.
(they wait)
#morethanhuman #storytelling
#network #ecologies
Mangrove 2: the island is coming to us.
(they wait)
#morethanhuman #storytelling
#network #ecologies
November 20, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Mangrove 1: do you think we will ever get to the island?
Mangrove 2: the island is coming to us.
(they wait)
#morethanhuman #storytelling
#network #ecologies
Mangrove 2: the island is coming to us.
(they wait)
#morethanhuman #storytelling
#network #ecologies
morning (commute) observations.
November 18, 2024 at 7:59 PM
morning (commute) observations.
This feels like a trap…
November 18, 2024 at 5:39 AM
This feels like a trap…
Fragment from an AI in the Library co-design workshop earlier this year, resulting in a dataset for the creation of Misbehaving Machines. Some notes at: misbehavingmachines.net/making
November 15, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Fragment from an AI in the Library co-design workshop earlier this year, resulting in a dataset for the creation of Misbehaving Machines. Some notes at: misbehavingmachines.net/making
The Making of Misbehaving Machines: an AI in the Library project, has its first install today at Ultimo TAFE Library.
Each install has a “black box” housing a raspberry pi doing all the LLM misbehaving (generation) locally.
misbehavingmachines.net
#designresearch #ml #criticalvisualisation
Each install has a “black box” housing a raspberry pi doing all the LLM misbehaving (generation) locally.
misbehavingmachines.net
#designresearch #ml #criticalvisualisation
November 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM
The Making of Misbehaving Machines: an AI in the Library project, has its first install today at Ultimo TAFE Library.
Each install has a “black box” housing a raspberry pi doing all the LLM misbehaving (generation) locally.
misbehavingmachines.net
#designresearch #ml #criticalvisualisation
Each install has a “black box” housing a raspberry pi doing all the LLM misbehaving (generation) locally.
misbehavingmachines.net
#designresearch #ml #criticalvisualisation
Mangrove 1: How is time passing for you? Are the waves getting stronger?
…
Mangrove 2: Time is flowing quickly for me. The tide is changing fast!
…
(They stand in silence for a moment, listening to the sound of the waves)
…
(Years have passed)
#overGroundunderStory
#morethanhuman #storytelling
…
Mangrove 2: Time is flowing quickly for me. The tide is changing fast!
…
(They stand in silence for a moment, listening to the sound of the waves)
…
(Years have passed)
#overGroundunderStory
#morethanhuman #storytelling
November 13, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Mangrove 1: How is time passing for you? Are the waves getting stronger?
…
Mangrove 2: Time is flowing quickly for me. The tide is changing fast!
…
(They stand in silence for a moment, listening to the sound of the waves)
…
(Years have passed)
#overGroundunderStory
#morethanhuman #storytelling
…
Mangrove 2: Time is flowing quickly for me. The tide is changing fast!
…
(They stand in silence for a moment, listening to the sound of the waves)
…
(Years have passed)
#overGroundunderStory
#morethanhuman #storytelling
This Sepia apama or giant cuttlefish probably only lived a year or two before ending up in a collection over 170 years ago (1849) - Neural radiance field (2023)
More-than-human
NeRF
Urban Field Naturalist
More-than-human
NeRF
Urban Field Naturalist
September 23, 2023 at 10:01 PM
This Sepia apama or giant cuttlefish probably only lived a year or two before ending up in a collection over 170 years ago (1849) - Neural radiance field (2023)
More-than-human
NeRF
Urban Field Naturalist
More-than-human
NeRF
Urban Field Naturalist