The other day I put together some slides documenting the recent trip to Australia, for a work thing. I decided I wanted to keep a copy of those images here as well. I am currently trying to decide if I want to use these images as the jumping-off point for a broader talk about museums and technology in 2025. For example, something something something Papernet something something something... We'll see.

The piece in the top left is by Osheen Siva and this image is a poor representation of the quality and calibre of their work. Why ACMI hasn't made postcards of the not an astronaut(s) from the Futures and Other Fictions show yet is beyond me since they are a close as any museum has gotten to a Mona Lisa postcard in recent memory.

Also, all that breathless talk about animated GIFs being a new cultural medium from about a decade ago? It's still kind of breathless and aspirational but it wasn't entirely wrong either.

This was mostly for work people since it would be fun, insanely popular and completely impactical to do something like this (the mirrors) in the temporary walkway in Terminal 3. Plus, we have our own Kusama (on display in Harvey Milk Terminal 1).

There is still so much to say, even twelve years later, about MoNA.

Fans of Point Break will be happy to know that the Australian National Surfing Museum has the wet suit used in the film's final climactic scene, which is set near Torquay, on display. Be prepared, however, to be told over and over again that the scene was not actually filmed in Torquay but, rather, in Northern California.

Gordon Stammers Storyboards were a revelation. Sadly, there is little documentation of his work online outside of the Google Arts and Culture Project.

I was invited to deliver one of the keynote speeches at FACT this year.

The Song Title Card Catalog is not the only reason to visit the State Library of Victoria but it's definitely near the top.

NCM is uniquely positioned to be able to do something like what I have been talking about with all the ActivityPub work at SFO Museum but using different, arguably better, channels. I hope they do it.