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Andie Tham, 'Inherited and Borrowed'

· May 15, 2013

When I moved into my first share house, I inherited the dregs of Mum and Dad's kitchenware stash; a meagre collection of chipped crockery and mugs, just ...

Everyday Rebellions

· May 8, 2013

When I was fifteen years old, rebellion meant leather jackets, loud music, and using copious amounts of hairspray to erect an eight-inch mohawk atop my skull...

Oliver Van Der Lugt, 'Screenery'

· May 2, 2013

Oliver Van Der Lugt knows his screens. One look at his fantastic and eyeball-assaulting Tumblr is enough to confirm his status as a browser window wizard; a ...

Video Doctor

· April 24, 2013

Moving images looking a bit worse for wear? In 2013, it's likely you just need to reset your modem, and your Game Of Thrones stream will resume unbesmirc...

Nicholas Mangan, 'Progress in Action'

· April 17, 2013

Coconuts. Is there anything they can't do? Most of us are familiar with their hangover-erasing juices and their ability to rescue a thin Thai curry. But ...

We're all Videofreex

· April 9, 2013

Freaks come in all shapes and sizes. Videofreex are the techno-nerd / social progressive / pro-free-speech kind who used the new and cheap handheld video cam...

Thomas Jeppe, 'Seaside Vernacular'

· April 4, 2013

Artistic inspiration isn't the first thing you expect to find after being regurgitated from the bowels of a labyrinthine Berlin nightclub. Unless you'...

Perfect Information

· April 3, 2013

Photography, “conceived as the dumb slave of science”. Hot damn. That's a turn of phrase that'll knock a fella straight on his patoot. Th...

'FX' at CCP

· March 27, 2013

It's hard to remember a time when “special effects” meant something other than twelve-foot tall, computer generated blue aliens, or apocalyptic earthquak...

An interview with Leo Greenfield

· March 21, 2013

Leo Greenfield is the baby Quentin Blake and Bill Cunningham would have if there was a means, or inclination, for them to reproduce. Minus Quentin's snot...

ACMI Profile Me artworks unveiled

· March 21, 2013

The final artworks created for the ACMI Profile Me series have been completed and placed on the internet. Abstract portraiture through a video journey inspir...

Dolci & Kabana, '#thathautecouturefeeling'

· March 14, 2013

The desire to evoke the haute is fraught when you're living on a Dolce (Rosso) and kabana budget (sorry, no catalogue specials this week, guys). High fas...

Public Offer and Archizines events

· March 6, 2013

Public Offer is the maiden exhibition for the spanking-new gleaming behemoth that is the RMIT Design Hub. Get excited, word nerds. Curated by Timothy Moore a...

Oscar Perry at Plinth Projects

· February 27, 2013

In the centre of Edinburgh Gardens stands a plinth. Large and almost austere looking, it holds quite a presence in the middle of a patch of modest shrub. The...

Profile Me

· February 19, 2013

ACMI's Profile Me project closes tomorrow at 5pm. If you haven't already submitted your answers, then get them in there. They could win you a bespoke...

ACMI presents Profile Me

· February 8, 2013

I've always liked filling out questionnaires. The type of person who says “yes” when someone calls to “ask a few questions” on ev...

Lauren Bamford, 'Field Notes'

· January 22, 2013

If you’re the kind of person who has a tendency towards sentimentality and have been (wrongfully) accused of being a hoarder at least once in your life, chan...

POOL

· January 17, 2013

My intro to physics came early. I read about broken pencil illusion in a volume of the 1972 Childcraft encyclopedias at my grandparents' house. Using the...

An interview with Phil Elverum / Mount Eerie

· January 16, 2013

Musician and artist Phil Elverum, of the tiny (15,000 people tiny) town of Anacortes in Washington, records and makes art under the name Mount Eerie - which ...

Martin Sorrondeguy, 'Get Shot: A Visual Diary 1985-2...

· January 15, 2013

Punk/hardcore vocalist Martin Sorrondeguy is out here touring with Limp Wrist. Apart from being in two other bands, Los Crudos and Needles, he's also a p...

Eamon Donnelly's milk bar callout

· January 3, 2013

Eamon Donnelly - illustrator, historian, founder of The Island Continent and obsessive milk bar fanatic - has a new project. His collection of milk bar photo...

'End of the World Party' at Blindside

· December 20, 2012

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel like fine art. Blindside's Boe-Lin Bastian, Kirsty Audrey Hulm, Drew Pettifer, Patrick Rees, Joel ...

Mr Kitly Tea Room and 'Planted' exhibition

· December 6, 2012

If there were a hook, the goings on at Mr Kitly throughout December would be absolutely off it. The beautiful hanging works in the Planted exhibition, though...

Ben Pell, 'Radlands'

· December 4, 2012

If you’re a fan of the laid-back ‘sandal-gaze’ of Pageants (and you should be) then you’re probably unknowingly familiar with lyricist/artist Ben Pell’s albu...

Ian Haig, 'Chronicles of The New Human Organism'

· November 29, 2012

Everything about Ian Haig's 50-minute video artwork Chronicles of the New Human Organism is slippery. Not least the question of whether you should call i...

MMW x Collecting Melbourne exhibition opening

· November 28, 2012

It's a challenge to end up living in Melbourne and not feel compelled to react like this often and without restraint over the many, many attractive, ende...

Invisible City '87

· November 21, 2012

In 1987 there was to be a mega-festival for 50,000 people in the Australian outback (just outside of Woomera, so a blend of this and this), but the stock mar...

tin&ed, 'LookStopShop' at Melbourne Music Week

· November 15, 2012

Tin&Ed have photographed and art directed some of the best musical-type persons in Melbourne and the pictures are being exhibited in some of the persons&...