Opening Event | Stigmergy
Programs & Events
04 June, 6pm–8pm
Opening event tickets available soon
A new network opens.
The technological infrastructure that we depend on each day is designed to be invisible. These extractive networks and platforms harness a similar logic: maximise attention, maximise interaction, maximise time-on-screen = engagement.
Stigmergy offers an alternative: A hand-built, unscalable network of artists, media and the traces left between them. An antidote to the slop shock, rage bait and doom scroll flattening of everything we see online.
On Thursday 4 June the network goes live: IRL and URL performances from local and international artists take over NCM with livestreamed acts from curatorial nodes abroad contributing to the network in real time. A PSEUDO curators talk unpacks the infrastructure itself; how it was built, who built it and the values encoded into its architecture.
Presented with Rising
Artists
PSEUDO
PSEUDO is a new media aggregate working across live performance, expanded cinema, sound, and digital infrastructure. Harrison Hall, Mat Spisbah, Sam McGilp and Henry Lai-Pyne build hybrid works where digital media and physical bodies occupy the same space. Based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Brunswick, Melbourne, the group operates across Australia and the Asia-Pacific, developing performances, collaborative projects, workshops, and residencies.
Performers to be announced
About PSEUDO X NCM: Stigmergy
Venue Accessibility
- NCM is fully wheelchair accessible
- All gender and accessible toilets are available on both levels
- Hearing loop available
- NCM is a high sensory space with a variety of noise, screens and lighting
- If you have any other access needs please get in touch, we'd love to help hello@ncm.org.au
