NCM is situated on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. We pay respects to them, especially their Elders and storytellers, as well as all First Peoples, nationwide. NCM acknowledges that communication technologies have a long history here, far longer than European occupation.

un Magazine X NCM | 20.1 Magazine Launch

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Nū performs at Stigmergy opening event, NCM, 2026. Photo by Phoebe Powell.

Ground Floor • 01 August, 5.30pm–8.30pm

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Celebrate the launch of un Magazine’s latest issue, Stones & Circuits: Art, AI & The More-Than-Human World, guest edited by VNS Matrix.

See a selection of Stones & Circuits contributors perform readings, network activations and movement within NCM’s current exhibition Stigmergy, where a network is built on artist protocols, treating infrastructure as an artistic medium.

un Magazine 20.1

Stones and Circuits: Art, AI, and the More-Than-Human Commons

un Magazine 20.1 Stones and Circuits: Art, AI, and the More-Than-Human Commons proposes the commons as an anti-racist, decolonial and transfeminist strategy for rethinking technology at every scale. Instead of striving for access to corporate and extractive infrastructures, we are imagining how to build technologies in common, where art is both a method of resistance and a mode of collective world-making.

Edited by V Barratt & Julianne Pierce (of VNS Matrix), featuring contributions by Thomas Capogreco & Nū, Dave Court & Jennifer Mathews, Francesca da Rimini, Xanthe Dobbie, Amit German, Katy Ilonka Gero, Sarah Kantrowitz & Petja Ivanova, Suzanne Kite, Angela Ka Ki Lee & Chris Tegho, Make or Break, OMSK Social Club, Lexei Sasha Salpeter, Mara Schwerdtfeger, Tayer, Bianca Tainsh, and Jemimah Widdicombe.

un Magazine 20.1 will be available for purchase at the launch event.

Contributers

un Magazine

un Magazine is an independent contemporary art magazine published bi-annually. It is printed in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia, and distributed to art organisations, galleries and education institutions around Australia and to selected outlets internationally, as well as being published online.

un Magazine has been published since 2004, when it was founded by artist Lily Hibberd.

Since 2008, un Magazine has been published by un Projects, who appoint a new editor and sub-editor each year. Past editors have included Rosemary Forde, Zara Stanhope, Phip Murray, Din Heagney, Angela Brophy, Kyla McFarlane, Lisa Radford, Jarrod Rawlins, Benjamin Forster, Robert Cook, Pip Wallis, Meredith Turnbull and Shelley McSpedden, David Capra and Amelia Winata, A. Wurri and Arlie Alizzi, Hugh Childers and Bobuq Sayed, Elena Gomez and Rosie Isaac, Snack Syndicate (Astrid Lorange and Andrew Brooks), D. Harding and Hilary Thurlow, Bahar Sayed and Gemma Weston; Joel Sherwood Spring, Tara Heffernan, Nadia Refaei, Olivia Koh, Lucreccia Quintanilla, and Azza Zein.

unprojects.org.au

VNS Matrix

Guest Editor

(articulated as V.N.S. a fauxcronym) was a cyberfeminist media art collective formed in Adelaide (South Australia) in 1991.

The most consistent VNS Matrix genesis story is that VNS Matrix crawled out of the cyberswamp in the particularly hot summer of 1991 and via an aesthetics of slime initially generated as porn (by women for women) VNS Matrix forged an unholy alliance with technology and its machines, and spewed forth a blasphemous text which was the birth of cyberfeminism. VNS Matrix was on a mission to hijack the toys from technocowboys and remap cyberculture with a feminist bent. This is one story.

From 1991–1997 VNS Matrix presented installations and public art works in Australia and overseas, working with new media, photography, sound and video. Their works include installations, events, computer ames and interactive works, imagery and propaganda distributed through the Internet, zines, and billboards. Taking their point of departure in a sexualised and socially provocative relationship between women and technology the works subversively questioned discourses of domination and control in the expanding cyber space.

The first of their works (a large scale billboard), taking as its’ starting point Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto”, featured their gyne-canonical text written and distributed across Australian cities in 1991, “A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century”. It was in this manifesto that the term “cyberfeminism” first appeared, and this work was widely distributed. The group disbanded in 1997, but occasionally work together on selected projects and presentations.

vnsmatrix.net

Thomas Capogreco

Performance

Thomas Capogreco is a sonic artist and researcher at RMIT.

@___assembly___

Dr Francesca da Rimini

Performative reading

Dr Francesca da Rimini is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, performer and researcher living in Tarntanya (Adelaide) on the unceded lands of the Kaurna people. Her literary and performative art practice oscillates between solo and collaborative work. Paying careful attention to visual style and language, the works play with identity in-flux, location and knowledge-making.

dollyoko.thing.net/

Xanthe Dobbie

Reading

Xanthe Dobbie is an interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm, Melbourne. Working across on and offline modes of making, they draw on queer and cyberfeminist methods to develop shrines to a post-truth era. In early 2026 they were an AIR Niederösterreich resident in Austria where they met Chiara Kristler and Marcin Ratajczyk of Malpractice.

xanthedobbie.com

Lauren Abineri

Performance

Lauren Abineri is an early-career multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes music and sound-based interventions, solo and collaborative.

This program is supported by a grant from CreateSA

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