PSEUDO X NCM: Stigmergy

PSEUDO X NCM presents Stigmergy, an exhibition that seeds a new network built on artist protocols.

By design, Big Tech builds extractive networks that limit our awareness of the possibilities outside their preconfigured control. The technological infrastructure we depend on thrives through invisibility: seamless, scalable, frictionless.

Stigmergy exposes the topology of its structure. A network built for friction by small communities. One that is hand-made and unscalable. Focused on artists, their connections and the media traces they leave behind, it treats infrastructure as an artistic medium, where the structure is as visible as the work it carries.

Encoding collective intuition for the internet, Stigmergy centers embodied knowledge as resistance to infrastructural dominance. The aim is learning through construction not consumption.

Across the exhibition, local and international curatorial nodes feed the network: seeding works, media and ideas that accumulate and mutate. The network transforms these contributions and in doing so, its community built infrastructure assumes authorship of its outputs. Stigmergy asks what it means to encode our own values into these networks and what traces we would like to leave behind.

Stigmergy is presented with RISING and opens with an after dark event on Thursday 4 June.

Full exhibition details to be announced soon.

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.