VIEW DETAILS The #1 New York Times-bestselling, award-winning Australian author, Dr Sean Williams, has been selected to winter with the Australian Antarctic Program in 2023, the first writer to do so.

During his stay (6-8 months), Sean will finish a novel set in Antarctica, create music inspired by the ambient sounds of an Antarctic station, podcast to a wide audience about station life, and engage online with Flinders University students. A LONE SOUL is heading back to Antarctica,
this time for winter VIEW DETAILS On Wednesday, 6 October, Assemblage held its Digital and Transformative Media Symposium. Over 40 guests attended the event at Vic Square. Industry leaders Professor Kim Vincs (Deakin) and Dr Jordan Vincent (FIKA) led the event as keynotes, while Nick Dunstone (Light Lab) and Ella MacIntyre (Mighty Kingdom) spoke to the group as local practitioners.

These experts in digital motion capture and virtual reality joined Flinders researchers to examine transformative creative practice, collaboration and the future of creative research.

Jason Bevan and Cameron Mackness from The Void ended the day’s talks with a fantastic presentation on the work they do at Flinders. Digital and Transformative
Media Symposium VIEW DETAILS At the second Flinders Aesthetic Forum on 19th September, guest speaker Alice C Helliwell (University of Kent) delivered her talk: “Art-ificial: Creative AI or imitation artist?”

On the night, Alice asked whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) art is the next big thing. She posed the question: Is AI really creating new and exciting artworks, or is it just replicating human art?

In the presentation, Alice dove into the world of AI art and explored whether AI is really being creative, or if it’s all just media hype. To do this, she reviewed some AI systems and reviewed what is really going on in their algorithms. She also applied philosophical theories of creativity to these AI systems, to see how they measure up. Flinders Aesthetics Forum:
Art-ificial: Creative AI or imitation artist?