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Hello everyone and welcome to Newsletter #69!!! | Hello everyone and welcome to Newsletter #69!!! | ||
This one marks our 3rd anniversary. It’s a bit surreal to realise we’ve been doing this for that long, especially as a group of four volunteers, alongside organising meetups, workshops, and events, and trying to keep our own practices going as well. | '''This one marks our 3rd anniversary'''. It’s a bit surreal to realise we’ve been doing this for that long, especially as a group of four volunteers, alongside organising meetups, workshops, and events, and trying to keep our own practices going as well. | ||
Over that time, it’s been good to see the new media / digital / electronic art scene continue to develop across Ireland, and to have some part in connecting people through it. | Over that time, it’s been good to see the new media / digital / electronic art scene continue to develop across Ireland, and to have some part in connecting people through it. | ||
What started as a fairly simple idea has gradually grown into a network of artists sharing work, testing things out, showing up to events, and occasionally collaborating. That side of it has probably been the most | What started as a fairly simple idea has gradually grown into a network of artists sharing work, testing things out, showing up to events, and occasionally collaborating. That side of it has probably been the most meaningful for us. | ||
Thanks to everyone who has come to something, sent work, performed, presented, or just read these newsletters over the past three years. | Thanks to everyone who has come to something, sent work, performed, presented, or just read these newsletters over the past three years. | ||
We’re planning to keep it going. | We’re planning to keep it going. | ||
As a little celebration, we want to share a Mini Doc which was shot and edited by our very own Scott Robinson ([https://yulon.ie Yúlon]) about the ''Concept Null 2025'' event from last November! Find it in the articles section. | |||
Also, just to highlight the '''3rd Digital Art Symposium''' is on the 22nd of April and is hosted by the lovely people Stephan Roddy and Emer Yip from UCC. We look forward to meeting people there! See link below. | |||
As always, we hope you enjoy this edition. Feel free to get in touch with feedback, ideas, or anything else at [email protected] | As always, we hope you enjoy this edition. Feel free to get in touch with feedback, ideas, or anything else at [email protected] | ||
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== 📖 Articles == | |||
<h4>'''Concept Null 2025 Mini Doc'''</h4> | |||
This has been such a nice treat to have this amazing moment for us captured in such a thorough and beautiful way, to be able to relive it and have it archived is so special for us. Thank you again to all the performers, presenters and attendees who made it so awesome and also to Limerick City County Council, Limerick City Arts Office and Creative Ireland for funding this event. | |||
'''[https://neural.it/2026/03/coral-sonic-resilience-symbiotic-mediation/ Source]''' | |||
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Two recent pieces from Neural that stuck out to us this month, both circling different forms of machine and ecological mediation: | |||
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<h4>'''A Needle in a Haystack, superhuman machines'''</h4> | |||
A project by Varvara & Mar that uses an industrial robot and AI to perform a kind of exaggerated metaphor, scanning a literal haystack to find a needle. It plays with the idea of “superhuman” machine capability, but redirects it away from efficiency and toward something more symbolic, folding in ecological concerns and the gap between technological ambition and real-world complexity. | |||
'''[https://neural.it/2026/03/a-needle-in-a-haystack-superhuman-machines/ Source]''' | |||
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<h4>'''Coral Sonic Resilience, symbiotic mediation'''</h4> | |||
Marco Barotti’s underwater installation uses sculptural habitats and embedded speakers to broadcast the sound of healthy reefs into damaged ecosystems, encouraging marine life to return. It sits somewhere between artwork and intervention, using sound as a tool for ecological repair and proposing a kind of cross-species communication through artificial soundscapes. | |||
'''[https://neural.it/2026/03/coral-sonic-resilience-symbiotic-mediation/ Source]''' | |||
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Latest revision as of 11:15, 1 April 2026
Hello everyone and welcome to Newsletter #69!!!
This one marks our 3rd anniversary. It’s a bit surreal to realise we’ve been doing this for that long, especially as a group of four volunteers, alongside organising meetups, workshops, and events, and trying to keep our own practices going as well.
Over that time, it’s been good to see the new media / digital / electronic art scene continue to develop across Ireland, and to have some part in connecting people through it.
What started as a fairly simple idea has gradually grown into a network of artists sharing work, testing things out, showing up to events, and occasionally collaborating. That side of it has probably been the most meaningful for us.
Thanks to everyone who has come to something, sent work, performed, presented, or just read these newsletters over the past three years.
We’re planning to keep it going.
As a little celebration, we want to share a Mini Doc which was shot and edited by our very own Scott Robinson (Yúlon) about the Concept Null 2025 event from last November! Find it in the articles section.
Also, just to highlight the 3rd Digital Art Symposium is on the 22nd of April and is hosted by the lovely people Stephan Roddy and Emer Yip from UCC. We look forward to meeting people there! See link below.
As always, we hope you enjoy this edition. Feel free to get in touch with feedback, ideas, or anything else at [email protected]
📖 Articles
Concept Null 2025 Mini Doc
This has been such a nice treat to have this amazing moment for us captured in such a thorough and beautiful way, to be able to relive it and have it archived is so special for us. Thank you again to all the performers, presenters and attendees who made it so awesome and also to Limerick City County Council, Limerick City Arts Office and Creative Ireland for funding this event.
Two recent pieces from Neural that stuck out to us this month, both circling different forms of machine and ecological mediation:
A Needle in a Haystack, superhuman machines
A project by Varvara & Mar that uses an industrial robot and AI to perform a kind of exaggerated metaphor, scanning a literal haystack to find a needle. It plays with the idea of “superhuman” machine capability, but redirects it away from efficiency and toward something more symbolic, folding in ecological concerns and the gap between technological ambition and real-world complexity.
Coral Sonic Resilience, symbiotic mediation
Marco Barotti’s underwater installation uses sculptural habitats and embedded speakers to broadcast the sound of healthy reefs into damaged ecosystems, encouraging marine life to return. It sits somewhere between artwork and intervention, using sound as a tool for ecological repair and proposing a kind of cross-species communication through artificial soundscapes.