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fold projects is delighted to show a selection of works at ARI BANAL(E), curated by @sydenham_international and presented by @canberraartbiennial

Please join us Saturday 12 September 11am - 5pm at the @hyattcanberra

Image: Gabrielle Hall-Lomax, Swan, 2026
Archival inkjet print, walnut ash frame, 30x20cm

Friends with Computers, LOOK ▷ SEE (Look to See), 2024, (detail)
Single Channel, 14:12 min, 16:9

Lucy Chetcuti, Thunderstorms for sleeping (2), 2026, (detail)
Oil and pastel on acrylic, 12x8.5cm

Sammy Hawker, Ghost Bells, 2025
Pigment inkjet print on archival cotton rag, 136x110cm

Chin-Jie Melodie Liu, half dreaming half awake, 2026, (detail)
Laser etching on zinc with ink and acrylic, 40.5x70cm

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🔗 Portals, Spirals and Stars: Site Resonance and Time 🌀
Contributed to @blue.artjournal to bring together three @friends.with.computers works (@jordan_east @pat.younis) : Under Waters @pica_perth, kajoo yannaga @nowornever.melb @melbfilmfest @acmionline + Being Mushroom @brandxinc

Blue Art Journal Volume Two:
we move through time / time moves through us

Edited by Noongar women Timmah Ball @electric_zines and Zali Morgan @zalimorgan Volume Two of Blue Art Journal focuses on the theme of time, with contributions from 14 of so-called Australia’s most exciting writers, artists, curators and cultural producers.

Contributors shared both intimate and fierce reflections on how First Peoples artists and cultural workers move through time and manipulate it: how it is an inheritance we bring into everything that we do.

cover artist James Tylor (Kaurna) @jamesptylor

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Are you a creative interested in immersive & emerging tech? 🤓 Avant Harde Drive is a free talks night & meetup I run in Chippendale - come along! Spots are limited, link in bio or ask me for it in the comments 💕

This one's coming up at @knoxstreetbar on Tues April 14th, ft. some great artist speakers:

✨ Em Blamey, Creative Producer for the @sea.museum, creating interactive & immersive exhibits.

✨ @jordan_east (@friends.with.computers) immersive/interactive media artist, often collaborates with musicians (eg. Rufus, Flight Facilities), and will chat about @touchdesigner

✨ @oddgoo (@lumorama) game designer & creative producer of serious (and seriously non-serious) games.

✨ Matt Hermans from @electriclensco, virtual production and VFX trailblazer who's worked with Brian Cox, Whitney Houston, The Simpsons.

It's a super friendly space with a focus on meeting people & knowledge sharing. Would love your help sharing with anyone who might be interested - hope to see you there! x

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JPN w/ @friends.with.computers (Pt. 2)

Had the best time returning with the dream team, making new connections and visiting top tier galleries - Loved revisiting a familiar place, but this time with a more arts-conscious lens. See you again soon Japan!

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Merging art, science, technology and the natural world, Friends With Computers’ Under Waters is an interactive immersive installation that invites viewers to enter—and remain within—a pocket of deep time.

Building a multi-sensory experience through projection, tracking technologies and poetic computation, the work presents a parallel universe that celebrates the metaphysical connection between oceans and stars, diving into a speculative past while travelling towards a celestial future.

Learn more about Under Waters in the latest PICA Art Talks video.

@friends.with.computers @_april.p_ @pat.younis @jordan_east

boorda yeyi is supported by The Ian Potter Foundation (Founding Patron), along with the Feilman Foundation and Lotterywest (Principal Patrons). 'Under Waters' is supported by Perth Festival and Wesfarmers Arts through their Boorloo Contemporary program. ⁠
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@ianpotterfdn #feilmanfoundation @lotterywest ⁠@perthfest @wesfarmersarts⁠
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Video: @edwinsitt

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Playing around with a new second-hand purchase 📷 xt-20
(World's least steady hand)

FWC in JPN 🇯🇵

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Works of art

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JPN w/ @friends.with.computers (pt.1)

6 years was far too long a wait to revisit

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ECU City foyer ✨art takeover✨

To celebrate International Women’s Day, this week at ECU City Campus, our screens are showcasing digital artworks by women, exploring identity, home, technology, creativity and the worlds in between.

Across moving image, digital art and experimental practice, the programme features Jessica Avarello @avarello_virtualarts April Phillips @friends.with.computers Paxi & Cem @paxipaxinos Hilary Campilan @bunty_ai Darla Anise @look.deva Sasha Stiles @sashastiles and @studioaboveandbelow

🖥 Now - March 13
💸 Free to experience
📍 ECU City Campus, Perth

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Under Waters 🌀🐚🐚
FRIENDS WITH COMPUTERS:
April Phillips, Jordan East, Pat Younis
19 February - 29 March @pica_perth @perthfest
12-5 PM, Tues- Sun

11:13 mins (loop)
Complex Digital Object (moving image, sound, real-time body tracking, digital sculptures, photogrammetry scans, animation, particle systems), polyester tassels, cotton / polyester rugs, aluminium and polyvinyl.

2025 boorda yeyi Immersive Arts Commission Under Waters uncovers a speculative past of 500,000,000 (five hundred million) years ago when the majority of Earth’s surface was submerged in water. Streamed as a seamless loop, this moving image work operates as a portal—an all-access pass to a seemingly impossible dreaming— presenting ‘now’ in parallel to ‘long ago’ as a step to actualise deep time.

Extending the immense spatial and temporal scale of the work, Under Waters operates as a site for real-time play and interaction. The presence of the audience’s bodies mirror in the digital world, creating cause and effect in the unfolding scene. Immersed within the continuum of an ancient saltwater wonderland, audiences become inhabitants—activating this thriving world through movement and attentiveness.

The depths of the ocean floor present deep-water canyons, coral seas and rich kelp forests; an expansive and interconnected ecosystem. The slow propulsion through the deep reveals a rip, opening to a galactic sky: stars, nebula and infinite blackness—a reminder that deep oceans
and sky are connected as one; opposing points of truth that anchor the universe.

Under Waters is the inaugural recipient of PICA’s boorda yeyi Immersive Arts Commission. boorda yeyi, meaning ‘future now’ in Whadjuk Noongar language, is a program dedicated to expanding artistic practice through the use of technology, contributing to new ways of understanding, producing and experiencing contemporary art in Australia.

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Join Friends with Computers for the launch of 'Under Waters', the inaugural boorda yeyi Immersive Arts Commission, followed by an artist talk with collaborators April Phillips, Jordan East and Pat Younis. ⁠
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'Under Waters' invites you into a speculative deep past, where First Nations knowledge, science and poetic computation meet in an interactive installation. The artists will introduce their collective practice and the processes involved in developing immersive artworks grounded in cultural reciprocity and deep time. ⁠
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@friends.with.computers @_april.p_ @pat.younis @jordan_east⁠
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Friday 20 February, 6–8pm | Studio 2⁠
Learn more and register for free at pica.org.au, link in bio!⁠
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boorda yeyi is supported by The Ian Potter Foundation (Founding Patron), along with the Feilman Foundation and Lotterywest (Principal Patrons). 'Under Waters' is supported by Perth Festival and Wesfarmers Arts through their Boorloo Contemporary program. ⁠
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@ianpotterfdn @lotterywest ⁠@perthfest @wesfarmersarts⁠
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PICA's events are made possible thanks to the support and our Community Engagement Partner, @cityofperth #cityofperth ⁠
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April Phillips and Friends with Computers, ‘Under Waters’, artist interpretation, boorda yeyi Immersive Arts Commission, 2025, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Courtesy of the artist.

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Proud of this cover for our client @pica_perth and their boorda yeyi Immersive Arts Commission. Thank you to @artguideau and @rosamundbrennan for the wonderful 4-page feature.

Under Waters by @_april.p_ and @friends.with.computers will be exhibited at PICA from 19 February - 29 March, supported by @perthfest.

It has been great working with PICA on the communications for this leading program.

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