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Date and Time
RĀTŪ (TUES) JUNE 30, 7PM

Machine Listening (Naarm, Australia) + Joel Stern/Chrissie Butler/Gerard Crewdson/Daniel Beban

Entry
$15 presales, $20 door ($10 unwaged)
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Following their Machine Listening Offsite performance at Circuit on Monday 29th June , visiting artists from Naarm/Melbourne, Joel Stern, Sean Dockray and James Parker, will perform an improvised set for self built software and buchla synth at Pyramid Club. 

Opening the gig, Joel Stern will collaborate in an improvised, found sound/found object set with locals Chrissie Butler (DSLB), Gerard Crewdson and Daniel Beban.

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Joel Stern is an artist, curator, and researcher. His work explores sound and listening as cultural, political, and technical practices shaping contemporary life. He is a Research Fellow at RMIT’s School of Media and Communication, an Associate Investigator at ADM+S, and was Artistic Director of Liquid Architecture from 2013 to 2022. 

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James Parker is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, who works across legal scholarship, art criticism, curation, and production. He is an Associate Investigator with ADM+S, a former ARC DECRA fellow, former visiting fellow at the Program for Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School for Government, and sits on the advisory board of Earshot, an NGO specialising in audio forensics. 

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Sean Dockray is an artist and writer whose work explores the politics of technology, with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligences and the algorithmic web. He is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Monash University, a founding director of the Los Angeles non-profit Telic Arts Exchange, and initiator of knowledge-sharing platforms, The Public School and AAAARG.ORG. 

Machine Listening

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$15 presales via UTR

$20 door sales ($10 unwaged)

Thanks to Creative NZ and Wellington City Council for supporting Pyramid Club's programme.

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