PlayerUnknown’s Battleground - a multiplayer, fight-to-the-death video game - was the most downloaded game for the first quarter of 2018. It feels like an immersive experience of today’s nightmares.
- Lecturer, Screen and Cultural Studies, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
After his recent controversial portrait of Hillary Clinton, the street artist Lush’s Instagram following surged. His account was also briefly suspended - raising questions about art-making in a digital age.
Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down, a 12-part series chronicling the birth of disco and hip hop, premieres on Netflix next week. While the crowd scenes will surely be fabulous, what will this Shakespeare aficionado bring to the history of hip hop?
Graffiti and street art are not just a backdrop in Pokémon Go but also a template for how to navigate urban space. Indeed lovers of street art have long played their own kind of multi-player game, with sites and rewards hidden across the city.
A spectre of evaluation is haunting the arts. The relationships between artists and their audiences are being mediated by an ever-more complex system that determines the value of art. It’s a system driven…
Contact Lachlan for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Article Feed
- Joined
