Christopher Kulendran Thomas, The Finesse, 2022, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, installation view, Data Dreams: Art and AI, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025, multi-channel video (37:03 minutes, looped) on LED screens with HD projection, featuring sculptures by Aṇaṅkuperuntinaivarkal Inkaaleneraam and architectural drawings from the Earth Net Archives. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

AI ‘dreams’ up new realities. How does this impact the way we understand our own dreaming?

Data Dreams: Art and AI is at the Museum of Contemporary Art brings together artists who make visible the tensions of ever-present AI.
Alexandra Peters, The Infinite Image (detail), Defenestration (Autoantibodies), acrylic and water-based ink with screen-print medium and paste on leatherette and Leg Over Leg V, commercial carpet, 2025, installation view, Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh

At Primavera 2025, young Australian artists consider making art in the age of commodities

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition of artists under 35 asks what it means for artists to create in a post-industrial age of reproduction.
/imagine a photograph of a Thai woman, pregnant in a green and white dress with luggage at an airport departure terminal in Bangkok in 1974 with her eyes closed thinking about what happens next as she holds her hand out in a theatrical gesture. Sara Oscar

I had no photos of my mother’s pregnancy and migration, so I found a way for AI to help fill in the gaps

Since last year, I have been working on a project with my Thai mother who migrated to Australia in 1974 while pregnant with me. To fill in the archive, we’ve been looking towards AI.
Une mouette décolle du pont du Rialto sur le Grand Canal à Venise, le 18 mars 2020, pendant l'immobilisation du pays dans le cadre de la crise du coronavirus. ANDREA PATTARO/AFP

Au temps du coronavirus, l’étonnante mélancolie du vide

Au temps du confinement, les images d’un monde figé dans le temps et abandonné par l’homme suscitent une étrange fascination.
At Echo Point lookout in Katoomba, NSW, people watch smoke from the Green Wattle Creek fire beyond The Three Sisters rock formation. AAP/Steven Saphore

Friday essay: seeing the news up close, one devastating post at a time

Instagram bushfire images cut through our news fatigue. This developing brand of photojournalism brings authenticity and a different sense of proximity.

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