Sydney-based art collective Make or Break invite you to participate in their artwork Hyperlocal Headlines.
How does language influence our world view, or reveal our biases? Will the future of news be hyperlocal or distributed? Who writes it, how is it accessed, and who controls it?
Hyperlocal Headlines takes place as a series of artist-facilitated creative conversations and collective storytelling and writing sessions that imagine the future of news. Participants will become citizen journalists for a day, learning to collaborate with AI technologies, understand media bias and language, and explore how the ways we tell stories can impact collective futures.
Participants’ narrative and poetic speculations will be broadcast as website interventions and on three public digital news tickers across Naarm/Melbourne.
The Work Sessions are free to attend, and a limited number of $100 payments are available for any participants who are unwaged workers or concession card holders.
This work session is open to all adults, regardless of gender identity or expression.
Date and Time
Saturday 11 June, 1PM, Millarri Murnmut, Level 5, Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust
Duration: 3 hours
Register for tickets here
Works will be on display: Sat 11 ⏤ Sun 26 June 2022
Accessibility
This work session takes place at Brinbeal in the foyer of Queen Victoria Women's Centre. The space is wheelchair accessible and there are accessible toilets which can be reached by lift on other levels of the building.
We would love to support your attendance at this work session. To share or confirm your access requirements with Next Wave please email ticketing@nextwave.org.au
Getting to Queen Victoria Women's Centre
You can read about public transport and getting to the venue here.
Need anything else? Please reach out via ticketing@nextwave.org.au
Hyperlocal Headlines was commissioned by Next Wave for Next Wave Festival through Kickstart. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program. Venue support by Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust.
Artist Bio
Make or Break devise and experiment with process-based projects that are co-authored with communities they are invited into. These have included creating experimental economies and temporary currencies; caring for civic spaces; celebrating the labour of strangers; prototyping future worlds; writing speculative fiction and facilitating conversations as collective research.
Image credit: Photo by Jacquie Manning, courtesy of the artists.