Nike Savvas
There was a day in the fourth grade that the first Apple II series computer arrived at our school. With hindsight, the functions were comical but as we sat dumbfounded at the speed with which it could add and subtract, a fundamental shift was underway in education—wooden counting rods were out and high school math […]
Peter Hill’s Top Ten Picks from Sydney Contemporary 2022
Peter Schjeldahl, the great American art critic for The Village Voice, and now The New Yorker, once described the visceral experience of viewing the astonishing late works of Willem de Kooning at the Metropolitan. “The effect was like a plane taking off, when the acceleration presses you against the seat. The painting’s violent intelligence detonated […]
Tracy Sarroff
With a self-proclaimed interest in science, Sarroff’s series Cyber Plants, 2017-21, examines the proliferation of growth in bioluminescence science, focusing on methods of genetic and fluorescent protein cloning from cellular organelles spliced into animals and plants to glow in the dark. With a haunting display of lit tentacles, and colourful celestial glows, the hybrid plant forms provide […]

