Amy Ireland is a writer and theorist best known for her work with the technomaterialist transfeminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks, whose Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (Verso, 2018) has been translated into 17 languages. She has published widely in contemporary art journals and magazines, including Art + Australia, Southerly, Runway Experimental Art, Rabbit, e-flux, and Flash Art, and her poetry and performance work has been included in exhibitions such as the 20th Biennale of Sydney, London’s Barbican Centre’s ‘AI: More than Human’, and the 2021 Athens Biennale. She is an editor and translator for UK-based publisher and arts organisation, Urbanomic.
Jon Smeathers is a composer, sound and installation artist based in Nipaluna/ Hobart. Jon has exhibited and performed both internationally and across Australia, including: at Soft Centre, Serralves em Fiesta, Portugal; Melbourne Festival; NOW Now Festival, Sydney; and, Dark Mofo and Mona Foma, Hobart. Jon’s work taps into the potential of algorithmic displacement, codecs and remix culture to enable a reimagination of one’s spectral and rhythmic currents.
This event is presented through the CAT Curatorial Mentorship Program.