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The 2026 AFTRS Digital Futures Summit. Photo: AFTRS.
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AFTRS presents its 2026 Digital Futures Summit with the theme: Regenerate

The free sixth annual AFTRS Digital Futures Summit brings together leading thinkers from across the screen and audio industries.

Jon Goulder, winner of the 2026 Melbourne Design Week Award, with his works on display at Chapter House, presented by Alpha60. Photo: Eugene Hyland.
Features

In the limelight: latest arts prize winners and career milestones

We all need some good news but luckily there's been plenty to celebrate this past month, with the announcement of…

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Games

How Australian tabletop games makers are surviving a chaotic manufacturing landscape

With manufacturing in turmoil, Australia's tabletop games creators are facing some complex challenges.

Photo: Miguelangel Perez / Unsplash. AI is playing an increasing role in audiobook narration.
Features

From cloning romance authors to YouTube piracy, AI is transforming audiobooks

Almost one in five Australian audiobook listeners have listened to an AI narrated audiobook.

Australian designers commissioned for Powerhouse Parramatta. Photo: Nic Walker / Powerhouse.
News

Australian designers give heart to Powerhouse Parramatta

More than 50 Australian designers have been commissioned to fit out the new Powerhouse Parramatta, thanks to a $2.5 million…

Anna Goldsworthy's Quarterly Essay explores AI, the future and what it means to be human as technology rapidly learns to mirror us. The photo shows Goldsworthy, a fair skinned woman with long dark hair and wearing a pink, purple and green pattened dress, standing in a colonnade.
Features

The threat and promise of AI: an extract from Anna Goldsworthy’s Quarterly Essay

In this extract from her essay for Quarterly Essay, writer, pianist and artistic director Anna Goldsworthy muses on what it…

A mother and child, photographed from behind, admire Brook Andrew's neon light and painted wall artwork Loop. A model of how the world operates (detail), 2008, installation view MCA Collection: Artists in Focus, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2026. Credit: Maja Baska. arts participation
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Cost a growing factor preventing arts participation, Creative Australia’s national survey reveals

Creative Australia’s sixth National Arts Participation Survey reveals that 98% of Australians engage with the arts in some way and…

Damien Frost, Tyler Darke at Berlin Berlin - Egg Club, Kings Cross, London, 2018. Courtesy: the artist.
News

Photographer Damien Frost headlines 2026 New Annual festival

There will be some Australian faces in Damien Frost's upcoming exhibition at New Annual in Newcastle.

Douglas Stuart. Photo: Martyn Pickersgill/ Pan Macmillan.
Analysis

Douglas Stuart reveals flashes of tenderness in his violent working‑class men

In John of John, Booker Prize-winner Douglas Stuart has returned to his territory and deepened it.

contemporary dance: a photo of four dancers, three of whom are dressed in a bright red costume moving vigorously on stage against a black background. One of the four, a male dancer, is bare-chested and his head is covered with a drum (musical instrument). There is another drum on stage pictured at the of the photo.
Industry News

Profits or losses for contemporary dance companies: who’s in best and worst shape?

In lean times for the sector, contemporary dance companies are maintaining stability while some are securing partnerships to extend their…

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