Technology intersects with every aspect of our lives – from the music we listen to and the ways we listen to it, to our most intimate conversations with family and friends. Now in its third year, Now or Never is the City of Melbourne’s most recent addition to a crowded arts and cultural calendar, and is billed as an exploration of art, ideas, sound and technology – with artists’ uses of technology a consistent element across the festival’s many free and ticketed events.
“The tensions identified around AI – its environmental cost versus its potential – are precisely why these conversations also belong within an arts festival rather than a purely academic setting. When Jessica Russ-Smith and Michelle Lazarus discuss machine learning alongside First Nations knowledge systems, they’re not simply offering answers, but creating space for complex thinking.
