Is there life after social media?

Richard Jordan’s latest play explores the concept of digital immortality: saving your consciousness online when you die.
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A low-fi take on high concept science fiction, Richard Jordan’s Machina revolves around the decisions of a young man who makes the ultimate commitment to social media by uploading his consciousness onto the fictional Machina network. As the pixels of the puzzle unravel, his family and ex-lover begin to wonder: did he go willingly or was he pushed?

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts