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(2025)



Commissioned by Science Gallery Melbourne for Distraction, curated by Bern Hall
Exhibition Dates: 26 July 2025 - 2 May 2026


Photography credit: Astrid Mulder


What digital future are we willing to submit to?

Originality is collapsing in the age of AI and it’s impossible to tell what’s real. Inspired by the idea of ‘mean images’, coined by Hito Steyerl, today’s digital landscape is a streaming torrent of slop content. Feel the tension between god-like technological power and human complacency as you experience a tapestry of stolen sound and image that dredges the mediocrity of the internet. Machine learning, endless scrolling and environmental collapse form a reflection of how we feed – and are fed by – the algorithm. In this hallucination, nothing is sacred and everything is derivative. In the noise of repetition, a strange kind of truth emerges.

How does it feel to be consumed by a machine we built?



   Xanthe acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which their work is made, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. They pay their respects to elders, past and present.  Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.