ACMI

Um, and right now we've got, um, some Zed Heads over in Melbourne, um, experiencing all that Melbourne's International Games Week has to offer, as well as PAX.

Um, and I briefly just wanted to talk about, um, Freeplay and ACMI's, um, showcases that they had, um, just very, very recently last night.

Um, and I just wanted to sort of flag that there are some local names, um, as part-

Oh, really?

Um, and, uh, also, we've also got, um...

Oh my gosh, hang on.

Um, so part of Freeplay/SL- um, ACMI's Parallel Play, um, Growing Games' Dungeon Pizza was a part of the showcase, which is a locally developed game.

Um, it is a game about, well, dungeoneering for pizza ingredients and making pizzas.

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ACMI is doing some cool stuff.

I'm actually deliberately doing nothing but PAX-

Hey

Sweet

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I've got, uh, my game is also being shown at ACMI Games Week Showcase.

Sweet.

So I worked at Monash University Museum of Art.

I've worked at ACMI.

But I also worked at Shepparton Art Museum when we opened the brand new building there.

It's a spectacular building, isn't it? It's

I'm horrified.

And they're in a museum, so I gave them to ACMI to look after because I didn't want the responsibility anymore.

There was too much pressure.

Yeah, where does one put four Logies, gold Logies?

we welcome all the way from the other side of the world in Australia, Seb Chan.

Seb is the director and CEO of ACMI, which stands for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, which is a museum focused on screen culture and the intersection of media, technology, and storytelling.

Seb was a key part of the team behind Acme's expansion into an award-winning multi-platform museum that I'm really excited to hear about today.

And prior to Acme, Seb led the digital transformation of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum here in New York from its infamous interactive pen to the acquisition of important software-based works for the Smithsonian's collection.

And I guess I was just on a recording about my music career earlier in the day and we were digging through all sorts of things that were done in the 90s and early 2000s.

It's been an excellent life and had worked with amazing people and been part of amazing teams, you know.

If you could talk, you know, from your work with electronic music and working in museums and in your current leadership role at ACMI, what's your origin story? How would you cover that for us?

Yeah, I'd say that, you know, what I learned from discovering electronic music in the very early 90s and particularly organizing raves and DJing and being part of that whole emergent scene in Sydney, 1992, 93, 94 and beyond.

And this is going to be happening, it's going to start up on Wednesday, the 19th of August.

So this coming Wednesday at ACMI.

And then we also, which, oh yeah, this is completely free, by the way.

Yeah.

I think I definitely caught your appetite for culture very early.

Like I remember there was a, I think it was like a Tim Burton exhibition at the, maybe the NGV or ACMI in Melbourne.

ACMI, I think.

And, you know, I don't even know if it was my idea to go to it, but I remember going and thinking, wow, this is like, it was an extremely like formative experience for me.

Can I tell the Phantom of the Opera story? Yeah, sure.