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Possible Noise

Cybernetic Forests
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Possible Noise

A guided tour of the NCM Melbourne's "Signal to Noise" exhibition.

Possible Noise
Internet Dream, Nam June Paik. Seen at Signal to Noise, 2025. Photo by Phoebe Powell, courtesy of NCM.

In the age of computation, the role of noise — or at least, the close-enough approximation through pseudorandom numbers —…

Signal to Noise (and Back Again)

Cybernetic Forests
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Signal to Noise (and Back Again)

Our understanding of noise could be traced to a young Einstein, staring at a pond full of pollen 120 years ago. Einstein theorized that the seemingly arbitrary motion of pollen on the surface could be modeled — and in so doing, we confirmed the existence of molecules that moved pollen…

Turning the little screws

Blood in the Machine
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In the summer of 2016, just months before Donald Trump was elected president for the first time, I snuck into what was then the world’s largest iPhone factory. Officially called the Longhua Science and Technology Park, it was better known as Foxconn City, named after the massive subcontractor that handles…

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