Empowering artists through the law

The Arts Law Centre of Australia has made a difference for 30 years. It has celebrated that history this week.

Somebody, anybody, nobody

Does Miranda July’s Somebody app signal a paradigm shift towards live art or a new way to avoid surveillance?

Screen Australia Cuts: rumbles from the grass roots

Two public meetings, two different states, as the emerging sector begins to respond to the cuts and refocusing planned by…

ACMI: steady as the digital ship goes

The Victorian government opts for stability after the death of ACMI president, Lorraine Elliott AM.

BBC First: gracious with Gracie, but only story-wise

BBC First has set up a collective storybuilding event to run for the next five nights. Fun or so last…

Surveillance and Film: bringing ASIO to your home

Ordinary folk can now take hours of ASIO footage home and run through it frame by frame. Ah, the shame…

Piracy: new moves, as the audience speaks

A flurry of piracy news adds some new research, sees some justice delivered, and raises some older questions.

Web Series: international co-pro meets branded entertainment meets dreams of empire

Brief: changes at top of anti-piracy crew

Mark Day takes over from Neil Gane to lead AFACT forward.

Is critical dialogue a dying art?

Recent debate on The Conversation serves an opposition between print and online media, but online reviewing deserves a fair go.