Internet Ethnographer and researcher Crystal Abidin talks on Tik Tok and Douyin, Social Video virality and the social relationships extended through the networked body

Annika Koops and Josephine Mead of Image Collective talk collectivism under covid, and publication making instead of exhibition making during plague conditions...

Christopher LG Hill on hyperlink newsletters, email and non-algorithmic social media...

Joshua Citarella on Twitch video streaming, memes and politics beyond capture...

Erick Mitsak is a performer, actor, writer and director who has worked in a wide smattering of cultural forms from cabaret to childrens theatre, from Australian TV to commercial voice overs.

Sam de Silva is a Melbourne-based researcher who writes on the impact of social technology. With a background in tactical media and information technology, he has produced work related to automated facial analysis, surveillance and social justice movements.

Based in Amsterdam, Australian artist and theatre maker Samara Hersch found herself stationed in Melbourne during the CV-19 outbreak. We talk about reimagining audiences for performance, methods of marking time in lockdown conditions and the new languages needed for performance post 'Rona.

Usually found underwater researching coral reefs, Cameron Allan McKean had to retreat to calmer waters during the outbreak of CV-19. We talk about digital ethnographic practices, the deep 'fight or cry' triggers of a nasal CV-19 test and the liberation through grinding that can be found in labor-simulation games.

Nicolas Hausdorf discusses the early online traces of CV-19 and the subsequent waves of fear and uncertainty that rippled through society. We talk through some of the cultural, social and medical repercussions of this novel corona virus.

Author of theory-fiction novel Applied Ballardianism, Simon Sellars joins me to discuss the flooding of the mind during CV19, attention span burnout and the mutations of culture emerging in a 'COVIDSAFE' world.