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Platform Presents, Melbourne, Melbourne (2026)

11/04/2026

Introducing our next new media artist: Lucian Rodriguez Lovell who will be presenting ‘Meat Memory / Memory Dump’, a real-time 3D simulation.

‘In a dumping ground for human slop, a pack of not-quite humanoid avatars mechanically teach themselves to walk. In a brutal cycle of reward, punishment, battering, and drowning, they scramble for purchase in the uncertain soup. Meanwhile, something alien watches from afar.’

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Lucian Rodriguez Lovell is a Filipino-Australian new media artist, game designer, and academic based in Naarm. Working critically with 3D materials, sensors, game worlds, and machine learning, Rodriguez Lovell works with technics in order to hate them better, playfully subverting interfaces as a form of resistance. His work speculatively explores computing futures, virtual bodies, and racial markers in artificial intelligence.

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Date: Saturday 18th April
Time: 6:00 - 12:00am
Location: 118 Greeves St, Fitzroy

$15 Early Birds [SOLD OUT] / $20 General Admission / $30 at Door

10/04/2026

Introducing our next new media artist: Jacob van der Eynden who is presenting ‘Wisps’.

In “Wisps”, an interactive digital work built in TouchDesigner, cute ghosts playfully mimic viewers’ facial expressions and react to their movements, growing more animated as the viewer does. The experience aims to create a positive feedback loop, encouraging viewers to let go of their inhibitions, and have fun moving around and making faces.

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Jacob van der Eynden is a digital designer based in Naarm/Melbourne. His creative practice spans interaction design, visual programming, videography and beyond. His work—often aesthetically inspired by retro video games and computer interfaces—explores the connections between people, society, and technology, and the ways in which the three continuously shape one another. He brings his perspective as a neurodivergent person to his work, inviting audiences to question the obvious and entertain the unexpected.

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Date: Saturday 18th April
Time: 6:00 - 12:00am
Location: 118 Greeves St, Fitzroy

$15 Early Birds [SOLD OUT] / $20 General Admission / $30 at Door

10/04/2026

Introducing our next new media artist: yptox aka Ezra Johnston

yptox will be presenting ‘Post History’, a procedurally generated world set 65 million years after human extinction. The piece is an exploration of media archaeology, placing the visitor as an AI agent reawakened to wander through a digital graveyard of endless inane human memories. What will the internet look like after we’re gone?

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yptox (Ezra Johnston) is a Melbourne-based Critical New Media Artist and Systems Designer. He builds interactive worlds that explore how digital architecture dictates human intimacy and the flow of information.

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Date: Saturday 18th April
Time: 6:00 - 12:00am
Location: 118 Greeves St, Fitzroy

$15 Early Birds [SOLD OUT] / $20 General Admission / $30 at Door

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TRACK ID: Tape Bunch - Binary Digit

08/04/2026

Introducing our next new media artist: Ali Choudhry who will be presenting ‘Circle Circle’.

Circle Circle is an interactive video work that transforms a live camera feed into a field of shifting circles, abstracting the body into a pixel-like surface. As viewers move within the space, the circles expand and contract in real time, responding to their presence and proximity. This continuous fluctuation disrupts fixed representation, rendering the figure unstable and relational. The work invites audiences to consider how visibility is constructed and mediated by way of seeing and being seen, as their own movements actively reshape the image, structuring the boundary between observer and subject.

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Ali Choudhry is a Melbourne-based photographer whose practice explores identity, perception, and the relational dynamics between subject, artist, and viewer. Working across portraiture and conceptual image-making, his work is informed by his intersectional experience as a q***r, refugee artist, investigating how personal and socio-political narratives shape individual identity. Choudhry has exhibited widely in group and solo shows, and has been recognised in major photography prizes. His images are characterised by a minimalist, controlled aesthetic that invites quiet contemplation while interrogating the processes and power structures embedded within photographic practice.

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Date: Saturday 18th April
Time: 6:00 - 12:00am
Location: 118 Greeves St, Fitzroy

$15 Early Birds [SOLD OUT] / $20 General Admission / $30 at Door

07/04/2026

Syd/Eora, if you're an artist of Asian diaspora, this one’s for you. For the first time, we’re bringing our Asian Heritage Week exhibition to Eora.

Last year, we had Sydney artists fly down to Naarm to be part of our Asian Heritage Week exhibition. This year, we’re bringing it to you and expanding it into a full opening night experience with art, music and market stalls.

We’re opening up ‘A Family Gathering’, a 3-day pop-up exhibition bringing artists into one room to share work across all mediums. Rather than a set theme, it’s about the experience of gathering and sitting alongside one another.

Running 12–14 June, with a ticketed opening night featuring DJs and market stalls.

Applications are now open for exhibiting artists and stallholders. If you’re based in Sydney, we’d love to have you in the room.

Apply via our info pack (linked in bio)
Exhibition applications close 12 May
Market stall EOIs open until filled

06/04/2026

Introducing our next new media duo for Hybrid 002: Max & Freya. They are presenting ‘Dreamscape Oasis’ which will transform the stairway of 118 Greeves St into a shifting passage of light and motion. Abstract visuals flow and evolve across the surfaces, creating a sense of movement and immersion which invite viewers into a quiet, dreamlike transition between spaces. As audiences ascend or descend, the work evokes a shift between visual and audiovisual spaces, blurring the boundary between what is seen and what is felt.

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Max & Freya are an emerging audiovisual duo creating immersive works that blend projection mapping, light, and sound into cohesive sensory environments. Their practice is inspired by surrealistic and dreamlike art, drawing on abstract forms, shifting textures, and hypnotic rhythms to construct otherworldly experiences. Through large-scale projections and spatial audiovisual design, they transform physical spaces into fluid, living canvases that evolve over time. Their work explores the intersection of perception and atmosphere, inviting audiences to step into environments where reality feels suspended and boundaries between image, space, and sensation dissolve.

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Date: Saturday 18th April
Time: 6:00 - 12:00am
Location: 118 Greeves St, Fitzroy

$15 Early Birds / $20 General Admission / $30 at Door

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TRACK ID: Yes, Today - Stanislav Tolkachev

05/04/2026

Introducing our next Summer Daze artist: Sunny Tandoc

Sunny Tandoc’s practice explores coming-of-age as something that continues well beyond youth. In the unknown doesn’t scare me anymore, they reflect on the quiet moments that shape us as we grow older, from lunch breaks in the summer heat to spontaneous beach trips.

Through vivid colour palettes, gestural mark-making and playful textures, the work holds space for nostalgia, softness and the emotional complexity of moving beyond socially defined youth. Rather than mourning the end of adolescence, Sunny reclaims small, everyday pleasures as moments of renewal.

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Sunny Tandoc combines their visual arts and community service practices to explore themes of coming-of-age, curiosity, the mundane and human connection, informed by their experience as a q***r Filipinx/o-Australian with lived experience of mental health. Through vivid colour palettes, gestural mark-making and playful textures, Sunny creates emotionally resonant works that foster reflection and dialogue.

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the unknown doesn’t scare me anymore (sensory strategies) — $2000

All works can be purchased via our website.

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Platform x Howler presents: Summer Daze Exhibition
Howler | 7–11 Dawson St, Brunswick VIC 3056
On view until May 2026

04/04/2026

Introducing our first new media artist for Hybrid 002, Discoartkid aka Andrei who is presenting ‘The Void of Colour’. This visual work is a colourful spectacle of chaos juxtaposed with a flowing calmness that evolves through time and interaction that invites interaction without demanding presence.

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Andrei is a digital and visual artist who finds beauty in systems that behave like living things. His work simulates the hidden patterns of nature through slime mould networks, mycelial growth, cellular voids, Fibonacci sequences and through vast swarms of particles that move, sense, and self-organise across the screen. The result feels less like something made, and more like something found.

At the heart of this work is a fascination with impermanence, he often brings the trail that fades, the structure that blooms and then retreats into the observatory forefront. Technology becomes a way of holding these fleeting moments still, just long enough to witness them. Shaped by live sound and touch, each piece exists only in the present tense.
The screen becomes a living field. The simulation, a kind of memory.

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Date: Saturday 18th April
Time: 6:00 - 12:00am
Location: 118 Greeves St, Fitzroy

$15 Early Birds / $20 General Admission / $30 at Door

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TRACK ID: Manifestation Power - Sternac

03/04/2026

Introducing our next Summer Daze artist: Kerry Liang

Kerry Liang’s vibrant paintings transform familiar landscapes through bold colour and expressive mark-making. Inspired by photographs she takes of nature, architecture and everyday scenes, Kerry reimagines these moments through layered patterns, shapes and colour combinations.

Her ‘Trees in the Sun’ series captures sun-drenched landscapes and local places, translating light, warmth and atmosphere into vivid compositions. The works reflect Kerry’s ongoing exploration of colour and her desire to create paintings that viewers don’t just see, but feel.

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Kerry completed a Diploma in Visual Art at NCAT Preston in 2025. Retiring from work and completing her studies became a catalyst for dedicating her time fully to her art practice. Working primarily in acrylic paint, Kerry has developed a distinct style that allows her to express her vision of colour.

She has successfully exhibited her work since emerging from NCAT and held her first solo exhibition Kaleidoscope Eyes in 2025 at Gallery Unbound in Northcote.

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Blue Tree at Heide — $250
Sunshine at Monsalvat, Eltham — $650
A Colourful Afternoon at Abbotsford Convent — $700

All works can be purchased via our website.

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Platform x Howler presents: Summer Daze Exhibition
Howler | 7–11 Dawson St, Brunswick VIC 3056
On view until May 2026

31/03/2026

We’re opening up artist applications for our Asian Heritage Week exhibition this May in Naarm/Melbourne.

Asian Heritage Week, led by Asian Hustle Network, returns May 25–31 and continues to grow here in Australia. Last year marked our first time committing to an Asian Heritage Week exhibition. It was incredibly special to see that room come together and we're so excited to be bringing it back this year.

This year’s exhibition is titled 'A Family Gathering'. Rather than defining a theme, the title speaks to the experience of the exhibition. It brings Asian Australian artists into one room, allowing a range of practices, perspectives and stories to sit alongside one another.

As an extension of last year’s program, this exhibition will sit within a broader lineup of Asian Heritage Week events across Platform’s programming (TBA).

Apply via our info pack (linked in bio)

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Key Dates
Applications close: Monday 28 April, 11:59pm
Artwork drop-off: May 16–17
Exhibition: May 20 – May 31
Opening night: Saturday 23 May, 4–10pm

📍 Dark Horse Experiment,
400 Spencer St, West Melbourne VIC 3003

22/03/2026

Artists Applications for Hybrid 002 are currently open and close 31 March (EOD).

Hybrid sits between gallery and club, taking over a two floor house with new media works alongside live sets and audio-visual performances.

We’re inviting proposals across projection mapping, audio-reactive visuals, real-time systems, interactive installations, game engines, digital sculpture and screen-based works.

While all formats are welcome, we prioritise works that invite interaction. Pieces that respond to the audience, engage with movement or sound and blur the line between observer and participant.

Any questions, please DM us, otherwise you can apply via the link in bio.

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