Science Gallery Melbourne
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Sciences & Technology
The spambots are coming for your job, Aldous Huxley
Robotic ‘Spam’ tins recreating dystopian fiction ask us to consider the role of AI, art and animals in society – and how they intersect
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Arts & Culture
The sound of your internet history
Humans are increasingly connected through a technological frenzy of social media. Exhibitions at Science Gallery’s SWARM explore the legacy we leave behind online
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Arts & Culture
Podcast
Getting involved
The pandemic has changed student life rapidly –impacting on mental wellbeing. But our sense of belonging and connection can help protect our mental health
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Arts & Culture
Running on rainbows
Exercise can help protect our mental health, but how can we tap into this mood medicine and stay on track? A human-sized, rainbow hamster wheel may provide some answers
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Arts & Culture
Your face is muted
In times of remote communication and notorious connection problems, how do we empathise with each other through the curtain of technology when non-verbal cues are missing?
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Arts & Culture
There is no ‘normal’
Please do not adjust your sets, normal service will not be resumed because dream, hallucination or reality are all a product of the same thing – your brain
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Arts & Culture
Being open to emotion in art
Art can provoke, plague and preoccupy. But what can our interactions with art teach us about fully experiencing emotions in our everyday lives?
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Arts & Culture
Mental Health ≠ Wellbeing
There’s a growing tendency to link mental health and wellbeing as an inseparable conceptual couple, but the two concepts have very different connotations
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Arts & Culture
Hey Siri, how’s my mental health?
Conversational systems may play a key role in future mental healthcare and have the potential to help cut down global e-waste – but there are caveats
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Arts & Culture
The microbiota and our mental health
Research is revealing the connection between our microbes and our mental health, suggesting that your ‘gut-feeling’ is not just metaphorical