Afterword: Changed by the Climate
All photos by Simon Sellars, Christchurch 2011. This piece was written in April 2011. It was originally published in October 2011 as the Afterword to Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and...
View ArticleNebula: Portable Art
Designed by Andrew Maynard Architects, Nebula is a mobile gallery and workspace allowing artists with disabilities to bring their work into the wider community. Simon Sellars talks to the architect...
View ArticleIf You Want Blood, You’ve Got It: or, What’s the Point of Architecture...
This is the transcript of a talk I gave for Refuel Victoria’s Monday Night Talks. I was on a panel of four responding to the topic ‘Blood-Sport or Boosterism?, explained by the event organisers like...
View ArticleExtreme Metaphors: ‘A Launchpad for Other Explorations’
‘A Launchpad for Other Explorations’ by Simon Sellars. Introduction to Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967–2008, edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara, Fourth Estate, January 2014. I...
View ArticleRed-dirt Voodoo: Rebuilding Australia’s Northwest
Originally published in Architectural Review Asia-Pacific magazine #128: New Civic Realms. All photography by Simon Sellars unless stated otherwise. In my time as AR editor, I never imagined the job...
View Article‘Zones of Transition': Micronationalism in the work of J.G. Ballard
Map of Lunghua (Lunghwa) civilian camp, Shanghai. Courtesy Rick McGrath. This essay by Simon Sellars was originally published in J.G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions, Jeannette Baxter and Roland Wymer,...
View ArticleJourney to the Centre of Google Earth
This essay was commissioned by Anne Hilde Neset for Only Connect Festival Of Sound 2014: J.G. Ballard. It was published in the Only Connect catalogue, May 2014, edited by Anne Hilde Neset and Audun...
View Article‘The art of the pivot': RMIT’s 2014 Web Conference
Storey Hall. Photo: courtesy RMIT University. Originally published on RMIT Blog Central, 7 July 2014. This year RMIT hosted its second annual web conference at Storey Hall, the University’s iconic...
View ArticleRetake the Future: Deb Verhoeven on Crowdfunding Academic Research
Simon Sellars speaks to Professor Verhoeven about Deakin University's Research My World project, a highly successful crowdfunding project for academic research, and its risks, benefits and possible...
View ArticleWelcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright Labyrinth
Ken Hollings hunting for non-people. Image via. This is an early draft of the foreword I wrote for Ken Hollings’ amazing book The Bright Labyrinth: Sex, Death and Design in the Digital Regime,...
View ArticlePurple Light – An Excerpt from Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from A Parallel...
Published in Happy Hypocrite 8: Fresh Hell. Edited by Sophia Al-Maria. Featuring William Gibson, Mckenzie Wark, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Monira Al Qadiri, Stephanie Bailey, Alex Borkowski, Judy Darragh,...
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