Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Anna Goldsworthy on AI, culture and the self

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend
In the forthcoming issue of the Quarterly Essay, Anna Goldsworthy explores the implications of AI for art, culture and the self – how it forces a confrontation with what it means to be human, raising questions about human connection, learning and how we live our lives; and bringing new existential…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: UpLIFT

St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend
The program title is a play on the title of a work by American-Japanese composer and cellist Paul Wiancko (b.1983). Affinity Quartet premières Wiancko in Australia with LIFT, his 2016 string quartet. National Public Radio wrote, ‘If Haydn were alive to write a string quartet today, it may sound something like…