Originally published in Jargon, summer 2001, under the pseudonym ‘Ziggy Omar’.

The best bars in Melbourne combine kooky architecture with snappy ambience, ‘sound-of-now’ musical policies and the entertainment value of bored waiting staff. But be ever-vigilant: you and your slick posse may discover a great new place, only to return a short time later to find [...]

Originally published in Jargon, summer 2001.

Project Dumpling
by Simon Sellars & Anna Hyde
The discovery of gold in 1851 attracted Chinese immigration to Victoria, Australia on a large scale. The small Chinese community first occupied Celestial Ave in the heart of Melbourne, providing for the needs of the diggers – lodgings en route, food, equipment and medicine [...]

Photograph by Daniel New (Alphonse Leonardi).

I have a soft spot for this piece. With the Jargon magazine, one of the aims was to make the RMIT aerospace campus, out at Fishermens Bend in the shadow of the Westgate Bridge, interesting. So I combined my interests in Ballard and the Futurists and invented a group of [...]

‘Machine Logic: An Interview with Kirsty Boyle’
by Simon Sellars

Originally published in Jargon, summer 2001.

Kirsty Boyle is a researcher at RMIT’s Interactive Information Institute (I-Cubed), where she is developing her ‘Tele Operated Puppetry System’(TOPS), a tool utilising the net as a medium for controlling robots. Her work – creative, informative and practical – is infused with [...]