FYI #148

• Studio Lola, wonderful jewellery collections and objects designed by Lola Giuffré, an Australian artist and jeweller with a background in mechanical engineering

• Radical Magic, an interview with Pekka Kuusisto, directing the Australian Chamber Orchestra on their current tour

• 2026 MacArthur Fellows

• 2026 Tiny Awards winner, Cursor Camp

• Scutter or flutter? Who wins your vote for the 2026 ABC Australian Insect of the Year?

• Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s film, Artificial, via NEON

• Deb Chachra is writing a new book, Tactile: Matter, Technology, and the World We Make, (working title). I enjoyed her last one, How Infrastructure Works

• An Argument, via Thei American Life

• Fitzcarraldo – inside the chicest publisher on earth, via the Financial Times

• The woman who wrote “Man in the Mirror” sang it to me, via Anand Giridharadas’ The Ink

• How Big Tech Took Control, with Beeban Kidron, via Shakespeare & Co

• Paulina Borsook on her book, Cyberselfish, via Local Economy

• A Room With A View, at Belvoir St Theatre, based on the novel by E.M. Forster
  Adapted by Grace Chapple, Directed by Hannah Goodwin

• The Case for Cognitive Rearmament, by Geoff Mulgan