Jini Maxwell

Dec 18, 2023 | overland.org.au | Jini Maxwell

By the totem of a rabbit In a week of ever softer landings On a sheet doubling as a projector screen As a flowerhorn swims into view Through the light that crouches in the corner While you are waking In that first morning waking up next to you In the part of me that once might have been polyester That fills tentatively with organs again In a diagram of a breast laid out like petals Where I went looking for something more than gender, fate or Meat that might be cancer In an image of a future...

Jun 2, 2023 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jini Maxwell

There’s an eldritch monstrosity in Stellar Basin that destroys my boat with one tentacle strike. A nearby researcher suggests it is the cause of the violent monsters and aberrant fish that teem in the waters around Greater Marrow. She offers me a device that will briefly calm it, allowing me to fish up from its grotto some deep-sea creatures that she requires for her research. I use the device and the creature’s attacks abate. When I return, she thanks and rewards me, and continues her work.

May 15, 2023 | overland.org.au | Jini Maxwell |Ouyang Yu |Ender Başkan

With apologies to Mary Oliver Today my laptop registers like an organ like I can feel it, even from the other side of the house I should find my own rotten way back to some kind of mindfulness practice I should open the windows of my dark room I should read more of the works of celebrated poet Mary Oliver she wrote about geese—which is huge but I hate poems that offer me forgiveness for all the shitty indignities of being alive Feeling bad and watching YouTube about it is a human right I will...

Mar 31, 2023 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jini Maxwell

Games The gentle minimalism of Idyll’s microsociety leads this gamer to question the hungers that drive social media platforms. By Jini Maxwell. In the postscript to the digital exhibition InterCommunication’95, exhibiting net artist Heath Bunting wrote: “networking fills many hungers”. The exhibition included Bunting’s 1995 online messaging artwork Communication Creates Conflict, which posed an early consideration of how networked communication would intervene in public life.