T.MORIMOTO
/THOMAS SMITH

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WORKS

Pathos: The Transience of Things
Narrative 001: The Things We Like
Waking Life: The Dreamwork Model
Top-Ten
Core Principles
Poison & Cure
Snowclones
Topoi Koinoi
VLC, Transaction, Image
The New Spirit

RELEASES

Nexus Destiny Remixes
Trackwork Mix 001
Poison - Poison
Nexus Destiny
Non Times
Annum Contra
Crit Reflex
Drama Studies
Localities
Deccan Technicolour
Jewels

CURATORIAL

Media Futures Hub Screening Series, UNSWAAD, Sydney
Audition Series
Same Same
Everyday Machines
Real Life Human Resources
Time Machine
Night Depot 3

EXHIBITIONS

February 2025: The place we do not know is the place we are looking for, Westspace, Naarm/Melbourne
December 2024: Dêtxate — On the necessity of rest, Vaga Artspace, Portugal
December 2023: Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
July 2022: Logical Conclusions/Automation Effects, ADM+S/Miscellania
May 2021: Freedom of Sleep, Fondation Fiminco Paris
March 2021: Capture all, Disclaimer/Liquid Architecture/Sarai Delhi
July 2020: Geelong International Film Festival
July 2020: Avantwhatever Festival of Experimental Music
September 2018: Beijing Media Arts Biennale
November 2017: Failure in Chrome, Digital Artist Residency, The Wrong Biennale
August 2017: Sounding the Future, UTS Gallery, w. Pia van Gelder
March 2017: Losing Farther, Losing Faster, Alaska Projects
August 2016: Gesture Manifest, Blindside Gallery, w. Clare Milledge

PUBLICATIONS/WRITING/SPEAKING

December 2024: Waking Life: The Dreamwork Model (book chapter) in I 愛 AI
February 2025: Pathos, Notes on a system @Modulations, CY Space, Narrm/Melbourne
September 2024: Art & Design Research Forum, UNSWAAD, Sydney
December 2023: Modulating Realities, Sarai CSDS, Delhi
November 2024: Automation Cultures, UWA, Perth
November 2024: Study in on Race, AI and Art, VCA Melbourne
February 2023: Data Relations Summer School, ACCA Melbourne
August 2022: Liquid Architecture Podcast, Sarai x LA: Capture All
July 2022: Logical Conclusions/Automation Effects: Artists and Curators' Panel
This Is The Way: The Mandalorian, Art and Surplus
Algorhythms: Living in and out of Sync with Technology (Anabelle Lacroix)
The Preset, the Generic, and an Ambivalent Politics of Non-Production
Interview with Utility - PART 1
Interview with Utility - PART 2
Iron Star (exhibition review)
Capitalist Surrealism (performance review)
World's Only issue 3
Das Superpaper
Conor O'Shea, Thanks for your email but this won't be possible, (catalogue essay)
AutoTune Everything: A Critical Response
Roslyn Helper, Interventions in Live Chat (catalogue essay)
Marian Tubbs, Contemporary Monsters I (catalogue essay)

SOUND DESIGN & COMMISSIONS

Imbás: a well at the bottom of the sea, Clare Milledge, 23rd Biennale of Sydney
Oh Deer!, Aphids, Rising Festival 2022
Kitsch Sites, Melody Paloma, Kings ARI/IMA Brisbane
Ghosts, Snack Syndicate, Sydney Review of Books/Bus Projects
Art as Fieldwork, Hot Spell on the Way, Clare Milledge, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
Real Real #2, Brooke Stamp & Anna McMahon, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Data Stones, Peter Nelson, Asia Society, Hong Kong
Crab_Backup, Peter Nelson, Wellington St Projects, Sydney
Strigiformes, Binocular Binaural, Clare Milledge, Nasjonal Museet, Oslo
Spells of Temporal Stasis, Brooke Stamp & Anna McMahon, The Walls, Gold Coast
Supreme Ultimate, Hissy Fit, MCA/C3West Women of Fairfield, Sydney
The New Spirit, Liquid Architecture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Greg Sharpe/Doc Brown, Adult Swim
Extraordinary/Ordinary, Campbelltown Arts Centre
Sound of Burning Water, Sydney Festival (w. Marcus Whale
12 Hour Revolution, Frances Barrett, Sydney Guild

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

February 2025: Plead Morimoto, Phoenix Live, Sydney
October 2024: Focus, Fukuoka (DJ)
September 2024: Unmute, Hanoi (DJ)
September 2024: Final, Taipei(DJ)
September 2024: TAG, Chengdu (DJ)
March 2024: 24th Biennale of Sydney (live)
January 2024: Phoenix Presents, Sydney(live)
December 2023: Noise, noise, noise, Goa (live)
June 2023: Oil, Shenzhen (DJ)
June 2023: Zhoadai, Beijing (DJ)
June 2023: TAG, Chengdu (DJ)
June 2023: Chengdu Cmmunity Radio, Chengdu (DJ)
June 2023: Loopy, Hangzhou (DJ)
June 2023: All Club, Shanghai (DJ)
June 2023: Baihui Radio, Shanghai (DJ)
June 2023: Club Service, Vivid/Trackwork presents (DJ)
May 2023: DJ Plead Residency, Club 77, Sydney (DJ)
November 2023: Forest Limit, Tokyo, Kato Massacre (DJ)
November 2023: Phonox, London, Logic1000 Residency (DJ)
July 2021: Cashmere Radio, Berlin (DJ)
July 2021: DIM, Belgrade (DJ)
July 2020: Avantwhatever Festival of Experimental Music, Melbourne
October 2019: Monash Automated Culture Symposium, Melbourne
February 2019: Raven Triad, F Minor, 128 BPM, Clare Milledge, UoQ Museum, Brisbane
September 2018: Beijing Media Arts Biennale, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
May 2017: Black Box Series, UNSWAAD, Sydney
February 2017: M.E.S.H., Portugal Madeira Club, Sydney
February 2017: HELM & Croatian Amor, Marrickville Bowling Club, Sydney
September 2016: Post Graduate conference, Sydney UNSWAAD
July 2016: Gesture Manifest, Blindside, Melbourne
May 2016: Cashmere Radio, Berlin
May 2016: Fringes, Outsides, Undergrounds, Goldsmiths, London
May 2016: Audible Visions, Goldsmiths, London
February 2016: Noise: Noise: Noise, Floating Projects, Hong Kong
January 2016: Now now Festival 2016, 107 Projects, Sydney
December 2015: Double Vision, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney
November 2015: Conspiracy Performance lecture series, Minerva Gallery, Sydney
October 2015: Liquid Architecture, Capitalist Surrealism, Firstdraft, Sydney
September 2015: Liquid Architecture, Supporting Basic House, Melbourne
September 2015: Liquid Architecture, Capitalist Surrealism, NGV, Melbourne
September 2015: Crit Reflex tape launch, Melbourne
August 2015: Underbelly Arts, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
May 2015: Plastic World Showcase, Vivid Sydney
May 2015: Maasive Lates, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
May 2015: Https://youtu.be/y7Y13kr_JGM, Freda's, Sydney
March 2015: Sounds On The Terrace x 2, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
January 2015: The Now now Festival 2015, Red Rattler, Sydney
October 2014: Austin Buckett Grain Loops Launch, 107 Projects, Sydney
October 2014: w. Cassius Select, Civic Hotel, Sydney
September 2014: MCA Art Bar (curated by primavera artists)
July 2014: High Wolf, Nice, France
December 2013: Firstdraft Annual Celebration, Firstdraft Depot, Sydney
November 2013: Andy Stott/Shed, The Basement, Sydney
November 2013: Sound Summit Festival, Red Rattler, Sydney
October 2013: Electrofringe Presents, Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
October 2013: ArtBar (curated by Alaska Projects), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
October 2013: Alaska Orchestra residency, MCA's Sounds on the Terrace x4.
September 2013: OutsideIn Festival, Factory Theatre, Sydney
August 2013: Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA Ball, Sydney
August 2013: Fbi Radio's Ears Have Ears presents, Hibernian House, Sydney
August 2013: Underbelly Festival, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
July 2013: Sequence Festival, Gasometer, Melbourne
April 2013: Kaldor Projects' 13 Rooms, Parlour 27, Sydney
April 2013 : Now now series #3
April 2013 : Room40 presents Imaginary Lanscapes, Brisbane
March 2013: Oneohtrix Point Never, Civic Underground, Sydney
March 2013: You Are Here Festival, Canberra Museum & Gallery, Canberra
March 2013: Night Depot #2, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
January 2013 : Now Now Festival 2013, Red Rattler, Sydney,
December 2012 : Prefuse 73, The Metro, Sydney
November 2012 : Performing In C, Alaska Projects, Sydney
November 2012 : Vladislav Delay, Civic Underground, Sydney
October 2012 : High Wolf, Benoit Pouliard, The Square, Sydney
September 2012 : National Tour w. Seekae, Kangaroo Skull
August 2012 : 100 years of John Cage, Fontana Mix interpretation, Alaska Projects, Sydney
February 2012 : Balam Acab, Goodgod, Sydney
January 2012 : Hellosquare presents Low Light Social, Street Theatre, Canberra
December 2011 : Now now Festival Program Launch, Red Rattler, Sydney
November 2011 : New Weird Australia presents unpopular music, Hardware Gallery, Sydney
November 2011 : Deccan Technicolour album launch, Roab Gab, Melbourne
November 2011: Utility Fog Presents, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
October 2011: Astral Present, Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
October 2011 : Das Superpaper, Das Platforms Launch fbi Social, Sydney
September 2011 : Sound Series #17, Hardware Gallery, Sydney
May 2011 : High Reflections finale, 25th May, Red Rattler, Sydney
April 2011 : PSH Live, PSH gallery, Rozelle, Sydney
March 2011: Refraction, Bon Marche, University of Technology, Sydney
March 2011: Sound Series #11, Hardware Gallery, Sydney
January 2011: Now now Festival, Red Rattler, Sydney
2010 : The Holy Soul featuring Damo Suzuki, Excelsior, Sydney
2010: Sound Summit Festival, Newcastle
2010: Sound Series #4, Hardware Gallery, Sydney
2010 : Avantwhatever Presents Stutter, Horse Bazaar, Melbourne