In modern life, there’s no escaping the onslaught of content or the algorithms that drive it. As we stream, tap and swipe our way through endless entertainment feeds, how can we define our own taste or tell our own stories? Have we reached the end of meaningful culture? And what place does criticism occupy in this ever-shifting landscape?

Join Griffith Review contributors Esther Anatolitis, Darby Jones and Raeden Richardson as they consider the creative self, digital versus real world artistic spaces, the hyperreality of the information age and making art in the age of algorithms, with host Carody Culver.

Esther Anatolitis is the editor of Meanjin and Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today. She is Hon A/Prof at RMIT School of Art, a National Gallery of Australia Council member, and Co-Chair of the Australian Republic Movement. Esther’s articles, essays and book chapters have been published in un Magazine, The Relationship is the Project, Routledge Companion to Creativity and the Built Environment, Permanent Recession, Crikey and The Guardian, and most recently in Griffith Review 88. She is the author of Place, Practice, Politics and When Australia Became a Republic (forthcoming 2025).

Darby Jones is a freelance writer and editor of Kamilaroi, Scottish, and English heritage. Through both his personal and professional literary pursuits, he seeks to centralise and amplify the voices of marginalised peoples. His most recent work has been featured in Griffith Review, IndigenousX, the Institute of Modern Art, and Island Magazine.

Raeden Richardson was raised in Melbourne. He is the author of The Degenerates. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo and La Napoule. His work has appeared in The Age, Meanjin, The Sydney Morning Herald, Kill Your Darlings, Griffith Review and New Australian Fiction.

Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review. She was a contributing editor for Peppermint magazine and has written for publications including Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, The Toast and Books+Publishing. Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets, was published by Cordite in 2022 and she’s been a featured Australian poet on the Best American Poetry blog.