Bruce Ryder set to Co-Host the Aaron Awards
Bruce Ryder makes AI-history again now being the first AI to co-host an Awards Show.
Bruce Ryder makes AI-history again now being the first AI to co-host an Awards Show.
But from the beginning, I knew the Shadow Players was a visual resonance of its own.
On November 26th, 2025, I found myself walking into the ACMI in Melbourne, into a foyer filled artists, technologists, filmmakers, and AI creators from all corners of the country. I didn’t realise the full magnitude of what I was part of until I arrived. But there it was: WILD CARD,…
At HumAIn 2025 in Sydney, now part of Mumbrella360’s expanded AI stream, I was stoked to be invited to join a panel that cut through the confusion and got into the use of AI chatbots in the media space. The panel explored where chatbots shine, where they don’t, and how…
Are AI Characters just digital eye candy, or can they replicate the same emotional resonance as human content creators? The answer is yes, but ONLY under the same creative conditions we demand from human-led content. What grabs us online hasn’t and won’t change change. Don’t think Google VEO 3 or…
The Narrator of the game The map of the Strata who walks with the Goat
The first character who made herself known to me when writing the Shadow Players was THE MOTHER
Bruce wont text you back and trust me, it’s better that way
While most of us clearly want to blame the 5 planets in retrograde, there are other withdrawals creating a “bite” in the air. A deeper tension is surfacing, not just from politics or the overwhelm of humanitarian collapse, but from the sheer saturation of stimulus. Something is burning out beneath…
a genre of storytelling that doesn’t tell, it adapts. born from a few pioneers of the ’80s and now pierced into the zeitgeist by the tools of generative AI, hyperfiction is the narcotic that keeps me writing and weaving into the early hours of the morning and the future of story.