The Future Breed: Creatures and Mad Science

Explores the links between film and computer generated games which emulate life. With the creation of artificial intelligence on the computer, complex questions of the nature of human behaviour are raised. Science fiction confronts issues of intelligence and sentience.

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Fashion for Civil Disturbance Bandung-Style

An interview by Damon Moon with Rifky Effendy, a curator and artist based in Bandung Indonesia. Effendy's curatorial project Wearable has been exhibited in Indonesia. The project explores some of the living conditions in Indonesia in the times leading up to the resignation of Suharto. The idea of clothing is used as a metaphor for identity --camouflage or exposure vulnerability or protection.

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Laughing and Killing: The Guilty Pleasures of Anime

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Richard Larter

An exhibition to celebrate his 70th birthday Watters Gallery and Legge Gallery May 1999

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Marginalia: Photography of the Here, Now

Examination of the issues raised when documentary photographers represent the alienated margins of our society despite an openly dismissive and hostile critical environment. Examines the works of photographers working in Australia who use various strategies and methodologies to document the margins. Explores the difference between photojournalism and documentary.

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Signs of Life

Melbourne International Biennial 1999 Telecom Building Russell St and other venues in Melbourne 11 May - 27 June

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Living out the Abject/Subject

Larry Clark is a well known American photographer and film maker. The Experimental Art Foundation mounted an exhibiton of photographs from the 1960s through to the 1980s as well as a series from the film Kids. Clark's trademark is gritty realism and under age sexuality. Discussion of the boundaries of eroticism and pornography.

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Howard Arkley

Obituary for the artist Howard Arkley who died in Melbourne on July 22 1999. Outlines his career in terms of the artistic highlights and short personal biography.

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Bored with Polite Language: Dissidents and Reformasi

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Life and Death on Aboriginal Land with Anne Mosey

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Angela Stewart: Three Women

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery 28 May - 27 June 1999

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Sorties into the City: The art of Elmer Borlongan and Emmanuel Garibay

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