The Obsessive Compulsive Worker

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Wardlipari Homeriver Vulnerable observations
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Uncle Lewis Yarluburka O’Brien and Ali Gumillya Baker

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Local colour: Dyeing and women's wealth
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Julie Ewington

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Revisiting colour problems: Emily Vanderpoel, Hilma af Klint, Becca Albee, Clare Milledge
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Amelia Wallin

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Queer uses of colour: A tinted hermeneutics
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Abbra Kotlarczyk

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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
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Justine Olsen and Prue Donald

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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Dylan DeLosAngeles

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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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Sean Dockray

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Brenda Laurel's Placeholder: In dreams everybody flies their own way
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Claire L. Evans

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What does obsessive artwork mean? Is this a new compulsion among artists and what does it mean? The work of Hossein Valamanesh, Fiona Hall, Zhuang Hui, Zhang Huan, Shen Shaomin, Katsuhige Nakahashi are referenced.

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