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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

Published 01 December 2018
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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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Sean Dockray

Published 01 December 2018
Axolotl
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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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The distributed virtual: Jill Scott's Eskin4 and other electronic environments
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Rob La Frenais

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Against realism: The badly rendered potential of VR
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Ian Haig

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NAVA
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The virtuous politics of Alejandro Iñárritu's Carne y Arena
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Vince Dziekan

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Metascape, memory and spacetime: The museum in VR
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Andrew Yip

Published 01 December 2018

Artist Megan Evans was for some years the partner of Aboriginal activist and artist Les Griggs who suicided in 1993. Fifteen years later she has begun to write his story - a story of reconciliation with herself and her country, through a relationship that undid her and put her back together again.

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Art and occupation: Raeda Saadeh
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Catherine Wilson

Raeda Saadeh is a Palestinian artist who was born in Umm Al-Fahem, a Muslim village (now a city) in the northern region of Haifa. She completed art studies at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, where she now lives. Her questioning of the forces of both political occupation of the Palestinian territories, and personal occupation by traditional cultural and social expectations, have inspired her to focus on her own body with performance and photography.

Published September 2009
Integration Assimilation and a Fair Go For All: Khaled Sabsabi
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Eliza Garnsey

Integration Assimilation and a Fair Go For All: Khaled Sabsabi
Gallery 4A, Sydney
13 June – 25 July 2009

Published September 2009
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Oh that I were where I would be
Review
Arryn Snowball

Oh that I were where I would be
Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
10 June – 4 July 2009

Published September 2009
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53rd Venice Biennale: Making Worlds
Review
Joanna Mendelssohn

53rd Venice Biennale: Making Worlds
Bantin Duniyan, Hacer Mundos
Director: Daniel Birnbaum
7 June – 22 November 2009

Published September 2009
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M/other love: the first relationship & the photography of Toni Wilkinson
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Dawn Barker

Toni Wilkinson’s 'm/other' exhibition of photographs at Perth Galleries, North Fremantle earlier this year confronted the viewer with a series of atypical representations of the mother child relationship. She give a glimpse into the privacy, and reality, of a mother’s world by showing us mothers and their children at their most naked, physically and emotionally.

Published September 2009
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Notes on melancholy and anxiety in the works of Sanja Pahoki
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Hannah Mathews and Sanja Pahoki

The artworks of Sanja Pahoki walk a zigzag between melancholy and its contemporary cousin, anxiety. Curator and writer Hannah Mathews interviewed Sanja Pahoki about her recent work while thinking about Daniel Birnbaum's comment about the relationship between melancholy and the arts:
"The idea of the melancholic as someone not only passive and depressed but also creative is the basis for the Renaissance idea of the genius – the dialectic between darkness and light, destruction and creation."

Published September 2009
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Nobody Likes a Show Off: Richard Lewer
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Jared Davis

Nobody Likes a Show Off: Richard Lewer
Curator: Kirrily Hammond
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
1 July – 5 September 2009

Published September 2009
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Visual arts at OzAsia
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The 2009 OzAsia Festival runs from 3 – 17 October, and also includes a fantastic family-friendly program of theatre, dance, film, food, as well as the free community opening event, the Moon Lantern Festival in Elder Park. See www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au

Open from 29 September - 1 November at the Festival Centre
Curious Screen: Festival Theatre (FT) Foyer
The Sum of Cultures: Piano Bar
Follow, Northern India: Faces and Words and Okami: FT Foyer
Miss Taken: Space Theatre Foyer
'this reminds me of some place': FT Foyer
29 September - 8 November, Following Threads: Artspace Gallery (Upstairs, Dunstan Playhouse)

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The Underpass Motel
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Stuart Elliott

This project grew as an extension of a Fellowship awarded to Stuart Elliott in 2006 from ArtsWA – the major arts funding body of the WA Government.
Artists involved: Stuart Elliott, Graham Taylor, Patrizia Tonello, Amanda Williams, Peter Dailey, Ben Jones, Richard Heath and Si Hummerston.

The Underpass Motel, DVD premiere and gallery exhibition opens at Turner Galleries 9 October - 7 November 2009. www.turnergalleries.com.au

Visit the website: http://members.iinet.net.au/~reuham/theunderpassmotel.html

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Choosing who will keep the stories strong
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Henry F. Skerritt

In early 2006, the renowned Liyagauwumirr painter Mickey Durrng Garrawurra died in his home on Milingimbi. For many years, Durrng (1940-2006) and his brother Tony Dhanyala (1935-2004) were the only people authorised to paint the Liyagauwumirr’s most important clan designs. Before his death, however, Durrng made the seemingly unorthodox decision to pass this knowledge and authority to his sister Ruth Nalmakarra (b.1954) and her family. What followed was a flowering of tradition, as Nalmakarra and her sisters used this broadened authority to instigate a cultural revival that united their community around these ancient designs.

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Sail Away: Ian North
Review
Adam Geczy

Sail Away: Ian North
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1-26 April 2009

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Living palely
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Doris McIlwain

The Stoics may have taken rationality too far in their resolute minimisation of all feeling. Are emotions no more than disturbances in the logical landscape? What of Pascal’s ‘the heart has its reasons that reason is not acquainted with’? Perhaps the rationality/emotion divide is overdrawn, risking battle lines forming around pure opposites never found in real life examples. Yet the issue has bite, relevance to intimate features of our life: our friendships, our sense of safety in the world, how much we give of ourselves and give up of ourselves to our working life and the living texture of what it feels like to be us: fugitive, or having the ‘warm antiquity of self’.

Published September 2009
 
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