Gifted Arts

Cover of Gifted Arts
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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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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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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

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In 1992 the Premier of WA initiated the Premier's Gift Commissioning Project in conjunction with the Crafts Council of WA inviting artists to design and produce protocol gifts and souvenirs within a lower price range, which though of exclusive design could be manufactured in multiples using light local industrial processes where appropriate.

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