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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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Japan Foundation
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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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The Aboriginal Arts Board was dis-established in June 1989...the Australia Council established the Aboriginal Arts Committee to replace the Board.

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The Struggle Continues
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In every area of the arts where Aborigines are participating there is an intense surge of creative vitality. Once could call it a renaissance period. When I began writing poetry, Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonucul) was the only recognised poet.

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Published June 1990
Kinship and the Dreaming
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Published June 1990
Letter From Arnhem Land Where All the Real Art's Supposed To Be
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"How many people still think that up north or in the centre is the only place for real Aboriginal art. You know when you work with it, selling it, buying it, you hear it all the time."

Published June 1990
Australia to the World
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Michael O+Ferrall

In the choice of Rover Thomas and Trevor Nickolls to echibit in the Australian Pavilion at the 1990 Venice Biennale, Australia will present a combination that challenges many conventional attitudes to Aboriginal art. Simultaneously the exhibition offers an appropriate platform to two important if highly idiosyncratic contemporary painters.

Published June 1990
Country in Mind
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In the 1940s the name Albert Namatjira became a household word and the skill of this Arrernte artist brought the vivid colours and beauty of the central Australian landscape into the galleries and living rooms of Australia. He and other painters who lived around Hermannsburg mission and in Alice Springs came to be known as the Arrernte watercolour school.

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Aboriginal Rock Festival
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Andy Kiwat

It's now early September 1989 and Aboriginal Rock Bands from the Northern Territory and interstate are travelling by any means possible to Darwin for the Sing Loud Play Strong 2nd Festival of Aboriginal Rock Music.

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The Bicentenary and Beyond: Recent Developments in Aboriginal Printmaking
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The period of 1986 - 1989 has been epoch making for Aboriginal printmaking, not necessarily because of an improvement in the quality of the prints produced during that time but because Aboriginal prints in forums broadly motivated by the centenary has allowed them to receive the recognition they deserve.

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Utopia
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Christopher Hodges

The people of Utopia have been making important visual images for thousands of years, on their bodies and ceremonial objects. In 1977 these images leapt onto lengths of silk via the batik technique and it was in this medium that the women of Utopia went on to establish a reputation for themselvs with their powerful images and distinctive style.

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