Forget the White Gloves: Plug-ins Rule OK ANAT National School for New Media Curation

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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
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Hannah Donnelly

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Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

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Jonathan Jones

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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
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Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
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Bruce Pascoe

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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
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Lorena Allum

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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
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Pauline Clague

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ANAT Australian Network for Art and Technology devised its 1999 National School, me.d.ia.te, to assist curators and arts workers in gaining a technical and theoretical understanding of new media art exhibition practice. It aimed to provide a 'world's best practice' model.

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