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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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Brenda Laurel's Placeholder: In dreams everybody flies their own way
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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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Metascape, memory and spacetime: The museum in VR
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Andrew Yip

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Marion Marshall,craft practitioner from Victoria, and active in the Craft Council within her State, writes her prediction for the future of crafts in Australia.

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After the Art/Craft debate: Critical Writing into the 1990s
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Noris Ioannou

Most writers and researchers in the visual arts and crafts would now consider the debate about the difference between art and craft to be an old chestnut whose day has well and truly gone. Refers to the debates between David Bromfield and Anne Brennan.

Published June 1992
The Hermannsburg Potters
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Beverly Knight

The Arrernte people from Hermannsburg a former Lutheran mission about 130 km west of Alice Springs in Central Australia are generally known for their Namatjira style watercolour paintings. Now they are making ceramics.

Published June 1992
Futurology...Crafts...
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Helmut Lueckenhausen

Helmut Lueckenhausen, craft practitioner from NSW and active in the Craft Council within his State, writes his prediction for the future of crafts in Australia.

Published June 1992
Design Visions: International Exchange: Time for a Stocktake
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Dorothy Erickson

Design Visions; The second Australian International Crafts Triennial on show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in August September 1992 provided a chance for local viewers, historians, critics, artists, designers and 'craftspeople' to discuss and possibly take stock of our place in the international arena.

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4 Jewellery Co-operatives: On Staying in the Black: Fingers
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Stephanie Britton

Looks at the Jewellery Co-operative Fingers formed in 1976 in Auckland New Zealand. Fingers sells the work of 30 New Zealand jewellers with a managment partnership of 6 to 8 practising jewellers. The rest sell on consignment basis.

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Parables of Criticism
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Sue Rowley

Looks at the current issues in the art versus craft debate and the impact of post modern theories.

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The Crafts Come of Age
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Sylvia Kleinert

Book review The Crafts Movement in Australia: a history University of NSW Press $79.95

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Semiotically Speaking: A Craftperson's View
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Jenni Dudley

One need not restrict this semiotic approach to an analysis of the objects of fashion given that the major role adopted by craftspeople in contemporary times is that of drawing attention to otherwise ordinary objects and processes by remaking them in a mode other than mass production.

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4 Jewellery Co-operatives: Gray Street Workshop
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Sue Lorraine

Looks at the workshop Gray Street, Adelaide, South Australia.

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Touching Things Lightly: The Furniture of Kevin Perkins
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Glenda King

Kevin Perkins and the Parish Church of St Thomas Acquinas, Charnwood ACT. A model for collaborative design. Consummate technical skills, the continuance of long-established traditions which focus on excellence and a fundamental reverence for the qualities of the materials are discussion points that are, at times, given minimal attention when the products of today's craftspeople and designer/makers are discussed.

Published June 1992
The Floating Web
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Dorothy Jones

For centuries now, textiles and the skills required in their creation - spinning, weaving, embroidery, sewing, quilting - have been considered women's work, occupying them indoors while men engaged in more serious activities like warfare.

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Craft, Science and the Natural: An Introduction
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Jim Falk

There seems to be a consensus that craft is in a state of crisis. But consensus or not, the observation of this alleged crisis is sterile if we do not place it against its background. Is this crisis unique to craft, or is it a manifestation of a more general crisis which extends across other cognate areas? If it is more general, does it nevertheless have special implications for craft?

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