From Curiosities to the Hyper-Real: Notes on Context in Museum Anthropology Exhibitions

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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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Crown Resorts
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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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Japan Foundation
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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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Daniel Thomas provoked a distinct murmur at the 1990 CAMA Conference when he suggested that art museums have a greater capacity to disturb and move people than other cultural museums. If this is true and I think it is.....

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One of the things which continues to fascinate me about museums is how, despite the vast amount of talk about displaying material culture, the often personal, often idiosyncratic, often haphazard decisions about departments are very rarely mentioned. Yet these decisions are central to much of the museum's collection, display, exhibitions and research programme.

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If you Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It!
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I am particularly troubled about debates such as those illustrated by the publications 'What Price Heritage? - Finance 1989' and 'What value Heritage? DASETT 1990' and Professor Donald Horne's article 'Weekend Australian Jan 4-5 1992' on museums, because there is nearly always truth on all sides.

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Spirit of Enquiry Refreshing
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Some Thoughts on Museum Futures
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The quintessential purpose of Museums is to encourage and instil the joy of intellectual and aesthetic discovery. Abstracted partly from a public lecture entitled 'Ideas -Heresies even - for Museum Futures' given in Perth for the Western Australian Government Department of the Arts Task Force on Museums in August 1991.

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CAMA Conference: An Overview
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Conference review CAMA Something for Everyone: Access to Museums held at the University of Adelaide October 1991.

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Cultural Diversity and the Challenges of Access
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Cultural diversity has become a key issue in the 1990s for a number of reasons. In the United States we have recently completed a census. The results of that census indicate a dramatic change in the nation's demographics.

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Testing the Meaning of Heritage
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Exhibition review The Heritage of Namatjira
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Museums Listings
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Selected list of museums and art galleries around Australia.

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Exhibiting Conflict - Who Dares?
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Whams and Whimms: An Exercise in Classification and Meaning
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Dale Spender

Interview with Louise Dauth about issues of gender. Dale Spender is a foundation member of the Women Heritage and Museums Group.

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The Ownership of Cultural Meaning: Local Museums and Access
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