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Tomorrow night, Wednesday, September 1, is the opening night for Amnesty International’s ‘Journeys to Freedom’ exhibition at Carriageworks here in Sydney. Mine and photographers Richard Wainwright, Hamish Gregory and Alanta Colley’s documenting refugee movements is on display, and well worth a look as a collective story. The exhibition will is on display until September 5 [...]

I haven’t written on my blog for over a year. SLACK. My last post ‘Hamzeh, I love you’, was written in Amman, Jordan, last August. I was there shooting a multimedia documentary on the situation of Iraqi refugees in Jordan, and what it’s like to live in the limbo of what we call ‘the queue’. [...]

In the following report, Stephan Elliot’s film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(1994) and Ana Kokkinos’ film Head On(1998), will be described and discussed through the lense of Queer spectatorship theory. Through technical investigation and textual analysis of both these Australian films, comparisons will be drawn on their representations of queer characters and [...]

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With the recent release of Apple’s latest brainwave the iPad I have begun to consider whether this means an overhaul of the way the world publishes and therefore the way we think. History would seem to indicate ….yes. Throughout the ages society has been dominated by different modes of publishing; theorist Harold Innis’ has proposed [...]

MODES OF PUBLISHING ARTS2090 – DISTRIBUTION ASSESSMENT BY: PATRICK HENRY PATACSIL        student number: z3256568 CLASS TIME: THURSDAY 2PM TUTOR: Michael Clay COORDINATOR: Dr. Gillian Fuller and Dr. Andrew Murphy WORD COUNT: 1538 Civilization has been dominated at different stages by various media of communications such as clay, papyrus, parchment, and paper produced first from rags [...]

By Wayne Blair, z3290795 Text Based Question 4 - “[C]ivilization has been dominated at different stages by various media of communication such as clay, papyrus, parchment, and paper produced first from rags and then from wood. Each medium has its significance for the type of monopoly of knowledge which will be built and which will [...]

REMI  XING re·mix “The activity of taking samples from pre-existing materials to combine them into new forms”(Navas, 2007). re·mix  cul·ture “The global activity consisting of the creative and efficient exchange of information made possible by digital technologies that is supported by the practice of cut/copy and paste” (Navas, 2007). “A mashup …remixes and combines content from [...]

Remix culture. Changing, adapting, appropriating, improving, integrating, mixing, mashing, combining, compiling; a free culture movement is being nurtured as the work of artists, whether it be images, music, videos or text, are being used to inspire others to work and create improved or maybe just different versions of the work in the form of a [...]

The earliest form of communication that we know of would be speech in all different languages and dialects all around the world. However the earliest forms of communication that has been recorded are things like cave paintings and writing on wet clay tablets. Now a days we use forms of communication like social networking and [...]