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Striving Against Realism: Peter Corrigan’s Theatrical World

By Michael Kantor | Published: 13/05/2013
Architect Peter Corrigan, best known locally as the designer of RMIT’s iconic Building 8, is also a master sorcerer of the Australian stage: a weaver of dreams; conjurer of magic tricks; architect of outlandish angles, clashing colors, and optical illusions. His imagery is at once achingly beautiful, frightening and emotionally devastating, and always revelatory. This [...]
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Vigilante hackers are contraindicated

By Isaac Balbin | Published: 14/12/2012
First, an admission. As a research postgraduate I was involved in hacking. A few of us wrote a program called “perve”. Without going into details, perve was able to reconstruct edit buffers in real time so that we were able to see what another user was typing into, say, their word-processor. Why did we do [...]
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Sizing up Australia – is Target’s 3D body scanner the shape of things to come?

By Kate Kennedy | Published: 02/05/2012
A 3D body-scanning initiative announced by the retail chain Target Australia has attracted extensive media interest. Not least because it has been trumpeted as Australia’s largest-ever body-shape survey using 3D body-scanning technology. At a cost of A$1m, the project will involve scanning up to 20,000 men and women using millimetre-wave technology – the same technology [...]
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Reflections on Australia Day

By Stephen Alomes | Published: 25/01/2012
I remember in childhood that Australia Day’s highlight was the Sandy Bay Regatta, a prelude to the “greatest aquatic carnival in the southern hemisphere”, the Royal Hobart Regatta and the first ever public holiday (Regatta Day) two weeks later. Reached first by the trolley-bus and then the family FJ Holden, it was a bucket and [...]
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Silo thinking and the Convergence Review

By Vincent ODonnell | Published: 05/08/2011
In the midst of the Convergence Review into Australian media, when we are all thinking “outside the square”, it is good to read submissions that remind you that silo thinking is not the exclusive occupation of grain farmers. We all do it: it is in our training, it’s looking after the patch first and foremost.
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