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The Australia Street Archive
In the 1990s while working at the University of Technology, Sydney I was the Director and Co-Producer with Shirley Alexander at the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning (IML) of the Australia Street Archive, which was a collaborative WWW social documentary between UTS and the Australian Museum about the decoration of domestic space and its…
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Tumblong
In 1996-7 I was the Australian leader (with Paul Bonaventura as the British leader) of the Tumblong project, a collaborative WWW venture between the IML at UTS and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, working with cultural institutions in both countries. Tumblong involved the collaborative production of art on the…
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Brigadistas
Brigadistas is a film about the 1985 Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba by a group of Australians and New Zealanders. Brigades to Cuba were effectively an ‘exposure tour’ to various aspects of the Cuban situation, organised by an agency of the Cuban government in partnership with the organising committee from Australia. It is a film…
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Philippines, My Philippines
Philippines my Philippines (1989, Stoney Desert Productions) is a feature length documentary about the situation in the Philippines two years after the notionally democratic Cory Aquino replaced the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the ‘People Power’ revolution of 1986. Touching on the influence and interests of the United States and Australia, it examines the social context…
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Izzy Stone, James Carey and beyond: Universities in the New Journalistic Order
Izzy Stone for many internet-based journalists constitutes the paragon of what an independent, intellectually serious, engaged journalism could be, but he was self-taught, a junior college drop-out and despised all but a few of his teachers (to be fair, he also despised most journalists). The eminent journalism educator and media scholar James Carey thought that…