Category Archives: art

What is Culture24?

By Craig | Published: February 9, 2010

Culture24 exists to promote and support the cultural sector online and to serve the needs of online audiences. We are a not-for-profit online publisher, working across the arts, heritage, education, and tourism sectors. A wonderful initiative. Also, check out there data-feeds that contain data from 4300 cultural venues across the UK…wow! (link).

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Facebook URLs ?

By Craig | Published: July 15, 2009

(thanks to Geek and Poker blog for the link)

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The Shahnama Project (Iran)

By Craig | Published: June 15, 2009

One of my favourite projects within the broader Digital Humanities field; a masterpiece of Persian art and a damn fine piece of Digital Humanities scholarship as well. Firdausi’s Shahnama (Book of Kings), completed in eastern Iran in around A.D. 1010, is a work of mythology, history, literature and propaganda: a living epic poem that pervades [...]

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30 Full-time PhD Studentships available

By Craig | Published: May 13, 2009

This may be of interest to budding undergraduates out there. Especially the most excellent opportunity to work at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts. Thanks to Julie Tomlie for the link. Middlesex University is currently advertising 30 full-time PhD studentships, some of which are in Arts and related fields. Guardian advert here: http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/856185/30-research-studentships- art-and-education/ Job.ac.uk [...]

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GRIT 02: Illusions of Homogeneity

By Craig | Published: April 20, 2009

Let’s hope that the grand dreams of eResearch aren’t about ‘research homogeneity’ as cultural homogeneity may have become the case in other areas of cultural activity (thanks to Andrew Garton, the performer, for the link). GRIT 02 examines the death of analogue broadcasting by way of readings from numerous sources describing the process of enclosure [...]

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New Muslim Art: Saatchi Gallery

By Craig | Published: April 17, 2009

(picture taken with my crap Samsung 1.3 mega pixle thingees phone) The Saatchi gallery is a free private gallery in West London (near Sloan Square and owned by Charles Saatchi), that exhibits new contemporary art.  Charles Saatchi is a co-founder of the mammoth advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi that has close links to the Conservative [...]

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Sydney never looked so special…

By Craig | Published: April 14, 2009

Here is a movie by an Australian film maker, Keith Loutit, on  Vimeo.  It uses  a time-lapse technique to render real footage in an almost cartoon style. It made me feel homesick, even though I have never really liked that city because it is all mouth and no bay. Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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