Author: Craig
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New Muslim Art: Saatchi Gallery
(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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Grand delusions…
(the Round Reading Room) Today I am working from King’s fabulous Maughan Library. I like it here, it not only expands my ever decreasing perspective on the world, but humbles me before all the great European mistakes. I am writing a series of case studies for the project I am working on called Arts-humanities.net The
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MA Digital Asset Management
The Centre where I work at King’s, the Centre for eReseach, in conjunction with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), is starting a new MA course this year in Digital Asset Management. Details of the new course are as follows: The Programme will equip students with the necessary critical and reflective capacities, set
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Sydney never looked so special…
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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The tyranny of the practical mind…
“For these people, the concrete has become an asylum, a hideout, salvation. Cedar- well, that’s something concrete; so is asphalt. You can speak out about the concrete and express yourself as freely as you like. The great thing about the concrete is that it has restricted armed frontiers with warning bells. When a mind immersed