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  • Cataloguing the collection

    The textile collection is in the process of being catalogued… at a distance. The collection, currently housed upstairs in the Regent Theatre in Māwhera Greymouth, is making its way gradually…

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  • Creativity wins out

    The experience of writing the blog this week has been… well… interesting. Each week I work on the blog for four or five hours. I select the stories that I…

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  • How Typing Affected Nietzsche’s Consciousness

    This article on the MIT Press Reader describes how it appears the act of typing affected the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s thinking. When Nietzsche bought a typewriter he noticed that his…

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  • AI and the Spotify playlist

    Each week a playlist is curated on Spotify, the audio streaming platform, to go along with the blog entries. This week Spotify’s AI function has been tasked with compiling a…

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  • Weaving and technology

    This article has been supported with research using AI and has been fact-checked and corrected by hand. To read the original AI results go to the bottom of the page…

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  • AI and image generation

    In researching this week’s blog entries Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a tool. Harnessing the power of data to create new images is powerful but it currently has limitations. The images…

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  • Technology

    This week’s blog entries are all to do with technology. From the rise of the computer to AI, we are surrounded by technology. Some of it is useful, some is…

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  • The tracks on Spotify

    The audio this week on the playlist features these tracks. The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček This well-loved opera in Czech started out as a newspaper comic strip before…

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  • The Spotify playlist

    Each week a playlist is curated on the Spotify platform for readers to listen to while browsing the blog. The tracks on the playlist have something to do with the…

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  • Iceland and the poetry of weaving

    The Nordic nation of Iceland sits on the Mid Atlantic Ridge, midway between Europe and North America. Wild, windswept, beautiful, bleak and filled with fire and ice, the country is…

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