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The Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist of audio is created to go along with the blog. The playlist, on the Spotify platform, is made up of songs and sounds that have some…
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Iconic Australian design
In the 1980s and ’90s, jumpers in Australia became startling. Beginning with Coogi, a fashion label first established in Melbourne under the name Cuggi, the bright colours and bold patterning…
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Zimbabwe’s ancient musical instruments
A recent study has been looking at identifying musical instruments depicted in Zimbabwean rock art. Rock art is found on almost every continent, Antarctica being the exception for obvious reasons.…
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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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