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PROF NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS



Contact Details

Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: PROFESSOR IN AUST STUDIES.
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Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/nikos-papastergiadis.html
Work: 83448189
Fax: 83445494
Room: 135
Level: 01
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Korea Art Center Nabi Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1984
Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge 31-Dec-1991

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Steering Committee on Education for the Greek Orthodox Community, Melbourne Member 15-Jan-2008 31-Dec-2008
Member Steering Committee for the development of a Greek Cultural Centre for the Greek Orthodox Community, Melbourne Member 01-Apr-2008 31-Dec-2008
Member Multicultural Arts Policy Advisory Committee, Minister for the Arts, Victoria Member 05-Mar-2007 20-Apr-2009
Member Cultural Infusion, Advisory Committee, Melbourne Member 01-Jan-2007 31-Dec-2007
Member Advisory Board, New Directions in Humanities, USA Member 03-Jan-2005 31-Dec-2008
Member Exhibitions Committee, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Member 01-Jan-2004 29-Dec-2006
Member Board, Artspace, Sydney Member 01-Jan-1999 28-Dec-2001
Council Advisor to Arts Council of England on International Residency Programs Advisor 01-Jan-1996 29-Dec-2000
Council Chair, Visual Arts Publishing Committee, Arts Council of England Chair 01-Jan-1992 31-Dec-1992
Council Advisory Committee, The Institute of New International Visual Arts, Arts Council of England Member 01-Jan-1991 31-Dec-1991

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
The spatial impact of digital technology on contemporary art and new art institutions Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
Public screens and the transformation of public space Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
Large screens and the transnational public sphere Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2009

Additional Grant and Contract Information

  • Australia Council for the Arts, 2005, $5000 for 'Empires, Ruins and Networks' conference publication (with Associate Professor Scott McQuire)
  • ARC LIEF 2004  (LE0453517) ‘240 x 360 Degree Digital Video Camera for Interactive Immersive Visualization Research Applications’,  $205, 800 (one of 11 CIs)
  • ARC Linkage Project 2004-2005, (LP0453638), ‘Reformulating Museological Narrative Using Three Models of Cnematic Interactivity’,  $128 205 (One of 10 CIs)
  • Australia Council for the Arts 2004, $77 000 for ‘Diasporic Networks’ (with Associate Professor  Scott McQuire and Dr. Geert Lovink)
  • Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts and Craft Board, 2000, $20,000  (with Juan Davila and Constanze Zikos)
  • Australia Council for the Arts Community Development Grant, 1999, $66,000 for Art and Cultural Difference conference (with Nick Tsoutas, Artspace, Sydney)
  • Arts Council of England, 1996, 55,000 pounds for 'Cultures in Art' (with Stephen Snoddy, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester)

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary


    Year: 2008
    Book: Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
    Publisher: Duke University Press
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  • Anxious Multiculturalism: Aesthetic Responses to Cultural Identity and Mobility
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Project
    Publisher: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces(Fitzroy)
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  • Bridging the Gap
    Year: 2008
    Book: Non-Fictional: Denton Corker Marshall
    Publisher: Birkhauser(Basel)
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  • Carlos Capelan: fragments of a friendship between cities
    Year: 2008
    Book: Carlos Capelan
    Publisher: The Uller and Greger Olsson Art Collection(Malmo)
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  • Confined Abyss: Art in the Dusk of Reason
    Year: 2008
    Book: Sonia Leber & David Chesworth: Almost Always Everywhere Apparent
    Publisher: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art(Melbourne)
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  • Everything that Surrounds: Art, Politics and Theories of the Everyday
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Everyday: Documents of Contemporary Art
    Publisher: MIT Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Architecture in Motion: An Interview with Aaron Tan
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Architectural Review Australia
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 108
    Page numbers: 42-45
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  • Checks and balances: tracing discourses of migration
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Printed Project
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 21-26
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  • Moving Messages and Uncertain Content
    Year: 2008
    Journal: RealTime
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 84
    Page numbers: 30
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  • Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media
    Volume: 12
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  • Transient Media
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Public
    Volume: n/a
    Issue: 37
    Page numbers: 76-85
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Art in the Age of Siege
    Year: 2007
    Book: Transnational Lives and the Media
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • Hope in white ruins
    Year: 2007
    Book: Lida Abdul
    Publisher: hopefulmonster editore(Turin)
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  • On Being Here and Still There
    Year: 2007
    Book: Now, Here, Over There: Lida Abdul, Tania Brugers
    Publisher: Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Lorraine(Metz)
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  • On the Road: Mobility and Mediation in Contemporary Art
    Year: 2007
    Book: An Atlas of Events
    Publisher: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation(Paris)
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  • The Invasion Complex: Deep Historical Fears and Wide Open Anxieties
    Year: 2007
    Book: White Matters [Il bianco in questione]
    Publisher: Meltemi Editore(Roma)
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  • The Radiant Paradox of Park Seo-Bo
    Year: 2007
    Book: Park Seo-Bo Today: Playing with Color
    Publisher: Gyeonggido Museum of Art(Seoul)
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Journal Articles

  • Glimpses of Cosmopolitanism in the Hospitality of Art
    Year: 2007
    Journal: European Journal of Social Theory
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 139-152
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  • Hope In White Ruins
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Art Monthly Australia
    Volume: 199
    Issue: May
    Page numbers: 23-26
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Rivers Oram Press(London)
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Book Chapters

  • Ambient Fears
    Year: 2006
    Book: Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility
    Publisher: Rodopi(Amsterdam)
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  • Conversations: the parallax effect
    Year: 2006
    Book: Conversations: the parallax effect
    Publisher: iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, UNSW(Sydney)
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  • Division
    Year: 2006
    Book: Sociology: Place, Time and Division
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • The Limits of Cultural Translation
    Year: 2006
    Book: Crossing South
    Publisher: Craft Victoria(Melbourne)
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  • The Meek Michael Riley
    Year: 2006
    Book: Michael Riley: Sights Unseen
    Publisher: National Gallery of Australia(Canberra)
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Journal Articles

  • Glimpses of Cosmopolitanism in the Hospitality of Art


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Broadsheet
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 110-115
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  • Art in the Age of Siege
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Framework
    Volume: July
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 36-40
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  • Modernism and Contemporary Art
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Theory, Culture & Society
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 466.469
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  • Review of 'The Destruction of Memory '
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Architectural Review Australia
    Volume: 97
    Issue: May
    Page numbers: 18-20
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  • The Invasion Complex: The Abject Other and Spaces of Violence
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Geografiska Annaler - Series B, Human Geography
    Volume: 88b
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 429-442
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  • Towards a Metalanguage of Geography
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Flash Art International
    Volume: March-April
    Page numbers: 48
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Empires, Ruins +Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Book Chapters

  • After Empire
    Year: 2005
    Book: Empires, Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • From Parafunctional Spaces to Shiny Ruins
    Year: 2005
    Book: Knowledge + Dialogue + Exchange: Remapping Cultural Globalisms from the South
    Publisher: Artspace Visual Arts Centre(Sydney)
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  • Imagining the State with Mobility : Skins, Machines and Complex Systems
    Year: 2005
    Book: Art, City and Politics in an Expanding World: Writings from the 9th International Istanbul Biennial
    Publisher: Istrikal Kultur Sanat Vakfi(Istanbul)
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  • Small Gestures in Specific Places: On Collaboration and the Politics of Art
    Year: 2005
    Book: Empires, Ruins + Networks : The Transcultural Agenda in Art
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • The Gesture of Collaboration
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Gesture: A visual library in progress
    Publisher: Maschietto Editore(Florence)
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  • The Homeless Citizen
    Year: 2005
    Book: Race, Identity, and Representation in Education
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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  • The Limits of Cultural Translation
    Year: 2005
    Book: Over Here: International Perspectives on Arts and Culture
    Publisher: MIT Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • 'Multicultural Shades'
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Book Review
    Volume: March
    Page numbers: 31-32
    Publisher: Australian Book Review(Richmond South)
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  • A Quiet Room in an International Art Event
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Left Curve
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 36
    Publisher: Left Curve Publications(Oakland)
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  • Hybridity and Ambivalence: Places and Flows in Contemporary Art and Culture
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Theory, Culture & Society
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 39-64
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • La Practica Creativa y el Pensamiento Critico
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Enfoques a Distancia Sobre La Produccion de Cultura en la Situacion
    Conference Publication: Enfoques a Distancia Sobre La Produccion de Cultura en la Situacion
    Page numbers: 11-43
    Publisher: TEOR/eTica(San Jose)
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Reports

  • Mobility and the Nation: Skins, Machines and Complex Systems (Willy Brandt Series of Working Papers in International Migration and Ethnic Relations
    Year: 2005
    Report No:: 3-05
    Publisher: Malmo University(Malmo)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Metaphor and Tension: On Collaboration and its Discontent
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Artspace Visual Arts Centre(Sydney)
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Book Chapters

  • A Thousand Beautiful Things
    Year: 2004
    Book: Criticism + Engagement + Thought
    Publisher: Artspace Visual Arts Centre(Sydney)
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  • Always Turning Art Back into Politics
    Year: 2004
    Book: 2004
    Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria(Melbourne)
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  • Creative Practice and Critical Thinking
    Year: 2004
    Book: Innovation in Australian Arts, Media and Design
    Publisher: Post Pressed(Flaxton)
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  • The Ethics of Collaboration
    Year: 2004
    Book: 2004
    Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Dissecting the New Australian Authoritarianism
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Broadsheet
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 27-30
    Publisher: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia(Parkside)
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  • The Invasion Complex in Australian Political Culture
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Thesis Eleven
    Volume: 78
    Issue: August 2004
    Page numbers: 8-27
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Complex entanglements: art, globalisation and cultural difference
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Rivers Oram Press(London)
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Book Chapters

  • Cultural identity and its boredom: transculturalism and its ecstacy
    Year: 2003
    Book: Complex entanglements: art, globalisation and cultural difference
    Publisher: Rivers Oram Press(London)
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  • South-south-south: an introduction
    Year: 2003
    Book: Complex entanglements: art, globalisatin and cultural difference
    Publisher: Rivers Oram Press(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Ambient fears: 11 September
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Artlink
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 28-34
    Publisher: Artlink(Adelaide)
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  • Futeboland myths of the Brazilian way of life
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Cultural Studies Review
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 220-223
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Catch that Pidgin
    Year: 2002
    Book: Pidgin: Interrupted Transmission
    Publisher: Film and Video Umbrella(London)
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  • Faith Without Certitudes
    Year: 2002
    Book: Hope: New Philosophies for Change
    Publisher: Pluto Press(Annandale)
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  • Flags in the Landscape
    Year: 2002
    Book: Getting the Measure: A Collection of Essays from the forum THE LIE OF THE LAND
    Publisher: Footscray Community Arts Centre(Melbourne)
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  • Forking Tongues
    Year: 2002
    Book: APT 2002: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
    Publisher: Queensland Art Gallery(Brisbane)
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  • Reflections in Ruins: The Materiality of Modern Art
    Year: 2002
    Book: Meridian
    Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney(Sydney)
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  • Restless Hybrids
    Year: 2002
    Book: The Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory
    Publisher: Continuum(New York)
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  • South-South-South: Cultural Histories forged by post-colonial societies
    Year: 2002
    Book: Intersections
    Publisher: BHP Billiton(Marshalltown)
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Journal Articles

  • Moving Photography
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Quaderns
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 232
    Page numbers: 63
    Publisher: Col.legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya(Barcelona)
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  • One Night Love
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Object
    Volume: 2002
    Issue: 39
    Page numbers: 50-52
    Publisher: Australian Centre for Craft and Design(Sydney)
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  • Small Gestures in Specific Places: Communication and Topography
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Afterall
    Volume: 2002
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 106-113
    Publisher: Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design(London)
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  • The Presence of Place in Art
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Art Education
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 4-8
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  • Traces Left in Cities
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Architectural Design
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 45-51
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(London)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Ambient Fears
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Unfolding Perspectives
    Conference Publication: Unfolding Perspectives
    Page numbers: 44-55
    Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma(Helsinki)
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  • The Double Language of Mimesis
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Trace: Memory, Materiality and Context in Contemporary Art
    Conference Publication: Re:Trace Dialogues, Essays on Contemporary Art and Culture
    Page numbers: 14-19
    Publisher: Centre for Art International Research, Liverpool School of Art and Design(Liverpool)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Art in the Politics of the Everyday
    Year: 2001
    Book: ARS 01: Unfolding Perspectives
    Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma(Helsinki)
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  • Disappearing re-Publics
    Year: 2001
    Book: Republics of ideas: republicanism, culture, visual arts
    Publisher: Pluto Press(Annandale)
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  • Passing
    Year: 2001
    Book: Authority
    Publisher: Polixeni Papapetrou(Carlton)
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  • The Politics of Art
    Year: 2001
    Book: Brad Buckley: Sub Rosa
    Publisher: Cast Gallery(Hobart)
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  • The Return to International Waters
    Year: 2001
    Book: International Waters
    Publisher: John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton(Southampton)
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Journal Articles

  • Cityscapes and Dreamscapes
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Camera Austria
    Volume: 76
    Page numbers: 71-72
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  • Topographies: ideas on art and place
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Postwest
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 6
    Publisher: University of Western Sydney(Penrith)
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