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	<title>Fiona Saenger</title>
	<link>http://www.fms.id.au</link>
	<description>A visual artist in Western Australia</description>
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		<title>Anamorphosis and Trompe L&#8217;Oeil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeing is not the perception of reality, we are constantly interpreting and constructing a reality based on visual input. An anamorphosis is a deformed image that appears in its true shape when viewed in a particular unconventional way &#8230; the viewer must seek out the unconventional viewpoint from which the visual trick is resolved. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/art/anamorphosis-and-trompe-loeil</link>
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		<title>An artist responds to Abu Ghraib</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colombian artist Fernando Botero responded to his distress over the prisoner abuse at Iraq&#8217;s Abu Ghraib prison by creating his latest  series of paintings depicting the violence, inspired by written descriptions of the abuse rather than by the photographs. Referring to Pablo Picasso&#8217;s masterpiece Guernica, Botero said his intent is to emblazon the images [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/art/an-artist-responds-to-abu-ghraib</link>
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		<title>Languages: Chinese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting and amusing site about the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture, Hanzi Smatter, reminds me of another of my favourite sites, Engrish. Rather than being a communication tool, written language may be used as a design element in products, advertising or tattoos. There may be no attempt to get it right, nor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/random/languages-chinese</link>
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		<title>Object Not Found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Object Not Found website is basically a collection of found photos, notes and other ephemera, started in late 1997.
From Damien Frost, the creator &#8230; I seem to have this uncanny knack for finding discarded photos and notes and like a lot of other people, once i&#8217;ve picked up these things to examine in passing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/art/object-not-found</link>
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		<title>Food as Art, Art as Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[moto restaurant in Chicago, where food is printed on an inkjet printer using organic, food-based inks &#8230; images of maki on pieces of edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, the back of the paper flavoured with powdered soy and seaweed seasonings. A picture of a cow that tastes like filet mignon. What does M. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/creativity/food-as-art-art-as-food</link>
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		<title>3D Imaging Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toshiba has developed a new display technology that allows 3-D images to be viewed on a flatbed display. The display consists of micro-lenses that control the direction of light emission, and supporting software that creates images using 10 or more views of the object. The display employs an integral imaging system that reproduces light beams [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/creativity/3d-imaging-technology</link>
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		<title>Pattern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.&#8221; Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), English philosopher and mathematician. Dialogues, June 10, 1943. 
Pattern is described as an artistic or decorative design, the abstract quality shared by entities that have been produced from a template according to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/random/pattern</link>
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		<title>Cottesloe Sculpture By The Sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The images from Sculpture By The Sea at Cottesloe Beach look beautiful. And I missed it! Bringing art out of the gallery and into everyday spaces invites a whole new audience.
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		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/art/cottesloe-sculpture-by-the-sea</link>
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		<title>Corrugated Iron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Corrugated iron art? Of course, the corrugated iron house in outback Australia &#8230; but how about a corrugated iron mosque? A corrugated iron club? With history and everything. I&#8217;m not the only enthusiast.
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		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/art/corrugated-iron</link>
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		<title>Artists on eBay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article on CNN discusses the issues surrounding gallery representation versus self-representation for artists, focussing in particular on the role of online technology. Apparently, eBay is working well for for some artists but as one says &#8220;In the online world &#8230; the aesthetic is king. Your painting had better look good at [thumbnail size]&#8220;.
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		<link>http://www.fms.id.au/art/artists-on-ebay</link>
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