By Liani Maasdorp, University of Cape Town South Africa’s film industry is the oldest in Africa and one of the oldest in the world, having started in 1896, soon after the Lumiere brothers’ famous first commercial film screening in 1895. The industry is one of the more...
By Mike Dickison, Massey University and Bruce White, Massey University When Wellington mural artist Xoë Hall discovered her work on a calendar, she hadn’t been contacted by anybody, let alone credited or paid for it. This wasn’t the first time. Her art often appears...
By Anna Augusto Rodrigues, Trent University I stopped in my tracks, shocked by something I saw in a Montréal laneway window that had been boarded up in the city’s Plateau neighbourhood. I was looking at caged chickens, with no space to move, one with a tear on the...
A light-trails long exposure of London’s Tower Bridge, shot on iPhone8Plus using the NightCap app. Rob Layton, Author provided Rob Layton, Bond University Each time you snap a photo with your smartphone – depending on the make and model – it may perform more than a...
With our attention diverted, we’re no longer in the moment. ‘Concert’ via www.shutterstock.com Rebecca Macmillan, University of Texas at Austin At a conference on June 14, Facebook executive Nicola Mendelsohn predicted that the social networking site would...
