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Interrogating our climate crises, slow, steady video art offers viewers new ways to consider the scale of a landscape and the scale of their anxieties. Tracing the history of the medium and examining three contemporary examples, this essay is an...
“As the melodies suffused her mind they intermingled”— Marc Stiegler, “The Gentle Seduction” Sitting alone on the riverside, my neighbor is immersed in viewing our familiar corner of Taipei through the perspective of the drone he’s piloting. Looking down through...
Interactive fiction is an innately intimate form of storytelling, in both aesthetics and narrative style. But what does this mean for the reader? What could this mean for the future of independent publishing? This text examines the ways in which...
In 2015, the United Nations released its first 360-degree virtual reality film, Clouds Over Sidra. While the film went on to help raise millions of dollars for Syrian refugees, what assumptions underlie the film, how might they be harmful, and...
While modern art can exist to challenge the viewer, it can also fail to engage or draw the viewer in. Immersive art presents an opportunity for a different experience, where art combined with technology can engage the viewer’s curiosity and...
Creating Awareness on Climate Action With The Power of Creative Storytelling Combining Art & Technology The combination of art and technology is a dynamic process that utilizes the emotional power of art intertwined with creative engineering tools to create awareness...
Light has the power to illuminate more than just the physical environment around us: it can transform a landscape, teach us more about the natural world, and connect us in ways that linger long after the lights turn off. After...
“Shopping in the Metamarket” examines how virtual reality is being used to build on techniques of behavioural economics in shopping, examines the rules we are taught about how to behave when shopping, and asks what further behaviour we will need...
Backslide is a virtual reality experience for playwrights based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Its floating GIFs, semi-cryptic text, and witty play with classical and pop culture, invite the player to break linear thought. Backslide is a simulation and stimulation of the...
