January 12th, 2023
SXSW 2023 announces XR Competition and Spotlight
The event of the year is SXSW (March, 10-19)! In the absence of immersive programming at its Park City art house cousin, Austin is becoming the primary international showcase for XR experiences. A dense line-up to discover below.
January 05th, 2023
XR Through The Womanist Gaze 1/3: Education for Women, with Judith Okonkwo
Free access to education remains an enduring issue for a lot of children in Africa, especially those living in rural poor communities. According to UNICEF research, over 18 million children in Nigeria are out of school and girls make up 60% of this population. Major enhancing factors of out-of-school children include poverty, child labour, distance to school and cultural practices in some communities. As a woman who believes that education should be accessible to every child regardless of gender, tribe and background, Judith Okonkwo is using XR to provide access to education to underserved communities in Nigeria and Africa.
December 12th, 2022
“You don't need to show violence to engage an audience in VR” - Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke (YOU DESTROY. WE CREATE.)
Russia has been waging war in Ukraine since 2014. Capturing the reality of this tragedy cannot be done exclusively through television news; it is also a work of documentary filmmaker, with different views on the daily life of a war that does not take place only in the front line. Deciphering YOU DESTROY. WE CREATE. : a VR film made and distributed in the temporality of the drama, with their directors Felix Gaedtke and Gayatri Parameswaran.
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JAILBIRDS takes place in a modern hell prison ruled by a vicious CHIEF WARDEN. But in this living nightmare one guy, FELIX. One tall, muscular gang member is always happy. He lives in serenity and peace of the mind spending his days between crayon drawings and meditation. It enrages the CHIEF WARDEN. For him, the inmates are here to suffer and pay their debt to society. So he’ll do everything he can to discover Felix’s secret. It’s through BOOKER, Felix’s cellmate that CHIEF WARDEN will discover the truth: Every nights FELIX drinks a potion made by his grandmother and his eyeballs deploy dragonfly wings and fly out of his body to see the outside world. FELIX is a free man in jail.
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