Right now I am unravelling: notes on the 2008 Next Wave Festival

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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
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Justine Olsen and Prue Donald

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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Dylan DeLosAngeles

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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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Sean Dockray

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Brenda Laurel's Placeholder: In dreams everybody flies their own way
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Claire L. Evans

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The distributed virtual: Jill Scott's Eskin4 and other electronic environments
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Rob La Frenais

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Against realism: The badly rendered potential of VR
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Ian Haig

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The virtuous politics of Alejandro Iñárritu's Carne y Arena
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Vince Dziekan

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Metascape, memory and spacetime: The museum in VR
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Andrew Yip

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A lively coverage of the exciting 2008 Next Wave Festival directed by Jeff Khan. Next Wave began 24 years ago and in 2008 presented the work of around 400 artist over 61 projects.

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