Evidence of a catastrophe: The weather reports of James Guppy

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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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The distributed virtual: Jill Scott's Eskin4 and other electronic environments
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Against realism: The badly rendered potential of VR
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Metascape, memory and spacetime: The museum in VR
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The cloud/explosion paintings of James Guppy's The Weather Report series of 2006 were made as a response to 9/11.

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