Spirit Blong Bubu I Kam Bak [The Return of the Spirits of the Ancestors]

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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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Rob La Frenais

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Against realism: The badly rendered potential of VR
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The virtuous politics of Alejandro Iñárritu's Carne y Arena
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Metascape, memory and spacetime: The museum in VR
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Reflections on an exhibition in Vanuatu of old pieces of ni Vanuatu art held in European collections. Touring Exhibition 'Arts of Vanuatu' 29 June - 10 August 1996 at the National Museum of Vanuatu in the national capital of Port Vila.

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