Virtual reality pioneer Lynette Walworth tells Indigenous story in explosive detail
by Luke Buckmaster from Technology | The Guardian on (#17FTF)
Australian virtual reality artist for Sundance's New Frontiers Institute set out to break all the rules for her milestone production, Collisions
Standing alone in the Pilbara desert, dusty and desolate sun-scorched land stretches out in every direction. Occasional kangaroos are the only signs of life in a vast, brown, natural nothingness.
But the peace is about to be shattered. An atomic bomb explodes somewhere in the distance, creating a monstrous mushroom cloud that rises into the sky as ash falls from above, showering me like rain.
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