Friday, February 26th at 7 – 8:30pm EST
A live virtual screening of video works from Seascape Poetics – Deborah Jack’s “Drawn by water: (Sea) drawings in [3] acts, Act One: Wait(Weight) on the Water (2018)”, Olivia Mc Gilchrist’s “Virtual ISLANDs: Submersion and Hybrid Identity in Virtual Reality (2020- 2021)”, and Joiri Minaya’s “Labadee (2017)”. A Q&A with the artists and Bettina Pérez Martínez will take place after the screening. This event will take place on Zoom and will be streamed live on 4th Space Concordia’s Facebook.
To participate in the Zoom event please RSVP here
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[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
Immersivité et innovations technologiques recently featured Franco-Jamaican multimedia artist Olivia Mc Gilchrist and her research project.
Here is an excerpt (transcribed by Peter Jordens) from the video: “[Olivia Mc Gilchrist’s PhD research-creation] project is titled ‘Virtual ISLANDS: Submersion and Hybrid Identity in Virtual Reality.’ It combines a written thesis with virtual reality (VR) and video installation, tying together the relationship between Caribbean futures as an alternative to western technofuturism and the possibility of submersion as a postcolonial stance within VR-making practice. It is grounded in the violent histories of Transatlantic slave trades and it juxtaposes the notions of Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy and tidalectics by Kamau Brathwaite to formulate a notion of border as a historical space within VR creation.”