Virtual reality is gaining an increasing foothold in the Adelaide Film Festival program, with this year’s exciting line-up of works reflecting artists’ and filmmakers’ creative use of the technology to tell a wide range of stories.
South Australian artists James Darling and Lesley Forwood are transporting people back three billion years with a new exhibition at Hugo Michell Gallery that imagines what the Earth was like when life was only just beginning.
Brothers Anton and Carlo Andreacchio’s exploration of the world of virtual reality – including projects with the ASO, AFL and film company Closer Productions – has led to a burgeoning national business.
Indigenous elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with Europeans was observing – without context – one of the Maralinga atomic tests. This dramatic first contact forms the focus of Lynette Wallworth’s digital art/documentary Collisions.