Running 62: Zibeon Fielding running across the desert.

Festivals

Virtual reality: ‘the new frontier of screen storytelling’

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.

Arts & Culture

Art installation imagines life billions of years ago

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.

Arts & Culture

Building a business in virtual reality

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.

Arts & Culture

Collisions: part disaster movie, part travelogue, completely immersive

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.

Science & Tech

Students design virtual-reality art gallery

Four young South Australians have won an innovation award for a virtual-reality product that enables rural students to experience an art gallery without actually visiting it.