By Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Josefina Buschmann and Martin Fonck This article was originally featured in TEA. Cañi is one particular place, a densely forested mountain in the southern Chilean Andes. Yet it encompasses many places at...
By Sasha Costanza-Chock Published in Global Media and Communication, May 29. 2018 Abstract This article responds to the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) chapter ‘Media, Communication, and the Struggle for Social Progress.’...
by Sasha Costanza-Chock Published July 17, 2018 “Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination” was the essay competition winner in Resisting Reduction, the third issue of the Journal of Design and...
By Samuel R. Mendez This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Mechanical Souls” - Sundance This year’s New Frontier selections at Sundance point to a participatory future for virtual reality (VR), with fuzzy...
By Sara Rafsky This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Frankenstein A.I.” at Sundance The projects in this year’s New Frontier section at the Sundance Film Festival ranged from the latest cutting-edge virtual reality to...
By Josefina Buschmann This article was originally featured in Indiewire. The New Frontiers scene at Sundance Most virtual reality experiences are characterized by individual immersion. The viewer puts the headset on and, suddenly disconnected from...
History can be a great teacher, if only we put the right questions to it. At a moment when the documentary form continues to diversify, driven equally by changes in...
By Sara Rafsky This article was originally featured in Indiewire. Sundance VR installations, including “Chasing Coral” and “An Inconvenient Sequel,” show the technology’s potential to affect change. The Sundance Film Festival has long...
By Sue Ding. This article was originally featured in Indiewire. You sit in a pink-hued “neurocosmetology” lab, your feet dangling off the salon chair, tentacle-like electrodes hanging down above you. You’re here...
By Deniz Tortum. Originally featured in Indiewire. At this year’s New Frontier exhibition at the Sundance Film Festival, doubts about the staying power of virtual reality are fading away. Visitors wait in long...