Did you ask the river?

Australia, 2019

Joan Ross
Mordant Family VR Commission, ACMI Collection
Developed in collaboration with Dr Josh Harle at Tactical Space Lab, Sydney

Artwork ACMI commissions

Did you ask the river? is the debut VR work from one of Australia’s leading visual artists, Joan Ross.

In the style of a first-person videogame, participants are given free rein to explore an interactive 3D extension of Ross’s vibrant, yet unsettling, colonial landscapes.

Unlike many VR experiences, participants are placed in a body – that of an 18th century colonial woman – and become uncomfortably complicit in her unwitting destruction of the landscape.

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Collection

In ACMI's collection

Previously on display

31 March 2019

ACMI Future Lab

Credits

creator

Joan Ross

Duration

00:07:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
2019

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

Z000125

Subject category

Digital Art

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Object Types

Artwork

Virtual Reality Work

Materials

software, video, props, colour and sound

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