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
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