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Sneak peak of .knoetze 360 video work now showing on Activatar, free to download on iTunes.

Virtual Frontiers was created over two months on location in Grahamstown, South Africa. The work combines representations of the town’s history, experiences of the present, and imaginings of the future. The VR films are a loosely-woven phamtasmagoria of interviews, candid footage, re-enactments, archival media, and improvised performance.
The films look at the town as a collision point: here, seven of South Africa’s nine biomes are found. Here, too, ocean and land became a site of convergence for sea creatures and plants 300 million years ago. And here, the first brutal clashing of the British invaders with the AmaXhosa in 1820; the forced assimilation and appropriation which ensued, and the continued violent legacy of colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ era. Virtual Frontiers is an attempt to make sense of the effects and systems which organize the way people experience this space.

Sneak peak of single channel video as part of this months Activatar. Curated by from +

Wire Bath is a fe**sh video in which the artist enacts her fantasy of being in a bathtub full of ethernet cords. The cords entwine her body and peek out of the water like tentacles from the ocean.

As more and more of our technologies become wireless, the artist re-connects with the physical cables. The tub becomes a miniature model of cyberspace and the artist relaxes in this cybertub and tenderly takes care of the cables.

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Sneak peek of .kennedy 360 video work VR All in the Together as part this months Activatar curated by from +

Bianca Kennedy combines analog drawings with animated movements to offer an immersive bathing experience. A bathtub is a secure and safe place where you can relax and vent your thoughts in a private surrounding.

In this 360° animation you can become immersed and a part of the crowd already being in the warm and cosy water. You leave your place as a vo**ur when you step into the tub to bath with six different people at the same time.