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XR for Change: Untold Stories
an Immersive XR Experience showcasing Missing 10 Hours, Diagnosia and Munich 72
Sun
4
Sun 4 Jun from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Auckland Central Library
100 Percent
General Admission
Missing 10 Hours
This XR experience takes aim at the infamous bystander effect, a social psychological theory that has gained currency in recent years. We are invited to bear witness to a horrific series of events and slowly realise how easy it is for a vulnerable young woman to become a victim of date rape. This sensitive yet confrontational portrayal of a deeply upsetting social trend directly hits upon several topics that have been in the zeitgeist recently. It performs an important social service at a time when people are engaged in heated debates over rape culture.
Diagnosia
'Diagnosia' aims to connect the audience to social issues via a sensorial immersion and embodiment in people who experienced them firsthand. It brings the audience on an immersive journey of a military-operated Internet addiction camp in Beijing in 2007. By tracing the lineage of “Internet addiction” in China's cultural context, the work discusses how societies can create or manifest pathologies as a tool for social control.
Munich 72
The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The games were supposed to be cheerful. But on the 11th day, Palestinian terrorists take members of the Israeli team hostage. The police attempt to free the prisoners fails and ends in disaster. This documentary traces what happened 50 years ago in virtual reality.
This XR experience takes aim at the infamous bystander effect, a social psychological theory that has gained currency in recent years. We are invited to bear witness to a horrific series of events and slowly realise how easy it is for a vulnerable young woman to become a victim of date rape. This sensitive yet confrontational portrayal of a deeply upsetting social trend directly hits upon several topics that have been in the zeitgeist recently. It performs an important social service at a time when people are engaged in heated debates over rape culture.
Diagnosia
'Diagnosia' aims to connect the audience to social issues via a sensorial immersion and embodiment in people who experienced them firsthand. It brings the audience on an immersive journey of a military-operated Internet addiction camp in Beijing in 2007. By tracing the lineage of “Internet addiction” in China's cultural context, the work discusses how societies can create or manifest pathologies as a tool for social control.
Munich 72
The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The games were supposed to be cheerful. But on the 11th day, Palestinian terrorists take members of the Israeli team hostage. The police attempt to free the prisoners fails and ends in disaster. This documentary traces what happened 50 years ago in virtual reality.
