A couple of weeks before stricter lockdown measures were implemented in the United Kingdom, I visited the Tate Modern in London. There, in a somewhat peripheral room, I got to experience the marvelous All Kinds of Limbo, a virtual reality project by the National Theatre. With our headsets on, we (it was a communal experience … Continued
For the third time, La Biennale di Venezia hosts the most important showcase of creative virtual reality content in the world. Venice VR curators Michel Reilhac and Liz Rosenthal discuss their selection for this year’s festival. One of the trends they observed this year is the rise of sophisticated social entertainment experiences. The interview is … Continued
The first edition of Venice VR last year was a total blast. For one week during the Venice Film Festival visitors could experience the best VR in the world on a dedicated small island in the Venetian lagoon. The presentation was immaculate and the location spectacular. So the expectations for 2018 are high. Will Venice … Continued
2017 Is likely to be remembered as a significant year in the history of journalism, for good and for worse. It started with Trump’s presidential inauguration (January, 20), that confirmed a 2016 trend: thanks to the American tycoon, people’s interest in journalism revamped (so-called Trump bump). by Davide Banis The New York Times hit … Continued
As a kid, I used to play Concentration a lot, a card game in which players have to find connections between matching cards. The documentary oeuvre of legendary BBC filmmaker Adam Curtis inspired bingos but it also resembles a giant Concentration game trough time and space where weird and fascinating connections between the cards of history are … Continued
By Davide Banis When I meet Janet Murray she had just finished her keynote speech at the Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht, the most important Dutch film festival. She lectured about the themes that made her an academic heavyweight worldwide: interaction design, the future of storytelling and the new narrative affordances granted by digital media. … Continued
If you thought that the Venice Film Festival had lost its relevance, think again. The oldest film festival in the world embraces the future of cinema by hosting the biggest and boldest presentation of virtual reality ever seen at any film festival. And they do it in a way that only Venice can – with … Continued
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