Decolonial Virtual Reality by Fem_Speculative_Futurisms published on 2019-02-24T07:54:39Z During this podcast we interviewed Parul Wadhwa. Wadhwa is a new media artist, documentarian and immersive storyteller. She was a Porter College Associate fellow in 2017 at University of California Santa Cruz. Her work blurs the boundaries between film and digital technology to create immersive environments. Her research includes immersive and interactive digital storytelling, virtual and augmented reality. Wadhwa is committed to the use of new technologies for social impact. In 2017, she was a new media entrepreneurial fellow at Catalyst, NYC Media Lab. Currently, she is a Facebook Oculus Launchpad Fellow for immersive storytelling. Previously, she worked in the film industries in the United Kingdom , South Korea, and India, in film production, color-grading, and digital film restoration. During this podcast we will be discussing Wadhwa's project "Sandbox of Memory" which is about using augmented reality as a form of storytelling within a larger decolonial "third space" that reclaims histories that have been disappeared. https://www.parulwadhwa.com/ http://danm.ucsc.edu/people/parul-wadhwa Genre Learning