Black holes collide in VR at Sundance, courtesy of filmmaker Eliza McNitt
In an asteroid belt near Jupiter, there is a minor planet named Elizamcnitt. Its namesake is a 26-year-old filmmaker Eliza McNitt, who made her Sundance debut recently with the 13-minute virtual-reality experience "Spheres: Songs of Spacetime," which plunges participants into a cosmic collision of two black holes.
The planet was named for McNitt as a prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in high school for her research on honeybee colony collapse disorder. Since then she has forged a career illuminating the humanity that dances at the intersection of art and science via a series of films and VR experiences that have won film festival acclaim.
Landing in the New Frontier category at Sundance, however, takes the cake. The exhibition,
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