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S2:E5 - How to create an afro-futuristic virtual reality beauty salon (Carmen Aguilar y Wedge)
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S2:E5 - How to create an afro-futuristic virtual reality beauty salon (Carmen Aguilar y Wedge)
FromCodeNewbie
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Nov 27, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
You put on a headset in a real life beauty salon in real life, and, in seconds, you’re transported to a virtual one. It’s full of colors, shapes, music, and the soothing voice of a narrator. She explains that you’re in a different world now, and you’re about to contribute to the “synaptic lineage.” The setting is intriguing and futuristic, the story is unique, and every detail so carefully laid out. We talk to Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, one of the creators of the NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism, a virtual reality experience that’s appeared at Sundance, Tribeca, and a number of other film festivals. She shares how she and her team at Hyphen Labs created this artistic and deeply technical exhibit. Show Links Square (sponsor) Flatiron School (sponsor) Red Hat (sponsor) Actualize (sponsor) Codeland 2019 Codeland Conf Grasshopper (programming language) Processing School for Poetic Computation NSAF (NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism) Hyphen Labs
Released:
Nov 27, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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