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Anna Bunting-Branch
Warm Worlds and Otherwise 29 February - 5 April QUAD Gallery One
Warm Worlds and Otherwise by Anna Bunting-Branch is informed by the artists’ interest in the encounters between feminist practice and science fiction—engaging painting, digital animation and Virtual Reality (VR) to explore ideas of worldbuilding, embodied perception and technologies of representation. Central to the project is META, an experimental 360-degree animation in VR that uses digital technology to transform hand-painted characters, props and backdrops into an immersive virtual storyworld. As the viewer is transported between environments – from an unknown planet to a restaurant orbiting in space and beyond – we inhabit the bodies of different human and nonhuman characters in the narrative.