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Stream If You Wanna Die Faster
This issue's podcast guests explore the environmental impacts of data streaming and who should take responsibility.
Human Adventures
in Creative Technology
Issue 02
March 2021
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Sound On: Exploring the Rise of Clubhouse and Audio-Only Apps
Chanté Joseph asks if Clubhouse can revolutionise social media without facing its own growing issues.
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Life After Death: Should Virtual Reality be used to help us Grieve?
Jacklin Kwan takes a personal look at the therapeutic potentials of VR and explores how, when used in the right way, it can help people rediscover relationships with themselves and with lost loved ones.
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The Making of a Virtual Influencer
A peek behind the curtain at this million dollar industry. Can virtual influencers make a positive social impact among Gen Z, or are they just a dystopian money-making tool from big marketing?
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Residency: Introducing Reclaiming our Times (RiOT)
Reclaiming Our Times (RiOT) is a call to action and a manifesto, to inspire people to rescue their archives - especially of historical and political significance - from corporate platforms.
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Coming Soon: Stream If You Wanna Die Faster
This issue's podcast guests explore the ‘hidden’ environmental impacts of data streaming.
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The Future of Performance Post-Pandemic
2020 will be known, amongst other things, as the year culture went online. How are individuals and organisations in the live sector adapting and evolving, and can technologically mediated live events save an industry from collapse?
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The Fight for Data Rights
Many of us are alarmed at reports of data abuse but it’s easy to feel that – as ordinary citizens – we have no control. What can we do as a creative tech community to improve data privacy?
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Queering VR
This episode’s guests explore what it means to bring queer perspectives to the predominantly straight world of VR.
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Taking Up Space: Conversations About Digital Activism
A brilliant panel of artists and activists explore the mainstreaming of allyship and how it impacts radical changemaking.