‘can’t buy me love’ was an interactive virtual installation showcasing the collaborative outcome between multi-award winning Wiradyuri artist, Amala Groom, and senior lecturer and design researcher, Dr Andrew Burrell.
Facilitated by the UTS Artist-in-Residence program, Amala and Andrew applied their common interests and unique expertise to create a virtual environment that weaved indigenous ontologies of storytelling with western modes of narrative construction. The premise of their research was based on the belief that “… the way people read anything will always be through the lens of their own experience and associations” Amala Groom.
In delivering this storytelling through virtual reality, Andrew Burrell created an additional dimension—enabling the individual to experience the imagined and the actual in the same space—continuing his ongoing research into the phenomenological experience of imagining and remembering in virtual environments.
The interactive installation ran from 8 April – 6 May and was held at the UTS Gallery in Building 6 on Level 4. For further information about their work and expertise, you can contact Amala at: info@amalagroom.com, and Andrew at: Andrew.Burrell@uts.edu.au
More information about the installation
- Photos: Jacquie Manning
- VR images: courtesy Amala Groom and Andrew Burrell
