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Anita Fontaine | Communication Arts

Anita Fontaine While weathering the pandemic in New Zealand, the artist and director helps others escape reality in order to imagine a better one. By Grace Dobush © Virginia Woods-Jack But speculative-future artist and creative director Anita Fontaine believes the escapes of augmented and virtual reality can be used for good. Creative tech of this sort can help create empathy, she says. “It’s quite a powerful technology. You can be put in someone else’s shoes in a book, but you can literally be in another person’s shoes in VR.” Fontaine is calling from the future. The Australian currently living in New Zealand is already experiencing Wednesday morning for me, it’s still Tuesday night in Berlin. In portraits, Fontaine’s eyes are often illuminated, as if the future is being beamed directly into her corneas.

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