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[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Immersivité et innovations technologiques recently featured Franco-Jamaican multimedia artist Olivia Mc Gilchrist and her research project. Here is an excerpt (transcribed by Peter Jordens) from the video: “[Olivia Mc Gilchrist’s PhD research-creation] project is titled ‘Virtual ISLANDS: Submersion and Hybrid Identity in Virtual Reality.’ It combines a written thesis with virtual reality (VR) and video installation, tying together the relationship between Caribbean futures as an alternative to western technofuturism and the possibility of submersion as a postcolonial stance within VR-making practice. It is grounded in the violent histories of Transatlantic slave trades and it juxtaposes the notions of Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy and tidalectics by Kamau Brathwaite to formulate a notion of border as a historical space within VR creation.” ....