Urban Illusions

Urban Illusions is an immersive and interactive documentary experience that curates moments of reality in virtual environments to educate and expose viewers to a string of social and political issues that have been exposed in Baton Rouge. These moments also reflect a transformative time across the United States. The research and exhibition experiments with 360-degree videos and virtual reality to document issues occurring from racial tension stemming from prejudicial police violence and residual segregation that is still present in Baton Rouge. The intent of this work is to establish a methodology benefiting from modern technology in order to document real life through virtual space to inform the viewer about social problems in the everyday experience of disadvantaged groups across America. The methodology framework used for Urban Illusions has the potential to be utilized by other digital artists and collaborators to engage and educate the viewers about a multitude of contemporary concepts

Confronting Whiteness through Virtual Humans: A Review of 20 Years of Research in Prejudice and Racial Bias Using Virtual Environments

This project includes supplementary files associated with the manuscript entitled Confronting Whiteness through Virtual Humans: A Review of 20 Years of Research in Prejudice and Racial Bias Using Virtual Environment