Rhymes with the Times

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About

An interactive anthology of immersive experiences that take place in a series of surreal VR worlds, challenging audiences to solve collaborative puzzles to unlock multimedia performances of social and political spoken word poetry

Impact

It’ll provide the audience with the inspiration and some of the cognitive tools to rethink their personal relationship with the status quo of predatory capitalism and systemic inequality

Progress

The first 2 of 8 gamified virtual worlds are in progress by a team of artists and game developers who’ve made some of the most popular, highest fidelity interactive worlds in Sansar and Second Life

Team

I have 20+ yrs in vfx industry & 9 in VR. I’ve been writing/performing spoken word poetry & rap + advocating for diversity, fairness & sustainability for 15yrs. I was a VR finalist @ Venice Biennale in 2019 & since produced 2 huge VR music festivals

Funding

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Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/1679066985089x477667740230371100
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