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13 Nov

Dawn Wright Becomes First Black Person To Explore Earth’s

screenshot via CBS News An oceanographer, often known as “Deep-Sea Dawn” has gone where no other Black person has ever gone before. At 61, Dawn Wright descended to the planet’s deepest point to bring back the primary high-resolution mapping of Challenger Deep. Wright, a specialist in marine geology and geography on the Environmental Systems Research Institute is the twenty seventh person to travel to the Challenger Deep. The fifth woman overall.  Wright, who grew up in Maui, Hawaii told CBS News, the dream to change into an oceanographer stemmed from the Apollo 11 Mission. “If those men could land on the moon, I assumed, ‘Why can’t I'm going the wrong way and explore the oceans?’” she told the outlet.  As expected Wright struggled in...
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29 Oct

Lu Yang’s digital reincarnations explore the ghost within the

Lu Yang NetiNeti is the Shanghai-based artist‘s first solo UK exhibition Experiencing Lu Yang’s sprawling virtual worlds is a pure dopamine rush. The Shanghai-based artist constructs techno-psychedelic realms that explore the human body through the lens of Buddhist iconography, videogames and sci-fi, where fantastical avatars embark on mind-bending odysseys across multiple dimensions, and neon deities compete in Dance Dance Revolution-style battles within the afterlife. Often set to pulsating, arcade-style soundtracks, Yang uses digital technology to increase their soul beyond its corporal form and into various avatars modelled on Doku, the artist’s 3D-scanned digital replica, or “reincarnation”. LuYang NetiNeti, named after the Sanskrit expression meaning ‘neither this, nor that’, is Yang’s first solo UK exhibition, featuring immersive digital installations, an interactive gaming arcade, and...
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