Imaginary Jewish Homelands is a collaborative digital art and humanities project that utilizes the cutting edge technology of virtual reality to image and imagine four proposed sites in modern times for a Jewish homeland around the globe.
Thursday 25 May 2017
Australia, Summer 2017
We've plotted our trip to Australia this summer. We'll arrive in Melbourne on July 16th, head up to Darwin on July 20th, then head to our research site in the Kimberleys which is a town called Kununurra with a population of about five thousand. This is the centre of Durack cattle country, the seven million acres which was to be sold to the Freeland League. We'll stay in the region for two weeks to document the landscape, making 360 video for the backdrop of the virtual reality world, test out some augmented reality and of course to meet some of the residents of Kununurra. I wonder how many have heard of the plan to turn this region into a Jewish refuge during WWII. We'll find out! After our leg in the Kimberleys we return to Melbourne to do research at the Victoria State Library and then we travel to Hobart, Tasmania to do further research on Critchley Parker Jr. and his idea to settle the Jews in Port Davey. More as it happens...
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