Immersive installation artist Darren Vukasinovic wants to see more nuanced conversations around around video games, technology and mental health. While acknowledging potential problems, especially around addictive technologies, Vukasinovic also wants us to talk more about the potential for joy, connection and genuine consciousness-shifting play that arises from new creative tools .
Vukasinovic has a background in filmmaking and VR (virtual reality) and is an immersive artist who creates experiences that intersect technology, art and narrative. When asked at parties what he does, he says he ‘transforms physical spaces into fantastical worlds that elicit curiosity and wonder, to create wholly new types of experiences for people of all ages’.